[HTML][HTML] Impairment of blood-brain barrier is an early event in R6/2 mouse model of Huntington Disease

A Di Pardo, E Amico, F Scalabrì, G Pepe, S Castaldo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown, due to the concomitant disruption of the tight junctions
(TJs), normally required for the maintenance of BBB function, and to the altered transport of …

[HTML][HTML] Defective sphingosine-1-phosphate metabolism is a druggable target in Huntington's disease

A Di Pardo, E Amico, A Basit, A Armirotti, P Joshi… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Huntington's disease is characterized by a complex and heterogeneous pathogenic profile.
Studies have shown that disturbance in lipid homeostasis may represent a critical …

Seeking Huntington disease biomarkers by multimodal, cross‐sectional basal ganglia imaging

C Sánchez‐Castañeda, A Cherubini… - Human brain …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Neurodegeneration of the striatum in Huntington disease (HD) is characterized by loss of
medium‐spiny neurons, huntingtin nuclear inclusions, reactive gliosis, and iron …

[HTML][HTML] Tractography of the corpus callosum in Huntington's disease

O Phillips, C Sanchez-Castaneda, F Elifani… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
White matter abnormalities have been shown in presymptomatic and symptomatic
Huntington's disease (HD) subjects using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diffusion …

18F-FDG PET uptake in the pre-Huntington disease caudate affects the time-to-onset independently of CAG expansion size

A Ciarmiello, G Giovacchini, S Orobello… - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose To test in a longitudinal follow-up study whether basal glucose metabolism in
subjects with a genetic risk of Huntington disease (HD) may influence the onset of manifest …

[HTML][HTML] Deep white matter in Huntington's disease

O Phillips, F Squitieri, C Sanchez-Castaneda, F Elifani… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
White matter (WM) abnormalities have already been shown in presymptomatic (Pre-HD) and
symptomatic HD subjects using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In the present study …

White matter rather than gray matter damage characterizes essential tremor

S Pietracupa, M Bologna, K Bharti, G Pasqua… - European …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives We investigated changes in gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) in the whole
brain, including both cortical and subcortical structures, and their relationship with tremor …

[HTML][HTML] Changes of peripheral TGF-β1 depend on monocytes-derived macrophages in Huntington disease

A Di Pardo, S Alberti, V Maglione, E Amico, EP Cortes… - Molecular Brain, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background Huntington Disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting
from the expansion of polyglutamine stretch in the huntingtin protein (Htt). Mutant HTT (mHtt) …

No evidence of iron deposition in essential tremor: a susceptibility-weighted imaging study

S Pietracupa, M Bologna, S Tommasin, F Elifani… - Neurological …, 2021 - Springer
Objective To evaluate the role of iron deposition in subcortical nuclei of patients with
essential tremor (ET). Methods Twenty-three patients with ET underwent a standardized 3T …

Validation of the Italian version of the PSP quality of life questionnaire

M Picillo, S Cuoco, M Amboni, FP Bonifacio… - Neurological …, 2019 - Springer
Background Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare rapidly progressive,
neurodegenerative disease characterized by falls and ocular movement disturbances. The …