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Glycogen synthase kinase 3β and Alzheimer’s disease: pathophysiological and therapeutic significance 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Balaraman Y Limaye AR Levey AI Srinivasan S 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2006,63(11):1226-1235
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with cognitive and behavioral dysfunction and is the leading
cause of dementia in the elderly. Several studies have implicated molecular and cellular signaling cascades involving the
serine-threonine kinase, glycogen synthase kinase β(GSK-3β) in the pathogenesis of AD. GSK-3β may play an important role in
the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques, the two classical pathological hallmarks of AD. In this review,
we discuss the interaction between GSK-3β and several key molecules involved in AD, including the presenilins, amyloid precursor
protein, tau, and β-amyloid. We identify the signal transduction pathways involved in the pathogenesis of AD, including Wnt,
Notch, and the PI3 kinase/Akt pathway. These may be potential therapeutic targets in AD.
Received 19 December 2005; received after revision 24 January 2006; accepted 6 February 2006 相似文献
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Reports of tool usage by birds tend to be anecdotal as only a few individuals may be involved and the behaviour observed can often be interpreted in other ways. Here we describe the widespread collection of mammalian dung by burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) and show that they use this dung as a bait to attract dung beetles, a major item of prey. Our controlled investigation provides an unambiguous estimate of the importance of tool use in a wild animal. 相似文献
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Helgadottir A Manolescu A Helgason A Thorleifsson G Thorsteinsdottir U Gudbjartsson DF Gretarsdottir S Magnusson KP Gudmundsson G Hicks A Jonsson T Grant SF Sainz J O'Brien SJ Sveinbjornsdottir S Valdimarsson EM Matthiasson SE Levey AI Abramson JL Reilly MP Vaccarino V Wolfe ML Gudnason V Quyyumi AA Topol EJ Rader DJ Thorgeirsson G Gulcher JR Hakonarson H Kong A Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2006,38(1):68-74
Variants of the gene ALOX5AP (also known as FLAP) encoding arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase activating protein are known to be associated with risk of myocardial infarction. Here we show that a haplotype (HapK) spanning the LTA4H gene encoding leukotriene A4 hydrolase, a protein in the same biochemical pathway as ALOX5AP, confers modest risk of myocardial infarction in an Icelandic cohort. Measurements of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) production suggest that this risk is mediated through upregulation of the leukotriene pathway. Three cohorts from the United States also show that HapK confers a modest relative risk (1.16) in European Americans, but it confers a threefold larger risk in African Americans. About 27% of the European American controls carried at least one copy of HapK, as compared with only 6% of African American controls. Our analyses indicate that HapK is very rare in Africa and that its occurrence in African Americans is due to European admixture. Interactions with other genetic or environmental risk factors that are more common in African Americans are likely to account for the greater relative risk conferred by HapK in this group. 相似文献
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Helgadottir A Thorleifsson G Magnusson KP Grétarsdottir S Steinthorsdottir V Manolescu A Jones GT Rinkel GJ Blankensteijn JD Ronkainen A Jääskeläinen JE Kyo Y Lenk GM Sakalihasan N Kostulas K Gottsäter A Flex A Stefansson H Hansen T Andersen G Weinsheimer S Borch-Johnsen K Jorgensen T Shah SH Quyyumi AA Granger CB Reilly MP Austin H Levey AI Vaccarino V Palsdottir E Walters GB Jonsdottir T Snorradottir S Magnusdottir D Gudmundsson G Ferrell RE Sveinbjornsdottir S Hernesniemi J Niemelä M Limet R 《Nature genetics》2008,40(2):217-224
Recently, two common sequence variants on 9p21, tagged by rs10757278-G and rs10811661-T, were reported to be associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), respectively. We proceeded to further investigate the contributions of these variants to arterial diseases and T2D. Here we report that rs10757278-G is associated with, in addition to CAD, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA; odds ratio (OR) = 1.31, P = 1.2 x 10(-12)) and intracranial aneurysm (OR = 1.29, P = 2.5 x 10(-6)), but not with T2D. This variant is the first to be described that affects the risk of AAA and intracranial aneurysm in many populations. The association of rs10811661-T to T2D replicates in our samples, but the variant does not associate with any of the five arterial diseases examined. These findings extend our insight into the role of the sequence variant tagged by rs10757278-G and show that it is not confined to atherosclerotic diseases. 相似文献
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