Mitophagy and Alzheimer's disease: cellular and molecular mechanisms

JS Kerr, BA Adriaanse, NH Greig, MP Mattson… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
Neurons affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD) experience mitochondrial dysfunction and a
bioenergetic deficit that occurs early and promotes the disease-defining amyloid beta …

Addressing variability in iPSC-derived models of human disease: guidelines to promote reproducibility

V Volpato, C Webber - Disease models & mechanisms, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies have provided in vitro models of
inaccessible human cell types, yielding new insights into disease mechanisms especially for …

Increased post-mitotic senescence in aged human neurons is a pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease

JR Herdy, L Traxler, RK Agarwal, L Karbacher… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The concept of senescence as a phenomenon limited to proliferating cells has been
challenged by growing evidence of senescence-like features in terminally differentiated …

Mitophagy inhibits amyloid-β and tau pathology and reverses cognitive deficits in models of Alzheimer's disease

EF Fang, Y Hou, K Palikaras, BA Adriaanse… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accumulation of damaged mitochondria is a hallmark of aging and age-related
neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The molecular mechanisms of …

A single‐cell transcriptome atlas of the adult human retina

SW Lukowski, CY Lo, AA Sharov, Q Nguyen… - The EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
The retina is a specialized neural tissue that senses light and initiates image processing.
Although the functional organization of specific retina cells has been well studied, the …

Batch effects and the effective design of single-cell gene expression studies

PY Tung, JD Blischak, CJ Hsiao, DA Knowles… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can be used to characterize variation in gene
expression levels at high resolution. However, the sources of experimental noise in scRNA …

Advances in genetics of migraine

HG Sutherland, CL Albury, LR Griffiths - The journal of headache and pain, 2019 - Springer
Background Migraine is a complex neurovascular disorder with a strong genetic component.
There are rare monogenic forms of migraine, as well as more common polygenic forms; …

Reproducibility of molecular phenotypes after long-term differentiation to human iPSC-derived neurons: a multi-site omics study

V Volpato, J Smith, C Sandor, JS Ried, A Baud… - Stem cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Reproducibility in molecular and cellular studies is fundamental to scientific discovery. To
establish the reproducibility of a well-defined long-term neuronal differentiation protocol, we …

Molecular and functional variation in iPSC-derived sensory neurons

J Schwartzentruber, S Foskolou, H Kilpinen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and cells derived from them, have become key tools
for modeling biological processes, particularly in cell types that are difficult to obtain from …

Advances in microfluidic in vitro systems for neurological disease modeling

PM Holloway, S Willaime‐Morawek… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological disorders are the leading cause of disability and the second largest cause of
death worldwide. Despite significant research efforts, neurology remains one of the most …