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    Combating Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress with Electrophilic Counterattack Strategies

    Redox stress is thought to contribute to neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Cysteine-based redox regulation, via glutathione- and thioredoxin-mediated pathways, repres...

    Takumi Satoh, Mohd Waseem Akhtar, Stuart A. Lipton in Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation (2013)

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    Elevated glucose and oligomeric β-amyloid disrupt synapses via a common pathway of aberrant protein S-nitrosylation

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increase risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The molecular mechanism for this association remains poorly defined. Here we report in human and rodent...

    Mohd Waseem Akhtar, Sara Sanz-Blasco, Nima Dolatabadi in Nature Communications (2016)

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    NitroSynapsin therapy for a mouse MEF2C haploinsufficiency model of human autism

    Transcription factor MEF2C regulates multiple genes linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and human MEF2C haploinsufficiency results in ASD, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. However, molecular mechan...

    Shichun Tu, Mohd Waseem Akhtar, Rosa Maria Escorihuela in Nature Communications (2017)