Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges

Y Zhang, KM Wu, L Yang, Q Dong, JT Yu - Molecular Neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Background Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by
neuronal and/or glial tau-positive inclusions. Main body Clinically, tauopathies can present …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerating Alzheimer's therapeutic development: the past and future of clinical trials

AL Boxer, R Sperling - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) research has entered a new era with the recent positive phase 3
clinical trials of the anti-Aβ antibodies lecanemab and donanemab. Why did it take 30 years …

Parkinson's disease is predominantly a genetic disease

SY Lim, C Klein - Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The discovery of a pathogenic variant in the alpha-synuclein (SNCA) gene in the Contursi
kindred in 1997 indisputably confirmed a genetic cause in a subset of Parkinson's disease …

Evolving concepts in progressive supranuclear palsy and other 4-repeat tauopathies

M Stamelou, G Respondek, N Giagkou… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Tauopathies are classified according to whether tau deposits predominantly contain tau
isoforms with three or four repeats of the microtubule-binding domain. Those in which four …

Multiancestry analysis of the HLA locus in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases uncovers a shared adaptive immune response mediated by HLA-DRB1*04 subtypes

Y Le Guen, G Luo, A Ambati, V Damotte… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Across multiancestry groups, we analyzed Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) associations in
over 176,000 individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Different pieces of the same puzzle: a multifaceted perspective on the complex biological basis of Parkinson's disease

AC Müller-Nedebock, MCJ Dekker, MJ Farrer… - npj Parkinson's …, 2023 - nature.com
The biological basis of the neurodegenerative movement disorder, Parkinson's disease
(PD), is still unclear despite it being 'discovered'over 200 years ago in Western Medicine …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling tau: One protein, many therapeutic approaches

C Lane-Donovan, AL Boxer - Neurotherapeutics, 2024 - Elsevier
The tauopathies encompass over 20 adult neurodegenerative diseases and are
characterized by the dysfunction and accumulation of insoluble tau protein. Among them …

Genetic, transcriptomic, histological, and biochemical analysis of progressive supranuclear palsy implicates glial activation and novel risk genes

K Farrell, J Humphrey, T Chang, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare Parkinsonian disorder, is characterized by
problems with movement, balance, and cognition. PSP differs from Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Genetic forms of tauopathies: Inherited causes and implications of Alzheimer's disease-like TAU pathology in primary and secondary tauopathies

F Langerscheidt, T Wied, MA Al Kabbani… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Tauopathies are a heterogeneous group of neurologic diseases characterized by
pathological axodendritic distribution, ectopic expression, and/or phosphorylation and …

Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy

H Wang, TS Chang, BA Dombroski, PL Cheng… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Background Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare neurodegenerative disease
characterized by the accumulation of aggregated tau proteins in astrocytes, neurons, and …