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Overview

Jean-Noël Octave is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine, with specific expertise in physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist has contributed to research in several main topics, including:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism

Jean-Noël Octave has published work in multiple scientific journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • JCI Insight
  • Cells
  • eNeuro
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers demonstrate an engagement with neurodegenerative diseases and molecular mechanisms associated with them. These works include:

  • "CSF1R inhibition rescues tau pathology and neurodegeneration in an A/T/N model with combined AD pathologies, while preserving plaque associated microglia" (2021), Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • "Alzheimer's Disease, a Lipid Story: Involvement of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α" (2020), Cells
  • "Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Controls the Expression of the Transcriptional Activator Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 4 (NPAS4) and Synaptic GABA Release" (2020), eNeuro
  • "Regulation of PPARα by APP in Alzheimer disease affects the pharmacological modulation of synaptic activity" (2021), JCI Insight
  • "Overexpression of wild-type human amyloid precursor protein alters GABAergic transmission" (2021), Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nathalie Pierrot, Philippe Gailly, Anna Kreis, Roberta Gualdani, and Francisco Sáez-Orellana.

Best Publications

  • Increased expression of BIN1 mediates Alzheimer genetic risk by modulating tau pathology.

    J Chapuis;F Hansmannel;M Gistelinck;A Mounier

  • Aggregated Tau activates NLRP3-ASC inflammasome exacerbating exogenously seeded and non-exogenously seeded Tau pathology in vivo.

    Ilie-Cosmin Stancu;Niels Cremers;Hannah Vanrusselt;Julien Couturier

  • Inhibitors of amyloid toxicity based on beta-sheet packing of Abeta40 and Abeta42.

    Takeshi Sato;Pascal Kienlen-Campard;Mahiuddin Ahmed;Wei Liu

  • A novel mRNA of the A4 amyloid precursor gene coding for a possibly secreted protein

    F. de Sauvage;Jean-Noël Octave

  • Transgenic expression of the shortest human tau affects its compartmentalization and its phosphorylation as in the pretangle stage of Alzheimer's disease.

    Jean-Pierre Brion;Gunter Tremp;Jean-Noël Octave

  • Intracellular amyloid-beta 1-42, but not extracellular soluble amyloid-beta peptides, induces neuronal apoptosis.

    Pascal Kienlen-Campard;Sarah Miolet;Bernadette Tasiaux;Jean-Noël Octave

  • Amyloidogenic Processing but Not Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Intracellular C-terminal Domain Production Requires a Precisely Oriented APP Dimer Assembled by Transmembrane GXXXG Motifs

    Pascal Kienlen-Campard;Bernadette Tasiaux;Joanne Van Hees;Mingli Li

  • Iron uptake and utilization by mammalian cells. I: Cellular uptake of transferrin and iron

    Jean-Noël Octave;Yves-Jacques Schneider;André Trouet;Robert R. Crichton

  • Heterotypic seeding of Tau fibrillization by pre-aggregated Abeta provides potent seeds for prion-like seeding and propagation of Tau-pathology in vivo

    Bruno Barbosa de Vasconcelos;Ilie-Cosmin Stancu;Arjan Buist;Matthew Bird

  • Intraneuronal amyloid-beta1-42 production triggered by sustained increase of cytosolic calcium concentration induces neuronal death.

    Nathalie Pierrot;Philippe Ghisdal;Anne-Sophie Caumont;Jean-Noël Octave

  • Distribution of the phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau in developing cortical neurons.

    Jean Pierre Brion;Jean Noël Octave;A M Couck

  • Lack of tau proteins rescues neuronal cell death and decreases amyloidogenic processing of APP in APP/PS1 mice.

    Karelle Leroy;Kunie Ando;Vincent Laporte;Robert Dedecker

  • Neurofibrillary tangles and tau phosphorylation.

    Jean-Pierre Brion;Brian H. Anderton;Michéle Authelet;Rejith Dayanandan

  • Templated misfolding of Tau by prion-like seeding along neuronal connections impairs neuronal network function and associated behavioral outcomes in Tau transgenic mice.

    Ilie-Cosmin Stancu;Bruno Barbosa de Vasconcelos;Laurence Ris;Peng Wang

  • Molecular identification of aspartate N-acetyltransferase and its mutation in hypoacetylaspartia

    Elsa Wiame;Donatienne Tyteca;Nathalie Pierrot;François Collard

  • Transferrin uptake by cultured rat embryo fibroblasts. The influence of temperature and incubation time, subcellular distribution and short-term kinetic studies.

    Jean-Noël Octave;Yves-Jacques Schneider;Robert Crichton;André Trouet

  • Calcium-mediated transient phosphorylation of tau and amyloid precursor protein followed by intraneuronal amyloid-beta accumulation.

    Nathalie Pierrot;Susana Ferrao Santos;Christine Feyt;Marina Morel

  • A helix-to-coil transition at the ε-cut site in the transmembrane dimer of the amyloid precursor protein is required for proteolysis

    Takeshi Sato;Tzu-chun Tang;Gabriella Reubins;Jeffrey Z. Fei

  • Transforming growth factor beta as a neuronoglial signal during peripheral nervous system response to injury.

    B. Rogister;P. Delrée;P. Leprince;D. Martin

  • Nucleotide sequence of cDNA coding for rat liver pI 6.1 esterase (ES-10), a carboxylesterase located in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum.

    Mariette Robbi;Henri Beaufay;Jean-Noël Octave

Frequent Co-Authors

André Trouet
André Trouet Université Catholique de Louvain
Yves-Jacques Schneider
Yves-Jacques Schneider Université Catholique de Louvain
Robert R. Crichton
Robert R. Crichton Université Catholique de Louvain
Stefan N. Constantinescu
Stefan N. Constantinescu Ludwig Cancer Research
Pierre J. Courtoy
Pierre J. Courtoy Université Catholique de Louvain
Steven O. Smith
Steven O. Smith Stony Brook University
Jean-Christophe Renauld
Jean-Christophe Renauld Université Catholique de Louvain
Diederik Moechars
Diederik Moechars Janssen (Belgium)
Joëlle Quetin-Leclercq
Joëlle Quetin-Leclercq Université Catholique de Louvain

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