| 1 | Initiation of Parkinson’s disease from gut to brain byδ-secretase显示文摘Lewy pathology,composed ofα-Synuclein(α-Syn)inclusions,a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease(PD),progressively spreads from the enteric nervous system(ENS)to the central nervous system(CNS).However,it remains unclear how this process is regulated at a molecular level.Here we show thatδ-secretase(asparagine endopeptidase,AEP)cleaves bothα-Syn at N103 and Tau at N368,and mediates their fibrillization and retrograde propagation from the gut to the brain,triggering nigra dopaminergic neuronal loss associated with Lewy bodies and motor dysfunction.α-Syn N103 and Tau N368 robustly interact with each other and are highly elevated in PD patients’gut and brain.Chronic oral administration of the neurotoxin rotenone induces AEP activation andα-Syn N103/Tau N368 complex formation in the gut,eliciting constipation and dopaminergic neuronal death in an AEP-dependent manner.Preformed fibrils(PFFs)ofα-Syn N103/Tau N368 are more neurotoxic and compact,and aggregate more quickly along the vagus nerve than their FL/FL counterparts or the individual fragments’fibrils.Colonic injection of PFFs induces PD pathologies,motor dysfunctions,and cognitive impairments.Thus,δ-secretase plays a crucial role in initiating PD pathology progression from the ENS to the CNS. | Eun Hee Ahn Seong Su Kang Xia Liu Guiqin Chen Zhentao Zhang Bindu Chandrasekharan Ashfaqul M.Alam Andrew S.Neish Xuebing Cao Keqiang Ye | 2020 | Cell Research2020，30，1： | 9 |
| 2 | Texture of the nano-crystalline AlN thin films and the growth conditions in DC magnetron sputtering显示文摘DC reactive magnetron sputtering technique has been used for the preparation of Al N thin fi lms. The deposition temperature and the fl ow ratio of N2/Ar were varied and subsequent dependency of the fi lms crystallites orientation/texture has been addressed. In general, deposited fi lms were found hexagonal polycrystalline with a(002) preferred orientation. The X-ray diffraction(XRD) data revealed that the fi lm crystallinity improves,with the increase of substrate temperature from 300 ℃to 500℃. The dropped in full width half maximum(FWHM) of the XRD rocking curve value further con fi rmed it. However, increasing substrate temperature above 500 ℃or reducing the nitrogen condition(from 60 to 30% in the environment) induced the growth of crystallites with(102) and(103) orientations. The rise of rocking curve FWHM for the corresponding conditions depicted that the fi lms texture quality deteriorated. A further con fi rmation of the variation in fi lm texture/orentation with the growth conditions has been obtained from the variation in FWHM values of a dominant E1(TO) mode in the Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) spectra and the E2(high) mode in Raman spectra. We have correlated the columnar structure in AFM surface analyses with the(002) or c-axis orientation as well. Spectroscopic ellipsometry of the samples have shown a higher refractive index at 500 ℃growth temperature. | Shakil Khan Muhammad Shahid A.Mahmood A.Shah Ishaq Ahmed Mazhar Mehmood U.Aziz Q.Raza M.Alam | 2015 | Progress in Natural Science:Materials International2015，25，4： | 0 |
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