Blood-brain barrier: from physiology to disease and back

MD Sweeney, Z Zhao, A Montagne… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic plasma components, blood cells, and
pathogens from entering the brain. At the same time, the BBB regulates transport of …

Disease-associated microglia: a universal immune sensor of neurodegeneration

A Deczkowska, H Keren-Shaul, A Weiner, M Colonna… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
A major challenge in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and brain aging is to identify
the body's intrinsic mechanism that could sense the central nervous system (CNS) damage …

The major risk factors for Alzheimer's disease: age, sex, and genes modulate the microglia response to Aβ plaques

CS Frigerio, L Wolfs, N Fattorelli, N Thrupp, I Voytyuk… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Gene expression profiles of more than 10,000 individual microglial cells isolated from cortex
and hippocampus of male and female App NL-GF mice over time demonstrate that …

Association of lifestyle and genetic risk with incidence of dementia

I Lourida, E Hannon, TJ Littlejohns, KM Langa… - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Genetic factors increase risk of dementia, but the extent to which this can be
offset by lifestyle factors is unknown. Objective To investigate whether a healthy lifestyle is …

Microglia require CD4 T cells to complete the fetal-to-adult transition

E Pasciuto, OT Burton, CP Roca, V Lagou, WD Rajan… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The brain is a site of relative immune privilege. Although CD4 T cells have been reported in
the central nervous system, their presence in the healthy brain remains controversial, and …

Widespread occurrence of the droplet state of proteins in the human proteome

M Hardenberg, A Horvath, V Ambrus… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
A wide range of proteins have been reported to condensate into a dense liquid phase,
forming a reversible droplet state. Failure in the control of the droplet state can lead to the …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis: Therapeutic potential and future perspectives

Z Zhang, X Yang, YQ Song, J Tu - Ageing research reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease in the elderly and the
most common cause of human dementia. AD is characterized by accumulation of abnormal …

The complexity of Alzheimer's disease: an evolving puzzle

C Ferrari, S Sorbi - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The history of Alzheimer's disease (AD) started in 1907, but we needed to wait until the end
of the century to identify the components of pathological hallmarks and genetic subtypes and …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of the Alzheimer's disease human brain transcriptome and functional dissection in mouse models

YW Wan, R Al-Ouran, CG Mangleburg, TM Perumal… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
We present a consensus atlas of the human brain transcriptome in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), based on meta-analysis of differential gene expression in 2,114 postmortem samples …

Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society

B Winblad, P Amouyel, S Andrieu, C Ballard… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, and
because the primary risk factor for AD is old age, the prevalence of the disease is increasing …