supported in part by Award 2121063 from National Science Foundation(to YM);AG66986 from the National Institutes of Health(to MSW).
γ-Secretase,called“the proteasome of the membrane,”is a membrane-embedded protease complex that cleaves 150+peptide substrates with central roles in biology and medicine,including amyloid precursor protein and the ...
This work was supported by funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC),Grant/Award Number:81770780 and 31972913;Key Research and Development Programs from Hunan Province,Grant/Award Number:2021DK2001;Guangdong Key Project in‘Development of New Tools for Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism’,Grant/Award Number:2018B030335001;Strategic Priority Research Program of Central South University,Grant/Award Number:ZLXD2017004;The project has been funded in part with Independent Exploration and Innovation Project of Central South University,Grant/Award Number:2018zzts393.
As the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders in children,autism spectrum disorders(ASD)are characterized by deficits in language development,social interaction,and repetitive behaviors or inflexible interests.Co...
supported by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología Scholarship 711893(to MAH)and 711874(to EER)。
The presenilin genes(PSEN1 and PSEN2)are mainly responsible for causing early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease,harboring~300 causative mutations,and representing~90%of all mutations associated with a very aggressiv...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91749206,81930028,81625007,81870860,31921003)。
Amyloid-beta(Aβ)plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease(AD)and has been regarded as the main therapeutic target for AD.However,most of the Aβ-targeted clinical trials have not succeeded.There...
National Natural Science Foundation(U1604108);Key Science and Technology Program of Henan Province(152102310112; 162102310121);National Training Program of Innovation for Undergraduates(201710472009)
OBJECTIVE Extracellular amyloid-β(Aβ) plaques are one of the major pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer disease(AD). Therefore, decreasing Aβ levels is one strategyfor preventing the etiology of AD. Aβ peptides are...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Technology Gallery in Jilin Province of China,No.2011-15237;the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81160159
The murine microglial cell line BV2 has neuroprotective effects, but is toxic to neurons by secret-ing inlfammatory cytokines, and is an important target in the treatment of nerve inlfammation and neurodegenerative di...