ALS genetics, mechanisms, and therapeutics: where are we now?

R Mejzini, LL Flynn, IL Pitout, S Fletcher… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The scientific landscape surrounding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) continues to shift
as the number of genes associated with the disease risk and pathogenesis, and the cellular …

Necroptosis and RIPK1-mediated neuroinflammation in CNS diseases

J Yuan, P Amin, D Ofengeim - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Apoptosis is crucial for the normal development of the nervous system, whereas neurons in
the adult CNS are relatively resistant to this form of cell death. However, under pathological …

Integrative transcriptomic analysis of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord implicates glial activation and suggests new risk genes

J Humphrey, S Venkatesh, R Hasan, JT Herb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively fatal neurodegenerative disease
affecting motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In this study, we investigated gene …

Knockout of reactive astrocyte activating factors slows disease progression in an ALS mouse model

KA Guttenplan, MK Weigel, DI Adler… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Reactive astrocytes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative
diseases, including a non-cell autonomous effect on motor neuron survival in ALS. We …

Norepinephrine modulates calcium dynamics in cortical oligodendrocyte precursor cells promoting proliferation during arousal in mice

TY Lu, P Hanumaihgari, ET Hsu, A Agarwal… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cells of the central nervous system (CNS), are generated
from oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) that express neurotransmitter receptors …

Decoding ALS: from genes to mechanism

JP Taylor, RH Brown Jr, DW Cleveland - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and uniformly fatal neurodegenerative
disease. A plethora of genetic factors have been identified that drive the degeneration of …

Development of multifunctional molecules as potential therapeutic candidates for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the …

MG Savelieff, G Nam, J Kang, HJ Lee, M Lee… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Neurodegenerative diseases pose a substantial socioeconomic burden on society.
Unfortunately, the aging world population and lack of effective cures foreshadow a negative …

Myelin remodeling through experience-dependent oligodendrogenesis in the adult somatosensory cortex

EG Hughes, JL Orthmann-Murphy, AJ Langseth… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Oligodendrocyte generation in the adult CNS provides a means to adapt the properties of
circuits to changes in life experience. However, little is known about the dynamics of …

Oligodendrocyte lineage cells and depression

B Zhou, Z Zhu, BR Ransom, X Tong - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a common mental illness, affecting more than 300 million people worldwide.
Decades of investigation have yielded symptomatic therapies for this disabling condition but …

Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration

MA Anderson, JE Burda, Y Ren, Y Ao, TM O'Shea… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Transected axons fail to regrow in the mature central nervous system. Astrocytic scars are
widely regarded as causal in this failure. Here, using three genetically targeted loss-of …