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Cerebellar morphometric and spectroscopic biomarkers for Machado-Joseph Disease
Miranda, Catarina Oliveira; Nobre, Rui Jorge; Paiva, Vítor Hugo; Duarte, João Valente; Castelhano, João; Petrella, Lorena Itati; Sereno, JoséMachado-Joseph disease (MJD) or Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is the most common form of dominant SCA worldwide. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H-MRS) provide promising non-invasive diagnostic and follow-up tools, also serving to evaluate therapies efficacy. However, pre-clinical studies showing relationship between MRI-MRS based biomarkers and functional pe...
Proliferative hypothalamic neurospheres express NPY, AGRP, POMC, CART and Orexi...
Sousa-Ferreira, Lígia; Álvaro, Ana Rita; Aveleira, Célia; Santana, Magda; Brandão, Inês; Kügler, Sebastian; Almeida, Luís Pereira de; Cavadas, CláudiaSome pathological conditions with feeding pattern alterations, including obesity and Huntington disease (HD) are associated with hypothalamic dysfunction and neuronal cell death. Additionally, the hypothalamus is a neurogenic region with the constitutive capacity to generate new cells of neuronal lineage, in adult rodents. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the expression of feeding-related neuropeptid...