[HTML][HTML] β-Amyloid peptides and amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease

GK Gouras, TT Olsson, O Hansson - Neurotherapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
Many lines of evidence support that β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides play an important role in
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia. But despite much effort the …

The aging brain

BA Yankner, T Lu, P Loerch - Annu. Rev. Pathol. Mech. Dis., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Aging is accompanied by cognitive decline in a major segment of the population and is the
primary risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and other prevalent neurodegenerative disorders …

Intraneuronal β-amyloid accumulation and synapse pathology in Alzheimer's disease

GK Gouras, D Tampellini, RH Takahashi… - Acta …, 2010 - Springer
The aberrant accumulation of aggregated β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) as plaques is a hallmark
of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and reduction of Aβ has become a leading …

Synaptic changes in Alzheimer's disease and its models

J Pozueta, R Lefort, ML Shelanski - Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a highly prevalent neurodegenerative disorder characterized by
a progressive loss of cognition and the presence of two hallmark lesions, senile plaques …

The role of metallobiology and amyloid‐β peptides in Alzheimer's disease

BR Roberts, TM Ryan, AI Bush… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
J. Neurochem.(2012) 120 (Suppl. 1), 149–166. Abstract The biggest risk factor for
Alzheimer's disease is the process of ageing, but the mechanisms that lead to the …

Role of amyloid-β and tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease: confuting the amyloid cascade

W Gulisano, D Maugeri, MA Baltrons… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
The “Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis” has dominated the Alzheimer's disease (AD) field in the
last 25 years. It posits that the increase of amyloid-ß (Aß) is the key event in AD that triggers …

Accumulated amyloid-β peptide and hyperphosphorylated tau protein: relationship and links in Alzheimer's disease

HC Huang, ZF Jiang - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2009 - content.iospress.com
The neuropathology associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the
presence of extracellularly neuritic plaques, intracellularly neurofibrillary tangles and the …

Protein folding and aggregation into amyloid: the interference by natural phenolic compounds

M Stefani, S Rigacci - International journal of molecular sciences, 2013 - mdpi.com
Amyloid aggregation is a hallmark of several degenerative diseases affecting the brain or
peripheral tissues, whose intermediates (oligomers, protofibrils) and final mature fibrils …

LTP and memory impairment caused by extracellular Aβ and Tau oligomers is APP-dependent

D Puzzo, R Piacentini, M Fa, W Gulisano, DD Li Puma… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The concurrent application of subtoxic doses of soluble oligomeric forms of human amyloid-
beta (oAβ) and Tau (oTau) proteins impairs memory and its electrophysiological surrogate …

Activation of Ras-ERK signaling and GSK-3 by amyloid precursor protein and amyloid beta facilitates neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

L Kirouac, AJ Rajic, DH Cribbs, J Padmanabhan - eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
It is widely accepted that amyloid β (Aβ) generated from amyloid precursor protein (APP)
oligomerizes and fibrillizes to form neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet little is …