scholarly journals VCE-003.2, a novel cannabigerol derivative, enhances neuronal progenitor cell survival and alleviates symptomatology in murine models of Huntington’s disease

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Díaz-Alonso ◽  
Juan Paraíso-Luna ◽  
Carmen Navarrete ◽  
Carmen del Río ◽  
Irene Cantarero ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-457
Author(s):  
Yanqing He ◽  
Yalikun Suofu ◽  
Svitlana Yablonska ◽  
Xiaoming Wang ◽  
Timothy M. Larkin ◽  
...  




2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (Fall) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Jaeger ◽  
Susanne Klum ◽  
Dieter G. Weiss ◽  
Ralf Kriehuber


2010 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-259
Author(s):  
Jan-Kolja Strecker ◽  
Jens Minnerup ◽  
Sevgi Sevimli ◽  
E. Bernd Ringelstein ◽  
Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
KD Girling ◽  
YT Wang

AbstractBACKGROUNDHuntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease causing severe neurodegeneration of the striatum as well as marked cognitive and motor disabilities. Excitotoxicity, caused by overstimulation of NMDA receptors (NMDARs) has been shown to have a key role in the neuropathogenesis of HD, suggesting that targeting NMDAR-dependent signaling may be an effective clinical approach for HD. However, broad NMDAR antagonists are generally poor therapeutics in clinical practice. It has been suggested that GluN2A-containing, synaptically located NMDARs activate cell survival signaling pathways, while GluN2B-containing, primarily extrasynaptic NMDARs trigger cell death signaling. A better approach to development of effective therapeutics for HD may be to target, specifically, the cell-death specific pathways associated with extrasynaptic GluN2B NMDAR activation, while maintaining or potentiating the cell-survival activity of GluN2A-NMDARs.OBJECTIVEThis review outlines the role of NMDAR-mediated excitotoxicity in HD and overviews current efforts to develop better therapeutics for HD where NMDAR excitotoxicity is the target.METHODSA systematic review process was conducted using the PubMed search engine focusing on research conducted in the past 5-10 years. 250 articles were consulted for the review, with key search terms including “Huntington’s Disease”, “excitotoxicity”, “NMDAR” and “therapeutics”.RESULTSA wide range of NMDAR excitotoxicity-based targets for HD were identified and reviewed, including targeting NMDARs directly by blocking GluN2B, extrasynaptic NMDARs and/or potentiating GluN2A, synaptic NMDARs, targeting glutamate release or uptake, or targeting specific downstream cell-death signaling of NMDARs.CONCLUSIONThe current review identifies NMDAR-mediated excitotoxicity as a key player in HD pathogenesis and points to various excitotoxicity-focused targets as potential future preventative therapeutics for HD.



2016 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarin M. Bigley ◽  
Jered V. McGivern ◽  
Allison D. Ebert ◽  
Scott S. Terhune


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