Maria Signorelli

Policlinico
Catania, Italy

Barcelona: Stocking Biomarker Arsenal for Lewy Body Dementia

CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2011-03-30 Conference Coverage Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) sits at the interface of several disorders. Sharing features with Parkinson’s, PD with dementia (PDD), and Alzheimer’s disease, DLB challenges the diagnostician mightily. The weapon needed to meet this c

PAPER Kumar A, Prakash A, Pahwa D

Galantamine potentiates the protective effect of rofecoxib and caffeic acid against intrahippocampal Kainic acid-induced cognitive dysfunction in rat.

Brain Res Bull. 2011 May 30;85(3-4):158-68. PubMed: 21439356

PAPER Estes PS, Boehringer A, Zwick R, Tang JE, Grigsby B, Zarnescu DC

Wild-type and A315T mutant TDP-43 exert differential neurotoxicity in a Drosophila model of ALS.

Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Jun 15;20(12):2308-21. PubMed: 21441568

PAPER Itoh T, Imano M, Nishida S, Tsubaki M, Hashimoto S, Ito A, Satou T

Exercise inhibits neuronal apoptosis and improves cerebral function following rat traumatic brain injury.

J Neural Transm. 2011 Sep;118(9):1263-72. PubMed: 21442353

PAPER Besnard A, Galan-Rodriguez B, Vanhoutte P, Caboche J

Elk-1 a transcription factor with multiple facets in the brain.

Front Neurosci. 2011;5:35. PubMed: 21441990

PAPER Nikzad S, Vafaei AA, Rashidy-Pour A, Haghighi S

Systemic and intrahippocampal administrations of the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist RU38486 impairs fear memory reconsolidation in rats.

Stress. 2011 Jul;14(4):459-64. PubMed: 21438774

PAPER Padmaraju V, Bhaskar JJ, Prasada Rao UJ, Salimath PV, Rao KS

Role of advanced glycation on aggregation and DNA binding properties of α-synuclein.

J Alzheimers Dis. 2011;24 Suppl 2:211-21. PubMed: 21441659

PAPER Chua CE, Tang BL

Rabs, SNAREs and α-synuclein--membrane trafficking defects in synucleinopathies.

Brain Res Rev. 2011 Jun 24;67(1-2):268-81. PubMed: 21439320

PAPER Xi ZQ, Wang XF, Shu XF, Chen GJ, Xiao F, Sun JJ, Zhu X

Is intractable epilepsy a tauopathy?

Med Hypotheses. 2011 Jun;76(6):897-900. PubMed: 21440375

PAPER Tarnaris A, Toma AK, Chapman MD, Keir G, Kitchen ND, Watkins LD

Use of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β and total tau protein to predict favorable surgical outcomes in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.

J Neurosurg. 2011 Jul;115(1):145-50. PubMed: 21438653

PAPER Gong L, Li SL, Li H, Zhang L

Ginsenoside Rg1 protects primary cultured rat hippocampal neurons from cell apoptosis induced by β-amyloid protein.

Pharm Biol. 2011 May;49(5):501-7. PubMed: 21438847

PAPER Bruce KL, Chernoff YO

Sequence specificity and fidelity of prion transmission in yeast.

Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2011 Jul;22(5):444-51. PubMed: 21439395

PAPER Kawahara M, Koyama H, Nagata T, Sadakane Y

Zinc, copper, and carnosine attenuate neurotoxicity of prion fragment PrP106-126.

Metallomics. 2011 Jul;3(7):726-34. PubMed: 21442127

PAPER Li X, Liu Y, Zhang X, Yuan H, Quan Q

[Effect of ginsenoside Rg1 on expressions of phosphory protein tau and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits NR1 and NR2B in rat brain slice model of Alzheimer's disease].

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