Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Selective neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson disease

DJ Surmeier, JA Obeso, GM Halliday - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Intracellular α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich protein aggregates called Lewy pathology (LP) and
neuronal death are commonly found in the brains of patients with clinical Parkinson disease …

Determinants of dopaminergic neuron loss in Parkinson's disease

DJ Surmeier - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The cardinal motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) are caused by the death of
dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SN c). Alpha‐synuclein …

Extracellular vesicles round off communication in the nervous system

V Budnik, C Ruiz-Cañada, F Wendler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Functional neural competence and integrity require interactive exchanges among sensory
and motor neurons, interneurons and glial cells. Recent studies have attributed some of the …

Neuronal calcium signaling: function and dysfunction

M Brini, T Calì, D Ottolini, E Carafoli - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Calcium (Ca 2+) is an universal second messenger that regulates the most
important activities of all eukaryotic cells. It is of critical importance to neurons as it …

Pathological α-synuclein transmission initiated by binding lymphocyte-activation gene 3

X Mao, MT Ou, SS Karuppagounder, TI Kam, X Yin… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative
disorder and leads to slowness of movement, tremor, rigidity, and, in the later stages of PD …

Microglia as modulators of exosomal alpha-synuclein transmission

Y Xia, G Zhang, C Han, K Ma, X Guo, F Wan… - Cell death & …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent researches regarding to exosomal involvement in alpha-synuclein (α-syn)
transmission relating to the pathological process of Parkinson's disease (PD) have attracted …

Structure, function and toxicity of alpha‐synuclein: the Bermuda triangle in synucleinopathies

A Villar‐Piqué, T Lopes da Fonseca… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of currently incurable neurodegenerative disorders
characterized by the misfolding and accumulation of alpha‐synuclein aggregates that are …

Exosomes as a nanodelivery system: a key to the future of neuromedicine?

A Aryani, B Denecke - Molecular neurobiology, 2016 - Springer
Since the beginning of the last decade, exosomes have been of increased interest in the
science community. Exosomes represent a new kind of long distance transfer of biological …

Focus on extracellular vesicles: exosomes and their role in protein trafficking and biomarker potential in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

LJ Vella, AF Hill, L Cheng - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Growing evidence indicates that small extracellular vesicles, called exosomes, are
prominent mediators of neurodegenerative diseases such as prion, Alzheimer's and …