Network abnormalities and interneuron dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

JJ Palop, L Mucke - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016‏ - nature.com
The function of neural circuits and networks can be controlled, in part, by modulating the
synchrony of their components' activities. Network hypersynchrony and altered oscillatory …

Neuroprosthetics: from sensorimotor to cognitive disorders

A Gupta, N Vardalakis, FB Wagner - Communications biology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Neuroprosthetics is a multidisciplinary field at the interface between neurosciences and
biomedical engineering, which aims at replacing or modulating parts of the nervous system …

Dendritic tau in Alzheimer's disease

A Ittner, LM Ittner - Neuron, 2018‏ - cell.com
The microtubule-associated protein tau and amyloid-β (Aβ) are key players in Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Aβ and tau are linked in a molecular pathway at the post-synapse with tau …

[HTML][HTML] Involvement of p38 MAPK in synaptic function and dysfunction

C Falcicchia, F Tozzi, O Arancio, DM Watterson… - International journal of …, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Many studies have revealed a central role of p38 MAPK in neuronal plasticity and the
regulation of long-term changes in synaptic efficacy, such as long-term potentiation (LTP) …

Functions of p38 MAP kinases in the central nervous system

PR Asih, E Prikas, K Stefanoska, ARP Tan… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases are a central component in signaling networks in a
multitude of mammalian cell types. This review covers recent advances on specific functions …

Site-specific phosphorylation of tau inhibits amyloid-β toxicity in Alzheimer's mice

A Ittner, SW Chua, J Bertz, A Volkerling… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
Amyloid-β (Aβ) toxicity in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered to be mediated by
phosphorylated tau protein. In contrast, we found that, at least in early disease, site-specific …

Tau exacerbates excitotoxic brain damage in an animal model of stroke

M Bi, A Gladbach, J Van Eersel, A Ittner… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Neuronal excitotoxicity induced by aberrant excitation of glutamatergic receptors contributes
to brain damage in stroke. Here we show that tau-deficient (tau−/−) mice are profoundly …

Leveraging preclinical models for the development of Alzheimer disease therapeutics

K Scearce-Levie, PE Sanchez… - Nature reviews drug …, 2020‏ - nature.com
A large number of mouse models have been engineered, characterized and used to
advance biomedical research in Alzheimer disease (AD). Early models simply damaged the …

Neuronal network excitability in Alzheimer's disease: the puzzle of similar versus divergent roles of amyloid β and tau

SF Kazim, JH Seo, R Bianchi, CS Larson, A Sharma… - Eneuro, 2021‏ - eneuro.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder that commonly
causes dementia in the elderly. Recent evidence indicates that network abnormalities …

Chemical knockdown of phosphorylated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) as a novel approach for the treatment of Alzheimer′ s disease

SH Son, NR Lee, MS Gee, CW Song, SJ Lee… - ACS Central …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) provides unique advantages over gene knockdown in
that it can induce selective degradation of disease-associated proteins attributed to …