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 …

Amyloid-β-independent regulators of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

R van der Kant, LSB Goldstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The global epidemic of Alzheimer disease (AD) is worsening, and no approved treatment
can revert or arrest progression of this disease. AD pathology is characterized by the …

Tau molecular diversity contributes to clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease

S Dujardin, C Commins, A Lathuiliere, P Beerepoot… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes unrelenting, progressive cognitive impairments, but its
course is heterogeneous, with a broad range of rates of cognitive decline. The spread of tau …

Tau: Enabler of diverse brain disorders and target of rapidly evolving therapeutic strategies

CW Chang, E Shao, L Mucke - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The microtubule-associated protein tau has been implicated in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and a range of other neurodegenerative disorders …

Aβ deposition is associated with increases in soluble and phosphorylated tau that precede a positive Tau PET in Alzheimer's disease

N Mattsson-Carlgren, E Andersson, S Janelidze… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The links between β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau in Alzheimer's disease are unclear. Cognitively
unimpaired persons with signs of Aβ pathology had increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

Tau protein disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport in Alzheimer's disease

B Eftekharzadeh, JG Daigle, LE Kapinos, A Coyne… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Tau is the major constituent of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the
mechanism underlying tau-associated neural damage remains unclear. Here, we show that …

Role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease: The prime pathological player

S Muralidar, SV Ambi, S Sekaran, D Thirumalai… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalently found tauopathy characterized by memory loss
and cognitive insufficiency. AD is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with two major …

Tau aggregates are RNA-protein assemblies that mislocalize multiple nuclear speckle components

E Lester, FK Ooi, N Bakkar, J Ayers, AL Woerman… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Tau aggregates contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal
dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although RNA promotes tau aggregation in vitro …

Immune signaling in neurodegeneration

TR Hammond, SE Marsh, B Stevens - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system progressively rob patients of
their memory, motor function, and ability to perform daily tasks. Advances in genetics and …

Mechanisms of pathogenic tau and Aβ protein spreading in Alzheimer's disease

P d 'Errico, M Meyer-Luehmann - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically defined by extracellular accumulation of amyloid-
β (Aβ) peptides generated by the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), strings of …