Cellular stress signaling and the unfolded protein response in retinal degeneration: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

T McLaughlin, A Medina, J Perkins, M Yera… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background The retina, as part of the central nervous system (CNS) with limited capacity for
self-reparation and regeneration in mammals, is under cumulative environmental stress due …

[HTML][HTML] Selective PDE4 subtype inhibition provides new opportunities to intervene in neuroinflammatory versus myelin damaging hallmarks of multiple sclerosis

M Schepers, D Paes, A Tiane, B Rombaut… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system
(CNS) characterized by focal inflammatory lesions and prominent demyelination. Even …

Ablation of specific long PDE4D isoforms increases neurite elongation and conveys protection against amyloid-β pathology

D Paes, M Schepers, E Willems, B Rombaut… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Inhibition of phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) enzymes has been investigated as therapeutic
strategy to treat memory problems in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although PDE4D inhibitors …

A penalized integrative deep neural network for variable selection among multiple omics datasets

Y Li, X Ren, H Yu, T Sun, S Ma - Quantitative Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Deep learning has been increasingly popular in omics data analysis. Recent works
incorporating variable selection into deep learning have greatly enhanced the model's …

Compound heterozygous variants in SLC45A1 might cause syndromic intellectual disability by localization failure and activity attenuation in cells

C Zhou, J Zhu, P Tang, J Zhu, X Zhu, L Yang… - Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Intellectual disability (ID) is a kind of nervous developmental disorder and affects more than
1% of people worldwide. SLC45A1 as a transmembrane protein is implicated in the …

Differential lncRNA expression profiling of cognitive function in middle and old aged monozygotic twins using generalized association analysis

A Mohammadnejad, J Baumbach, W Li, J Lund… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cognitive impairment is the most prominent symptom in neurodegenerative disorders
affecting quality of life and mortality. However, despite years of research, the molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying genetic variants regulating MGMT gene expression-A study in monozygotic Danish twins

A Mohammadnejad, M Soerensen, J Mengel-From… - Genomics, 2023 - Elsevier
Identifying genetic factors affecting the regulation of the O-6-Methylguanine-DNA
Methyltransferase (MGMT) gene and estimating the genetic contribution of the MGMT gene …

sMAP: An interactive microarray data analysis tool for early-stage researchers

S Bharti, N Krishnan, A Veyssi, M Momeni, S Raj - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Microarray data enables biologists to extract differentially expressed genes (DEGs) across
multiple phenotypes. While several pipelines and tools exist to perform microarray data …

PDE4 gene inhibition: a novel approach to treat demyelinating disorders

M Schepers - 2023 - cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl
Neurological disorders such as MS, spinal cord injury, and nerve damage can result in
damage to the myelin sheath, the protective layer around nerve fibers in the body. This leads …