Search Results - "Lee, Wing C."
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Antisense transcripts of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat form nuclear RNA foci and undergo repeat-associated non-ATG translation in c9FTD/ALS
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-12-2013)“…Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are devastating neurodegenerative disorders with clinical, genetic, and neuropathological…”
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Distinct brain transcriptome profiles in C9orf72-associated and sporadic ALS
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-08-2015)“…Evidence suggests that aberrant RNA processing contributes to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Using RNA sequencing, Prudencio et al . assessed the extent…”
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Progranulin regulates neuronal outgrowth independent of sortilin
Published in Molecular neurodegeneration (10-07-2012)“…Progranulin (PGRN), a widely secreted growth factor, is involved in multiple biological functions, and mutations located within the PGRN gene (GRN) are a major…”
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Targeted manipulation of the sortilin-progranulin axis rescues progranulin haploinsufficiency
Published in Human molecular genetics (15-03-2014)“…Progranulin (GRN) mutations causing haploinsufficiency are a major cause of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP). Recent discoveries demonstrating…”
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Misregulation of human sortilin splicing leads to the generation of a nonfunctional progranulin receptor
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-12-2012)“…Sortilin 1 regulates the levels of brain progranulin (PGRN), a neurotrophic growth factor that, when deficient, is linked to cases of frontotemporal lobar…”
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Single-dose intracerebroventricular administration of galactocerebrosidase improves survival in a mouse model of globoid cell leukodystrophy
Published in The FASEB journal (01-08-2007)“…Globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD), also known as Krabbe disease, is a devastating, degenerative neurological disorder. It is inherited as an autosomal…”
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Enzyme replacement therapy results in substantial improvements in early clinical phenotype in a mouse model of globoid cell leukodystrophy
Published in The FASEB journal (01-09-2005)“…ABSTRACTGloboid cell leukodystrophy (GLD) or Krabbe disease is a devastating, degenerative neurological disorder caused by mutations in the…”
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Suppression of galactosylceramidase (GALC) expression in the twitcher mouse model of globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD) is caused by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD)
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-08-2006)“…The twitcher mouse is a pathologically and enzymatically authentic model of globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD, Krabbe disease) that has been widely used for the…”
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Molecular characterization of mutations that cause globoid cell leukodystrophy and pharmacological rescue using small molecule chemical chaperones
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (21-04-2010)“…Globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD) (Krabbe disease) is an autosomal recessive, degenerative, lysosomal storage disease caused by a severe loss of…”
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Pharmacologic reductions of total tau levels; implications for the role of microtubule dynamics in regulating tau expression
Published in Molecular neurodegeneration (26-07-2006)“…The microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) is a pathological component of several neurodegenerative diseases and clinical dementias. Here, we have…”
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Deletion of the Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP Leads to the Accumulation, But Not the Aggregation, of Both Endogenous Phospho- and Caspase-3-Cleaved Tau Species
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (28-06-2006)“…Accumulation of the microtubule-associated protein tau into neurofibrillary lesions is a pathological consequence of several neurodegenerative diseases,…”
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HSP induction mediates selective clearance of tau phosphorylated at proline-directed Ser/Thr sites but not KXGS (MARK) sites
Published in The FASEB journal (01-04-2006)“…ABSTRACT Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are a characteristic neuropathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and molecular chaperones appear to be…”
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