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The pediatric supratentorial MYCN-amplified high-grade gliomas methylation class presents the same radiological, histopathological and molecular features as their pontine counterparts

Authors: A. Tauziède-Espariat, M-A Debily, D. Castel, J. Grill, S. Puget, A. Roux, R. Saffroy, M. Pagès, A. Gareton, F. Chrétien, E. Lechapt, V. Dangouloff-Ros, N. Boddaert and P. Varlet

Complex I reductions in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Lewy body dementia: the role of Lewy bodies

Neurons of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM) are vulnerable to Lewy body formation and neuronal loss, which is thought to underlie cognitive dysfunction in Lewy body dementia (LBD). There is continued debat...

Authors: Christopher Hatton, Amy Reeve, Nichola Zoe Lax, Alasdair Blain, Yi Shiau Ng, Omar El-Agnaf, Johannes Attems, John-Paul Taylor, Doug Turnbull and Daniel Erskine

Erythrocytic α-synuclein contained in microvesicles regulates astrocytic glutamate homeostasis: a new perspective on Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the transmission and accumulation of toxic species of α-synuclein (α-syn). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are believed to play a vital role in...

Authors: Lifu Sheng, Tessandra Stewart, Dishun Yang, Eric Thorland, David Soltys, Patrick Aro, Tarek Khrisat, Zhiying Xie, Na Li, Zongran Liu, Chen Tian, Matthew Bercow, Junichi Matsumoto, Cyrus P. Zabetian, Elaine Peskind, Joseph F. Quinn…

High level MYCN amplification and distinct methylation signature define an aggressive subtype of spinal cord ependymoma

We report a novel group of clinically aggressive spinal cord ependymomas characterized by Grade III histology, MYCN amplification, an absence of NF2 alterations or other recurrent pathogenic mutations, and a uniq...

Authors: Mark Raffeld, Zied Abdullaev, Svetlana D. Pack, Liqiang Xi, Sushma Nagaraj, Nicole Briceno, Elizabeth Vera, Stefania Pittaluga, Osorio Lopes Abath Neto, Martha Quezado, Kenneth Aldape, Terri S. Armstrong and Mark R. Gilbert

In vivo evidence of exosome-mediated Aβ neurotoxicity

Authors: Ahmed Elsherbini, Haiyan Qin, Zhihui Zhu, Priyanka Tripathi, Simone M. Crivelli and Erhard Bieberich

Disturbed balance in the expression of MMP9 and TIMP3 in cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related intracerebral haemorrhage

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is characterized by the deposition of the amyloid β (Aβ) protein in the cerebral vasculature and poses a major risk factor for the development of intracerebral haemorrhages (I...

Authors: Lieke Jäkel, H. Bea Kuiperij, Lara P. Gerding, Emma E. M. Custers, Emma van den Berg, Wilmar M. T. Jolink, Floris H. B. M. Schreuder, Benno Küsters, Catharina J. M. Klijn and Marcel M. Verbeek

Quantitative patterns of motor cortex proteinopathy across ALS genotypes

Degeneration of the primary motor cortex is a defining feature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is associated with the accumulation of microscopic protein aggregates in neurons and glia. However, ...

Authors: Matthew Nolan, Connor Scott, Menuka Pallebage Gamarallage, Daniel Lunn, Kilda Carpenter, Elizabeth McDonough, Dan Meyer, Sireesha Kaanumalle, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Martin R. Turner, Kevin Talbot and Olaf Ansorge

Excess Rab4 rescues synaptic and behavioral dysfunction caused by defective HTT-Rab4 axonal transport in Huntington’s disease

Huntington’s disease (HD) is characterized by protein inclusions and loss of striatal neurons which result from expanded CAG repeats in the poly-glutamine (polyQ) region of the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Both polyQ e...

Authors: Joseph A. White II, Thomas J. Krzystek, Hayley Hoffmar-Glennon, Claire Thant, Katherine Zimmerman, Gary Iacobucci, Julia Vail, Layne Thurston, Saad Rahman and Shermali Gunawardena

Fyn kinase inhibition reduces protein aggregation, increases synapse density and improves memory in transgenic and traumatic Tauopathy

Accumulation of misfolded phosphorylated Tau (Tauopathy) can be triggered by mutations or by trauma, and is associated with synapse loss, gliosis, neurodegeneration and memory deficits. Fyn kinase physically a...

Authors: Si Jie Tang, Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh, Hideyuki Takahashi, Sarah Helena Nies, Levi M. Smith, Anin Luo, Annabel Chyung, Marius Chiasseu and Stephen M. Strittmatter

Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor: a double misnomer? A report of two cases

Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DLGNT) was introduced, for the first time, as a provisional entity in the 2016 WHO classification of central nervous system tumors. DLGNT mainly occur in children and...

Authors: Romain Appay, Mélanie Pages, Carole Colin, David T. W. Jones, Pascale Varlet and Dominique Figarella-Branger

de novo MAPT mutation G335A causes severe brain atrophy, 3R and 4R PHF-tau pathology and early onset frontotemporal dementia

Authors: Kunie Ando, Lorenzo Ferlini, Valérie Suain, Zehra Yilmaz, Salwa Mansour, Isabelle Le Ber, Cécile Bouchard, Karelle Leroy, Alexandra Durr, Fabienne Clot, Marie Sarazin, Jean-Christophe Bier and Jean-Pierre Brion

A novel AFG3L2 mutation close to AAA domain leads to aberrant OMA1 and OPA1 processing in a family with optic atrophy

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is a neuro-ophthalmic condition characterized by bilateral degeneration of the optic nerves. Although heterozygous mutations in OPA1 represent the most common genetic cause...

Authors: Valentina Baderna, Joshua Schultz, Lisa S. Kearns, Michael Fahey, Bryony A. Thompson, Jonathan B. Ruddle, Aamira Huq and Francesca Maltecca

Global alterations to the choroid plexus blood-CSF barrier in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

The choroid plexus (CP) is a highly vascularized structure located in the ventricles that forms the blood-CSF barrier (BCSFB) and separates the blood from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). In addition to its role...

Authors: J. Saul, E. Hutchins, R. Reiman, M. Saul, L. W. Ostrow, B. T. Harris, K. Van Keuren-Jensen, R. Bowser and N. Bakkar

RBM45 associates with nuclear stress bodies and forms nuclear inclusions during chronic cellular stress and in neurodegenerative diseases

The RNA binding protein (RBP) RBM45 forms nuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions in neurons and glia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 proteinopathy (FTLD-TDP), ...

Authors: Mahlon Collins, Yang Li and Robert Bowser

Correction to: Loss of homeostatic microglial phenotype in CSF1R-related Leukoencephalopathy

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Liam Kempthorne, Hyejin Yoon, Charlotte Madore, Scott Smith, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Rosa Rademakers, Jungsu Kim, Oleg Butovsky and Dennis W. Dickson

Ultrastructural and dynamic studies of the endosomal compartment in Down syndrome

Enlarged early endosomes have been visualized in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS) using conventional confocal microscopy at a resolution corresponding to endosomal size (hundreds of nm). In orde...

Authors: Alexandra Botté, Jeanne Lainé, Laura Xicota, Xavier Heiligenstein, Gaëlle Fontaine, Amal Kasri, Isabelle Rivals, Pollyanna Goh, Orestis Faklaris, Jack-Christophe Cossec, Etienne Morel, Anne-Sophie Rebillat, Dean Nizetic, Graça Raposo and Marie-Claude Potier

Tau Ser208 phosphorylation promotes aggregation and reveals neuropathologic diversity in Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies

Tau protein abnormally aggregates in tauopathies, a diverse group of neurologic diseases that includes Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In early stages of disease, tau becomes hyperphosphorylated and mislocalized, wh...

Authors: Yuxing Xia, Stefan Prokop, Kimberly-Marie M. Gorion, Justin D. Kim, Zachary A. Sorrentino, Brach M. Bell, Alyssa N. Manaois, Paramita Chakrabarty, Peter Davies and Benoit I. Giasson

A novel Cas9-targeted long-read assay for simultaneous detection of IDH1/2 mutations and clinically relevant MGMT methylation in fresh biopsies of diffuse glioma

Molecular biomarkers provide both diagnostic and prognostic results for patients with diffuse glioma, the most common primary brain tumor in adults. Here, we used a long-read nanopore-based sequencing techniqu...

Authors: Thidathip Wongsurawat, Piroon Jenjaroenpun, Annick De Loose, Duah Alkam, David W. Ussery, Intawat Nookaew, Yuet-Kin Leung, Shuk-Mei Ho, John D. Day and Analiz Rodriguez

Phosphorylation and oligomerization of α-synuclein associated with GSK-3β activation in the rTg4510 mouse model of tauopathy

Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of specific phosphorylated protein aggregates in the brain, such as hyperphosphorylated tau (hp-tau) in tauopathies and phosphorylated α-synucle...

Authors: Yuta Takaichi, James K. Chambers, Hiroyuki Inoue, Yasuhisa Ano, Akihiko Takashima, Hiroyuki Nakayama and Kazuyuki Uchida

A novel mechanism of phenotypic heterogeneity in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

One of remarkable features of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is the great phenotypic variability. Understanding the molecular basis of this variability has important implications for the development...

Authors: Satish K. Nemani, Xiangzhu Xiao, Ignazio Cali, Laura Cracco, Gianfranco Puoti, Massimiliano Nigro, Jody Lavrich, Anuradha Bharara Singh, Brian S. Appleby, Valerie L. Sim, Silvio Notari, Witold K. Surewicz and Pierluigi Gambetti

Transplantation of induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) into chronically demyelinated corpus callosum ameliorates motor deficits

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) causes neurologic disability due to inflammation, demyelination, and neurodegeneration. Immunosuppressive treatments can modify the disease course but do not effectively promote remyeli...

Authors: Genevieve M. Sullivan, Andrew K. Knutsen, Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti, Alexandru Korotcov, Asamoah Bosomtwi, Bernard J. Dardzinski, Joshua D. Bernstock, Sandra Rizzi, Frank Edenhofer, Stefano Pluchino and Regina C. Armstrong

Transmission characteristics of heterozygous cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with variable abnormal prion protein allotypes

In the human prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), different CJD neuropathological subtypes are defined by the presence in normal prion protein (PrP^C) of a methionine or valine at residue 129, by the mol...

Authors: Anne Ward, Jason R. Hollister, Kristin McNally, Diane L. Ritchie, Gianluigi Zanusso and Suzette A. Priola

DNA methylation profiling demonstrates superior diagnostic classification to RNA-sequencing in a case of metastatic meningioma

Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial tumors, but meningioma metastases are rare. Accordingly, the clinical workup, diagnostic testing, and molecular classification of metastatic meningioma is i...

Authors: Harish N. Vasudevan, Maria R. H. Castro, Julieann C. Lee, Javier E. Villanueva-Meyer, Nancy Ann Oberheim Bush, Michael W. McDermott, David A. Solomon, Arie Perry, Stephen T. Magill and David R. Raleigh

Characterization of the TNF and IL-1 systems in human brain and blood after ischemic stroke

Preclinical and clinical proof-of-concept studies have suggested the effectiveness of pharmacological modulation of inflammatory cytokines in ischemic stroke. Experimental evidence shows that targeting tumor n...

Authors: Bettina H. Clausen, Martin Wirenfeldt, Sofie S. Høgedal, Lars H. Frich, Helle H. Nielsen, Henrik D. Schrøder, Kamilla Østergaard, Bente Finsen, Bjarne W. Kristensen and Kate L. Lambertsen

Fusions involving BCOR and CREBBP are rare events in infiltrating glioma

BCOR has been recognized as a recurrently altered gene in a subset of pediatric tumors of the central nervous system (CNS). Here, we describe a novel BCOR-CREBBP fusion event in a case of pediatric infiltrating a...

Authors: David J. Pisapia, Kentaro Ohara, Rohan Bareja, David C. Wilkes, Erika Hissong, Jaclyn A. Croyle, Joon-Hyung Kim, Jad Saab, Theresa Y. MacDonald, Shaham Beg, Catherine O’Reilly, Sarah Kudman, Mark A. Rubin, Olivier Elemento, Andrea Sboner, Jeffrey Greenfield…

The lipid phosphatase Synaptojanin 1 undergoes a significant alteration in expression and solubility and is associated with brain lesions in Alzheimer’s disease

Synaptojanin 1 (SYNJ1) is a brain-enriched lipid phosphatase critically involved in autophagosomal/endosomal trafficking, synaptic vesicle recycling and metabolism of phosphoinositides. Previous studies sugges...

Authors: Kunie Ando, Marième Ndjim, Sabrina Turbant, Gaëlle Fontaine, Gustavo Pregoni, Luce Dauphinot, Zehra Yilmaz, Valérie Suain, Salwa Mansour, Michèle Authelet, Robert De Dekker, Karelle Leroy, Benoît Delatour, Charles Duyckaerts, Marie-Claude Potier and Jean-Pierre Brion

Cerebrospinal fluid penetration of targeted therapeutics in pediatric brain tumor patients

Treatment with small-molecule inhibitors, guided by precision medicine has improved patient outcomes in multiple cancer types. However, these compounds are often not effective against central nervous system (C...

Authors: Armin Sebastian Guntner, Andreas Peyrl, Lisa Mayr, Bernhard Englinger, Walter Berger, Irene Slavc, Wolfgang Buchberger and Johannes Gojo

No symphony without bassoon and piccolo: changes in synaptic active zone proteins in Huntington’s disease

Prominent features of HD neuropathology are the intranuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions of huntingtin and striatal and cortical neuronal cell death. Recently, synaptic defects have been reported on HD-related ...

Authors: Ting-Ting Huang, Ruben Smith, Karl Bacos, Dong-Yan Song, Richard M. Faull, Henry J. Waldvogel and Jia-Yi Li

Transcriptional profiling of multiple system atrophy cerebellar tissue highlights differences between the parkinsonian and cerebellar sub-types of the disease

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rare adult-onset neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause, with no effective therapeutic options, and no cure. Limited work to date has attempted to characterize the transc...

Authors: Ignazio S. Piras, Christiane Bleul, Isabelle Schrauwen, Joshua Talboom, Lorida Llaci, Matthew D. De Both, Marcus A. Naymik, Glenda Halliday, Conceicao Bettencourt, Janice L. Holton, Geidy E. Serrano, Lucia I. Sue, Thomas G. Beach, Nadia Stefanova and Matthew J. Huentelman

Oculopharyngodistal myopathy with coexisting histology of systemic neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease: Clinicopathologic features of an autopsied patient harboring CGG repeat expansions in LRP12

Authors: Rie Saito, Hiroshi Shimizu, Takeshi Miura, Norikazu Hara, Naomi Mezaki, Yo Higuchi, Akinori Miyashita, Izumi Kawachi, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Yoshiaki Honma, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi and Akiyoshi Kakita

Humanized tau antibodies promote tau uptake by human microglia without any increase of inflammation

Immunotherapies targeting pathological tau have recently emerged as a promising approach for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. We have previously showed that the mouse antibody DC8E8 discriminates betw...

Authors: Monika Zilkova, Anna Nolle, Branislav Kovacech, Eva Kontsekova, Petronela Weisova, Peter Filipcik, Rostislav Skrabana, Michal Prcina, Tomas Hromadka, Ondrej Cehlar, Gabriela Paulikova Rolkova, Denisa Maderova, Michal Novak, Norbert Zilka and Jeroen J. M. Hoozemans

Meningomyeloencephalitis secondary to Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in AIDS

Infections by opportunistic non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are rising in global incidence. One emerging, slowly growing NTM is Mycobacterium haemophilum, which can cause skin, lung, bone, and soft tissue infe...

Authors: Sandra Leskinen, Xena Flowers, Katharina Thoene, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, James E. Goldman and Richard A. Hickman

Loss of homeostatic microglial phenotype in CSF1R-related Leukoencephalopathy

Microglia are resident macrophages of the central nervous system, and their unique molecular signature is dependent upon CSF-1 signaling. Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of CSF-1R in survival...

Authors: Liam Kempthorne, Hyejin Yoon, Charlotte Madore, Scott Smith, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Rosa Rademakers, Jungsu Kim, Oleg Butovsky and Dennis W. Dickson

Epigenomics and transcriptomics analyses of multiple system atrophy brain tissue supports a role for inflammatory processes in disease pathogenesis

Authors: Conceição Bettencourt, Ignazio S. Piras, Sandrine C. Foti, Joshua Talboom, Yasuo Miki, Tammaryn Lashley, Robert Balazs, Emmanuelle Viré, Thomas T. Warner, Matt J. Huentelman and Janice L. Holton

Restoration of miR-193a expression is tumor-suppressive in MYC amplified Group 3 medulloblastoma

Medulloblastoma, a highly malignant pediatric brain tumor, consists of four molecular subgroups, namely WNT, SHH, Group 3, and Group 4. The expression of miR-193a, a WNT subgroup-specific microRNA, was found t...

Authors: Harish Shrikrishna Bharambe, Annada Joshi, Kedar Yogi, Sadaf Kazi and Neelam Vishwanath Shirsat

Correction to: Differential gene methylation and expression of HOX transcription factor family in orbitofacial neurofibroma

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Antje Arnold, Eddie Luidy Imada, M. Lisa Zhang, Deepak P. Edward, Luigi Marchionni and Fausto J. Rodriguez

Transcriptional analyses of adult and pediatric adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma reveals similar expression signatures regarding potential therapeutic targets

Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (ACP) is a biologically benign but clinically aggressive lesion that has a significant impact on quality of life. The incidence of the disease has a bimodal distribution, wit...

Authors: Eric Prince, Ros Whelan, Andrew Donson, Susan Staulcup, Astrid Hengartner, Trinka Vijmasi, Chibueze Agwu, Kevin O. Lillehei, Nicholas K. Foreman, James M. Johnston, Luca Massimi, Richard C. E. Anderson, Mark M. Souweidane, Robert P. Naftel, David D. Limbrick, Gerald Grant…

Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for a neuroprotective role of aquaporin-4 in the 5xFAD transgenic mice model

Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) has been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which may be due to the modulation of neuroinflammation or the impairm...

Authors: Yoichiro Abe, Natsumi Ikegawa, Keitaro Yoshida, Kyosuke Muramatsu, Satoko Hattori, Kenji Kawai, Minetaka Murakami, Takumi Tanaka, Wakami Goda, Motohito Goto, Taichi Yamamoto, Tadafumi Hashimoto, Kaoru Yamada, Terumasa Shibata, Hidemi Misawa, Masaru Mimura…

Persistent elevation of intrathecal pro-inflammatory cytokines leads to multiple sclerosis-like cortical demyelination and neurodegeneration

Analysis of isolated meninges and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of post-mortem MS cases has shown increased gene and protein expression for the pro-inflammatory cytokines: tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and interfer...

Authors: Rachel E. James, Renee Schalks, Eleanor Browne, Ioanna Eleftheriadou, Carmen Picon Munoz, Nicholas D. Mazarakis and Richard Reynolds

Transmission of ALS pathogenesis by the cerebrospinal fluid

To test the hypothesis that the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) could provide a spreading route for pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we have examined the effects of intraventricular infusion duri...

Authors: Pooja Shree Mishra, Hejer Boutej, Geneviève Soucy, Christine Bareil, Sunny Kumar, Vincent Picher-Martel, Nicolas Dupré, Jasna Kriz and Jean-Pierre Julien

RNA modifications in brain tumorigenesis

RNA modifications are emerging as critical regulators in cancer biology, thanks to their ability to influence gene expression and the predominant protein isoforms expressed during cell proliferation, migration...

Authors: Albert Z. Huang, Alberto Delaidelli and Poul H. Sorensen

Genetic perspective on the synergistic connection between vesicular transport, lysosomal and mitochondrial pathways associated with Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis

Parkinson’s disease (PD) and atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APS) are symptomatically characterized by parkinsonism, with the latter presenting additionally a distinctive range of atypical features. Although ...

Authors: Stefanie Smolders and Christine Van Broeckhoven

Differential gene methylation and expression of HOX transcription factor family in orbitofacial neurofibroma

Although most commonly benign, neurofibromas (NFs) can have devastating functional and cosmetic effects in addition to the possibility of malignant transformation. In orbitofacial neurofibromatosis type 1, NFs...

Authors: Antje Arnold, Eddie Luidy Imada, M. Lisa Zhang, Deepak P. Edward, Luigi Marchionni and Fausto J. Rodriguez

Distinct molecular patterns of TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer’s disease: relationship with clinical phenotypes

The co-existence of multiple pathologies and proteins is a common feature in the brains of cognitively impaired elderly individuals. Transactive response DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) has been discovered to acc...

Authors: Sandra O. Tomé, Rik Vandenberghe, Simona Ospitalieri, Evelien Van Schoor, Thomas Tousseyn, Markus Otto, Christine A. F. von Arnim and Dietmar Rudolf Thal

Association of Aβ with ceramide-enriched astrosomes mediates Aβ neurotoxicity

Amyloid-β (Aβ) associates with extracellular vesicles termed exosomes. It is not clear whether and how exosomes modulate Aβ neurotoxicity in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We show here that brain tissue and serum f...

Authors: Ahmed Elsherbini, Alexander S. Kirov, Michael B. Dinkins, Guanghu Wang, Haiyan Qin, Zhihui Zhu, Priyanka Tripathi, Simone M. Crivelli and Erhard Bieberich

Validation of machine learning models to detect amyloid pathologies across institutions

Semi-quantitative scoring schemes like the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) are the most commonly used method in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) neuropathology practice. Computationa...

Authors: Juan C. Vizcarra, Marla Gearing, Michael J. Keiser, Jonathan D. Glass, Brittany N. Dugger and David A. Gutman

Enhanced accumulation of N-terminally truncated Aβ with and without pyroglutamate-11 modification in parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic neurons in idiopathic and dup15q11.2-q13 autism

Autism, the most frequent neurodevelopmental disorder of a very complex etiopathology, is associated with dysregulation of cellular homeostatic mechanisms, including processing of amyloid-β precursor protein (...

Authors: Janusz Frackowiak, Bozena Mazur-Kolecka, Pankaj Mehta and Jerzy Wegiel

Clinical, imaging, and molecular analysis of pediatric pontine tumors lacking characteristic imaging features of DIPG

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is most commonly diagnosed based on imaging criteria, with biopsy often reserved for pontine tumors with imaging features not typical for DIPG (atypical DIPG, ‘aDIPG’). ...

Authors: Jason Chiang, Alexander K. Diaz, Lydia Makepeace, Xiaoyu Li, Yuanyuan Han, Yimei Li, Paul Klimo Jr, Frederick A. Boop, Suzanne J. Baker, Amar Gajjar, Thomas E. Merchant, David W. Ellison, Alberto Broniscer, Zoltan Patay and Christopher L. Tinkle

Unilateral intranigral administration of β-sitosterol β-D-glucoside triggers pathological α-synuclein spreading and bilateral nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurodegeneration in the rat

The spreading and accumulation of α-synuclein and dopaminergic neurodegeneration, two hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD), have been faithfully reproduced in rodent brains by chronic, oral administration of ...

Authors: Luis O. Soto-Rojas, Irma A. Martínez-Dávila, Claudia Luna-Herrera, María E. Gutierrez-Castillo, Francisco E. Lopez-Salas, Bismark Gatica-Garcia, Guadalupe Soto-Rodriguez, María Elena Bringas Tobon, Gonzalo Flores, America Padilla-Viveros, Cecilia Bañuelos, Víctor Manuel Blanco-Alvarez, José Dávila-Ayala, David Reyes-Corona, Linda Garcés-Ramírez, Oriana Hidalgo-Alegria…

Common gene expression signatures in Parkinson’s disease are driven by changes in cell composition

The etiology of Parkinson’s disease is largely unknown. Genome-wide transcriptomic studies in bulk brain tissue have identified several molecular signatures associated with the disease. While these studies hav...

Authors: Gonzalo S. Nido, Fiona Dick, Lilah Toker, Kjell Petersen, Guido Alves, Ole-Bjørn Tysnes, Inge Jonassen, Kristoffer Haugarvoll and Charalampos Tzoulis