Genetic Bases of Neurodegenerative Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2025) | Viewed by 3025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: rare diseases (especially hereditary spastic paraplegia) and sarcomas (e.g. clear cell sarcoma)
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is supervised by Dr. Emanuele Panza and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel member, Dr. Chih-Wei Zeng.
The scope of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of the current knowledge in the field of inherited motor neuron disorders. The investigation of these conditions could identify shared pathways that could be the target of specific therapies. There is a great interest in in vitro, in vivo and innovative models such as organoids to investigate the disease in detail and to use these models to test therapies. We invite scientists to contribute to this collection by submitting original research articles and reviews on the following themes:
- Pathogenetic mechanisms in motor neuron disease;
- Common mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases and other conditions;
- Rare diseases that cause motor disorders;
- Diseases of neurometabolic nature;
- Motor diseases of genetic nature;
- Epilepsies caused by or related to metabolic deficiencies;
- Models of metabolic motor disorders: in vivo and in vitro models and organoids;
- Genotype–phenotype correlation.
Dr. Emanuele Panza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pathogenetic mechanisms in HSPs
- identification of new HSPs forms
- HSPs of neurometabolic nature
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