Search Results - "Jucker, Mathias"
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The benefits and limitations of animal models for translational research in neurodegenerative diseases
Published in Nature medicine (01-11-2010)“…Age-related neurodegenerative diseases are largely limited to humans and rarely occur spontaneously in animals. Genetically engineered mouse models…”
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Propagation and spread of pathogenic protein assemblies in neurodegenerative diseases
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-10-2018)“…Many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are characterized by the progressive…”
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Self-propagation of pathogenic protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases
Published in Nature (London) (05-09-2013)“…The prion paradigm – the hypothesis that the seeded aggregation of certain proteins is key to understanding age-related neurodegenerative disorders – is…”
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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Expanding the Prion Concept
Published in Annual review of neuroscience (08-07-2015)“…The prion paradigm has emerged as a unifying molecular principle for the pathogenesis of many age-related neurodegenerative diseases. This paradigm holds that…”
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Pathogenic protein seeding in alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
Published in Annals of neurology (01-10-2011)“…The misfolding and aggregation of specific proteins is a seminal occurrence in a remarkable variety of neurodegenerative disorders. In Alzheimer disease (the…”
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Cryo-EM structure and polymorphism of Aβ amyloid fibrils purified from Alzheimer’s brain tissue
Published in Nature communications (29-10-2019)“…The formation of Aβ amyloid fibrils is a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. However, the structure of Aβ…”
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The Exceptional Vulnerability of Humans to Alzheimer’s Disease
Published in Trends in molecular medicine (01-06-2017)“…Like many humans, non-human primates deposit copious misfolded Aβ protein in the brain as they age. Nevertheless, the complete behavioral and pathologic…”
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Loss of function of the mitochondrial peptidase PITRM1 induces proteotoxic stress and Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology in human cerebral organoids
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-10-2021)“…s Mutations in pitrilysin metallopeptidase 1 (PITRM1), a mitochondrial protease involved in mitochondrial precursor processing and degradation, result in a…”
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Innate immune memory in the brain shapes neurological disease hallmarks
Published in Nature (London) (19-04-2018)“…Innate immune memory is a vital mechanism of myeloid cell plasticity that occurs in response to environmental stimuli and alters subsequent immune responses…”
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Acute targeting of pre-amyloid seeds in transgenic mice reduces Alzheimer-like pathology later in life
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-12-2020)“…Amyloid-β (Aβ) deposits are a relatively late consequence of Aβ aggregation in Alzheimer‘s disease. When pathogenic Aβ seeds begin to form, propagate and…”
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Neurofilament Light Chain in Blood and CSF as Marker of Disease Progression in Mouse Models and in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (06-07-2016)“…A majority of current disease-modifying therapeutic approaches for age-related neurodegenerative diseases target their characteristic proteopathic lesions…”
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Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain
Published in Nature cell biology (01-07-2009)“…Hyperphosphorylated tau makes up the filamentous intracellular inclusions of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. In the disease…”
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CSF p-tau increase in response to Aβ-type and Danish-type cerebral amyloidosis and in the absence of neurofibrillary tangles
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Homeostatic and injury‐induced microglia behavior in the aging brain
Published in Aging cell (01-02-2014)“…Summary Microglia cells are essential for brain homeostasis and have essential roles in neurodegenerative diseases. Aging is the main risk factor for most…”
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Amyloid polymorphisms constitute distinct clouds of conformational variants in different etiological subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-12-2017)“…The molecular architecture of amyloids formed in vivo can be interrogated using luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes (LCOs), a unique class of amyloid dyes…”
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White matter diffusion alterations precede symptom onset in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-10-2018)“…See Jacobs and Buckley (doi:10.1093/brain/awy243) for a scientific commentary on this article. Despite the prevalence of white matter alterations in…”
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Microglial repopulation model reveals a robust homeostatic process for replacing CNS myeloid cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-10-2012)“…Under most physiological circumstances, monocytes are excluded from parenchymal CNS tissues. When widespread monocyte entry occurs, their numbers decrease…”
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Dynamics of the Microglial/Amyloid Interaction Indicate a Role in Plaque Maintenance
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (16-04-2008)“…Microglial cells aggregate around amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease, but, despite their therapeutic potential, various aspects of their reactive kinetics…”
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Induction of cerebral β-amyloidosis: Intracerebral versus systemic Aβ inoculation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-08-2009)“…Despite the importance of the aberrant polymerization of Aβ in the early pathogenic cascade of Alzheimer's disease, little is known about the induction of Aβ…”
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Aβ42-driven cerebral amyloidosis in transgenic mice reveals early and robust pathology
Published in EMBO reports (01-09-2006)“…We have generated a novel transgenic mouse model on a C57BL/6J genetic background that coexpresses KM670/671NL mutated amyloid precursor protein and L166P…”
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