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ReviewBrain : a journal of neurology2018

Perturbed autophagy and DNA repair converge to promote neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia.

Callum Walker, Sherif F El-Khamisy

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Review in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Selective autophagy as a therapeutic target for neurological diseases.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
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  16. NADCell metabolism · 2019
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  17. The impact of histone post-translational modifications in neurodegenerative diseases.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2019
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  19. Immune aging in diabetes and its implications in wound healing.Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Callum WalkerKrebs Institute, Department of Molecular biology and biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK.
Sherif F El-KhamisyKrebs Institute, Department of Molecular biology and biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 103844
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maintaining genomic stability constitutes a major challenge facing cells. DNA breaks can arise from direct oxidative damage to the DNA backbone, the inappropriate activities of endogenous enzymes such as DNA topoisomerases, or due to transcriptionally-derived RNA/DNA hybrids (R-loops). The progressive accumulation of DNA breaks has been linked to several neurological disorders. Recently, however, several independent studies have implicated nuclear and mitochondrial genomic instability, perturbed co-transcriptional processing, and impaired cellular clearance pathways as causal and intertwined mechanisms underpinning neurodegeneration. Here, we discuss this emerging paradigm in the context of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, and outline how this knowledge paves the way to novel therapeutic interventions.

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnimalsAutophagyDementiaDNA RepairHumansNerve Degeneration

Identifiers

PMID29584802
PMCPMC5917746

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