title: Microarray gene and miRNA expression studies: looking for new therapeutic targets for frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
abstract: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) encompasses a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by behavioral, executive and language impairment, with a common overlap with parkinsonism and motor-neuron disease. Despite an increased understanding of its genetic background and molecular pathophysiology, FTLD is still an orphan disorder and there are currently no effective therapies available. In this brief overview we report the results obtained by several high-throughput and bioinformatic studies aimed at discovering impairment in the transcriptional profiles in brain and peripheral tissues from FTLD patients and in animal models. Taken together, all these results provide an interesting but still fragmentary list of genes and miRNAs whose role in FTLD should be thoroughly investigated.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Milanesi
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pilotto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods; D057174:Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs
keywords: drug targets; frontotemporal degeneration; gene expression analyses; genetics; microarray; therapy