Is dysregulation of the HPA-axis a core pathophysiology mediating co-morbid depression in neurodegenerative diseases?

X Du, TY Pang - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2015 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence of prodromal manifestation of neuropsychiatric symptoms in a
variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's …

Environmental factors as modulators of neurodegeneration: Insights from gene–environment interactions in Huntington's disease

C Mo, AJ Hannan, T Renoir - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Unlike many other neurodegenerative diseases with established gene–environment
interactions, Huntington's disease (HD) is viewed as a disorder governed by genetics. The …

Mice lacking GPR88 show motor deficit, improved spatial learning, and low anxiety reversed by delta opioid antagonist

AC Meirsman, J Le Merrer, LP Pellissier, J Diaz… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background GPR88 is an orphan G protein coupled receptor highly enriched in the striatum,
and previous studies have focused on GPR88 function in striatal physiology. The receptor is …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental stimulation in Huntington disease patients and animal models

A Novati, HP Nguyen, J Schulze-Hentrich - Neurobiology of Disease, 2022 - Elsevier
While Huntington disease (HD) is caused solely by a polyglutamine expansion in the
huntingtin gene, environmental factors can influence HD onset and progression. Here, we …

What's wrong with my mouse cage? Methodological considerations for modeling lifestyle factors and gene–environment interactions in mice

C Mo, T Renoir, AJ Hannan - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2016 - Elsevier
The mechanistic understanding of lifestyle contributions to disease has been largely driven
by work in laboratory rodent models using environmental interventions. These interventions …

[HTML][HTML] Normalizing glucocorticoid levels attenuates metabolic and neuropathological symptoms in the R6/2 mouse model of huntington's disease

BD Dufour, JL McBride - Neurobiology of disease, 2019 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal genetic neurological disorder caused by a mutation in
the human Huntingtin (HTT) gene. This mutation confers a toxic gain of function of the …

[PDF][PDF] Normalizing glucocorticoid levels attenuates metabolic and neuropathological symptoms in the R6/2 mouse model of huntington's

BD Dufoura, JL McBridea - Neurobiology of Disease, 2019 - academia.edu
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal genetic neurological disorder caused by a mutation in
the human Huntingtin (HTT) gene. This mutation confers a toxic gain of function of the …

The effects of environmental and microbiota manipulation on myelination in the YAC128 and BACHD models of Huntington disease

CI Radulescu - 2017 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
White matter (WM) deterioration is increasingly being recognised as a hallmark of
Huntington disease (HD) and is correlated to disease severity. The research presented in …