Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

The human connectome in Alzheimer disease—relationship to biomarkers and genetics

M Yu, O Sporns, AJ Saykin - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
The pathology of Alzheimer disease (AD) damages structural and functional brain networks,
resulting in cognitive impairment. The results of recent connectomics studies have now …

Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors

SS Dominy, C Lynch, F Ermini, M Benedyk… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Porphyromonas gingivalis, the keystone pathogen in chronic periodontitis, was identified in
the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients. Toxic proteases from the bacterium called …

Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight

JW Vogel, N Corriveau-Lecavalier… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are the most common cause of dementia. Although their
underlying molecular pathologies have been identified, there is substantial heterogeneity in …

A cross-disorder connectome landscape of brain dysconnectivity

MP van den Heuvel, O Sporns - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Many human brain disorders are associated with characteristic alterations in the structural
and functional connectivity of the brain. In this article, we explore how commonalities and …

Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer's disease

JW Vogel, Y Iturria-Medina, OT Strandberg… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tau is a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease, and animal models have suggested that
tau spreads from cell to cell through neuronal connections, facilitated by β-amyloid (A β). We …

The complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

N Franzmeier, J Neitzel, A Rubinski, R Smith… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In Alzheimer's diseases (AD), tau pathology is strongly associated with cognitive decline.
Preclinical evidence suggests that tau spreads across connected neurons in an activity …

In vivo rate-determining steps of tau seed accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

G Meisl, E Hidari, K Allinson, T Rittman, SL DeVos… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Both the replication of protein aggregates and their spreading throughout the brain are
implicated in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the rates of these …