Self-regulation and cross-regulation of pattern-recognition receptor signalling in health and disease

X Cao - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
In the initiation of innate immune responses against pathogens, pattern-recognition
receptors (PRRs) have an essential role in recognizing specific components of …

Physical exercise as an epigenetic modulator of brain plasticity and cognition

J Fernandes, RM Arida, F Gomez-Pinilla - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2017 - Elsevier
A large amount of evidence has demonstrated the power of exercise to support cognitive
function, the effects of which can last for considerable time. An emerging line of scientific …

Efficient prime editing in mouse brain, liver and heart with dual AAVs

JR Davis, S Banskota, JM Levy, GA Newby… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Realizing the promise of prime editing for the study and treatment of genetic disorders
requires efficient methods for delivering prime editors (PEs) in vivo. Here we describe the …

Single-cell DNA methylation and 3D genome architecture in the human brain

W Tian, J Zhou, A Bartlett, Q Zeng, H Liu, RG Castanon… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Delineating the gene-regulatory programs underlying complex cell types is fundamental for
understanding brain function in health and disease. Here, we comprehensively examined …

Cytosine and adenine base editing of the brain, liver, retina, heart and skeletal muscle of mice via adeno-associated viruses

JM Levy, WH Yeh, N Pendse, JR Davis… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
The success of base editors for the study and treatment of genetic diseases depends on the
ability to deliver them in vivo to the relevant cell types. Delivery via adeno-associated viruses …

High levels of AAV vector integration into CRISPR-induced DNA breaks

KS Hanlon, BP Kleinstiver, SP Garcia… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have shown promising results in preclinical models,
but the genomic consequences of transduction with AAV vectors encoding CRISPR-Cas …

Large-scale gene function analysis with the PANTHER classification system

H Mi, A Muruganujan, JT Casagrande, PD Thomas - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
The PANTHER (protein annotation through evolutionary relationship) classification system
(http://www. pantherdb. org/) is a comprehensive system that combines gene function …

In vivo interrogation of gene function in the mammalian brain using CRISPR-Cas9

L Swiech, M Heidenreich, A Banerjee, N Habib… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Probing gene function in the mammalian brain can be greatly assisted with methods to
manipulate the genome of neurons in vivo. The clustered, regularly interspaced, short …

Pathogenesis of depression: insights from human and rodent studies

C Ménard, GE Hodes, SJ Russo - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) will affect one out of every five people in their lifetime and
is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Nevertheless, mechanisms associated with the …

DNA methylation and its basic function

LD Moore, T Le, G Fan - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2013 - nature.com
In the mammalian genome, DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism involving the
transfer of a methyl group onto the C5 position of the cytosine to form 5-methylcytosine. DNA …