Mechanisms of autophagy–lysosome dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases

RA Nixon, DC Rubinsztein - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Autophagy is a lysosome-based degradative process used to recycle obsolete cellular
constituents and eliminate damaged organelles and aggregate-prone proteins. Their …

Hallmarks of brain aging: adaptive and pathological modification by metabolic states

MP Mattson, TV Arumugam - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
During aging, the cellular milieu of the brain exhibits tell-tale signs of compromised
bioenergetics, impaired adaptive neuroplasticity and resilience, aberrant neuronal network …

Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer's disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques

JH Lee, DS Yang, CN Goulbourne, E Im… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Autophagy is markedly impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we reveal unique
autophagy dysregulation within neurons in five AD mouse models in vivo and identify its …

Reactive astrocytes acquire neuroprotective as well as deleterious signatures in response to Tau and Aß pathology

Z Jiwaji, SS Tiwari, RX Avilés-Reyes, M Hooley… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) alters astrocytes, but the effect of Aß and Tau pathology is poorly
understood. TRAP-seq translatome analysis of astrocytes in APP/PS1 ß-amyloidopathy and …

TREM2 maintains microglial metabolic fitness in Alzheimer's disease

TK Ulland, WM Song, SCC Huang, JD Ulrich… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Elevated risk of develo** Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with hypomorphic
variants of TREM2, a surface receptor required for microglial responses to …

Pharmacological modulation of autophagy: therapeutic potential and persisting obstacles

L Galluzzi, JM Bravo-San Pedro, B Levine… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
Autophagy is central to the maintenance of organismal homeostasis in both physiological
and pathological situations. Accordingly, alterations in autophagy have been linked to …

Compromised autophagy and neurodegenerative diseases

FM Menzies, A Fleming, DC Rubinsztein - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases that afflict humans are associated with the
intracytoplasmic deposition of aggregate-prone proteins in neurons and with mitochondrial …

The role of autophagy in neurodegenerative disease

RA Nixon - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative process used to recycle obsolete cellular constituents
and eliminate damaged organelles and protein aggregates. These substrates reach …

A genetic cause of Alzheimer disease: mechanistic insights from Down syndrome

FK Wiseman, T Al-Janabi, J Hardy… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Down syndrome, which arises in individuals carrying an extra copy of chromosome 21, is
associated with a greatly increased risk of early-onset Alzheimer disease. It is thought that …

Gut dysbiosis, defective autophagy and altered immune responses in neurodegenerative diseases: Tales of a vicious cycle

SB Chidambaram, MM Essa, AG Rathipriya… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The human microbiota comprises trillions of symbiotic microorganisms and is involved in
regulating gastrointestinal (GI), immune, nervous system and metabolic homeostasis …