Microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: mechanism and potential therapeutic targets

C Gao, J Jiang, Y Tan, S Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia activation is observed in various neurodegenerative diseases. Recent advances in
single-cell technologies have revealed that these reactive microglia were with high spatial …

Oxidative stress and male infertility

S Bisht, M Faiq, M Tolahunase, R Dada - Nature Reviews Urology, 2017 - nature.com
DNA damage, largely owing to oxidative stress, is a leading cause of defective sperm
function. High levels of oxidative stress result in damage to sperm DNA, RNA transcripts …

Targeting huntingtin expression in patients with Huntington's disease

SJ Tabrizi, BR Leavitt… - … England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Huntington's disease is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disease
caused by CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in HTT, resulting in a mutant huntingtin …

Huntington's disease

FO Walker - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is an autosomal-dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disorder
with a distinct phenotype, including chorea and dystonia, incoordination, cognitive decline …

Huntington disease

GP Bates, R Dorsey, JF Gusella, MR Hayden… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Huntington disease is devastating to patients and their families—with autosomal dominant
inheritance, onset typically in the prime of adult life, progressive course, and a combination …

CAG expansions in a novel gene for Machado-Joseph disease at chromosome 14q32. 1

Y Kawaguchi, T Okamoto, M Taniwaki, M Aizawa… - Nature …, 1994 - nature.com
We have identified a novel gene containing CAG repeats and mapped it to chromosome
14q32. 1, the genetic locus for Machado-Joseph disease (MJD). In normal individuals the …

Metabolic control of cell death

DR Green, L Galluzzi, G Kroemer - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background For several decades, intermediate metabolism and signal transduction have
been considered two independent entities. On one side stood the catabolic and anabolic …

Repeat expansion diseases

H Paulson - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
More than 40 diseases, most of which primarily affect the nervous system, are caused by
expansions of simple sequence repeats dispersed throughout the human genome …

Specific tau phosphorylation sites correlate with severity of neuronal cytopathology in Alzheimer's disease

JC Augustinack, A Schneider, EM Mandelkow… - Acta …, 2002 - Springer
Microtubule associated protein tau is abnormally phosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) and aggregates as paired helical filaments (PHFs) in neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). We …

Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutical targets in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, M Valenza, E Cattaneo - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat
expansion in the gene encoding for huntingtin protein. A lot has been learned about this …