Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease

MT Heneka, WM van der Flier, F Jessen… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Increasing evidence points to a pivotal role of immune processes in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer disease, which is the most prevalent neurodegenerative and dementia-causing …

Is Alzheimer disease a disease?

AD Korczyn, LT Grinberg - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2024 - nature.com
Dementia, a prevalent condition among older individuals, has profound societal
implications. Extensive research has resulted in no cure for what is perceived as the most …

New insights into atypical Alzheimer's disease in the era of biomarkers

J Graff-Radford, KXX Yong, LG Apostolova… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Most patients with Alzheimer's disease present with amnestic problems; however, a
substantial proportion, over-represented in young-onset cases, have atypical phenotypes …

CryoET of β-amyloid and tau within postmortem Alzheimer's disease brain

MAG Gilbert, N Fatima, J Jenkins, TJ O'Sullivan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
A defining pathological feature of most neurodegenerative diseases is the assembly of
proteins into amyloid that form disease-specific structures. In Alzheimer's disease, this is …

[HTML][HTML] Transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease: an integrative analysis

R Sanchez-Varo, M Mejias-Ortega… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) constitutes the most prominent form of dementia among elderly
individuals worldwide. Disease modeling using murine transgenic mice was first initiated …

Targeting protein kinases for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Recent progress and future perspectives

Z Li, B Yin, S Zhang, Z Lan, L Zhang - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious neurodegenerative disease characterized by memory
impairment, mental retardation, impaired motor balance, loss of self-care and even death …

Aβ plaques

LC Walker - Free neuropathology, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aβ plaques are one of the two lesions in the brain that define the neuropathological
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Plaques are highly diverse structures; many of them …

Galectin-3 is elevated in CSF and is associated with Aβ deposits and tau aggregates in brain tissue in Alzheimer's disease

A Boza-Serrano, A Vrillon, K Minta, A Paulus… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is a beta-galactosidase binding protein involved in microglial
activation in the central nervous system (CNS). We previously demonstrated the crucial …

Autophagy–lysosomal-associated neuronal death in neurodegenerative disease

RA Nixon - Acta Neuropathologica, 2024 - Springer
Autophagy, the major lysosomal pathway for degrading damaged or obsolete constituents,
protects neurons by eliminating toxic organelles and peptides, restoring nutrient and energy …

Amyloid, tau and metabolic PET correlates of cognition in early and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

JA Tanner, L Iaccarino, L Edwards, BM Asken… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Early-onset (age< 65) Alzheimer's disease is associated with greater non-amnestic
cognitive symptoms and neuropathological burden than late-onset disease. It is not fully …