[HTML][HTML] Decoding Alzheimer's disease from perturbed cerebral glucose metabolism: implications for diagnostic and therapeutic strategies

Z Chen, C Zhong - Progress in neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related devastating neurodegenerative disorder, which
severely impacts on the global economic development and healthcare system. Though AD …

[HTML][HTML] An insight into recent advances on platelet function in health and disease

PK Chaudhary, S Kim, S Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Platelets play a variety of roles in vascular biology and are best recognized as primary
hemostasis and thrombosis mediators. Platelets have a large number of receptors and …

Expression of specific inflammasome gene modules stratifies older individuals into two extreme clinical and immunological states

D Furman, J Chang, L Lartigue, CR Bolen, F Haddad… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Low-grade, chronic inflammation has been associated with many diseases of aging, but the
mechanisms responsible for producing this inflammation remain unclear. Inflammasomes …

[HTML][HTML] Immune system dysfunction in the elderly

E Fuentes, M Fuentes, M Alarcón… - Anais da Academia …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Human aging is characterized by both physical and physiological frailty that profoundly
affects the immune system. In this context aging is associated with declines in adaptive and …

[HTML][HTML] Resistin: A reappraisal

E Acquarone, F Monacelli, R Borghi, A Nencioni… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2019 - Elsevier
From a biological point of view, aging can be considered a progressive inability of an
organism to react to stress, maintain homeostasis, and survive unfavourable changes during …

[HTML][HTML] Exosomal miRNAs in central nervous system diseases: biomarkers, pathological mediators, protective factors and therapeutic agents

X **a, Y Wang, Y Huang, H Zhang, H Lu… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Exosomes are small bilipid layer-enclosed extracellular vesicles that can be found in tissues
and biological fluids. As a key cell-to-cell and distant communication mediator, exosomes …

Inflammation and schizophrenia

B Kirkpatrick, BJ Miller - Schizophrenia bulletin, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Inflammation is one of the body's first lines of defense in response to injury or infection, and
increased inflammation is found in many diseases. Acute inflammation is a nonspecific …

Alzheimer's disease as an inflammatory disease

M Bolós, JR Perea, J Avila - Biomolecular concepts, 2017 - degruyter.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by the formation of
amyloid-β plaques, aggregated and hyperphosphorylated tau protein, activated microglia …

Different brain regions are infected with fungi in Alzheimer's disease

D Pisa, R Alonso, A Rábano, I Rodal, L Carrasco - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The possibility that Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a microbial aetiology has been proposed
by several researchers. Here, we provide evidence that tissue from the central nervous …

Infection of fungi and bacteria in brain tissue from elderly persons and patients with Alzheimer's disease

R Alonso, D Pisa, AM Fernández-Fernández… - Frontiers in aging …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in elderly people. The etiology of
this disease remains a matter of intensive research in many laboratories. We have advanced …