Methods to study adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans and across the phylogeny

J Terreros‐Roncal, M Flor‐García… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The hippocampus hosts the continuous addition of new neurons throughout life—a
phenomenon named adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN). Here we revisit the …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

S Morabito, E Miyoshi, N Michael, S Shahin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease,
coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types. Here, we …

Molecular signatures underlying neurofibrillary tangle susceptibility in Alzheimer's disease

M Otero-Garcia, SU Mahajani, D Wakhloo, W Tang… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Tau aggregation in neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is closely associated with
neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the …

[HTML][HTML] The development and evolution of inhibitory neurons in primate cerebrum

MT Schmitz, K Sandoval, CP Chen, MA Mostajo-Radji… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroanatomists have long speculated that expanded primate brains contain an increased
morphological diversity of inhibitory neurons (INs), and recent studies have identified …

RNA binding proteins co-localize with small tau inclusions in tauopathy

BF Maziuk, DJ Apicco, AL Cruz, L Jiang… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2018 - Springer
The development of insoluble, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of the
microtubule-associated protein tau is a defining feature of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's …

Absolute quantification of protein number and dynamics in single cells

CA Royer, M Tyers, S Tollis - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative characterization of protein abundance and interactions in live cells is necessary
to understand and predict cellular behavior. The accurate determination of copy number for …

Dysregulation of autophagy and stress granule-related proteins in stress-driven Tau pathology

JM Silva, S Rodrigues, B Sampaio-Marques… - Cell Death & …, 2019 - nature.com
Imbalance of neuronal proteostasis associated with misfolding and aggregation of Tau
protein is a common neurodegenerative feature in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other …

dotdotdot: an automated approach to quantify multiplex single molecule fluorescent in situ hybridization (smFISH) images in complex tissues

KR Maynard, M Tippani, Y Takahashi… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Multiplex single-molecule fluorescent in situ hybridization (smFISH) is a powerful method for
validating RNA sequencing and emerging spatial transcriptomic data, but quantification …

Physiological regulation of neuronal Wnt activity is essential for TDP-43 localization and function

N Zhang, A Westerhaus, M Wilson, E Wang… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Nuclear exclusion of the RNA-and DNA-binding protein TDP-43 can induce
neurodegeneration in different diseases. Diverse processes have been implicated to …

Lipofuscin-like autofluorescence within microglia and its impact on studying microglial engulfment

JM Stillman, F Mendes Lopes, JP Lin, K Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Engulfment of cellular material and proteins is a key function for microglia, a resident
macrophage of the central nervous system (CNS). Among the techniques used to measure …