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Overview

Diane P. Hanger is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration mechanisms, and neuropharmacology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, their work focuses on several subfields:

  • Physiology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology

The core research topics addressed by Diane P. Hanger include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

The scientist has published in a variety of academic venues, with multiple contributions in notable journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Science Advances
  • Brain Communications

Diane P. Hanger has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Wendy Noble, Saskia J. Pollack, Despoina Goniotaki, Claire Troakes, and Louise C. Serpell.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Diane P. Hanger are:

  • Reactive astrocytes secrete the chaperone HSPB1 to mediate neuroprotection, 2024, Science Advances
  • Bridging integrator 1 protein loss in Alzheimer's disease promotes synaptic tau accumulation and disrupts tau release, 2020, Brain Communications
  • Artificial intelligence for neurodegenerative experimental models, 2023, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • P2X7R influences tau aggregate burden in human tauopathies and shows distinct signalling in microglia and astrocytes, 2023, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • The Disease Associated Tau35 Fragment has an Increased Propensity to Aggregate Compared to Full-Length Tau, 2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Best Publications

  • Tau phosphorylation: the therapeutic challenge for neurodegenerative disease.

    Diane P. Hanger;Brian H. Anderton;Wendy Noble

  • Roles of tau protein in health and disease.

    Tong Guo;Wendy Jane Noble;Diane Pamela Hanger

  • Glycogen synthase kinase-3 induces Alzheimer's disease-like phosphorylation of tau: generation of paired helical filament epitopes and neuronal localisation of the kinase.

    Diane P. Hanger;Kenneth Hughes;James R. Woodgett;Jean-Pierre Brion

  • Physiological release of endogenous tau is stimulated by neuronal activity.

    Amy M Pooler;Emma C Phillips;Dawn H W Lau;Wendy Noble

  • Alzheimer's disease-like phosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau by glycogen synthase kinase-3 in transfected mammalian cells

    S Lovestone;C H Reynolds;D Latimer;Davis

  • Novel Phosphorylation Sites in Tau from Alzheimer Brain Support a Role for Casein Kinase 1 in Disease Pathogenesis

    Diane P. Hanger;Helen L. Byers;Selina Wray;Kit-Yi Leung

  • The importance of tau phosphorylation for neurodegenerative diseases.

    Wendy Noble;Diane P. Hanger;Christopher C. J. Miller;Simon Lovestone

  • New phosphorylation sites identified in hyperphosphorylated tau (paired helical filament-tau) from Alzheimer's disease brain using nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry.

    Diane P. Hanger;Joanna C. Betts;Thérèse L. F. Loviny;Walter P. Blackstock

  • Astrocytes are important mediators of Aβ-induced neurotoxicity and tau phosphorylation in primary culture

    Claire Garwood;Amy Pooler;J. Atherton;Diane Hanger

  • α-Synuclein binds to the ER–mitochondria tethering protein VAPB to disrupt Ca 2+ homeostasis and mitochondrial ATP production

    Sébastien Paillusson;Patricia Gomez-Suaga;Radu Stoica;Daniel Little

  • The ER-Mitochondria Tethering Complex VAPB-PTPIP51 Regulates Autophagy

    Patricia Gomez-Suaga;Sebastien Paillusson;Radu Stoica;Wendy Noble

  • Phosphorylation Regulates Tau Interactions with Src Homology 3 Domains of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase, Phospholipase Cγ1, Grb2, and Src Family Kinases

    C. Hugh Reynolds;Claire J. Garwood;Selina Wray;Caroline Price

  • ALS/FTD-associated FUS activates GSK-3β to disrupt the VAPB–PTPIP51 interaction and ER–mitochondria associations

    Radu Stoica;Sébastien Paillusson;Patricia Gomez‐Suaga;Jacqueline C Mitchell

  • A role for tau at the synapse in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

    Amy M Pooler;Wendy Noble;Diane P Hanger

  • Tyrosine 394 is phosphorylated in Alzheimer's paired helical filament tau and in fetal tau with c-Abl as the candidate tyrosine kinase.

    Pascal Derkinderen;Timothy M. E. Scales;Diane P. Hanger;Kit-Yi Leung

  • Tau phosphorylation affects its axonal transport and degradation

    Teresa Rodríguez-Martín;Inmaculada Cuchillo-Ibáñez;Wendy Noble;Fanon Nyenya

  • Induction of neuronal death by alpha-synuclein.

    Anirban R. Saha;Natalia N. Ninkina;Diane P. Hanger;Brian H. Anderton

  • Tau in Alzheimer neurofibrillary tangles. N- and C-terminal regions are differentially associated with paired helical filaments and the location of a putative abnormal phosphorylation site.

    J.-P. Brion;D. P. Hanger;M. T.K Bruce;A.-M. Couck

  • Parkinson's disease alpha-synuclein mutations exhibit defective axonal transport in cultured neurons

    Anirban R. Saha;Josephine Hill;Michelle A. Utton;Ayodeji A. Asuni

  • Pathological inclusion bodies in tauopathies contain distinct complements of tau with three or four microtubule-binding repeat domains as demonstrated by new specific monoclonal antibodies.

    R de Silva;T Lashley;G Gibb;Diane Hanger

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian H. Anderton
Brian H. Anderton King's College London
Wendy Noble
Wendy Noble King's College London
Simon Lovestone
Simon Lovestone University of Oxford
Michael E. Cheetham
Michael E. Cheetham University College London
Christopher C. J. Miller
Christopher C. J. Miller King's College London
Peter L. Lantos
Peter L. Lantos King's College London
Alun M. Davies
Alun M. Davies Cardiff University
Vladimir L. Buchman
Vladimir L. Buchman Cardiff University
Tamas Revesz
Tamas Revesz University College London
Michael J. O'Neill
Michael J. O'Neill Eli Lilly (United States)

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