The impact of systemic inflammation on Alzheimer's disease pathology

J **e, L Van Hoecke, RE Vandenbroucke - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating age-related neurodegenerative disorder with an
alarming increasing prevalence. Except for the recently FDA-approved Aducanumab of …

Oligodendrocyte death and myelin loss in the cuprizone model: an updated overview of the intrinsic and extrinsic causes of cuprizone demyelination

M Zirngibl, P Assinck, A Sizov, AV Caprariello… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background The dietary consumption of cuprizone–a copper chelator–has long been known
to induce demyelination of specific brain structures and is widely used as model of multiple …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics in patients with Alzheimer's disease reveals five molecular subtypes with distinct genetic risk profiles

BM Tijms, EM Vromen, O Mjaavatten, H Holstege… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is heterogenous at the molecular level. Understanding this
heterogeneity is critical for AD drug development. Here we define AD molecular subtypes …

Emerging roles for CNS fibroblasts in health, injury and disease

CE Dorrier, HE Jones, L Pintarić… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent transcriptomic, histological and functional studies have begun to shine light on the
fibroblasts present in the meninges, choroid plexus and perivascular spaces of the brain and …

Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fluid production

L Pellegrini, C Bonfio, J Chadwick, F Begum, M Skehel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The choroid plexus is a secretory epithelial tissue of the central nervous
system (CNS) responsible for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production and functions as a barrier …

Macrophages at CNS interfaces: ontogeny and function in health and disease

K Kierdorf, T Masuda, MJC Jordão… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The segregation and limited regenerative capacity of the CNS necessitate a specialized and
tightly regulated resident immune system that continuously guards the CNS against invading …

Autophagy inhibition promotes SNCA/alpha-synuclein release and transfer via extracellular vesicles with a hybrid autophagosome-exosome-like phenotype

G Minakaki, S Menges, A Kittel, E Emmanouilidou… - Autophagy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The autophagy-lysosome pathway (ALP) regulates intracellular homeostasis of the cytosolic
protein SNCA/alpha-synuclein and is impaired in synucleinopathies, including Parkinson …

Fluid and ion transfer across the blood–brain and blood–cerebrospinal fluid barriers; a comparative account of mechanisms and roles

SB Hladky, MA Barrand - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2016 - Springer
The two major interfaces separating brain and blood have different primary roles. The
choroid plexuses secrete cerebrospinal fluid into the ventricles, accounting for most net fluid …

Elimination of substances from the brain parenchyma: efflux via perivascular pathways and via the blood–brain barrier

SB Hladky, MA Barrand - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2018 - Springer
This review considers efflux of substances from brain parenchyma quantified as values of
clearances (CL, stated in µL g− 1 min− 1). Total clearance of a substance is the sum of …

Structure and junctional complexes of endothelial, epithelial and glial brain barriers

M Castro Dias, JA Mapunda, M Vladymyrov… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The homeostasis of the central nervous system (CNS) is ensured by the endothelial,
epithelial, mesothelial and glial brain barriers, which strictly control the passage of …