Polyglutamine(polyQ) diseases are a group of different neurodegenerative disorders characterized by an abnormal expansion of the trinucleotide cytosine-adenine-guanine(CAG)within coding regions of each disease-associa...
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Polyglutamine(polyQ) diseases are a group of different neurodegenerative disorders characterized by an abnormal expansion of the trinucleotide cytosine-adenine-guanine(CAG)within coding regions of each disease-associated *** abnormal expansion translates into a protein bearing an abnormally long tract of glutamines.
Microglia,which comprise approximately 10%of total cells in the brain,are the resident immune cells in the central nervous system and contribute to maintaining the brain homeostasis through monitoring their microenvir...
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Microglia,which comprise approximately 10%of total cells in the brain,are the resident immune cells in the central nervous system and contribute to maintaining the brain homeostasis through monitoring their microenvironment(Kettenmann et al.,2011).Recent studies have reported that microglia also regulate neural circuit formation after *** functional transition in microglia has been considered to correlate with their morphological changes over time.
Mutations of the bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13A and the lipid scramblase XK result in Chorea Acanthocytosis (ChAc) and McLeod syndrome (MLS), respectively, two similar conditions involving neurodegeneratio...
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This study investigates the effects of a blend of Hericium erinaceus (lion's mane mushroom) extract on the differentiation of SH-SY5Y cells, a human neuroblastoma cell line, revealing potential therapeutic implica...
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Neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy(NLSDM)is a rare autosomal recessive disorder,due to an enzymatic error of lipid *** present always with skeletal muscle myopathy and variable cardiac and hepatic *** is caus...
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Neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy(NLSDM)is a rare autosomal recessive disorder,due to an enzymatic error of lipid *** present always with skeletal muscle myopathy and variable cardiac and hepatic *** is caused by mutations in the PNPLA2 gene,which encodes the adipose triglyceride lipase(ATGL).Here we report the molecular characterization and clinical findings of two NLSDM siblings carrying the novel c.187t1G>C homozygous PNPLA2 mutation,localized in the splice site of intron *** analyses revealed that neither aberrant PNPLA2 mRNA isoforms,nor ATGL mutated protein were detectable in patient’s ***,both patients presented early onset muscle weakness,in particular of proximal upper limb *** almost 15 years,muscle damage affected also distal upper *** is a NLSDM family,displaying a severe PNPLA2 mutation in two siblings with clinical presentation characterized by an early onset,but a slowly evolution of severe myopathy.
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Tiemin LiuYong XuChun-Xia YiQingchun TongDongsheng CaiState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering
Department of Endocrinology and MetabolismInstitute of Metabolism and Integrative BiologyHuman Phenome Instituteand Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and DevelopmentZhongshan HospitalSchool of Life SciencesFudan UniversityShanghai 200438China Children’s Nutrition Research Center
Department of PediatricsDepartment of Molecular and Cellular BiologyBaylor College of MedicineOne Baylor PlazaHoustonTX 77030USA Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Amsterdam University Medical CentersAmsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamMeibergdreef 91105AZ AmsterdamNetherlands Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
Department of Neurobiology and AnatomyUniversity of Texas McGovern Medical SchoolGraduate Program in Neuroscience of MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesHoustonTX 77030USA Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Albert Einstein College of MedicineBronxNew YorkNY 10461USA
Obesity and aging are two important epidemic factors for metabolic syndrome and many other health issues,which contribute to devastating diseases such as cardiovascular diseases,stroke and *** brain plays a central ro...
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Obesity and aging are two important epidemic factors for metabolic syndrome and many other health issues,which contribute to devastating diseases such as cardiovascular diseases,stroke and *** brain plays a central role in controlling metabolic physiology in that it integrates information from other metabolic organs,sends regulatory projections and orchestrates the whole-body *** studies suggest that brain dysfunction in sensing various internal cues or processing external cues may have profound effects on metabolic and other physiological *** review highlights brain dysfunction linked to genetic mutations,sex,brain inflammation,microbiota,stress as causes for whole-body pathophysiology,arguing brain dysfunction as a root cause for the epidemic of aging and obesity-related *** also speculate key issues that need to be addressed on how to reveal relevant brain dysfunction that underlines the development of these disorders and diseases in order to develop new treatment strategies against these health problems.
CRISPR/RfxCas13d(CasRx)editing system can specifically and precisely cleave single-strand RNAs,which is a promising treatment for various disorders by downregulation of related gene ***,we tested this RNA-editing appr...
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CRISPR/RfxCas13d(CasRx)editing system can specifically and precisely cleave single-strand RNAs,which is a promising treatment for various disorders by downregulation of related gene ***,we tested this RNA-editing approach on Beethoven(Bth)mice,an animal model for human DFNA36 due to a point mutation in *** first screened 30 sgRNAs in cell cultures and found that CasRx with sgRNA3 reduced the Tmc1^(Bth)transcript by 90.8%,and the Tmc1 wild type transcript(Tmc1^(+))by 44.3%.We then injected a newly developed AAV vector(***)based CasRx into the inner ears of neonatal Bth mice,and we found that Tmc1^(Bth)was reduced by 70.2%in 2 weeks with few off-target effects in the whole ***,we found improved hair cell survival,rescued hair bundle degeneration,and reduced mechanoelectrical transduction ***,the hearing performance,measured in both ABR and DPOAE thresholds,was improved significantly in all ages over 8 ***,therefore,have validated the CRISPR/CasRx-based RNA editing strategy in treating autosomal-dominant hearing loss,paving way for its further application in many other hereditary diseases in hearing and beyond.
Cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder often associated with gastrointestinal (GI) issues and subclinical immune dysregulation, suggesting a link to the ...
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) is a highly conserved ribonucleoprotein (RNP) that translocates a subset of secreted and integral membrane proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum for proper localization. The most ...
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) is a highly conserved ribonucleoprotein (RNP) that translocates a subset of secreted and integral membrane proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum for proper localization. The most conserved SRP protein component, SRP54, has been implicated in the molecular etiology of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). A key feature of SMA is the selective loss of motor neurons; however, the mechanism underlying this selectivity is unknown. SMA arises from deficient levels of the ubiquitously expressed Survival of Motor Neuron (SMN) protein. SMN is proposed to assemble the SRP, and SMN deficiency in SMA may attenuate SRP function and contribute to motor neuron death in patients. Using zebrafish embryos homozygous for a srp54 nonsense mutation (srp54), we investigated the requirement of Srp54 protein in motor axon development. The first grossly distinguishable phenotype observed in srp54 embryos was reduced motility at 30 h postfertilization (hpf). Additionally, we detected reduced length and branching of caudal primary motor axons in srp54 embryos compared to srp54 and srp54 siblings at 30 hpf, suggesting that defective motor neurons may contribute to the observed immotility. We also examined additional neural, secretory, and migratory cell types at 30 hpf to assess whether motor neurons are especially vulnerable to Srp54 deficiency. Of the cell types evaluated, only the hatching gland had distinct expression pattern alterations in srp54 embryos at this developmental stage. Our findings suggest that Srp54 deficiency results in motor neuron developmental defects and support the hypothesis that SRP54 may influence motor neuron selectivity in SMA.
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