Mel B. Feany
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American neuropathologist
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- Doctorate Medicine Harvard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mel B. Feany is an American neuropathologist and geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who researches neurodegenerative disease. She is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.
Mel B. Feany's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease (2000) (1986)
- Mitochondrial pathology and apoptotic muscle degeneration in Drosophila parkin mutants (2003) (1155)
- Sirtuin 2 Inhibitors Rescue α-Synuclein-Mediated Toxicity in Models of Parkinson's Disease (2007) (881)
- Tauopathy in Drosophila: Neurodegeneration Without Neurofibrillary Tangles (2001) (876)
- Parkinson's disease: genetics and pathogenesis. (2011) (724)
- α-Synuclein phosphorylation controls neurotoxicity and inclusion formation in a Drosophila model of Parkinson disease (2005) (552)
- Sirtuin 2 inhibitors rescue alpha-synuclein-mediated toxicity in models of Parkinson's disease. (2007) (526)
- Alpha-synuclein acts in the nucleus to inhibit histone acetylation and promote neurotoxicity. (2006) (487)
- Abnormal bundling and accumulation of F-actin mediates tau-induced neuronal degeneration in vivo (2007) (420)
- Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): harmonized evaluation strategy (2015) (340)
- Tau promotes neurodegeneration through global chromatin relaxation (2014) (332)
- Alpha-synuclein phosphorylation controls neurotoxicity and inclusion formation in a Drosophila model of Parkinson disease. (2005) (320)
- Tau Promotes Neurodegeneration via DRP1 Mislocalization In Vivo (2012) (308)
- Widespread cytoskeletal pathology characterizes corticobasal degeneration. (1995) (276)
- Neurodegenerative disorders with extensive tau pathology: A comparative study and review (1996) (273)
- Neuropathologic Overlap of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Pick's Disease and Corticobasal Degeneration (1996) (267)
- A neuropeptide gene defined by the Drosophila memory mutant amnesiac. (1995) (263)
- Genetic modifiers of tauopathy in Drosophila. (2003) (252)
- The synaptic vesicle protein SV2 is a novel type of transmembrane transporter (1992) (251)
- TOR-Mediated Cell-Cycle Activation Causes Neurodegeneration in a Drosophila Tauopathy Model (2006) (250)
- Oxidative stress mediates tau-induced neurodegeneration in Drosophila. (2007) (246)
- Cathepsin D expression level affects alpha-synuclein processing, aggregation, and toxicity in vivo (2009) (246)
- Aggregated α-Synuclein Mediates Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity In Vivo (2007) (221)
- Tyrosine and serine phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein have opposing effects on neurotoxicity and soluble oligomer formation. (2009) (213)
- Calpain-Cleavage of α-Synuclein : Connecting Proteolytic Processing to Disease-Linked Aggregation (2007) (194)
- Tau phosphorylation sites work in concert to promote neurotoxicity in vivo. (2007) (182)
- Modelling neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila: a fruitful approach? (2002) (174)
- Clinical correlates in an experimental model of repetitive mild brain injury (2013) (158)
- Lamin Dysfunction Mediates Neurodegeneration in Tauopathies (2016) (150)
- Why size matters – balancing mitochondrial dynamics in Alzheimer's disease (2013) (147)
- Progressive aggregation despite chaperone associations of a mutant SOD1-YFP in transgenic mice that develop ALS (2009) (147)
- α-synuclein Induces Mitochondrial Dysfunction through Spectrin and the Actin Cytoskeleton (2018) (143)
- In Vivo Imaging Reveals Dissociation between Caspase Activation and Acute Neuronal Death in Tangle-Bearing Neurons (2008) (137)
- Functional screening in Drosophila identifies Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes and implicates Tau-mediated mechanisms. (2014) (135)
- Lysosomal Dysfunction Promotes Cleavage and Neurotoxicity of Tau In Vivo (2010) (129)
- Calpain-cleavage of alpha-synuclein: connecting proteolytic processing to disease-linked aggregation. (2007) (127)
- Gene expression changes presage neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease. (2003) (122)
- &agr;-Synuclein S129 Phosphorylation Mutants Do Not Alter Nigrostriatal Toxicity in a Rat Model of Parkinson Disease (2009) (110)
- Disease-related phenotypes in a Drosophila model of hereditary spastic paraplegia are ameliorated by treatment with vinblastine. (2005) (104)
- From fruit fly to bedside: translating lessons from Drosophila models of neurodegenerative disease (2003) (104)
- Comparison of pathways controlling toxicity in the eye and brain in Drosophila models of human neurodegenerative diseases. (2004) (103)
- Connecting the dots between tau dysfunction and neurodegeneration. (2015) (103)
- Parkin A Multipurpose Neuroprotective Agent? (2003) (103)
- S/P and T/P phosphorylation is critical for tau neurotoxicity in Drosophila (2007) (101)
- Cathepsin D-deficient Drosophila recapitulate the key features of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (2005) (87)
- Inactivation of Drosophila Huntingtin affects long-term adult functioning and the pathogenesis of a Huntington’s disease model (2009) (86)
- The Unfolded Protein Response Protects from Tau Neurotoxicity In Vivo (2010) (83)
- Functional screening of Alzheimer pathology genome-wide association signals in Drosophila. (2011) (77)
- The synaptic vesicle proteins SV2, synaptotagmin and synaptophysin are sorted to separate cellular compartments in CHO fibroblasts (1993) (77)
- Rescue of the learning defect in dunce, a Drosophila learning mutant, by an allele of rutabaga, a second learning mutant. (1990) (76)
- Parkinson's disease: Insights from non-traditional model organisms (2010) (74)
- Glial Fibrillary Tangles and JAK/STAT-Mediated Glial and Neuronal Cell Death in a Drosophila Model of Glial Tauopathy (2010) (67)
- The synaptic vesicle protein synaptotagmin promotes formation of filopodia in fibroblasts (1993) (67)
- Protein Misfolding and Oxidative Stress Promote Glial-Mediated Neurodegeneration in an Alexander Disease Model (2011) (67)
- Cytoskeletal pathology in non-Alzheimer degenerative dementia: new lesions in diffuse Lewy body disease, Pick's disease, and corticobasal degeneration. (1996) (64)
- p53 prevents neurodegeneration by regulating synaptic genes (2014) (59)
- Accelerated Accumulation of Misfolded Prion Protein and Spongiform Degeneration in a Drosophila Model of Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker Syndrome (2006) (56)
- Proliferative Potential of Human Astrocytes (2005) (55)
- A genetic basis for the variable effect of smoking/nicotine on Parkinson's disease (2012) (54)
- A neuroprotective role for the DNA damage checkpoint in tauopathy (2012) (51)
- New genetic insights into Parkinson's disease. (2004) (49)
- Alexander Disease (2012) (48)
- Defective Phagocytic Corpse Processing Results in Neurodegeneration and Can Be Rescued by TORC1 Activation (2016) (47)
- Epitope expression and hyperphosphorylation of tau protein in corticobasal degeneration: differentiation from progressive supranuclear palsy (2004) (45)
- Nitric oxide mediates glial-induced neurodegeneration in Alexander disease (2015) (42)
- Polyglutamines Stop Traffic Axonal Transport as a Common Target in Neurodegenerative Diseases (2003) (37)
- Lrrk promotes tau neurotoxicity through dysregulation of actin and mitochondrial dynamics (2018) (36)
- Yeast genetics targets lipids in Parkinson's disease. (2004) (35)
- Tissue and cellular rigidity and mechanosensitive signaling activation in Alexander disease (2018) (34)
- Studying Human Neurodegenerative Diseases in Flies and Worms (2000) (30)
- An In Vivo Pharmacological Screen Identifies Cholinergic Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in Glial-Based Nervous System Disease (2016) (30)
- Spinal lipoma controversy. (1999) (28)
- A Conserved Cytoskeletal Signaling Cascade Mediates Neurotoxicity of FTDP-17 Tau Mutations In Vivo (2017) (27)
- Nortriptyline inhibits aggregation and neurotoxicity of alpha-synuclein by enhancing reconfiguration of the monomeric form (2017) (26)
- α-synuclein impairs autophagosome maturation through abnormal actin stabilization (2021) (25)
- Connecting cell-cycle activation to neurodegeneration in Drosophila. (2007) (25)
- Post‐transcriptional suppression of pathogenic prion protein expression in Drosophila neurons (2003) (23)
- Glia are critical for the neuropathology of complex I deficiency in Drosophila. (2014) (23)
- PARP Inhibitors and Parkinson's Disease (2019) (21)
- The Parkinson’s disease protein alpha-synuclein is a modulator of processing bodies and mRNA stability (2022) (21)
- Mediators of a long-term movement abnormality in a Drosophila melanogaster model of classic galactosemia (2012) (21)
- August 2000: Two cases with necrosis and hemorrhage in the putamen and white matter. (2001) (20)
- Glial α‐synuclein promotes neurodegeneration characterized by a distinct transcriptional program in vivo (2019) (19)
- ASIP Outstanding Investigator Award Lecture. New approaches to the pathology and genetics of neurodegeneration. (2010) (17)
- Neuropeptide Modulation of Learning and Memory Processes (1996) (13)
- Biotin rescues mitochondrial dysfunction and neurotoxicity in a tauopathy model (2020) (11)
- Antisense therapy in a rat model of Alexander disease reverses GFAP pathology, white matter deficits, and motor impairment (2021) (10)
- > -Synuclein S129 Phosphorylation Mutants Do Not Alter Nigrostriatal Toxicity in a Rat Model of Parkinson Disease (2009) (9)
- Comparative proteomic analysis highlights metabolic dysfunction in α-synucleinopathy (2020) (9)
- Parkinson’s disease risk genes act in glia to control neuronal α-synuclein toxicity (2021) (8)
- Elevated Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage in Cortical Neurons of Chemotherapy Patients. (2021) (4)
- Precision medicine on the fly: using Drosophila to decipher gene-environment interactions in Parkinson's disease. (2021) (4)
- Oligomerization of Lrrk controls actin severing and α-synuclein neurotoxicity in vivo (2021) (3)
- COMPARISON OF NEUROFIBRILLARY LESIONS IN PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PICKʼS DISEASE, AND CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION: 146 (1995) (2)
- Reply (2014) (2)
- α-Synuclein Promotes Neuronal Dysfunction and Death by Disrupting the Binding of Ankyrin to β-Spectrin (2023) (1)
- Case Study 1: A 55-Year-Old Woman With Progressive Cognitive, Perceptual, and Motor Impairments. (2021) (1)
- Genetic influences and neuropathological sequelae of repetitive brain injury. Reply. (2014) (1)
- EFFECTS OF METHANOL POISONING ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (1998) (1)
- Anastasis Drives Senescence and Non-Cell Autonomous Neurodegeneration in the Astrogliopathy Alexander Disease (2022) (1)
- Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (2010) (1)
- Iatrogenic Neuropathology of Systemic Therapies. (2020) (1)
- New-Onset Delusions Heralding an Underlying Neurodegenerative Condition: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. (2020) (1)
- Toward More Accessible Fully Automated 3D Volumetric MRI Decision Trees for the Differential Diagnosis of Multiple System Atrophy, Related Disorders, and Age-Matched Healthy Subjects. (2022) (1)
- Defining the pathologic contribution of glia to alpha-synucleinopathies (S45.001) (2018) (0)
- Comparative proteomic analysis highlights metabolic dysfunction in α-synucleinopathy (2020) (0)
- S3-01-02 Genetic analysis of tauopathy in Drosophila (2004) (0)
- Intergrating human and fly genetics to understand Alzheimer's disease susceptibility (2013) (0)
- Case Study 3: A 58-Year-Old Woman Referred for Evaluation of Suspected Alzheimer Dementia. (2022) (0)
- Connecting cell-cycle activation to neurodegeneration in (2020) (0)
- 9. Tau causes neurodegeneration in vivo through mitochondrial disruption (2009) (0)
- Case Study 4: A 68-Year-Old Woman With Progressive Cognitive Decline and Anxiety. (2023) (0)
- Correction to: Clinical trial-ready patient cohorts for multiple system atrophy: coupling biospecimen and iPSC banking to longitudinal deep-phenotyping. (2022) (0)
- Clinical Trial-Ready Patient Cohorts for Multiple System Atrophy: Coupling Biospecimen and iPSC Banking to Longitudinal Deep-Phenotyping (2022) (0)
- Knock‐in of P301L tau homolog in Drosophila leads to neuronal loss and widespread neurodegeneration (2022) (0)
- STAT3 Drives GFAP Accumulation and Astrocyte Pathology in a Mouse Model of Alexander Disease (2023) (0)
- Development of gene‐environment interaction model in Drosophila for neurodegenerative disease: A step towards personalized medicine (2019) (0)
- Integrating genome-wide association and functional validation to understand susceptibility for Alzheimer's pathology (2011) (0)
- Circular RNAs in the human brain are tailored to neuron identity and neuropsychiatric disease (2023) (0)
- TDP‐43/TBPH enhances neurotoxicity in a Drosophila model relevant to Alzheimerˈs disease (2012) (0)
- S2-03-05: The role of actin and oxidative stress in tau-associated neurodegeneration (2008) (0)
- 10 Corticobasal degeneration versus Picks' disease: An immunocytochemical comparison (1996) (0)
- HYBRID LESIONS WITH COMBINED FEATURES OF NEUROFIBROMA AND SCHWANNOMA (1997) (0)
- Cell cycle and neurodegeneration in fly (2009) (0)
- 1-1 Inactivation of Drosophila Huntingtin affects long-term adult functioning and the pathogenesis of a Huntington ’ s disease model (2010) (0)
- Multiplex analysis in a Drosophila gene‐environment model identifies interactions among LRRK2, rotenone and α‐synuclein (2020) (0)
- Editorial Board (2013) (0)
- Tissue and cellular rigidity and mechanosensitive signaling activation in Alexander disease (2018) (0)
- Antisense therapy in a new rat model of Alexander disease reverses GFAP pathology, white matter deficits, and motor impairment (2021) (0)
- Senseless makes sense for spinocerebellar ataxia-1 (2005) (0)
- Oligomerization of Lrrk controls actin severing and α-synuclein neurotoxicity in vivo (2021) (0)
- Nicotine-mediated rescue of α-synuclein toxicity requires synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2 (2022) (0)
- DDH214 2011..2018 (2004) (0)
- ASTROCYTIC PROLIFERATION IN REACTIVE CONDITIONS (1998) (0)
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