Mundt-Petersén U, Petersén Å, Emgård M, Dunnett SB and Brundin P.Experimental Neurology 164:112-120 (2000)AbstractIn transplants of embryonic striatal cells placed into the excitotoxically lesioned rat striatum (a model of Huntington's disease), as many as 60 to 90% of the grafted cells are believed to die. Caspase activation is part of a cascade of events that can lead to apoptosis. We investigat

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/caspase-inhibition-increases-embryonic-striatal-graft-survival - 2025-07-13

Petersén Å, Hansson O, Emgård M and Brundin P.Cell Transplantation 9: 577-584 (2000)AbstractTransplantation of embryonic ventral mesencephalon is a potential therapy for patients with Parkinson's disease. As only around 5-10% of embryonic dopaminergic neurons survive grafting into the adult striatum, it is considered necessary to use multiple donor embryos. To increase the survival of the grafted

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/grafting-nigral-tissue-hibernated-tirilazad-mesylate-and-glial-cell-line-derived-neurotrophic-factor - 2025-07-13

Brundin P, Karlsson J, Emgård M, Kaminski Schierle GS, Hansson O, Petersén Å and Castilho RF.Cell Transplantation 9: 179-195 (2000)AbstractNeural transplantation is developing into a therapeutic alternative in Parkinson's disease. A major limiting factor is that only 3-20% of grafted dopamine neurons survive the procedure. Recent advances regarding how and when the neurons die indicate that events

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/improving-survival-grafted-dopaminergic-neurons-review-over-current-approaches - 2025-07-13

Hansson O, Petersén Å, Leist M, Nicotera P, Castilho RF and Brundin P.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 8727-8732 (1999)AbstractHuntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder presenting with chorea, dementia, and extensive striatal neuronal death. The mechanism through which the widely expressed mutant HD gene mediates a slowly progressing striatal neuro

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/transgenic-mice-expressing-huntingtons-disease-mutation-are-resistant-quinolinic-acid-induced - 2025-07-13

Petersén Å, Emgård M and Brundin P.Brain Research Bulletin 50: 275-281 (1999)AbstractThe survival of grafted embryonic striatal tissue, dissected from the lateral ganglionic eminence, depends on the status of the host striatum. We found significantly larger volumes of surviving graft tissue and of striatal-like tissue (P-zone) within the graft, when the host striatum had been subjected to an excit

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/impact-preceding-excitotoxic-lesion-and-treatment-ciliary-neurotrophic-factor-striatal-graft - 2025-07-13

Petersén Å and Brundin P.Experimental Neurology 160: 402-412 (1999)AbstractCiliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) has a protective effect on the striatum in animal models of Huntington's disease. However, the mechanism through which it exerts its effect is not clear. In this study, we show that there is a concentration-dependent direct protective effect of CNTF against N-methyl-D-aspartate-mediated ex

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/effect-cntf-and-calcium-ionophore-a23187-induced-death-cultured-embryonic-stratal-neurons - 2025-07-13

Petersén Å, Mani K and Brundin P.Experimental Neurology 157: 1-18 (1999)AbstractWe review recent advances regarding the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD). This genetic neurodegenerative disorder is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in a gene coding for a protein, with unknown function, called huntingtin. There is selective death of striatal and cortical neurons. Both in patients and a trans

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/recent-advances-pathogenesis-huntingtons-disease - 2025-07-13

Baldo B, Gabery S, Soylu-Kucharz R, Cheong RY, Henningsen JB, Englund E, McLean C, Kirik D, Halliday G and Petersén Å.Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 45 (4): 361-379 (2019)AbstractAIMS:Metabolic dysfunction is involved in modulating the disease process in Huntington disease (HD) but the underlying mechanisms are not known. The aim of this study was to investigate if the metabolic regulator

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/sirt1-increased-affected-brain-regions-and-hypothalamic-metabolic-pathways-are-altered-huntington - 2025-07-13

Brundin P, Petersén Å and Hansson O.Journal of Neurosurgery 90: 804-806 (1999)No abstract available; this is a letter to the editor.The letter 

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Pircs K, Petri R, Madsen S, Brattås PL, Vuono R, Ottosson DR, St-Amour I, Hersbach BA, Matusiak-Brückner M, Lundh SH, Petersén Å, Déglon N, Hébert SS, Parmar M, Barker RA and Jakobsson J.Cell Reports 24(6): 1397-1406 (2018)AbstractMany neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the presence of intracellular protein aggregates, resulting in alterations in autophagy. However, the consequences o

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/huntingtin-aggregation-impairs-autophagy-leading-argonaute-2-accumulation-and-global-microrna - 2025-07-13

Fjalldal S, Follin C, Svärd D, Rylander L, Gabery S, Petersen Å, Van Westen D, Sundgren P, Bjorkman-Burtscher I, Lätt J, Ekman B, Johanson A and Erfurth EM.European Journal of Endocrinology 178 (6): 577-587 (2018)AbstractCONTEXT:Patients with craniopharyngioma (CP) and hypothalamic lesions (HL) have cognitive deficits. Which neural pathways are affected is unknown.OBJECTIVE:To determine whether th

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/microstructural-white-matter-alterations-and-hippocampal-volumes-are-associated-cognitive-deficits - 2025-07-13

Gawlik KI1, Harandi VM2, Cheong RY3, Petersén Å3, Durbeej M2.1Muscle Biology Unit, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.2Muscle Biology Unit, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.3Translational Neuroendocrine Research Unit, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.Matrix Biology 70: 36-79 (20

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/laminin-a1-reduces-muscular-dystrophy-dy2j-mice - 2025-07-13

Vercruysse P, Vieau D, Blum D, Petersén Å and Dupuis L.Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 11:2 (2018)AbstractNeurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are disorders characterized by progressive deterioration of brain structure and function. Selective neuronal populations are affected leading to symptoms which are prominently motor in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Huntington's disease (HD), or co

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/hypothalamic-alterations-neurodegenerative-diseases-and-their-relation-abnormal-energy-metabolism - 2025-07-13

Please note, that all links on this page open a new webpage. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Through the research program Wallenberg Clinical Scholars, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation are funding 24 of the foremost clinical researchers in Sweden. Almost SEK 800 million are used for funding over ten years. Åsa Petersén was appointed Wallenberg Clinical Scholar 2020 and will receive SE

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Education for sustainable development The educational programmes at Lund University provide students with perspectives on sustainable development from a wide range of topics. Basic subject knowledge is a prerequisite for the kind of interdisciplinary, impact-driven force needed to meet our global challenges and to create change. A sustainable student life Get involved in sustainability as a studen

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It is said that many of the best conversations and ideas arise in informal contexts. We are many who are passionate about sustainability issues in Lund - but many of us have probably never met, some of us feel alone in our workplace and others can not get enough of talking sustainability both at and outside work. The reasons to meet in informal ways are many! HållBAR is an After Work concept, on t

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Lund University Research Conference, 2025 Save the date! On 9th of December 2025, Lund University invites to its 5th official research conference on sustainable development, in collaboration with University of Cambridge. The conference is aimed at all researchers at Lund University and University of Cambridge who want to increase their knowledge about the challenges that lie ahead, learn how their

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Lund University Research Conference Knowledge for Sustainable Development – Our shared future in times of global conflict and crisis. We welcome researchers at Lund University to submit their research contributions relating to sustainable development. The research contributions will be presented orally during the thematic parallel sessions.The deadline to submit an abstract has passed.  Abstract s

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Lund University Research Conference on Knowledge for Sustainable Development - Our shared future in times of global conflict and crisis. The Lund University Conference on Knowledge for Sustainable Development is an interdisciplinary research conference that aims to highlight sustainability research at Lund University. With this year’s sub-title Our shared future in times of global conflict and cri

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A large part of the university's climate-affecting emissions comes from business travel. Read more on this page about how the university works with travel regulations and goals for business trips. Travel regulations There are regulations that apply to all travel paid for by Lund University (for employees, external guests and students). The rules are part of Lund University's responsibility to redu

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