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Brain changes in Huntington’s disease occur decades before diagnosis
Subtle changes in the brain happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s disease, finds a new study led by...
Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Disease in Stem-Cell-Derived Human Neurons Transplanted into Mouse Brain.
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Ira Espuny-Camacho, Amaia M Arranz, Mark Fiers, An Snellinx, Kunie Ando, Sebastian Munck, Jerome Bonnefont, Laurie Lambot, Nikky Corthout, Lorna Omodho, Elke Vanden Eynden, Enrico Radaelli, Ina Tesseur, Selina Wray, Andreas Ebneth, John Hardy, Karelle Leroy, Jean-Pierre Brion, Pierre Vanderhaeghen, Bart De Strooper
Tau Pathology Induces Excitatory Neuron Loss, Grid Cell Dysfunction, and Spatial Memory Deficits Reminiscent of Early Alzheimer's Disease.
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Hongjun Fu, Gustavo A Rodriguez, Mathieu Herman, Sheina Emrani, Eden Nahmani, Geoffrey Barrett, Helen Y Figueroa, Eliana Goldberg, S Abid Hussaini, Karen E Duff
Transcriptomic profiling of purified patient-derived dopamine neurons identifies convergent perturbations and therapeutics for Parkinson's disease.
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Cynthia Sandor, Paul Robertson, Charmaine Lang, Andreas Heger, Heather Booth, Jane Vowles, Lorna Witty, Rory Bowden, Michele Hu, Sally A Cowley, Richard Wade-Martins, Caleb Webber
Type I interferon causes thrombotic microangiopathy by a dose-dependent toxic effect on the microvasculature.
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David Kavanagh, Sarah McGlasson, Alexa Jury, Jac Williams, Neil Scolding, Chris Bellamy, Claudia Gunther, Diane Ritchie, Daniel P Gale, Yashpal S Kanwar, Rachel Challis, Holly Buist, James Overell, Belinda Weller, Oliver Flossmann, Mark Blunden, Eric P Meyer, Thomas Krucker, Stephen J W Evans, Iain L Campbell, Andrew P Jackson, Siddharthan Chandran, David P J Hunt
Clinical phenotype and genetic associations in autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer's disease: a case series.
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Natalie S Ryan, Jennifer M Nicholas, Philip S J Weston, Yuying Liang, Tammaryn Lashley, Rita Guerreiro, Gary Adamson, Janna Kenny, Jon Beck, Lucia Chavez-Gutierrez, Bart de Strooper, Tamas Revesz, Janice Holton, Simon Mead, Martin N Rossor, Nick C Fox
Presymptomatic cortical thinning in familial Alzheimer disease: A longitudinal MRI study.
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Philip S J Weston, Jennifer M Nicholas, Manja Lehmann, Natalie S Ryan, Yuying Liang, Kirsty Macpherson, Marc Modat, Martin N Rossor, Jonathan M Schott, Sebastien Ourselin, Nick C Fox
Synthetic lethality between PAXX and XLF in mammalian development.
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Gabriel Balmus, Ana C Barros, Paul W G Wijnhoven, Chloé Lescale, Hélène Lenden Hasse, Katharina Boroviak, Carlos le Sage, Brendan Doe, Anneliese O Speak, Antonella Galli, Matt Jacobsen, Ludovic Deriano, David J Adams, Andrew N Blackford, Stephen P Jackson
Neuronal activity enhances tau propagation and tau pathology in vivo.
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Jessica W Wu, S Abid Hussaini, Isle M Bastille, Gustavo A Rodriguez, Ana Mrejeru, Kelly Rilett, David W Sanders, Casey Cook, Hongjun Fu, Rick A C M Boonen, Mathieu Herman, Eden Nahmani, Sheina Emrani, Y Helen Figueroa, Marc I Diamond, Catherine L Clelland, Selina Wray, Karen E Duff
Minor intron splicing is regulated by FUS and affected by ALS-associated FUS mutants.
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Stefan Reber, Jolanda Stettler, Giuseppe Filosa, Martino Colombo, Daniel Jutzi, Silvia C Lenzken, Christoph Schweingruber, Rémy Bruggmann, Angela Bachi, Silvia Ml Barabino, Oliver Mühlemann, Marc-David Ruepp