[HTML][HTML] Studying human neurological disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells: from 2D monolayer to 3D organoid and blood brain barrier models

S Logan, T Arzua, SG Canfield… - Comprehensive …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neurological disorders have emerged as a predominant healthcare concern in recent years
due to their severe consequences on quality of life and prevalence throughout the world …

G protein-coupled receptors in neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders

TS Wong, G Li, S Li, W Gao, G Chen, S Gan… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric disorders are multifactorial disorders with diverse aetiological factors.
Identifying treatment targets is challenging because the diseases are resulting from …

Structural basis of ligand recognition and self-activation of orphan GPR52

X Lin, M Li, N Wang, Y Wu, Z Luo, S Guo, GW Han, S Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
GPR52 is a class-A orphan G-protein-coupled receptor that is highly expressed in the brain
and represents a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of Huntington's disease and …

Manifestation of Huntington's disease pathology in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons

ED Nekrasov, VA Vigont, SA Klyushnikov… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Background Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable hereditary neurodegenerative
disorder, which manifests itself as a loss of GABAergic medium spiny (GABA MS) neurons in …

The role of GPCRs in neurodegenerative diseases: avenues for therapeutic intervention

Y Huang, N Todd, A Thathiah - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•GPCRs are implicated in the pathophysiology of various neurodegenerative
diseases.•Currently available therapies do not cure the discussed neurodegenerative …

Huntington disease as a neurodevelopmental disorder and early signs of the disease in stem cells

K Wiatr, WJ Szlachcic, M Trzeciak, M Figlerowicz… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Huntington disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited disorder caused by a CAG expansion
mutation in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which results in the HTT protein that contains an …

Innovative therapeutic approaches for Huntington's disease: From nucleic acids to GPCR-targeting small molecules

H Komatsu - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder due to an extraordinarily
expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene that confers a gain-of-toxic function in the …

The emerging landscape of small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of Huntington's disease

S Ahamad, SA Bhat - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG
repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene (HTT). The new insights into HD's cellular and …

Novel therapeutic GPCRs for psychiatric disorders

H Komatsu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most common targets of the
neuropharmacological drugs in the central nervous system (CNS). GPCRs are activated by …

Downregulation of glial genes involved in synaptic function mitigates Huntington's disease pathogenesis

TS Onur, A Laitman, H Zhao, R Keyho, H Kim, J Wang… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Most research on neurodegenerative diseases has focused on neurons, yet glia help form
and maintain the synapses whose loss is so prominent in these conditions. To investigate …