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Neurodegeneration and contralateral α-synuclein induction after intracerebral α-synuclein injections in the anterior olfactory nucleus of a Parkinson’s disease A53T mouse model

Parkinson’s disease is characterized by a proteinopathy that includes aggregates of α-synuclein. A recent hypothesis proposes a prion-like spreading mechanism for this α-synucleinopathy. Early neuropathologica...

Authors: Alicia Flores-Cuadrado, Daniel Saiz-Sanchez, Alicia Mohedano-Moriano, Alino Martinez-Marcos and Isabel Ubeda-Bañon

Inhibition of mitochondrial respiration prevents BRAF-mutant melanoma brain metastasis

Melanoma patients carry a high risk of developing brain metastases, and improvements in survival are still measured in weeks or months. Durable disease control within the brain is impeded by poor drug penetrat...

Authors: Terje Sundstrøm, Lars Prestegarden, Francisco Azuaje, Synnøve Nymark Aasen, Gro Vatne Røsland, Jobin K. Varughese, Marzieh Bahador, Simon Bernatz, Yannick Braun, Patrick N. Harter, Kai Ove Skaftnesmo, Elizabeth S. Ingham, Lisa M. Mahakian, Sarah Tam, Clifford G. Tepper, Kjell Petersen…

Targeting the β2-integrin LFA-1, reduces adverse neuroimmune actions in neuropathic susceptibility caused by prenatal alcohol exposure

Recently, moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) was shown to be a risk factor for peripheral neuropathy following minor nerve injury. This effect coincides with elevated spinal cord astrocyte activation and...

Authors: Joshua J. Sanchez, Jacob E. Sanchez, Shahani Noor, Chaselyn D. Ruffaner-Hanson, Suzy Davies, Carston R. Wagner, Lauren L. Jantzie, Nikolaos Mellios, Daniel D. Savage and Erin D. Milligan

The characterization of AD/PART co-pathology in CJD suggests independent pathogenic mechanisms and no cross-seeding between misfolded Aβ and prion proteins

Current evidence indicating a role of the human prion protein (PrP) in amyloid-beta (Aβ) formation or a synergistic effect between Aβ and prion pathology remains controversial. Conflicting results also concern...

Authors: Marcello Rossi, Hideaki Kai, Simone Baiardi, Anna Bartoletti-Stella, Benedetta Carlà, Corrado Zenesini, Sabina Capellari, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto and Piero Parchi

Downregulation of miR-204 expression defines a highly aggressive subset of Group 3/Group 4 medulloblastomas

Genome-wide expression profiling studies have identified four core molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma: WNT, SHH, Group 3 and Group 4. Molecular markers are necessary for accurate risk stratification in the...

Authors: Harish Shrikrishna Bharambe, Raikamal Paul, Pooja Panwalkar, Rakesh Jalali, Epari Sridhar, Tejpal Gupta, Aliasgar Moiyadi, Prakash Shetty, Sadaf Kazi, Akash Deogharkar, Shalaka Masurkar, Kedar Yogi, Ratika Kunder, Nikhil Gadewal, Atul Goel, Naina Goel…

AQP4ex is crucial for the anchoring of AQP4 at the astrocyte end-feet and for neuromyelitis optica antibody binding

Brain water homeostasis is essential for the appropriate control of neuronal activity. Furthermore, the encasement of the central nervous system (CNS) by a hard structure, greatly limits its tolerance for the ...

Authors: Claudia Palazzo, Cinzia Buccoliero, Maria Grazia Mola, Pasqua Abbrescia, Grazia Paola Nicchia, Maria Trojano and Antonio Frigeri

Transcriptomopathies of pre- and post-symptomatic frontotemporal dementia-like mice with TDP-43 depletion in forebrain neurons

TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear protein, which participates in a number of cellular processes and has been identified as the major pathological factor in amyotrophic lateral s...

Authors: Lien-Szu Wu, Wei-Cheng Cheng, Chia-Ying Chen, Ming-Che Wu, Yi-Chi Wang, Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Trees-Juen Chuang and C.-K. James Shen

Tau and TDP-43 accumulation of the basal nucleus of Meynert in individuals with cerebral lobar infarcts or hemorrhage

A previous study reported that a massive cerebral infarct in the territory of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) may be associated with development of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the ipsilateral basal nucl...

Authors: Hiroyuki Hatsuta, Masaki Takao, Akane Nogami, Akiko Uchino, Hiroyuki Sumikura, Tadayuki Takata, Satoru Morimoto, Kazutomi Kanemaru, Tadashi Adachi, Tomio Arai, Masato Hasegawa and Shigeo Murayama

Microglia are not required for prion-induced retinal photoreceptor degeneration

Degeneration of photoreceptors in the retina is a major cause of blindness in humans. Often retinal degeneration is due to inheritance of mutations in genes important in photoreceptor (PR) function, but can al...

Authors: James F. Striebel, Brent Race, Katie Williams, James A. Carroll, Mikael Klingeborn and Bruce Chesebro

Clinicopathological features of the rare form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in R208H-V129V PRNP carrier

Authors: Dorina Tiple, Anna Poleggi, Vittorio Mellina, Antonino Morocutti, Livia Brusa, Cesare Iani, Elisa Colaizzo, Luana Vaianella, Simone Baiardi, Anna Ladogana, Piero Parchi and Maurizio Pocchiari

Inhibition of DYRK1A proteolysis modifies its kinase specificity and rescues Alzheimer phenotype in APP/PS1 mice

Recent evidences suggest the involvement of DYRK1A (dual specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1 A) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here we showed that DYRK1A undergoes a proteolytic processing in...

Authors: Benoît Souchet, Mickael Audrain, Jean Marie Billard, Julien Dairou, Romain Fol, Nicola Salvatore Orefice, Satoru Tada, Yuchen Gu, Gaelle Dufayet-Chaffaud, Emmanuelle Limanton, François Carreaux, Jean-Pierre Bazureau, Sandro Alves, Laurent Meijer, Nathalie Janel, Jérôme Braudeau…

Quantitative analysis of human endogenous retrovirus-K transcripts in postmortem premotor cortex fails to confirm elevated expression of HERV-K RNA in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Over the past two decades a number of studies have demonstrated activity of the retroviral enzyme reverse transcriptase in the serum of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Known human exog...

Authors: Jeremy A. Garson, Louise Usher, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Jim Huggett, Edmund F. Day and Adele L. McCormick

Assembly of transgenic human P301S Tau is necessary for neurodegeneration in murine spinal cord

A pathological pathway leading from soluble monomeric to insoluble filamentous Tau is characteristic of many human neurodegenerative diseases, which also exhibit dysfunction and death of brain cells. However, ...

Authors: Jennifer A. Macdonald, Iraad F. Bronner, Lesley Drynan, Juan Fan, Annabelle Curry, Graham Fraser, Isabelle Lavenir and Michel Goedert

Tumor cell-free DNA detection in CSF for primary CNS lymphoma diagnosis

Authors: V. Rimelen, G. Ahle, E. Pencreach, N. Zinniger, A. Debliquis, L. Zalmaï, I. Harzallah, R. Hurstel, I. Alamome, F. Lamy, J. Voirin and B. Drénou

Genomic analysis demonstrates that histologically-defined astroblastomas are molecularly heterogeneous and that tumors with MN1 rearrangement exhibit the most favorable prognosis

Astroblastoma (AB) is a rare CNS tumor demonstrating abundant astroblastomatous pseudorosettes. Its molecular features have not been comprehensively studied and its status as a tumor entity is controversial. We a...

Authors: Norman L. Lehman, Aisulu Usubalieva, Tong Lin, Sariah J. Allen, Quynh T. Tran, Bret C. Mobley, Roger E. McLendon, Matthew J. Schniederjan, Maria-Magdalena Georgescu, Marta Couce, Mohanpal S. Dulai, Jack M. Raisanen, Mousa Al Abbadi, Cheryl A. Palmer, Eyas M. Hattab and Brent A. Orr

Pathogenic alpha-synuclein aggregates preferentially bind to mitochondria and affect cellular respiration

Misfolded alpha-synuclein (αSyn) is a major constituent of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, which are pathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The contribution of αSyn to PD is well established, but t...

Authors: Xinhe Wang, Katelyn Becker, Nathan Levine, Michelle Zhang, Andrew P. Lieberman, Darren J. Moore and Jiyan Ma

Postnatal development and maturation of layer 1 in the lateral prefrontal cortex and its disruption in autism

Autism is a neurodevelopmental connectivity disorder characterized by cortical network disorganization and imbalance in excitation/inhibition. However, little is known about the development of autism pathology...

Authors: Iris Margalit Trutzer, Miguel Ángel García-Cabezas and Basilis Zikopoulos

HR23B pathology preferentially co-localizes with p62, pTDP-43 and poly-GA in C9ORF72-linked frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Human homologue of yeast UV excision repair protein Rad23b (HR23B) inclusions are found in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Huntington’s disease (HD), spinocereb...

Authors: Frederike W. Riemslagh, Hannes Lans, Harro Seelaar, Lies-Anne W. F. M. Severijnen, Shamiram Melhem, Wim Vermeulen, Eleonora Aronica, R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, John C. van Swieten and Rob Willemsen

Immunopathological characterization of ovarian teratomas associated with anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis

Encephalitis with anti-NMDAR antibodies (NMDAR-E) is a severe autoimmune neurological disorder, defined by a clinical presentation of encephalitis and the presence of IgG targeting the GluN1 subunit of NMDA re...

Authors: Aude Chefdeville, Isabelle Treilleux, Marie-Eve Mayeur, Coline Couillault, Géraldine Picard, Chloé Bost, Karima Mokhtari, Alexandre Vasiljevic, David Meyronet, Véronique Rogemond, Dimitri Psimaras, Bertrand Dubois, Jérôme Honnorat and Virginie Desestret

Autoradiography validation of novel tau PET tracer [F-18]-MK-6240 on human postmortem brain tissue

[F-18]-MK-6240, a novel tau positron emission tomography (PET) tracer recently discovered for the in vivo detection of neurofibrillary tangles, has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in the detection...

Authors: Cinthya Aguero, Maeva Dhaynaut, Marc D. Normandin, Ana C. Amaral, Nicolas J. Guehl, Ramesh Neelamegam, Marta Marquie, Keith A. Johnson, Georges El Fakhri, Matthew P. Frosch and Teresa Gomez-Isla

Tau exhibits unique seeding properties in globular glial tauopathy

Tauopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by aggregation of microtubule associated tau protein in neurons and glia. They are clinically and pathologically heterogeneous depending on the isoform...

Authors: Dah-eun Chloe Chung, Yari Carlomagno, Casey N. Cook, Karen Jansen-West, Lillian Daughrity, Laura J. Lewis-Tuffin, Monica Castanedes-Casey, Michael DeTure, Dennis W. Dickson and Leonard Petrucelli

The VAPB-PTPIP51 endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria tethering proteins are present in neuronal synapses and regulate synaptic activity

Signaling between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria regulates a number of key neuronal functions. This signaling involves close physical contacts between the two organelles that are mediated by “...

Authors: Patricia Gómez-Suaga, Beatriz G. Pérez-Nievas, Elizabeth B. Glennon, Dawn H. W. Lau, Sebastien Paillusson, Gábor M. Mórotz, Tito Calì, Paola Pizzo, Wendy Noble and Christopher C. J. Miller

Detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) specific tau pathology with conformation-selective anti-tau monoclonal antibody in co-morbid frontotemporal lobar degeneration-tau (FTLD-tau)

Pathological tau aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration-tau (FTLD-tau) adopt distinct conformations differentiated by the AD-tau specific monoclonal antibody (mAb) GT-38 t...

Authors: Garrett S. Gibbons, Soo-Jung Kim, John L. Robinson, Lakshmi Changolkar, David J. Irwin, Leslie M. Shaw, Virginia M.-Y. Lee and John Q. Trojanowski

A simplified approach using Taqman low-density array for medulloblastoma subgrouping

Next-generation sequencing platforms are routinely used for molecular assignment due to their high impact for risk stratification and prognosis in medulloblastomas. Yet, low and middle-income countries still l...

Authors: Gustavo Alencastro Veiga Cruzeiro, Karina Bezerra Salomão, Carlos Alberto Oliveira de Biagi Jr, Martin Baumgartner, Dominik Sturm, Régia Caroline Peixoto Lira, Taciani de Almeida Magalhães, Mirella Baroni Milan, Vanessa da Silva Silveira, Fabiano Pinto Saggioro, Ricardo Santos de Oliveira, Paulo Henrique dos Santos Klinger, Ana Luiza Seidinger, José Andrés Yunes, Rosane Gomes de Paula Queiroz, Sueli Mieko Oba-Shinjo…

C9orf72 deficiency promotes motor deficits of a C9ALS/FTD mouse model in a dose-dependent manner

Authors: Qiang Shao, Chen Liang, Qing Chang, Wei Zhang, Mei Yang and Jian-Fu Chen

The elusive tau molecular structures: can we translate the recent breakthroughs into new targets for intervention?

Insights into tau molecular structures have advanced significantly in recent years. This field has been the subject of recent breakthroughs, including the first cryo-electron microscopy structures of tau filam...

Authors: Yann Fichou, Youssra K. Al-Hilaly, François Devred, Caroline Smet-Nocca, Philipp O. Tsvetkov, Joke Verelst, Joris Winderickx, Nick Geukens, Eugeen Vanmechelen, Audrey Perrotin, Louise Serpell, Bernard J Hanseeuw, Miguel Medina, Luc Buée and Isabelle Landrieu

Altered myogenesis and premature senescence underlie human TRIM32-related myopathy

TRIM32 is a E3 ubiquitin -ligase containing RING, B-box, coiled-coil and six C-terminal NHL domains. Mutations involving NHL and coiled-coil domains result in a pure myopathy (LGMD2H/STM) while the only descri...

Authors: E. Servián-Morilla, M. Cabrera-Serrano, E. Rivas-Infante, A. Carvajal, P. J. Lamont, A. L. Pelayo-Negro, G. Ravenscroft, R. Junckerstorff, J. M. Dyke, S. Fletcher, A. M. Adams, F. Mavillard, M. A. Fernández-García, J. L. Nieto-González, N. G. Laing and C. Paradas

Pathogenic tau modifications occur in axons before the somatodendritic compartment in mossy fiber and Schaffer collateral pathways

The deposition of tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may occur first in axons of neurons and then progress back into the cell bodies to form neurofibrillary tangles, however, studies have not directly a...

Authors: Kyle R. Christensen, Thomas G. Beach, Geidy E. Serrano and Nicholas M. Kanaan

LRRK2 inhibition does not impart protection from α-synuclein pathology and neuron death in non-transgenic mice

Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are one of the most common causes of familial Parkinson’s disease (PD). The most common mutations in the LRRK2 gene induce elevated kinase activity of the LRRK2 p...

Authors: Michael X. Henderson, Medha Sengupta, Ian McGeary, Bin Zhang, Modupe F. Olufemi, Hannah Brown, John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia M. Y. Lee

Astroglial-targeted expression of the fragile X CGG repeat premutation in mice yields RAN translation, motor deficits and possible evidence for cell-to-cell propagation of FXTAS pathology

The fragile X premutation is a CGG trinucleotide repeat expansion between 55 and 200 repeats in the 5′-untranslated region of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene. Human carriers of the premutation alle...

Authors: H. Jürgen Wenzel, Karl D. Murray, Saif N. Haify, Michael R. Hunsaker, Jared J. Schwartzer, Kyoungmi Kim, Albert R. La Spada, Bryce L. Sopher, Paul J. Hagerman, Christopher Raske, Lies-Anne W.F.M. Severijnen, Rob Willemsen, Renate K. Hukema and Robert F. Berman

Tau as a mediator of neurotoxicity associated to cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is typified by the cerebrovascular deposition of amyloid. Currently, there is no clear understanding of the mechanisms underlying the contribution of CAA to neurodegeneration....

Authors: Yingjian You, Abigail Perkins, Pablo Cisternas, Braulio Muñoz, Xavier Taylor, Yanwen You, Holly J. Garringer, Adrian L. Oblak, Brady K. Atwood, Ruben Vidal and Cristian A. Lasagna-Reeves

Emergence of synaptic and cognitive impairment in a mature-onset APP mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

The synaptic changes underlying the onset of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are poorly understood. In contrast to the well documented inhibition of long-term potentiation (LTP) in CA3-CA1 syn...

Authors: Sarmi Sri, Chrysia-Maria Pegasiou, Chantal Abbigail Cave, Katie Hough, Natalie Wood, Diego Gomez-Nicola, Katrin Deinhardt, David Bannerman, V. Hugh Perry and Mariana Vargas-Caballero

Methylation array profiling of adult brain tumours: diagnostic outcomes in a large, single centre

The introduction of the classification of brain tumours based on their DNA methylation profile has significantly changed the diagnostic approach for cases with ambiguous histology, non-informative or contradic...

Authors: Zane Jaunmuktane, David Capper, David T. W. Jones, Daniel Schrimpf, Martin Sill, Monika Dutt, Nirosha Suraweera, Stefan M. Pfister, Andreas von Deimling and Sebastian Brandner

Mural cell-derived laminin-α5 plays a detrimental role in ischemic stroke

At the blood-brain barrier (BBB), laminin-α5 is predominantly synthesized by endothelial cells and mural cells. Endothelial laminin-α5 is dispensable for BBB maintenance under homeostatic conditions but inhibi...

Authors: Abhijit Nirwane, Jessica Johnson, Benjamin Nguyen, Jeffrey H. Miner and Yao Yao

A walk through tau therapeutic strategies

Tau neuronal and glial pathologies drive the clinical presentation of Alzheimer’s disease and related human tauopathies. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that pathological tau species can travel ...

Authors: Santosh Jadhav, Jesus Avila, Michael Schöll, Gabor G. Kovacs, Enikö Kövari, Rostislav Skrabana, Lewis D Evans, Eva Kontsekova, Barbara Malawska, Rohan de Silva, Luc Buee and Norbert Zilka

SET SUMOylation promotes its cytoplasmic retention and induces tau pathology and cognitive impairments

PP2A is a major regulator of tau phosphorylation, which is principally regulated by an endogenous nuclear protein inhibitor 2 of PP2A (I₂^PP2A), also named SET. However, how SET is post-translationally regulated a...

Authors: Min Qin, Honglian Li, Jian Bao, Yiyuan Xia, Dan Ke, Qun Wang, Rong Liu, Jian-Zhi Wang, Bin Zhang, Xiji Shu and Xiaochuan Wang

Comprehensive gene expression meta-analysis identifies signature genes that distinguish microglia from peripheral monocytes/macrophages in health and glioma

Monocytes/macrophages have begun to emerge as key cellular modulators of brain homeostasis and central nervous system (CNS) disease. In the healthy brain, resident microglia are the predominant macrophage cell...

Authors: Verena Haage, Marcus Semtner, Ramon Oliveira Vidal, Daniel Perez Hernandez, Winnie W. Pong, Zhihong Chen, Dolores Hambardzumyan, Vincent Magrini, Amy Ly, Jason Walker, Elaine Mardis, Philipp Mertins, Sascha Sauer, Helmut Kettenmann and David H. Gutmann

Young adult-onset, very slowly progressive cognitive decline with spastic paraparesis in Alzheimer’s disease with cotton wool plaques due to a novel presenilin1 G417S mutation

Authors: Tomoko Miki, Osamu Yokota, Takashi Haraguchi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Bin Zhu, Shintaro Takenoshita, Seishi Terada and Norihito Yamada

Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins R and Q accumulate in pathological inclusions in FTLD-FUS

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is pathologically subdivided based on the presence of particular pathological proteins that are identified in inclusion bodies observed post-mortem. The FTLD-FUS subgro...

Authors: Lauren M. Gittings, Sandrine C. Foti, Bridget C. Benson, Priya Gami-Patel, Adrian M. Isaacs and Tammaryn Lashley

Endothelial edema precedes blood-brain barrier breakdown in early time points after experimental focal cerebral ischemia

In the setting of stroke, ischemia-related blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction aggravates the cerebral edema, which critically impacts on the clinical outcome. Further, an impaired vascular integrity is asso...

Authors: Martin Krueger, Bianca Mages, Constance Hobusch and Dominik Michalski

White matter capillaries in vascular and neurodegenerative dementias

Previous studies suggest white matter (WM) integrity is vulnerable to chronic hypoperfusion during brain ageing. We assessed ~ 0.7 million capillary profiles in the frontal lobe WM across several dementias com...

Authors: Yoshiki Hase, Ren Ding, Gina Harrison, Emily Hawthorne, Amilia King, Sean Gettings, Charlotte Platten, William Stevenson, Lucinda J. L. Craggs and Raj N. Kalaria

EphB2-dependent signaling promotes neuronal excitotoxicity and inflammation in the acute phase of ischemic stroke

Local cerebral hypoperfusion causes ischemic stroke while driving multiple cell-specific responses including inflammation, glutamate-induced neurotoxicity mediated via NMDAR, edema formation and angiogenesis. ...

Authors: Anne-Sophie Ernst, Laura-Inés Böhler, Anna M. Hagenston, Angelika Hoffmann, Sabine Heiland, Carsten Sticht, Martin Bendszus, Markus Hecker, Hilmar Bading, Hugo H. Marti, Thomas Korff and Reiner Kunze

Microglia pre-activation and neurodegeneration precipitate neuroinflammation without exacerbating tissue injury in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Human inflammatory or neurodegenerative diseases, such as progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), occur on a background of age-related microglia activation and iron accumulation as well as pre-existing neurodegen...

Authors: Isabella Wimmer, Cornelia Scharler, Tobias Zrzavy, Taro Kadowaki, Verena Mödlagl, Kim Rojc, Anna R. Tröscher, Maja Kitic, Shuichi Ueda, Monika Bradl and Hans Lassmann

The APMAP interactome reveals new modulators of APP processing and beta-amyloid production that are altered in Alzheimer’s disease

The adipocyte plasma membrane-associated protein APMAP is expressed in the brain where it associates with γ-secretase, a protease responsible for the generation of the amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) implicated in the...

Authors: Hermeto Gerber, Sebastien Mosser, Benjamin Boury-Jamot, Michael Stumpe, Alessandra Piersigilli, Christine Goepfert, Joern Dengjel, Urs Albrecht, Fulvio Magara and Patrick C. Fraering

Apolipoprotein E and clusterin inhibit the early phase of amyloid-β aggregation in an in vitro model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is characterized by cerebrovascular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, which leads to lobar hemorrhage and dementia. Biological molecules affecting the development of CAA hav...

Authors: Yoshinori Endo, Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Ryo Nomura, Hidetaka Arishima, Ken-ichiro Kikuta, Taro Yamashita, Yasuteru Inoue, Mitsuharu Ueda, Yukio Ando, Mark R. Wilson, Tadanori Hamano, Yasunari Nakamoto and Hironobu Naiki

Absence of endothelial α5β1 integrin triggers early onset of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis due to reduced vascular remodeling and compromised vascular integrity

Early in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) and its mouse model experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), vascular integrity is compromised. This is accompanied by a marked vascular remodeling r...

Authors: Ravi Kant, Sebok K. Halder, Gregory J. Bix and Richard Milner

Enhanced phosphorylation of T153 in soluble tau is a defining biochemical feature of the A152T tau risk variant

Pathogenic mutations in the tau gene (microtubule associated protein tau, MAPT) are linked to the onset of tauopathy, but the A152T variant is unique in acting as a risk factor for a range of disorders including ...

Authors: Yari Carlomagno, Dah-eun Chloe Chung, Mei Yue, Aishe Kurti, Nicole M. Avendano, Monica Castanedes-Casey, Kelly M. Hinkle, Karen Jansen-West, Lillian M. Daughrity, Jimei Tong, Virginia Phillips, Rosa Rademakers, Michael DeTure, John D. Fryer, Dennis W. Dickson, Leonard Petrucelli…

Preventive action of benztropine on platinum-induced peripheral neuropathies and tumor growth

The endogenous cholinergic system plays a key role in neuronal cells, by suppressing neurite outgrowth and myelination and, in some cancer cells, favoring tumor growth. Platinum compounds are widely used as pa...

Authors: Olivier Cerles, Tânia Cristina Gonçalves, Sandrine Chouzenoux, Evelyne Benoit, Alain Schmitt, Nathaniel Edward Bennett Saidu, Niloufar Kavian, Christiane Chéreau, Camille Gobeaux, Bernard Weill, Romain Coriat, Carole Nicco and Frédéric Batteux

Regulation of dopamine neurotransmission from serotonergic neurons by ectopic expression of the dopamine D2 autoreceptor blocks levodopa-induced dyskinesia

Levodopa-induced dyskinesias (LID) are a prevalent side effect of chronic treatment with levodopa (L-DOPA) for the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). It has long been hypothesized that serotonergic ne...

Authors: Rhyomi C. Sellnow, Jordan H. Newman, Nicole Chambers, Anthony R. West, Kathy Steece-Collier, Ivette M. Sandoval, Matthew J. Benskey, Christopher Bishop and Fredric P. Manfredsson

ALS-linked FUS mutations confer loss and gain of function in the nucleus by promoting excessive formation of dysfunctional paraspeckles

Mutations in the FUS gene cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS-FUS). Mutant FUS is known to confer cytoplasmic gain of function but its effects in the nucleus are less understood. FUS is an essential componen...

Authors: Haiyan An, Lucy Skelt, Antonietta Notaro, J. Robin Highley, Archa H. Fox, Vincenzo La Bella, Vladimir L. Buchman and Tatyana A. Shelkovnikova