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  1. Neuronal cell loss contributes to the pathology of acute and chronic neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It remains crucial to identify molecular mechanisms sensitizing neurons to v...

    Authors: Gregor Bieri, Kurt M. Lucin, Caitlin E. O’Brien, Hui Zhang, Saul A. Villeda and Tony Wyss-Coray

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:68

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  2. Microglia, the principle immune cells of the brain, play important roles in neuronal development, homeostatic function and neurodegenerative disease. Recent genetic studies have further highlighted the importa...

    Authors: Amanda McQuade, Morgan Coburn, Christina H. Tu, Jonathan Hasselmann, Hayk Davtyan and Mathew Blurton-Jones

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:67

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  3. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia. The two histopathological markers of AD are amyloid plaques composed of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide, and neurofibrillary tangles of aggregated, abnorma...

    Authors: Maud Gratuze, Cheryl E. G. Leyns and David M. Holtzman

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:66

    Content type: Review

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  4. Activation of microglia, the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, is a prominent pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the gene expression changes underlying microglia act...

    Authors: Hong Wang, Yupeng Li, John W. Ryder, Justin T. Hole, Philip J. Ebert, David C. Airey, Hui-Rong Qian, Benjamin Logsdon, Alice Fisher, Zeshan Ahmed, Tracey K. Murray, Annalisa Cavallini, Suchira Bose, Brian J. Eastwood, David A. Collier, Jeffrey L. Dage…

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:65

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  6. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are two fatal neurodegenerative disorders with considerable clinical, pathological and genetic overlap. Both disorders are chara...

    Authors: Ali Jawaid, Romesa Khan, Magdalini Polymenidou and Paul E. Schulz

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:63

    Content type: Review

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  7. Although diabetic retinopathy (DR) has long been considered as a microvascular disorder, mounting evidence suggests that diabetic retinal neurodegeneration, in particular synaptic loss and dysfunction of retin...

    Authors: Huazhang Zhu, Weizhen Zhang, Yingying Zhao, Xingsheng Shu, Wencong Wang, Dandan Wang, Yangfan Yang, Zhijun He, Xiaomei Wang and Ying Ying

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:62

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  8. Neuroinflammation is a hallmark of neurodegenerative disease and a significant component of the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Patients present with extensive microgliosis along with elevated pro-infla...

    Authors: Aaron D. Thome, Alireza Faridar, David R. Beers, Jason R. Thonhoff, Weihua Zhao, Shixiang Wen, Belen Pascual, Joseph C. Masdeu and Stanley H. Appel

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:61

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  9. It is unclear to what extent pre-clinical studies in genetically homogeneous animal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder, can be informative of human pa...

    Authors: Irene Zubiri, Vittoria Lombardi, Michael Bremang, Vikram Mitra, Giovanni Nardo, Rocco Adiutori, Ching-Hua Lu, Emanuela Leoni, Ping Yip, Ozlem Yildiz, Malcolm Ward, Linda Greensmith, Caterina Bendotti, Ian Pike and Andrea Malaspina

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:60

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  10. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by the presence of insoluble inclusions of the protein tau within brain neurons and often glia. Tau is nor...

    Authors: Bin Zhang, Yuemang Yao, Anne-Sophie Cornec, Killian Oukoloff, Michael J. James, Pyry Koivula, John Q. Trojanowski, Amos B. Smith III, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Carlo Ballatore and Kurt R. Brunden

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:59

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  12. Clearance at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays an important role in removal of Alzheimer’s amyloid-β (Aβ) toxin from brain both in humans and animal models. Apolipoprotein E (apoE), the major genetic risk fa...

    Authors: Qingyi Ma, Zhen Zhao, Abhay P Sagare, Yingxi Wu, Min Wang, Nelly Chuqui Owens, Philip B Verghese, Joachim Herz, David M Holtzman and Berislav V Zlokovic

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:57

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  13. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathologies of a number of retinal degenerative diseases in both the outer and inner retina. In the outer retina, photoreceptors are particularly vulnerable...

    Authors: Takae Kiyama, Ching-Kang Chen, Steven W Wang, Ping Pan, Zhenlin Ju, Jing Wang, Shinako Takada, William H Klein and Chai-An Mao

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:56

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  14. TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is the main disease protein in most patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and about 50% of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). TDP-43 pathology is not r...

    Authors: Sander Beel, Sarah Herdewyn, Raheem Fazal, Mathias De Decker, Matthieu Moisse, Wim Robberecht, Ludo Van Den Bosch and Philip Van Damme

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:55

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  15. Despite diverging levels of amyloid-β (Aβ) and TAU pathology, different mouse models, as well as sporadic AD patients show predictable patterns of episodic memory loss. MicroRNA (miRNA) deregulation is well es...

    Authors: Annerieke Sierksma, Ashley Lu, Evgenia Salta, Elke Vanden Eynden, Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh, Rudi D’Hooge, David Blum, Luc Buée, Mark Fiers and Bart De Strooper

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:54

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  16. Rare coding variants ABI3_rs616338-T and PLCG2_rs72824905-G were identified as risk or protective factors, respectively, for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

    Authors: Olivia J Conway, Minerva M Carrasquillo, Xue Wang, Jenny M Bredenberg, Joseph S Reddy, Samantha L Strickland, Curtis S Younkin, Jeremy D Burgess, Mariet Allen, Sarah J Lincoln, Thuy Nguyen, Kimberly G Malphrus, Alexandra I Soto, Ronald L Walton, Bradley F Boeve, Ronald C Petersen…

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:53

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  17. The complicated cellular and biochemical changes that occur in brain during Alzheimer’s disease are poorly understood. In a previous study we used an unbiased label-free quantitative mass spectrometry-based pr...

    Authors: Erik C. B. Johnson, Eric B. Dammer, Duc M. Duong, Luming Yin, Madhav Thambisetty, Juan C. Troncoso, James J. Lah, Allan I. Levey and Nicholas T. Seyfried

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:52

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  18. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represents an urgent public health mandate. AD is no longer considered a neural-centric disease; rather, a plethora of recent studies strongly implicate a critical role played by neuro...

    Authors: Wei Cao and Hui Zheng

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:51

    Content type: Review

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:58

  19. Neuronal Ca2+ dyshomeostasis and hyperactivity play a central role in Alzheimer’s disease pathology and progression. Amyloid-beta together with non-genetic risk-factors of Alzheimer’s disease contributes to incre...

    Authors: Michael Dumbacher, Tom Van Dooren, Katrien Princen, Koen De Witte, Mélissa Farinelli, Sam Lievens, Jan Tavernier, Wim Dehaen, Stefaan Wera, Joris Winderickx, Sara Allasia, Amuri Kilonda, Stéphane Spieser, Arnaud Marchand, Patrick Chaltin, Casper C. Hoogenraad…

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:50

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  20. The R47H variant of the Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) significantly increases the risk for late onset Alzheimer’s disease. Mouse models accurately reproducing phenotypes observed in ...

    Authors: Xianyuan Xiang, Thomas M. Piers, Benedikt Wefers, Kaichuan Zhu, Anna Mallach, Bettina Brunner, Gernot Kleinberger, Wilbur Song, Marco Colonna, Jochen Herms, Wolfgang Wurst, Jennifer M. Pocock and Christian Haass

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:49

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  21. Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the progranulin gene (GRN) lead to frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) while the complete loss of progranulin (PGRN) function results in neuronal ceroid lipofuscino...

    Authors: Julia K. Götzl, Alessio-Vittorio Colombo, Katrin Fellerer, Anika Reifschneider, Georg Werner, Sabina Tahirovic, Christian Haass and Anja Capell

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:48

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  22. Neurogranin (Ng) is a small 7.6 kDa postsynaptic protein that has been detected at elevated concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), both as a full-length molecule...

    Authors: Bruno Becker, Faisal Hayat Nazir, Gunnar Brinkmalm, Elena Camporesi, Hlin Kvartsberg, Erik Portelius, Martina Boström, Marie Kalm, Kina Höglund, Maria Olsson, Henrik Zetterberg and Kaj Blennow

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:47

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  23. Many neurodegenerative diseases are caused by nucleotide repeat expansions, but most expansions, like the C9orf72 ‘GGGGCC’ (G4C2) repeat that causes approximately 5–7% of all amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) a...

    Authors: Mark T. W. Ebbert, Stefan L. Farrugia, Jonathon P. Sens, Karen Jansen-West, Tania F. Gendron, Mercedes Prudencio, Ian J. McLaughlin, Brett Bowman, Matthew Seetin, Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez, Jazmyne Jackson, Patricia H. Brown, Dennis W. Dickson, Marka van Blitterswijk, Rosa Rademakers, Leonard Petrucelli…

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:46

    Content type: Methodology

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  24. The role of the alternative complement pathway and its mediation by retinal microglia and macrophages, is well-established in the pathogenesis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). However, the contributi...

    Authors: Haihan Jiao, Matt Rutar, Nilisha Fernando, Ted Yednock, Sethu Sankaranarayanan, Riemke Aggio-Bruce, Jan Provis and Riccardo Natoli

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:45

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  25. Microglia play critical roles in the brain during homeostasis and pathological conditions. Understanding the molecular events underpinning microglial functions and activation states will further enable us to t...

    Authors: Justin Rustenhoven, Amy M. Smith, Leon C. Smyth, Deidre Jansson, Emma L. Scotter, Molly E. V. Swanson, Miranda Aalderink, Natacha Coppieters, Pritika Narayan, Renee Handley, Chris Overall, Thomas I. H. Park, Patrick Schweder, Peter Heppner, Maurice A. Curtis, Richard L. M. Faull…

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:44

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  26. Synucleinopathies of the aging population are an heterogeneous group of neurological disorders that includes Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and are characterized by the progressiv...

    Authors: Changyoun Kim, Brian Spencer, Edward Rockenstein, Hodaka Yamakado, Michael Mante, Anthony Adame, Jerel Adam Fields, Deborah Masliah, Michiyo Iba, He-Jin Lee, Robert A. Rissman, Seung-Jae Lee and Eliezer Masliah

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:43

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  27. The major histocompatibility complex I (MHCI) is a key molecule for the interaction of mononucleated cells with CD8+T lymphocytes. We previously showed that MHCI is upregulated in the spinal cord microglia and mo...

    Authors: Giovanni Nardo, Maria Chiara Trolese, Mattia Verderio, Alessandro Mariani, Massimiliano de Paola, Nilo Riva, Giorgia Dina, Nicolò Panini, Eugenio Erba, Angelo Quattrini and Caterina Bendotti

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:42

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  28. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare neurodegenerative disease for which the genetic contribution is incompletely understood.

    Authors: Jason A. Chen, Zhongbo Chen, Hyejung Won, Alden Y. Huang, Jennifer K. Lowe, Kevin Wojta, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, Gilbert Bensimon, P. Nigel Leigh, Christine Payan, Aleksey Shatunov, Ashley R. Jones, Cathryn M. Lewis, Panagiotis Deloukas, Philippe Amouyel, Christophe Tzourio…

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:41

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  29. The combination of genetics and genomics in Parkinson´s disease has recently begun to unveil molecular mechanisms possibly underlying disease onset and progression. In particular, catabolic processes such as a...

    Authors: Julia Obergasteiger, Giulia Frapporti, Peter P. Pramstaller, Andrew A. Hicks and Mattia Volta

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:40

    Content type: Review

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  30. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder. About 90% of ALS cases are without a known genetic cause. The human endogenous retrovirus multi-copy HERV-K(HML-2) group was recently ...

    Authors: Jens Mayer, Christian Harz, Laura Sanchez, Gavin C. Pereira, Esther Maldener, Sara R. Heras, Lyle W. Ostrow, John Ravits, Ranjan Batra, Eckart Meese, Jose Luis García-Pérez and John L. Goodier

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:39

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  31. The role of the innate immune system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and neurodegenerative disease susceptibility has recently been highlighted in genetic studies. However, we do not know whether risk for inflamma...

    Authors: Daniel Felsky, Ellis Patrick, Julie A. Schneider, Sara Mostafavi, Chris Gaiteri, Nikolaos Patsopoulos, David A. Bennett and Philip L. De Jager

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:38

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  32. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a parkinsonian neurodegenerative tauopathy affecting brain regions involved in motor function, including the basal ganglia, diencephalon and brainstem. While PSP is larg...

    Authors: Monica Y. Sanchez-Contreras, Naomi Kouri, Casey N. Cook, Daniel J. Serie, Michael G. Heckman, NiCole A. Finch, Richard J. Caselli, Ryan J. Uitti, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Neill Graff-Radford, Leonard Petrucelli, Li-San Wang, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Dennis W. Dickson, Rosa Rademakers and Owen A. Ross

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:37

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  33. Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) is a heterogeneous group of rare neurodegenerative disorders affecting the corticospinal tracts. To date, more than 78 HSP loci have been mapped to cause HSP. However, both...

    Authors: En-Lin Dong, Chong Wang, Shuang Wu, Ying-Qian Lu, Xiao-Hong Lin, Hui-Zhen Su, Miao Zhao, Jin He, Li-Xiang Ma, Ning Wang, Wan-Jin Chen and Xiang Lin

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:36

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  34. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) inherited as one of two common haplotypes at the transmembrane protein 106B (TMEM106B) locus are associated with the risk of multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including f...

    Authors: Yingxue Ren, Marka van Blitterswijk, Mariet Allen, Minerva M. Carrasquillo, Joseph S. Reddy, Xue Wang, Thomas G. Beach, Dennis W. Dickson, Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner, Yan W. Asmann and Rosa Rademakers

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:35

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  35. Microglia are innate immune cells of the brain that perform phagocytic and inflammatory functions in disease conditions. Transcriptomic studies of acutely-isolated microglia have provided novel insights into t...

    Authors: Srikant Rangaraju, Eric B. Dammer, Syed Ali Raza, Tianwen Gao, Hailian Xiao, Ranjita Betarbet, Duc M. Duong, James A. Webster, Chadwick M. Hales, James J. Lah, Allan I. Levey and Nicholas T. Seyfried

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:34

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  36. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a recognized risk factor for the development of cognitive impairment (CI) and/or dementia, although the exact nature of the molecular pathology of T2D-associated CI remains obscure. On...

    Authors: Cesar L. Moreno, Lucio Della Guardia, Valeria Shnyder, Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales, Ilya Kruglikov, Bin Zhang, Eric E. Schadt, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Scott Noggle, Christoph Buettner and Sam Gandy

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:33

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  37. Loss of function mutations in progranulin (GRN) are a major cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Progranulin is a secreted glycoprotein that localizes to lysosomes and is critical for proper lysosomal function...

    Authors: Andrew E. Arrant, Alexandra M. Nicholson, Xiaolai Zhou, Rosa Rademakers and Erik D. Roberson

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:32

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  38. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of the polyglutamine repeat in the ataxin-3 protein. Expression of mutant ataxin-3 is known to result in tra...

    Authors: Lodewijk J. A. Toonen, Maurice Overzier, Melvin M. Evers, Leticia G. Leon, Sander A. J. van der Zeeuw, Hailiang Mei, Szymon M. Kielbasa, Jelle J. Goeman, Kristina M. Hettne, Olafur Th. Magnusson, Marion Poirel, Alexandre Seyer, Peter A. C. ‘t Hoen and Willeke M. C. van Roon-Mom

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:31

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  39. Paraspeckles are subnuclear bodies assembled on a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) NEAT1. Their enhanced formation in spinal neurons of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients has been reported but u...

    Authors: Tatyana A. Shelkovnikova, Michail S. Kukharsky, Haiyan An, Pasquale Dimasi, Svetlana Alexeeva, Osman Shabir, Paul R. Heath and Vladimir L. Buchman

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:30

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  40. The R47H variant of Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) confers greatly increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), reflective of a central role for myeloid cells in neurodegeneration. Un...

    Authors: Paul J. Cheng-Hathaway, Erin G. Reed-Geaghan, Taylor R. Jay, Brad T. Casali, Shane M. Bemiller, Shweta S. Puntambekar, Victoria E. von Saucken, Roxanne Y. Williams, J. Colleen Karlo, Miguel Moutinho, Guixiang Xu, Richard M. Ransohoff, Bruce T. Lamb and Gary E. Landreth

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:29

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  41. Several molecular pathways are currently being targeted in attempts to develop disease-modifying therapies to slow down neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Failure of cellular energy metabolism has long ...

    Authors: Emmanuel Quansah, Wouter Peelaerts, J. William Langston, David K. Simon, Jerry Colca and Patrik Brundin

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:28

    Content type: Review

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  42. Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), affect millions of people every year and so far, there...

    Authors: Eduarda G Z Centeno, Helena Cimarosti and Angela Bithell

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:27

    Content type: Review

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  43. Administration of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) increases regulatory T cell (Treg) number and function with control of neuroinflammation and neuronal protection in the 1-methyl-4-ph...

    Authors: Charles R. Schutt, Howard E. Gendelman and R. Lee Mosley

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:26

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  44. Huntington Disease (HD) is an incurable autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder driven by an expansion repeat giving rise to the mutant huntingtin protein (mHtt), which is known to disrupt a multitude of...

    Authors: Rebecca Kusko, Jennifer Dreymann, Jermaine Ross, Yoonjeong Cha, Renan Escalante-Chong, Marta Garcia-Miralles, Liang Juin Tan, Michael E. Burczynski, Ben Zeskind, Daphna Laifenfeld, Mahmoud Pouladi, Michal Geva, Iris Grossman and Michael R. Hayden

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:25

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  45. Disease-associated-microglia (DAM) represent transcriptionally-distinct and neurodegeneration-specific microglial profiles with unclear significance in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). An understanding of heterogenei...

    Authors: Srikant Rangaraju, Eric B. Dammer, Syed Ali Raza, Priyadharshini Rathakrishnan, Hailian Xiao, Tianwen Gao, Duc M. Duong, Michael W. Pennington, James J. Lah, Nicholas T. Seyfried and Allan I. Levey

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:24

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  46. Prior studies in C. elegans demonstrated that the expression of aggregation-prone polyglutamine proteins in muscle wall cells compromised the folding of co-expressed temperature-sensitive proteins, prompting inte...

    Authors: Michael C. Pace, Guilian Xu, Susan Fromholt, John Howard, Benoit I. Giasson, Jada Lewis and David R. Borchelt

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:23

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  47. Extracellular aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide into toxic multimers is a key event in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis. Aβ aggregation is concentration-dependent, with higher concentrations of Aβ...

    Authors: Jane C. Hettinger, Hyo Lee, Guojun Bu, David M. Holtzman and John R. Cirrito

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:22

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  48. Intraneuronal α-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregates known as Lewy bodies (LBs) and the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) are the pathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (...

    Authors: Norihito Uemura, Hisashi Yagi, Maiko T. Uemura, Yusuke Hatanaka, Hodaka Yamakado and Ryosuke Takahashi

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:21

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Neurodegeneration 2019 14:31

  49. Neurodegenerative diseases are a growing burden in modern society, thus crucially calling for the development of accurate diagnostic strategies. These diseases are currently incurable, a fact which has been at...

    Authors: Maria Paraskevaidi, Pierre L. Martin-Hirsch and Francis L. Martin

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:20

    Content type: Commentary

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  50. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of hereditary retinal neurodegenerative conditions characterized by primary dysfunction and death of photoreceptor cells, resulting in visual loss and, eventually, blindnes...

    Authors: Alonso Sánchez-Cruz, Beatriz Villarejo-Zori, Miguel Marchena, Josefa Zaldivar-Díez, Valle Palomo, Carmen Gil, Ignacio Lizasoain, Pedro de la Villa, Ana Martínez, Enrique J. de la Rosa and Catalina Hernández-Sánchez

    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2018 13:19

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