Search Results - "Virginia M.-Y. Lee"
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Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease
Published in Nature reviews. Neurology (01-04-2020)“…Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in…”
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Cell-to-cell transmission of pathogenic proteins in neurodegenerative diseases
Published in Nature medicine (01-02-2014)“…Numerous neurodegenerative diseases show deposition of protein aggregates, which are thought to cause neuronal damage. This Review discusses how cell-to-cell…”
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Spreading of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on human studies
Published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience (01-02-2015)“…Key Points Many neurodegenerative diseases share a common pathological hallmark: the accumulation of characteristic proteins into insoluble aggregates in…”
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Parkinson's disease dementia: convergence of α-synuclein, tau and amyloid-β pathologies
Published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience (01-09-2013)“…Key Points Notable heterogeneity exists in the neuropathological substrates that underlie dementia in the setting of Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD)…”
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Stages of pTDP-43 pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Published in Annals of neurology (01-07-2013)“…Objective To see whether the distribution patterns of phosphorylated 43kDa TAR DNA‐binding protein (pTDP‐43) intraneuronal inclusions in amyotrophic lateral…”
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Seeding of Normal Tau by Pathological Tau Conformers Drives Pathogenesis of Alzheimer-like Tangles
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (29-04-2011)“…Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies are composed of insoluble hyperphosphorylated Tau protein, but the mechanisms…”
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Microglia-mediated recovery from ALS-relevant motor neuron degeneration in a mouse model of TDP-43 proteinopathy
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-03-2018)“…Though motor neurons selectively degenerate in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, other cell types are likely involved in this disease. We recently generated rNLS8…”
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Tau-mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
Published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience (01-09-2007)“…Advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of tau-mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies, which are characterized…”
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Pathological α-Synuclein Transmission Initiates Parkinson-like Neurodegeneration in Nontransgenic Mice
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-11-2012)“…Parkinson's disease is characterized by abundant α-synuclein (α-Syn) neuronal inclusions, known as Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, and the massive loss of…”
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Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker signature in Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative subjects
Published in Annals of neurology (01-04-2009)“…Objective Develop a cerebrospinal fluid biomarker signature for mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) subjects…”
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Therapeutic strategies for the treatment of tauopathies: Hopes and challenges
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-10-2016)“…Abstract A group of neurodegenerative diseases referred to as tauopathies are characterized by the presence of brain cells harboring inclusions of pathological…”
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Distinct α-Synuclein strains and implications for heterogeneity among α-Synucleinopathies
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-01-2018)“…The deposition of misfolded β-sheet enriched amyloid protein is a shared feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. Recent studies demonstrated the existence…”
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Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Plaques Promote Seeding and Spreading of Alpha-Synuclein and Tau in a Mouse Model of Lewy Body Disorders with Aβ Pathology
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (22-01-2020)“…Studies have shown an overlap of Aβ plaques, tau tangles, and α-synuclein (α-syn) pathologies in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease…”
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Deep clinical and neuropathological phenotyping of Pick disease
Published in Annals of neurology (01-02-2016)“…Objective To characterize sequential patterns of regional neuropathology and clinical symptoms in a well‐characterized cohort of 21 patients with…”
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Tau pathology spread in PS19 tau transgenic mice following locus coeruleus (LC) injections of synthetic tau fibrils is determined by the LC’s afferent and efferent connections
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-09-2015)“…Filamentous tau inclusions are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative tauopathies. An increasing number of studies implicate the…”
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Patient-derived frontotemporal lobar degeneration brain extracts induce formation and spreading of TDP-43 pathology in vivo
Published in Nature communications (11-10-2018)“…The stereotypical distribution of TAR DNA-binding 43 protein (TDP-43) aggregates in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP) suggests that pathological…”
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Functional recovery in new mouse models of ALS/FTLD after clearance of pathological cytoplasmic TDP-43
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-11-2015)“…Accumulation of phosphorylated cytoplasmic TDP-43 inclusions accompanied by loss of normal nuclear TDP-43 in neurons and glia of the brain and spinal cord are…”
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Exogenous α-synuclein fibrils seed the formation of Lewy body-like intracellular inclusions in cultured cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-11-2009)“…Cytoplasmic inclusions containing α-synuclein (α-Syn) fibrils, referred to as Lewy bodies (LBs), are the signature neuropathological hallmarks of Parkinson's…”
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Brain Microvascular Pericytes in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Published in Frontiers in aging neuroscience (14-04-2020)“…Pericytes are unique, multi-functional mural cells localized at the abluminal side of the perivascular space in microvessels. Originally discovered in 19th…”
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Imaging of Tau Pathology in a Tauopathy Mouse Model and in Alzheimer Patients Compared to Normal Controls
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (18-09-2013)“…Accumulation of intracellular tau fibrils has been the focus of research on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related…”
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