Sunday, July 18, 2010

ArmaGen® Re-engineers Erythropoietin For Brain Penetration

Medical News Today, Article Date: 17 Jul 2010

"EPO drug development for the brain is limited, because EPO does not cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB)"

"EPO-driven neuroprotection in human brain disorders is now possible with systemic administration of the HIRMAb-EPO fusion protein at doses that have minimal effects on erythropoiesis."

ArmaGen® Web

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Oxidative stress, thiol redox signaling methods in epigenetics.

Methods Enzymol. 2010; 474: 213-44, doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(10)74013-1

Sundar IK, Caito S, Yao H, Rahman I

Keywords: Epigenetics, gene expression, posttranslational modifications, histones, histone acetylation, deacetylation, methylation, histone acetyltransferases (HATs), histone deacetylases (HDACs), reative oxygen species (ROS), signaling pathways, SIRT1.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Heterochromatin dysregulation in human diseases

J Appl Physiol 109: 232-242, 2010.
doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00053.2010 

Matthias Hahn,* Silvia Dambacher,* and Gunnar Schotta
Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science (CiPSM) and Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany 

Keywords: epigenetics, heterochromatin, epigenetic therapy, FSHD, Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), cancer

Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Intermembrane Space of Mitochondria

Antioxidants & Redox Signaling.  doi:10.1089/ars.2009.3063.

Johannes M. Herrmann and Jan Riemer
Department of Cell Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Review: Friedreich Ataxia and Erythropoietin

The Open Drug Discovery Journal, Volume 2, ISSN: 1877-3818
Review: Friedreich Ataxia and Erythropoietin, pp.18-24 (7)
Authors: Sylvia Boesch, Brigitte Sturm, Wolfgang Nachbauer, Sascha Hering, Hannes Steinkellner, Rainer Schneider, Werner Poewe, Barbara Scheiber-Mojdehkar
doi: 10.2174/1877381801002020018
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Iron-Overload Cardiomyopathy: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Journal of Cardiac Failure, Article in Press, Corrected Proof. Available online 3 July 2010.

Colm J. Murphy MD, FRCPC and Gavin Y. Oudit MD, PhD, FRCPC
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Keywords: Cardiomyopathy; hemochromatosis; oxidative stress; anemia; cardiac MRI; echocardiography; primary (hereditary) hemochromatosis; secondary iron overload (hemosiderosis); iron toxicosis (iron poisoning); myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury; cardiomyopathy associated with Friedreich ataxia; vascular dysfunction.

Monday, July 5, 2010

The Role of PGC-1alpha in the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Curr Drug Targets. 2010 Jul 1
Róna-Vörös K, Weydt P.
Department of Neurology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Keywords: Mitochondrial dysfunction, neurodegeneration, Huntington's disease (HD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), transcriptional co-activator PGC-1alpha.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Assessment of impairment or monitoring change in Friedreich ataxia

Movement Disorders, 10.1002/mds.23103
Letter to the Editor

Adam P. Vogel, MSc 1 2 *, Angela T. Morgan, PhD 3 4
1Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Australia
2Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
3Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia
4Healthy Development Theme, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

"No abstract"

PGC-1α Regulates Expression of Myocardial Mitochondrial Antioxidants and Myocardial Oxidative Stress After Chronic Systolic Overload

Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. Ahead of print. doi:10.1089/ars.2009.2940.
Zhongbing Lu, Xin Xu, Xinli Hu, John Fassett, Guangshuo Zhu, Yi Tao, Jingxin Li, Yimin Huang, Ping Zhang, Baolu Zhao, Yingjie Chen.

Keywords: Mitochondria, reactive oxygen species (ROS, heart, Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α), SOD2, and thioredoxin (Trx2), 3’-nitrotyrosine, 4-hydroxynonenal, TAC-induced myocardial oxidative stress, hypertrophy,dysfunction.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Exercise Capacity and Idebenone Intervention in Children and Adolescents With Friedreich Ataxia

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol=91, Issue 7, Pages 1044-1050 (July 2010)
( Presented in part to the American College of Sports Medicine, Seattle, WA, May 28, 2009.)

Drinkard BE, Keyser RE, Paul SM, Arena R, Plehn JF, Yanovski JA, Di Prospero NA. 

Keywords: Friedreich's Ataxia (FA), idebenone, randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, oxidative stress, peak oxygen consumption per unit time (peak VO2), peak work rate (WR), Echocardiography, neurologic assessments, exercise.