Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Neuropathology of incidental Lewy body & prodromal Parkinson's disease

T Koeglsperger, SL Rumpf, P Schließer… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder
associated with a loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons. Despite symptomatic therapies, there …

Development of an α-synuclein positron emission tomography tracer for imaging synucleinopathies

J **ang, Y Tao, Y **a, S Luo, Q Zhao, B Li, X Zhang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Synucleinopathies are characterized by the accumulation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregates
in the brain. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of synucleinopathies requires …

Modeling Parkinson's disease with the alpha-synuclein protein

M Gómez-Benito, N Granado, P García-Sanz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology. PD
is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neuronal cells in the substantia nigra pars …

Initiation and propagation of α-synuclein aggregation in the nervous system

BA Hijaz, LA Volpicelli-Daley - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2020 - Springer
The two main pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease are loss of dopamine neurons
in the substantia nigra pars compacta and proteinaceous amyloid fibrils composed mostly of …

α‐synuclein oligomers and fibrils: a spectrum of species, a spectrum of toxicities

P Alam, L Bousset, R Melki… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This review article provides an overview of the different species that α‐synuclein aggregates
can populate. It also attempts to reconcile conflicting views regarding the cytotoxic roles of …

Short chain fatty acids-producing and mucin-degrading intestinal bacteria predict the progression of early Parkinson's disease

H Nishiwaki, M Ito, T Hamaguchi, T Maeda… - npj Parkinson's …, 2022 - nature.com
To elucidate the relevance of gut dysbiosis in Parkinson's disease (PD) in disease
progression, we made random forest models to predict the progression of PD in two years by …

Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?

MB Fares, S Jagannath, HA Lashuel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Lewy bodies (LBs) are α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich intracellular inclusions that are an important
pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and several other neurodegenerative diseases …

Prying into the prion hypothesis for Parkinson's disease

P Brundin, R Melki - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - jneurosci.org
In Parkinson's disease, intracellular α-synuclein inclusions form in neurons. We suggest that
prion-like behavior of α-synuclein is a key component in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis …

Animal models of Parkinson's disease

EA Konnova, M Swanberg - Exon Publications, 2018 - exonpublications.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a heterogenous disease with a varying age of onset, symptoms,
and rate of progression. This heterogeneity requires the use of a variety of animal models to …