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Current insights into the C9orf72 repeat expansion diseases of the FTLD/ALS spectrum

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The lesion load was extended to TDP-43-negative, p62-positive neuronal and glial inclusions in extended regions of the central nervous system (CNS), particularly in cerebellum, where they may be characteristic of a C9orf72 repeat expansion.
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This article is published in Trends in Neurosciences.The article was published on 2013-08-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trinucleotide repeat expansion & C9orf72 Protein.

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Self-propagation of pathogenic protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases

TL;DR: As a unifying pathogenic principle, the prion paradigm suggests broadly relevant therapeutic directions for a large class of currently intractable diseases.
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Dipeptide repeat protein pathology in C9ORF72 mutation cases: clinico-pathological correlations

TL;DR: A detailed analysis of the neuroanatomical distribution of DPR and TDP-43 pathology in a cohort of 35 cases with the C9ORF72 mutation found the pattern of DPR pathology to be highly consistent among cases regardless of the phenotype with high DPR load in the cerebellum, all neocortical regions and hippocampus, moderate pathology in subcortical areas and minimal pathology in lower motor neurons.
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C9orf72 BAC Mouse Model with Motor Deficits and Neurodegenerative Features of ALS/FTD

TL;DR: A BAC mouse model of C9orf72 ALS/FTD that shows decreased survival, paralysis, muscle denervation, motor neuron loss, anxiety-like behavior, and cortical and hippocampal neurodegeneration is reported.
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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Expanding the Prion Concept

TL;DR: This work proposes to define prions as "proteinaceous nucleating particles" to highlight the molecular action of the agents, lessen unwarranted apprehension about the transmissibility of noninfectious proteopathies, and promote the wider acceptance of this revolutionary paradigm by the biomedical community.
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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration A consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria

TL;DR: Consensus criteria for the three prototypic syndromes-frontotemporal dementia, progressive nonfluent aphasia, and semantic dementia-were developed by members of an international workshop on frontotem temporal lobar degeneration and ought to provide the foundation for research work into the neuropsychology, neuropathology, genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology of these important clinical disorders.
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El Escorial revisited : revised criteria for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

TL;DR: The criteria described below represent the result of a three-day workshop, convened at Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton, Virginia on 2–4 April, 1998 by the World Federation of Neurology Research Committee on Motor Neuron Diseases, and are placed on the WFN ALS website.
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A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD

Alan E. Renton, +85 more
- 20 Oct 2011 - 
TL;DR: The chromosome 9p21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) locus contains one of the last major unidentified autosomal-dominant genes underlying these common neurodegenerative diseases, and a large hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 is shown.
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