Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

A critical appraisal of amyloid-β-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease

F Panza, M Lozupone, G Logroscino… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Brain accumulation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is believed to be the initial event in the
Alzheimer disease (AD) process. Aβ accumulation begins 15–20 years before clinical …

Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

The amyloid-β oligomer hypothesis: beginning of the third decade

EN Cline, MA Bicca, KL Viola… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
The amyloid-β oligomer (AβO) hypothesis was introduced in 1998. It proposed that the brain
damage leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD) was instigated by soluble, ligand-like AβOs …

Practical considerations for choosing a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

JL Jankowsky, H Zheng - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2017 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is behaviorally identified by progressive memory impairment and
pathologically characterized by the triad of β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and …

Amyloid-β and tau complexity—towards improved biomarkers and targeted therapies

JC Polanco, C Li, LG Bodea… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are proteinopathies, which are characterized by the
aggregation of misfolded proteins. Although many proteins have an intrinsic propensity to …

Relationship between amyloid-β deposition and blood–brain barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

D Wang, F Chen, Z Han, Z Yin, X Ge… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Amyloid-β (Aβ) is the predominant pathologic protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The
production and deposition of Aβ are important factors affecting AD progression and …

[HTML][HTML] Melatonin regulates Aβ production/clearance balance and Aβ neurotoxicity: A potential therapeutic molecule for Alzheimer's disease

Y Li, J Zhang, J Wan, A Liu, J Sun - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with multiple
predisposing factors and complicated pathogenesis. Aβ peptide is one of the most important …

SOBA: Development and testing of a soluble oligomer binding assay for detection of amyloidogenic toxic oligomers

D Shea, E Colasurdo, A Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The formation of toxic Amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) oligomers is one of the earliest events in the
molecular pathology of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). These oligomers lead to a variety of …

Aβ-oligomers: A potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease

S Ghosh, R Ali, S Verma - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The cascade of amyloid formation relates to multiple complex events at the molecular level.
Previous research has established amyloid plaque deposition as the leading cause of …