Search Results - "Rothstein, Jeffrey D."
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Current hypotheses for the underlying biology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Published in Annals of neurology (01-01-2009)“…The mechanisms involved in selective motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis remain unknown more than 135 years after the disease was first…”
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Astrocyte Diversity: Current Insights and Future Directions
Published in Neurochemical research (01-06-2020)“…Astrocytes make up 20–40% of glial cells within the central nervous system (CNS) and provide several crucial functions, ranging from metabolic and structural…”
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The expanding biology of the C9orf72 nucleotide repeat expansion in neurodegenerative disease
Published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience (01-06-2016)“…Key Points Since its discovery as the most common genetic abnormality in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD),…”
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Advances in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: insights from pathophysiological studies
Published in Trends in neurosciences (Regular ed.) (01-08-2014)“…Highlights • The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are multifactorial. • Genetic factors and dysfunction of vital…”
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NG2 + CNS Glial Progenitors Remain Committed to the Oligodendrocyte Lineage in Postnatal Life and following Neurodegeneration
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (18-11-2010)“…The mammalian CNS contains a ubiquitous population of glial progenitors known as NG2 + cells that have the ability to develop into oligodendrocytes and undergo…”
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Rodent Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Published in Current protocols in pharmacology (01-06-2015)“…Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease affecting upper and lower motor neurons in the central nervous system. Patients with ALS develop…”
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Degeneration and impaired regeneration of gray matter oligodendrocytes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-05-2013)“…Oligodendrocytes form myelin sheaths and provide metabolic support to axons. Using in vivo genetic fate tracing in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral…”
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The C9orf72 repeat expansion disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport
Published in Nature (London) (03-09-2015)“…The hexanucleotide repeat expansion (HRE) GGGGCC (G 4 C 2 ) in C9orf72 is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal…”
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C9orf72 arginine-rich dipeptide repeat proteins disrupt karyopherin-mediated nuclear import
Published in eLife (02-03-2020)“…Disruption of nucleocytoplasmic transport is increasingly implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS caused by a…”
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RAN proteins and RNA foci from antisense transcripts in C9ORF72 ALS and frontotemporal dementia
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-12-2013)“…The finding that a GGGGCC (G ₄C ₂) hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the chromosome 9 ORF 72 (C9ORF72) gene is a common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…”
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Nuclear accumulation of CHMP7 initiates nuclear pore complex injury and subsequent TDP-43 dysfunction in sporadic and familial ALS
Published in Science translational medicine (28-07-2021)“…Alterations in the components [nucleoporins (Nups)] and function of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) have been implicated as contributors to the pathogenesis of…”
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Mutant Huntingtin Disrupts the Nuclear Pore Complex
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (05-04-2017)“…Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene. The mechanism(s) by which mutant HTT (mHTT) causes disease is…”
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G4C2 Repeat RNA Initiates a POM121-Mediated Reduction in Specific Nucleoporins in C9orf72 ALS/FTD
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (23-09-2020)“…Through mechanisms that remain poorly defined, defects in nucleocytoplasmic transport and accumulations of specific nuclear-pore-complex-associated proteins…”
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CRISPR-Cas9 Screens Identify the RNA Helicase DDX3X as a Repressor of C9ORF72 (GGGGCC)n Repeat-Associated Non-AUG Translation
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (04-12-2019)“…Hexanucleotide GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most prevalent genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)…”
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MCT1 Deletion in Oligodendrocyte Lineage Cells Causes Late-Onset Hypomyelination and Axonal Degeneration
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (12-01-2021)“…Oligodendrocytes (OLs) are important for myelination and shuttling energy metabolites lactate and pyruvate toward axons through their expression of…”
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A Helicase Unwinds Hexanucleotide Repeat RNA G‑Quadruplexes and Facilitates Repeat-Associated Non-AUG Translation
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (19-05-2021)“…The expansion of a hexanucleotide repeat GGGGCC (G4C2) in the C9orf72 gene is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal…”
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Nuclear pore dysfunction and disease: a complex opportunity
Published in Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) (01-12-2024)“…The separation of genetic material from bulk cytoplasm has enabled the evolution of increasingly complex organisms, allowing for the development of…”
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The blood-brain barrier: an engineering perspective
Published in Frontiers in neuroengineering (30-08-2013)“…It has been more than 100 years since Paul Ehrlich reported that various water-soluble dyes injected into the circulation did not enter the brain. Since…”
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Molecular comparison of GLT1+ and ALDH1L1+ astrocytes in vivo in astroglial reporter mice
Published in Glia (01-02-2011)“…Astrocyte heterogeneity remains largely unknown in the CNS due to lack of specific astroglial markers. In this study, molecular identity of in vivo astrocytes…”
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Absence of Survival and Motor Deficits in 500 Repeat C9ORF72 BAC Mice
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (25-11-2020)“…A hexanucleotide repeat expansion at C9ORF72 is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Initial…”
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