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The Seeds of Neurodegeneration: Prion-like Spreading in ALS

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Polymenidou, Magdalini, Cleveland, Don W.·2011·Cell

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Summary Misfolded proteins accumulating in several neurodegenerative diseases (including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases) can cause aggregation of their native counterparts through a mechanism similar to the infectious prion protein’s induction of a pathogenic conformation onto its cellular isoform. Evidence for such a prion-like mechanism has now spread to the main misfolded proteins (SOD1 and TDP-43) implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The major neurodegenerative diseases may therefore have mechanistic parallels that provide a molecular pathway for non-cell autonomous disease spread within the nervous system.

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Authors
Polymenidou, M., & Cleveland, D. W.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-10
Volume
147
Issue
3
Pages
498-508
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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W2084942172
Cited by
376
References
26
FWCI
22.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
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