Neurofilament proteins as biomarkers to monitor neurological diseases and the efficacy of therapies

A Yuan, RA Nixon - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuronal injury have the potential to improve
diagnostic accuracy, disease monitoring, prognosis, and measure treatment efficacy …

Neurofilaments and neurofilament proteins in health and disease

A Yuan, MV Rao, RA Nixon - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Neurofilaments (NFs) are unique among tissue-specific classes of intermediate filaments
(IFs) in being heteropolymers composed of four subunits (NF-L [neurofilament light]; NF-M …

Neurofilaments: neurobiological foundations for biomarker applications

AR Gafson, NR Barthélemy, P Bomont, RO Carare… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Interest in neurofilaments has risen sharply in recent years with recognition of their potential
as biomarkers of brain injury or neurodegeneration in CSF and blood. This is in the context …

The multifaceted role of neurofilament light chain protein in non-primary neurological diseases

S Abu-Rumeileh, A Abdelhak, M Foschi, L D'Anna… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The advancing validation and exploitation of CSF and blood neurofilament light chain
protein as a biomarker of neuroaxonal damage has deeply changed the current diagnostic …

[HTML][HTML] Neurofilament light chain in blood and CSF as marker of disease progression in mouse models and in neurodegenerative diseases

M Bacioglu, LF Maia, O Preische, J Schelle, A Apel… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
A majority of current disease-modifying therapeutic approaches for age-related
neurodegenerative diseases target their characteristic proteopathic lesions (α-synuclein …

Peripherin is a biomarker of axonal damage in peripheral nervous system disease

S Keddie, D Smyth, RYS Keh, MKL Chou, D Grant… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Valid, responsive blood biomarkers specific to peripheral nerve damage would improve
management of peripheral nervous system (PNS) diseases. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) …

NGN2 induces diverse neuron types from human pluripotency

HC Lin, Z He, S Ebert, M Schörnig, M Santel… - Stem cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Human neurons engineered from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) through
neurogenin 2 (NGN2) overexpression are widely used to study neuronal differentiation …

Blood neurofilament light chain: the neurologist's troponin?

S Thebault, RA Booth, MS Freedman - Biomedicines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Blood neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of neuro-axonal injury showing promising
associations with outcomes of interest in several neurological conditions. Although initially …

Neurodegenerative disorders of alzheimer, parkinsonism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis: an early diagnostic approach for precision treatment

N Pathak, SK Vimal, I Tandon, L Agrawal… - Metabolic Brain …, 2021 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are characterised by progressive dysfunction of
synapses, neurons, glial cells and their networks. Neurodegenerative diseases can be …

The role of neurofilament aggregation in neurodegeneration: lessons from rare inherited neurological disorders

A Didonna, P Opal - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2019 - Springer
Many neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, are well known to involve the accumulation of disease-specific proteins …