Recent advances in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms, clinical trials and new drug development strategies

J Zhang, Y Zhang, J Wang, Y **a, J Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) stands as the predominant form of dementia, presenting significant
and escalating global challenges. Its etiology is intricate and diverse, stemming from a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Synaptic oligomeric tau in Alzheimer's disease—A potential culprit in the spread of tau pathology through the brain

M Colom-Cadena, C Davies, S Sirisi, JE Lee… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
In Alzheimer's disease, fibrillar tau pathology accumulates and spreads through the brain
and synapses are lost. Evidence from mouse models indicates that tau spreads trans …

Amyloid-beta peptide and tau protein crosstalk in Alzheimer's disease

AR Roda, G Serra-Mir, L Montoliu-Gaya… - Neural regeneration …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that accounts for most of the 50-million
dementia cases worldwide in 2018. A large amount of evidence supports the amyloid …

Engineered extracellular vesicles with SHP2 high expression promote mitophagy for Alzheimer's disease treatment

F Xu, Y Wu, Q Yang, Y Cheng, J Xu, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a fundamental pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
However, toxicity and poor brain enrichment of existing mitophagy inducers limit their further …

Moving fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease from research tools to routine clinical diagnostics

H Zetterberg, K Blennow - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2021 - Springer
Four fluid-based biomarkers have been developed into diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) pathology: the ratio of 42 to 40 amino acid-long amyloid β, a marker of plaque …

Exercise suppresses neuroinflammation for alleviating Alzheimer's disease

M Wang, H Zhang, J Liang, J Huang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, with the characteristics of
neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) and senile plaque (SP) formation. Although great progresses …

Iron homeostasis disorder and Alzheimer's disease

Y Peng, X Chang, M Lang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Iron is an essential trace metal for almost all organisms, including human; however,
oxidative stress can easily be caused when iron is in excess, producing toxicity to the human …