CSF and blood biomarkers for Parkinson's disease

L Parnetti, L Gaetani, P Eusebi, S Paciotti… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
In the management of Parkinson's disease, reliable diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers
are urgently needed. The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease mostly relies on clinical …

Opportunities and challenges of alpha-synuclein as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies

P Magalhães, HA Lashuel - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common progressive
neurodegenerative disease, develops and progresses for 10–15 years before the clinical …

Microglia in Parkinson's disease

MS Ho - Neuroglia in neurodegenerative diseases, 2019 - Springer
Microglia are the most abundant immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS), where
they interact with neurons and exhibit a wide array of functions in physiological and …

Neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers in Parkinson's disease in an era of targeted interventions

A Zarkali, GEC Thomas, H Zetterberg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A major challenge in Parkinson's disease is the variability in symptoms and rates of
progression, underpinned by heterogeneity of pathological processes. Biomarkers are …

Mitochondrial dysfunction, protein misfolding and neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease: roads to biomarker discovery

A Picca, F Guerra, R Calvani, R Romano… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a highly prevalent neurodegenerative disease among older
adults. PD neuropathology is marked by the progressive loss of the dopaminergic neurons …

Parkinson's disease biomarkers based on α‐synuclein

M Fayyad, S Salim, N Majbour, D Erskine… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after
Alzheimer's disease and is estimated to affect approximately 1–4% of individuals aged over …

Disrupting the α-synuclein-ESCRT interaction with a peptide inhibitor mitigates neurodegeneration in preclinical models of Parkinson's disease

S Nim, DM O'Hara, C Corbi-Verge… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Accumulation of α-synuclein into toxic oligomers or fibrils is implicated in dopaminergic
neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease. Here we performed a high-throughput, proteome …

Biomarkers for Parkinson's disease: how good are they?

T Li, W Le - Neuroscience bulletin, 2020 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with no cure in sight.
Clinical challenges of the disease include the inability to make a definitive diagnosis at the …

Microglial phagocytosis and its regulation: a therapeutic target in Parkinson's disease?

E Janda, L Boi, AR Carta - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The role of phagocytosis in the neuroprotective function of microglia has been appreciated
for a long time, but only more recently a dysregulation of this process has been recognized …

Alpha and beta synucleins: from pathophysiology to clinical application as biomarkers

L Barba, F Paolini Paoletti, G Bellomo… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The synuclein family includes three neuronal proteins, named α‐synuclein, β‐synuclein, and
γ‐synuclein, that have peculiar structural features. α‐synuclein is largely known for being a …