Linking tuberous sclerosis complex, excessive mTOR signaling, and age-related neurodegeneration: a new association between TSC1 mutation and frontotemporal dementia

Nicholas T. Olney, Carolina Alquezar, Eliana Marisa Ramos, Alissa L. Nana, Jamie C. Fong, Anna M. Karydas, Joanne B. Taylor, Melanie L. Stephens, Andrea R. Argouarch, Victoria A. Van Berlo, Deepika R. Dokuru, Elliott H. Sherr, Gregory A. Jicha, William P. Dillon, Rahul S. Desikan, Mary De May, William W. Seeley, Giovanni Coppola, Bruce L. Miller, Aimee W. Kao

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8 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)813-816
Number of pages4
JournalActa Neuropathologica
Volume134
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2017

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Acknowledgements This work is supported by the Rainwater Tau Consortium and NIH/NIA (P50AG023501, P01AG019724, T32AG023481-11S1, and P50 AG1657303). Additional support was provided by the Ramón Areces Foundation (C.A.), the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (A.W.K.), NIH/NIA RC1 AG035610 (G.C.), John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation (G.C.), National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center Junior Investigator Award (R.S.D.), ASNR Alzheimer’s Imaging Research Grant Program (R.S.D.), RSNA Resident Fellow grant (R.S.D.), and NIH/NIDA grant U24DA041123 (R.S.D.). We thank Thomas Pittman and William Markesbury from the University of Kentucky for sharing the pathological specimens. We thank the Tau Consortium Stem Cell group for technical advice and support.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Clinical Neurology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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