Search Results - "Heiman, Myriam"
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Normal aging induces A1-like astrocyte reactivity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-02-2018)“…The decline of cognitive function occurs with aging, but the mechanisms responsible are unknown. Astrocytes instruct the formation, maturation, and elimination…”
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Cell type–specific mRNA purification by translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP)
Published in Nature protocols (01-06-2014)“…Translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP) combines cell type–specific transgene expression with affinity purification of translating ribosomes and can…”
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Cell type-specific plasticity of striatal projection neurons in parkinsonism and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia
Published in Nature communications (31-10-2014)“…The striatum is widely viewed as the fulcrum of pathophysiology in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID). In these disease states, the…”
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Choroid plexus NKCC1 mediates cerebrospinal fluid clearance during mouse early postnatal development
Published in Nature communications (19-01-2021)“…Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) provides vital support for the brain. Abnormal CSF accumulation, such as hydrocephalus, can negatively affect perinatal…”
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Small Molecule Targets TMED9 and Promotes Lysosomal Degradation to Reverse Proteinopathy
Published in Cell (25-07-2019)“…Intracellular accumulation of misfolded proteins causes toxic proteinopathies, diseases without targeted therapies. Mucin 1 kidney disease (MKD) results from a…”
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Transcriptional vulnerabilities of striatal neurons in human and rodent models of Huntington’s disease
Published in Nature communications (17-01-2023)“…Striatal projection neurons (SPNs), which progressively degenerate in human patients with Huntington’s disease (HD), are classified along two axes: the…”
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Widespread Accumulation of Ribosome-Associated Isolated 3′ UTRs in Neuronal Cell Populations of the Aging Brain
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (27-11-2018)“…Particular brain regions and cell populations exhibit increased susceptibility to aging-related stresses. Here, we describe the age-specific and…”
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A partnership between the lipid scramblase XK and the lipid transfer protein VPS13A at the plasma membrane
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-08-2022)“…Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) and McLeod syndrome are diseases with shared clinical manifestations caused by mutations in VPS13A and XK, respectively. Key…”
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A Translational Profiling Approach for the Molecular Characterization of CNS Cell Types
Published in Cell (14-11-2008)“…The cellular heterogeneity of the brain confounds efforts to elucidate the biological properties of distinct neuronal populations. Using bacterial artificial…”
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Application of a Translational Profiling Approach for the Comparative Analysis of CNS Cell Types
Published in Cell (14-11-2008)“…Comparative analysis can provide important insights into complex biological systems. As demonstrated in the accompanying paper, translating ribosome affinity…”
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Molecular adaptations of striatal spiny projection neurons during levodopa-induced dyskinesia
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-03-2014)“…Levodopa treatment is the major pharmacotherapy for Parkinson's disease. However, almost all patients receiving levodopa eventually develop debilitating…”
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Defining diurnal fluctuations in mouse choroid plexus and CSF at high molecular, spatial, and temporal resolution
Published in Nature communications (22-06-2023)“…Transmission and secretion of signals via the choroid plexus (ChP) brain barrier can modulate brain states via regulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)…”
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Interleukin-6 deficiency exacerbates Huntington's disease model phenotypes
Published in Molecular neurodegeneration (24-05-2020)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG trinucleotide expansions in the huntingtin gene. Markers of both systemic…”
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TDP-43 proteinopathy in ALS is triggered by loss of ASRGL1 and associated with HML-2 expression
Published in Nature communications (16-05-2024)“…TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) proteinopathy in brain cells is the hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) but its cause remains elusive…”
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Regulation of Alzheimer's disease amyloid-β formation by casein kinase I
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-03-2007)“…Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with accumulation of the neurotoxic peptide amyloid-β (Aβ), which is produced by sequential cleavage of amyloid…”
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Synthetic lethal screening in the mammalian central nervous system identifies Gpx6 as a modulator of Huntington’s disease
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-01-2015)“…Huntington’s disease, the most common inherited neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by a dramatic loss of deep-layer cortical and striatal neurons, as…”
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Identifying therapeutic targets by combining transcriptional data with ordinal clinical measurements
Published in Nature communications (20-09-2017)“…The immense and growing repositories of transcriptional data may contain critical insights for developing new therapies. Current approaches to mining these…”
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l-DOPA activates ERK signaling and phosphorylates histone H3 in the striatonigral medium spiny neurons of hemiparkinsonian mice
Published in Journal of neurochemistry (01-02-2009)“…In the dopamine-depleted striatum, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling is implicated in the development of l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia. To gain…”
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Shape deformation analysis reveals the temporal dynamics of cell-type-specific homeostatic and pathogenic responses to mutant huntingtin
Published in eLife (23-02-2021)“…Loss of cellular homeostasis has been implicated in the etiology of several neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). However, the molecular mechanisms that underlie…”
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Differential effects of cocaine on histone posttranslational modifications in identified populations of striatal neurons
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-06-2013)“…Drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, induce changes in gene expression and epigenetic marks including alterations in histone posttranslational modifications in…”
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