The amyloid hypothesis in Alzheimer disease: new insights from new therapeutics

E Karran, B De Strooper - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Many drugs that target amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease (AD) have failed to demonstrate
clinical efficacy. However, four anti-Aβ antibodies have been shown to mediate the removal …

Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup

CR Jack Jr, JS Andrews, TG Beach… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association convened three
separate work groups in 2011 and single work groups in 2012 and 2018 to create …

Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer's disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

CJ Mummery, A Börjesson-Hanson, DJ Blackburn… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tau plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology, and accumulating
evidence suggests that lowering tau may reduce this pathology. We sought to inhibit MAPT …

Amyloid and tau PET-positive cognitively unimpaired individuals are at high risk for future cognitive decline

R Ossenkoppele, A Pichet Binette, C Groot, R Smith… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
A major unanswered question in the dementia field is whether cognitively unimpaired
individuals who harbor both Alzheimer's disease neuropathological hallmarks (that is …

Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

B Bellaver, G Povala, PCL Ferreira, JP Ferrari-Souza… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
An unresolved question for the understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology
is why a significant percentage of amyloid-β (Aβ)-positive cognitively unimpaired (CU) …

The amyloid-β pathway in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, J Hardy, K Blennow, C Chen, G Perry… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in molecular medicine have positioned the amyloid-β (Aβ) pathway at the
center of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. While the detailed molecular …

Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the International Working Group

B Dubois, N Villain, GB Frisoni, GD Rabinovici… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary In 2018, the US National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association
proposed a purely biological definition of Alzheimer's disease that relies on biomarkers …

Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges

Y Zhang, KM Wu, L Yang, Q Dong, JT Yu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Background Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by
neuronal and/or glial tau-positive inclusions. Main body Clinically, tauopathies can present …

Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer's disease

MA Busche, BT Hyman - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) present with both extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)
plaques and intracellular tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. For many years …