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    Autophagy is defective in collagen VI muscular dystrophies, and its reactivation rescues myofiber degeneration

    Autophagy is often believed to be elevated in disease, contributing to pathogenesis. Paolo Bonaldo and his colleagues now show that it is actually too little autophagy that occurs in some forms of muscular dys...

    Paolo Grumati, Luisa Coletto, Patrizia Sabatelli, Matilde Cescon in Nature Medicine (2010)

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    Role of adiponectin in the metabolism of skeletal muscles in collagen VI–related myopathies

    The role of adiponectin has been particularly deepened in diabetic muscles while the study of adiponectin in hereditary myopathies has been marginally investigated. Here, we report the study about adiponectin ...

    Tania Gamberi, Francesca Magherini, Michele Mannelli in Journal of Molecular Medicine (2019)

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    GBA1 inactivation in oligodendrocytes affects myelination and induces neurodegenerative hallmarks and lipid dyshomeostasis in mice

    Mutations in the β-glucocerebrosidase (GBA1) gene do cause the lysosomal storage Gaucher disease (GD) and are among the most frequent genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease (PD). So far, studies on both neu...

    Ilaria Gregorio, Loris Russo, Enrica Torretta in Molecular Neurodegeneration (2024)