[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer disease: an update on pathobiology and treatment strategies

JM Long, DM Holtzman - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disease with a complex pathobiology. The
presence of extracellular β-amyloid deposition as neuritic plaques and intracellular …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

T Guo, D Zhang, Y Zeng, TY Huang, H Xu… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder seen in age-
dependent dementia. There is currently no effective treatment for AD, which may be …

NLRP3 inflammasome activation drives tau pathology

C Ising, C Venegas, S Zhang, H Scheiblich… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta in plaques,
aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau in neurofibrillary tangles and neuroinflammation …

Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Tau in physiology and pathology

Y Wang, E Mandelkow - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that has a role in stabilizing neuronal microtubules
and thus in promoting axonal outgrowth. Structurally, tau is a natively unfolded protein, is …

The cellular phase of Alzheimer's disease

B De Strooper, E Karran - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) posits a neuron-centric, linear cascade
initiated by Aβ and leading to dementia. This direct causality is incompatible with clinical …

Cellular and pathological functions of tau

C Parra Bravo, SA Naguib, L Gan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Tau protein is involved in various cellular processes, including having a canonical role in
binding and stabilization of microtubules in neurons. Tauopathies are neurodegenerative …

Depletion of microglia and inhibition of exosome synthesis halt tau propagation

H Asai, S Ikezu, S Tsunoda, M Medalla, J Luebke… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Accumulation of pathological tau protein is a major hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Tau
protein spreads from the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampal region early in the disease …

Clearance systems in the brain—implications for Alzheimer disease

JM Tarasoff-Conway, RO Carare, RS Osorio… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Accumulation of toxic protein aggregates—amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and
hyperphosphorylated tau tangles—is the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD) …

Roles of tau protein in health and disease

T Guo, W Noble, DP Hanger - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Tau is well established as a microtubule-associated protein in neurons. However, under
pathological conditions, aberrant assembly of tau into insoluble aggregates is accompanied …