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A Schapira

University College London, Royal Free
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Etiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

AH Schapira, P Jenner - Movement disorders, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The past 25 years have seen a major expansion of knowledge concerning the cause of
Parkinson's disease provided by an understanding of environmental and genetic factors that …

[HTML][HTML] Glucocerebrosidase mutations in Parkinson disease

…, R Balestrino, AH Schapira - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Following the discovery of a higher than expected incidence of Parkinson Disease (PD) in
Gaucher disease, a lysosomal storage disorder, mutations in the glucocerebrocidase (GBA) …

Drug-induced fibrotic valvular heart disease

S Bhattacharyya, AH Schapira, DP Mikhailidis, J Davar - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
The initial association between the development of valvular heart disease and drugs stems
from observations made during the use of methysergide and ergotamine for migraine …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosomal dysfunction increases exosome-mediated alpha-synuclein release and transmission

L Alvarez-Erviti, Y Seow, AH Schapira, C Gardiner… - Neurobiology of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Alpha-synuclein aggregation plays a central role in Parkinson's disease pathology. Direct
transmission of alpha-synuclein from pathologically affected to healthy unaffected neurons …

A novel α-synuclein missense mutation in Parkinson disease

…, JM Cooper, GL Millhauser, H Houlden, AH Schapira - Neurology, 2013 - AAN Enterprises
Schapira: drafting/revising the manuscript for content, including medical writing for
content; study concept or design; analysis or interpretation of data; study supervision or …

[HTML][HTML] Parkinson's disease induced pluripotent stem cells with triplication of the α-synuclein locus

…, NJ Drummond, JW Taanman, AH Schapira… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
A major barrier to research on Parkinson's disease is inaccessibility of diseased tissue for
study. One solution is to derive induced pluripotent stem cells from patients and differentiate …

Factors predictive of the development of Levodopa‐induced dyskinesia and wearing‐off in Parkinson's disease

…, O Rascol, W Poewe, AH Schapira… - Movement …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The Stalevo Reduction in Dyskinesia Evaluation in Parkinson's Disease ( STRIDE‐PD ) study
compared the initiation of levodopa (l‐dopa) therapy with l‐dopa/carbidopa ( LC ) versus l‐…

[HTML][HTML] Glucocerebrosidase inhibition causes mitochondrial dysfunction and free radical damage

…, NW Wood, J Hardy, JM Cooper, AH Schapira - Neurochemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
Mutations of the gene for glucocerebrosidase 1 (GBA) cause Gaucher disease (GD), an
autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder. Individuals with homozygous or heterozygous (…

Direct mobilisation of lysosomal Ca2+ triggers complex Ca2+ signals

BS Kilpatrick, ER Eden, AH Schapira… - Journal of cell …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
Accumulating evidence implicates acidic organelles of the endolysosomal system as mobilisable
stores of Ca 2+ but their relationship to the better-characterised endoplasmic reticulum (…

Dysregulation of lysosomal morphology by pathogenic LRRK2 is corrected by TPC2 inhibition

…, E Brailoiu, CE Futter, AH Schapira… - Journal of Cell …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Two-pore channels (TPCs) are endolysosomal ion channels implicated in Ca 2+ signalling
from acidic organelles. The relevance of these ubiquitous proteins for human disease, …