The clinical promise of biomarkers of synapse damage or loss in Alzheimer's disease

M Colom-Cadena, T Spires-Jones, H Zetterberg… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Synapse damage and loss are fundamental to the pathophysiology of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and lead to reduced cognitive function. The goal of this review is to …

A mechanistic hypothesis for the impairment of synaptic plasticity by soluble Aβ oligomers from Alzheimer's brain

S Li, DJ Selkoe - Journal of neurochemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is increasingly accepted that early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease results in
considerable part from synaptic dysfunction caused by the accumulation of a range of …

Deciphering cell–cell communication at single-cell resolution for spatial transcriptomics with subgraph-based graph attention network

W Yang, P Wang, S Xu, T Wang, M Luo, Y Cai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The inference of cell–cell communication (CCC) is crucial for a better understanding of
complex cellular dynamics and regulatory mechanisms in biological systems. However …

Synaptic impairment in Alzheimer's disease: a dysregulated symphony

S Forner, D Baglietto-Vargas, AC Martini… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by memory loss, cognitive decline, and
devastating neurodegeneration, not only as a result of the extracellular accumulation of beta …

[HTML][HTML] Melatonin regulates Aβ production/clearance balance and Aβ neurotoxicity: A potential therapeutic molecule for Alzheimer's disease

Y Li, J Zhang, J Wan, A Liu, J Sun - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with multiple
predisposing factors and complicated pathogenesis. Aβ peptide is one of the most important …

Reversal of synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models by targeting mGluR5 to prevent synaptic tagging by C1Q

J Spurrier, LS Nicholson, XT Fang, AJ Stoner… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Microglia-mediated synaptic loss contributes to the development of cognitive impairments in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the basis for this immune-mediated attack on synapses …

The toxicity and polymorphism of β-amyloid oligomers

Y Huang, R Liu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
It is widely accepted that β-amyloid oligomers (Aβos) play a key role in the progression of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) by inducing neuron damage and cognitive impairment, but Aβos …

Noncanonical metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 signaling in Alzheimer's disease

KS Abd-Elrahman, SSG Ferguson - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) is ubiquitously expressed in brain regions
responsible for memory and learning. It plays a key role in modulating rapid changes in …

Amyloid β oligomers (AβOs) in Alzheimer's disease

B Mroczko, M Groblewska, A Litman-Zawadzka… - Journal of Neural …, 2018 - Springer
The causative role of amyloid β 1–42 (Aβ42) aggregation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) has been under debate for over 25 years. Primarily, scientific efforts have …

Aβ oligomers induce pathophysiological mGluR5 signaling in Alzheimer's disease model mice in a sex-selective manner

KS Abd-Elrahman, A Albaker, JM de Souza… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The prevalence, presentation, and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) differ between
men and women, although β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition is a pathological hallmark of AD in …