Induction of heat shock proteins for protection against oxidative stress

B Kalmar, L Greensmith - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Heat shock proteins (Hsps) have been studied for many years and there is now a large body
of evidence that demonstrates the role of Hsp upregulation in tissue and cell protection in a …

The distal hereditary motor neuropathies

AM Rossor, B Kalmar, L Greensmith… - Journal of Neurology …, 2012 - jnnp.bmj.com
The distal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMN) comprise a heterogenous group of
diseases that share the common feature of a length-dependent predominantly motor …

The role of heat shock proteins in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: The therapeutic potential of Arimoclomol

B Kalmar, CH Lu, L Greensmith - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2014 - Elsevier
Arimoclomol is a hydroxylamine derivative, a group of compounds which have unique
properties as co-inducers of heat shock protein expression, but only under conditions of …

Treatment with arimoclomol, a coinducer of heat shock proteins, delays disease progression in ALS mice

D Kieran, B Kalmar, JRT Dick, J Riddoch-Contreras… - Nature medicine, 2004 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative condition in which
motoneurons of the spinal cord and motor cortex die, resulting in progressive paralysis,. This …

Late stage treatment with arimoclomol delays disease progression and prevents protein aggregation in the SOD1G93A mouse model of ALS

B Kalmar, S Novoselov, A Gray… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder
characterized by motoneuron degeneration, resulting in muscle paralysis and death …

Mice with endogenous TDP‐43 mutations exhibit gain of splicing function and characteristics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

…, T Ricketts, H Oliveira, JM Brito‐Armas, B Kalmar… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
TDP‐43 (encoded by the gene TARDBP) is an RNA binding protein central to the
pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, how TARDBP mutations …

Humanized mutant FUS drives progressive motor neuron degeneration without aggregation in 'FUSDelta14'knockin mice

A Devoy, B Kalmar, M Stewart, H Park, B Burke, SJ Noy… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Mutations in FUS are causative for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with a dominant mode of
inheritance. In trying to model FUS-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in mouse it is clear …

Targeting protein homeostasis in sporadic inclusion body myositis

…, P Gallagher, J Statland, CH Lu, B Kalmar… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) is the commonest severe myopathy in patients more
than 50 years of age. Previous therapeutic trials have targeted the inflammatory features of …

A comprehensive assessment of the SOD1G93A low-copy transgenic mouse, which models human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Acevedo-Arozena, B Kalmar, S Essa… - Disease models & …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that results
in the death of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. The disorder generally strikes in …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibiting p38 MAPK alpha rescues axonal retrograde transport defects in a mouse model of ALS

KL Gibbs, B Kalmar, ER Rhymes, AD Fellows… - Cell Death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the
degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. Defects in axonal transport have been …