Pamela J. McLean

TL;DR: These guidelines are presented for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: The Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) Consortium has refined its recommendations about the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB, updating the previous report, which has been in widespread use for the last decade.

TL;DR: It is shown that functional loss of GD-linked glucocerebrosidase in primary cultures or human iPS neurons compromises lysosomal protein degradation, causes accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn), and results in neurotoxicity through aggregation-dependent mechanisms, suggesting that GCase depletion contributes to the pathogenesis of sporadic synucleinopathies.

TL;DR: A potent inhibitor of sIRT2 was identified and inhibition of SIRT2 rescued α-synuclein toxicity and modified inclusion morphology in a cellular model of Parkinson's disease, suggesting a link between neurodegeneration and aging.

TL;DR: The data suggest that αsyn may be secreted via different secretory pathways, and hypothesize that exosome-mediated release of αsyn oligomers is a mechanism whereby cells clear toxic α synuclein oligomers when autophagic mechanisms fail to be sufficient.