Clusterin in Alzheimer's disease: mechanisms, genetics, and lessons from other pathologies

EM Foster, A Dangla-Valls, S Lovestone… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Clusterin (CLU) or APOJ is a multifunctional glycoprotein that has been implicated in several
physiological and pathological states, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). With a prominent …

Glial glutamine homeostasis in health and disease

JV Andersen, A Schousboe - Neurochemical Research, 2023 - Springer
Glutamine is an essential cerebral metabolite. Several critical brain processes are directly
linked to glutamine, including ammonia homeostasis, energy metabolism and …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's disease

DK Wilton, K Mastro, MD Heller, FW Gergits… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating monogenic neurodegenerative disease
characterized by early, selective pathology in the basal ganglia despite the ubiquitous …

Single-nucleus RNA-seq identifies Huntington disease astrocyte states

O Al-Dalahmah, AA Sosunov, A Shaik, K Ofori… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2020 - Springer
Huntington Disease (HD) is an inherited movement disorder caused by expanded CAG
repeats in the Huntingtin gene. We have used single nucleus RNASeq (snRNASeq) to …

DNA methylation signatures of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology in the cortex are primarily driven by variation in non-neuronal cell-types

G Shireby, EL Dempster, S Policicchio… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease characterized by the
progressive accumulation of amyloid-beta and neurofibrillary tangles of tau in the neocortex …

Self-organizing neuruloids model developmental aspects of Huntington's disease in the ectodermal compartment

T Haremaki, JJ Metzger, T Rito, MZ Ozair, F Etoc… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Harnessing the potential of human embryonic stem cells to mimic normal and aberrant
development with standardized models is a pressing challenge. Here we use micropattern …

The pathogenic exon 1 HTT protein is produced by incomplete splicing in Huntington's disease patients

A Neueder, C Landles, R Ghosh, D Howland… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We have previously shown that exon 1 of the huntingtin gene does not always splice to exon
2 resulting in the production of a small polyadenylated mRNA (HTTexon1) that encodes the …

Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) silences genes responsible for neurodegeneration

M von Schimmelmann, PA Feinberg, JM Sullivan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Normal brain function depends on the interaction between highly specialized neurons that
operate within anatomically and functionally distinct brain regions. Neuronal specification is …

Context-specific striatal astrocyte molecular responses are phenotypically exploitable

X Yu, J Nagai, M Marti-Solano, JS Soto, G Coppola… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes tile the central nervous system and are widely implicated in brain diseases, but
the molecular mechanisms by which astrocytes contribute to brain disorders remain …

Developmental alterations in Huntington's disease neural cells and pharmacological rescue in cells and mice

Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Neural cultures derived from Huntington's disease (HD) patient-derived induced pluripotent
stem cells were used for'omics' analyses to identify mechanisms underlying …