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Giulia Cisbani

University of Toronto
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Cerebrovascular and blood–brain barrier impairments in Huntington's disease: potential implications for its pathophysiology

J Drouin‐Ouellet, SJ Sawiak, G Cisbani… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Although the underlying cause of Huntington's disease (HD) is well established,
the actual pathophysiological processes involved remain to be fully elucidated. In other …

Mutant huntingtin is present in neuronal grafts in Huntington disease patients

F Cicchetti, S Lacroix, G Cisbani, N Vallières… - Annals of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Huntington disease (HD) is caused by a genetically encoded pathological protein
(mutant huntingtin [mHtt]), which is thought to exert its effects in a cell‐autonomous manner. …

[HTML][HTML] Human-to-mouse prion-like propagation of mutant huntingtin protein

I Jeon, F Cicchetti, G Cisbani, S Lee, E Li, J Bae… - Acta …, 2016 - Springer
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder of the
central nervous system (CNS) that is defined by a CAG expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin …

The role of tau in the pathological process and clinical expression of Huntington's disease

R Vuono, S Winder-Rhodes, R De Silva, G Cisbani… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an abnormal CAG repeat
expansion within exon 1 of the huntingtin gene HTT. While several genetic modifiers, distinct …

The different effects of LPS and poly I: C prenatal immune challenges on the behavior, development and inflammatory responses in pregnant mice and their offspring

D Arsenault, I St-Amour, G Cisbani… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In recent years, in vivo animal models of prenatal infection have been developed in an
attempt to recreate behavioral and neuropathological features associated to a number of …

The morphological and molecular changes of brain cells exposed to direct current electric field stimulation

…, I St-Amour, D Arsenault, G Cisbani… - International Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: The application of low-intensity direct current electric fields has been experimentally
used in the clinic to treat a number of brain disorders, predominantly using transcranial …

Protein concentrations and activities of fatty acid desaturase and elongase enzymes in liver, brain, testicle, and kidney from mice: Substrate dependency

R Valenzuela, AH Metherel, G Cisbani, ME Smith… - Biofactors, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis rates of n‐3 and n‐6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in rodents and humans
are not agreed upon and depend on substrate availability independently of the capacity …

Is Huntington's disease a tauopathy?

M Gratuze, G Cisbani, F Cicchetti, E Planel - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Tauopathies are a subclass of neurodegenerative diseases typified by the deposition of
abnormal microtubule-associated tau protein within the cerebral tissue. Alzheimer's disease, …

Presence of tau pathology within foetal neural allografts in patients with Huntington's and Parkinson's disease

G Cisbani, A Maxan, JH Kordower, E Planel… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cell replacement has been explored as a therapeutic strategy to repair the brain in patients
with Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease. Post-mortem evaluations of healthy grafted …

[HTML][HTML] Calcium regulation of mitochondria motility and morphology

DV Jeyaraju, G Cisbani, L Pellegrini - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2009 - Elsevier
In the Fifties, electron microscopy studies on neuronal cells showed that mitochondria typically
cluster at synaptic terminals, thereby introducing the concept that proper mitochondria …