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From groundbreaking discoveries in basic science to innovative clinical insights, our publications showcase the breadth and depth of research taking place at the UK DRI. 

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Genetic changes in brain cells link ageing and Alzheimer’s

Genetic differences that contribute to how long a person will live and their risk of Alzheimer’s disease have been identified in a new study led...

Learn more Genetic changes in brain cells link ageing and Alzheimer’s
Cell Rep
Published

Cholesterol determines the cytosolic entry and seeded aggregation of tau.

Authors
Benjamin J Tuck, Lauren V C Miller, Taxiarchis Katsinelos, Annabel E Smith, Emma L Wilson, Sophie Keeling, Shi Cheng, Marina J Vaysburd, Claire Knox, Lucy Tredgett, Emmanouil Metzakopian, Leo C James, William A McEwan
Cholesterol determines the cytosolic entry and seeded aggregation of tau.
Exp Neurol
Published

DyNeuMo Mk-1: Design and pilot validation of an investigational motion-adaptive neurostimulator with integrated chronotherapy.

Authors
Mayela Zamora, Robert Toth, Francesca Morgante, Jon Ottaway, Tom Gillbe, Sean Martin, Guy Lamb, Tara Noone, Moaad Benjaber, Zachary Nairac, Devang Sehgal, Timothy G Constandinou, Jeffrey Herron, Tipu Z Aziz, Ivor Gillbe, Alexander L Green, Erlick A C Pereira, Timothy Denison
DyNeuMo Mk-1: Design and pilot validation of an investigational motion-adaptive neurostimulator with integrated chronotherapy.
Biosens Bioelectron
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Multiplexed immunosensors for point-of-care diagnostic applications.

Authors
Bruno Gil Rosa, Oluwatomi E Akingbade, Xiaotong Guo, Laura Gonzalez-Macia, Michael A Crone, Loren P Cameron, Paul Freemont, Kwang-Leong Choy, Firat Güder, Eric Yeatman, David J Sharp, Bing Li
Multiplexed immunosensors for point-of-care diagnostic applications.
Nature
Published

Somatic mosaicism reveals clonal distributions of neocortical development.

Authors
Martin W Breuss, Xiaoxu Yang, Johannes C M Schlachetzki, Danny Antaki, Addison J Lana, Xin Xu, Changuk Chung, Guoliang Chai, Valentina Stanley, Qiong Song, Traci F Newmeyer, An Nguyen, Sydney O'Brien, Marten A Hoeksema, Beibei Cao, Alexi Nott, Jennifer McEvoy-Venneri, Martina P Pasillas, Scott T Barton, Brett R Copeland, Shareef Nahas, Lucitia Van Der Kraan, Yan Ding, , Christopher K Glass, Joseph G Gleeson
Somatic mosaicism reveals clonal distributions of neocortical development.
J Neurosci
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Improved Sleep, Memory, and Cellular Pathological Features of Tauopathy, Including the NLRP3 Inflammasome, after Chronic Administration of Trazodone in rTg4510 Mice.

Authors
Paula de Oliveira, Claire Cella, Nicolas Locker, Kiran K G Ravindran, Agampodi Mendis, Keith Wafford, Gary Gilmour, Derk-Jan Dijk, Raphaelle Winsky-Sommerer
Improved Sleep, Memory, and Cellular Pathological Features of Tauopathy, Including the NLRP3 Inflammasome, after Chronic Administration of Trazodone in rTg4510 Mice.
Acta Neuropathol
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Brain region-specific susceptibility of Lewy body pathology in synucleinopathies is governed by α-synuclein conformations.

Authors
Laura de Boni, Aurelia Hays Watson, Ludovica Zaccagnini, Amber Wallis, Kristina Zhelcheska, Nora Kim, John Sanderson, Haiyang Jiang, Elodie Martin, Adam Cantlon, Matteo Rovere, Lei Liu, Marc Sylvester, Tammaryn Lashley, Ulf Dettmer, Zane Jaunmuktane, Tim Bartels
Brain region-specific susceptibility of Lewy body pathology in synucleinopathies is governed by α-synuclein conformations.
Nat Neurosci
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Exome sequencing of individuals with Huntington's disease implicates FAN1 nuclease activity in slowing CAG expansion and disease onset.

Authors
Branduff McAllister, Jasmine Donaldson, Caroline S Binda, Sophie Powell, Uroosa Chughtai, Gareth Edwards, Joseph Stone, Sergey Lobanov, Linda Elliston, Laura-Nadine Schuhmacher, Elliott Rees, Georgina Menzies, Marc Ciosi, Alastair Maxwell, Michael J Chao, Eun Pyo Hong, Diane Lucente, Vanessa Wheeler, Jong-Min Lee, Marcy E MacDonald, Jeffrey D Long, Elizabeth H Aylward, G Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Anne E Rosser, Jane S Paulsen, Nigel M Williams, James F Gusella, Darren G Monckton, Nicholas D Allen, Peter Holmans, Lesley Jones, Thomas H Massey
Exome sequencing of individuals with Huntington's disease implicates FAN1 nuclease activity in slowing CAG expansion and disease onset.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
Published

Development of a sensitive trial-ready poly(GP) CSF biomarker assay for C9orf72-associated frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Authors
Katherine M Wilson, Eszter Katona, Idoia Glaria, Mireia Carcolé, Imogen J Swift, Aitana Sogorb-Esteve, Carolin Heller, Arabella Bouzigues, Amanda J Heslegrave, Ashvini Keshavan, Kathryn Knowles, Saurabh Patil, Susovan Mohapatra, Yuanjing Liu, Jaya Goyal, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Robert Jr Laforce, Matthis Synofzik, James B Rowe, Elizabeth Finger, Rik Vandenberghe, Christopher R Butler, Alexander Gerhard, John C Van Swieten, Harro Seelaar, Barbara Borroni, Daniela Galimberti, Alexandre de Mendonça, Mario Masellis, M Carmela Tartaglia, Markus Otto, Caroline Graff, Simon Ducharme, Jonathan M Schott, Andrea Malaspina, Henrik Zetterberg, Ramakrishna Boyanapalli, Jonathan D Rohrer, Adrian M Isaacs,
Development of a sensitive trial-ready poly(GP) CSF biomarker assay for C9orf72-associated frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Brain Pathol
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The association between neurodegeneration and local complement activation in the thalamus to progressive multiple sclerosis outcome.

Authors
Benjamin J Cooze, Matthew Dickerson, Rukshikah Loganathan, Lewis M Watkins, Ethan Grounds, Ben R Pearson, Ryan Jack Bevan, B Paul Morgan, Roberta Magliozzi, Richard Reynolds, James W Neal, Owain W Howell
The association between neurodegeneration and local complement activation in the thalamus to progressive multiple sclerosis outcome.
Nat Commun
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Reactive astrocytes acquire neuroprotective as well as deleterious signatures in response to Tau and Aß pathology.

Authors
Zoeb Jiwaji, Sachin S Tiwari, Rolando X Avilés-Reyes, Monique Hooley, David Hampton, Megan Torvell, Delinda A Johnson, Jamie McQueen, Paul Baxter, Kayalvizhi Sabari-Sankar, Jing Qiu, Xin He, Jill Fowler, James Febery, Jenna Gregory, Jamie Rose, Jane Tulloch, Jamie Loan, David Story, Karina McDade, Amy M Smith, Peta Greer, Matthew Ball, Peter C Kind, Paul M Matthews, Colin Smith, Owen Dando, Tara L Spires-Jones, Jeffrey A Johnson, Siddharthan Chandran, Giles E Hardingham
Reactive astrocytes acquire neuroprotective as well as deleterious signatures in response to Tau and Aß pathology.
Dev Cell
Published

iPSC-derived myelinoids to study myelin biology of humans.

Authors
Owen G James, Bhuvaneish T Selvaraj, Dario Magnani, Karen Burr, Peter Connick, Samantha K Barton, Navneet A Vasistha, David W Hampton, David Story, Robert Smigiel, Rafal Ploski, Peter J Brophy, Charles Ffrench-Constant, David A Lyons, Siddharthan Chandran
iPSC-derived myelinoids to study myelin biology of humans.