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Systematic Review of Parkinsonism in Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis [PDF]

Neurology International
Background: Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare, inherited metabolic disease caused by pathogenic variants in CYP27A1. The clinical presentation of this progressive disease includes cognitive deficits, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, and ...
Jennifer Hanson, Penelope E. Bonnen
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Viral Parkinsonism: An underdiagnosed neurological complication of Dengue virus infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Dengue virus (DENV) is a flavivirus that is a significant cause of human disease costing billions of dollars per year in medical and mosquito control costs. It is estimated that up to 20% of DENV infections affect the brain.
Hannah K. Hopkins, Elizabeth M. Traverse, Kelli L. Barr   +2 more
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Inhibition of discoidin domain receptor (DDR)-1 with nilotinib alters CSF miRNAs and is associated with reduced inflammation and vascular fibrosis in Alzheimer’s disease

Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2023
Discoidin Domain Receptor (DDR)-1 is activated by collagen. Nilotinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that is FDA-approved for leukemia and potently inhibits DDR-1.
Max Stevenson, Rency Varghese, Michaeline L. Hebron, Xiaoguang Liu, Nick Ratliff, Amelia Smith, R. Scott Turner, Charbel Moussa   +7 more
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Safety, target engagement, and biomarker effects of bosutinib in dementia with Lewy bodies

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2022
Introduction Bosutinib, a dual Abelson/Src inhibitor, was investigated in individuals with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Methods A single site, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study of the effects of oral bosutinib, 100 mg once daily for ...
Fernando L. Pagan, Yasar Torres‐Yaghi, Michaeline L. Hebron, Barbara Wilmarth, R. Scott Turner, Sara Matar, Dalila Ferrante, Jaeil Ahn, Charbel Moussa   +8 more
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Progress on diagnosis and treatment of functional parkinsonism

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Functional parkinsonism (FP) is a disorder caused by psychological factors rather than neurodegeneration. Functional parkinsonism has a great influence on patients' quality of life and daily function. However, due to overlapping with some of the symptoms
HUANG Pei, WANG Gang
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Tumoral parkinsonism—Parkinsonism secondary to brain tumors, paraneoplastic syndromes, intracranial malformations, or oncological intervention, and the effect of dopaminergic treatment

Brain and Behavior, 2023
Introduction Secondary tumoral parkinsonism is a rare phenomenon that develops as a direct or indirect result of brain neoplasms or related conditions.
Gustav Cedergren Weber, Jonathan Timpka, Anna Rydelius, Johan Bengzon, Per Odin   +4 more
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New Perspective on Parkinsonism in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration [PDF]

Journal of Movement Disorders, 2013
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common type of presenile dementia. Three clinical prototypes have been defined; behavioral variant FTD, semantic dementia, and progressive nonfluent aphasia.
Hee Kyung Park, Sun J. Chung
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Altered resting state brain metabolic connectivity in dementia with Lewy bodies

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Although dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have Parkinsonism in common with Parkinson's disease (PD) or PD dementia (PDD), they have different neuropathologies that underlie Parkinsonism.
Euna Choi, Ji Won Han, Seung Wan Suh, Jong Bin Bae, Ji Hyun Han, Subin Lee, Sang Eun Kim, Sang Eun Kim, Sang Eun Kim, Ki Woong Kim, Ki Woong Kim, Ki Woong Kim   +11 more
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Striatal neuroinflammation promotes parkinsonism in rats [PDF]

, 2008
The specific role of neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease remains to be fully elucidated. By infusing lipopolysaccharide (LPS) into the striatum, we investigated the effect of neuroinflammation on the dopamine nigrostriatal ...
Don Gash, Dong-Young Choi, Eun-Joo Shin, Guoying Bing, Hyoung-Chun Kim, Jignesh Pandya, Mei Liu, Patrick Sullivan, Randy Hunter, Wayne Cass   +9 more
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Decreased N-TAF1 expression in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism patient-specific neural stem cells

Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2016
X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder involving a progressive loss of striatal medium spiny neurons. The mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration are not known, in part because there have been few cellular models ...
Naoto Ito, William T. Hendriks, Jyotsna Dhakal, Christine A. Vaine, Christina Liu, David Shin, Kyle Shin, Noriko Wakabayashi-Ito, Marisela Dy, Trisha Multhaupt-Buell, Nutan Sharma, Xandra O. Breakefield, D. Cristopher Bragg   +12 more
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