Functional vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia: mechanisms and consequences of cerebral autoregulatory dysfunction, endothelial …

P Toth, S Tarantini, A Csiszar… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Increasing evidence from epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies indicate that
age-related cerebromicrovascular dysfunction and microcirculatory damage play critical …

Homocysteine and age-associated disorders

EA Ostrakhovitch, S Tabibzadeh - Ageing research reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
There are numerous theories of aging, a process which still seems inevitable. Aging leads to
cancer and multi-systemic disorders as well as chronic diseases. Decline in age-associated …

White matter hyperintensities are a core feature of Alzheimer's disease: evidence from the dominantly inherited Alzheimer network

S Lee, F Viqar, ME Zimmerman, A Narkhede… - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are areas of increased signal on T2‐
weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that most commonly reflect small vessel …

Cerebral blood flow and autoregulation: current measurement techniques and prospects for noninvasive optical methods

S Fantini, A Sassaroli, KT Tgavalekos… - …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral autoregulation (CA) are critically important to
maintain proper brain perfusion and supply the brain with the necessary oxygen and energy …

Higher aortic stiffness is related to lower cerebral blood flow and preserved cerebrovascular reactivity in older adults

AL Jefferson, FE Cambronero, D Liu, EE Moore… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Mechanisms underlying the association between age-related arterial stiffening
and poor brain health remain elusive. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) homeostasis may be …

Prefrontal white matter pathology in air pollution exposed Mexico City young urbanites and their potential impact on neurovascular unit dysfunction and the …

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, R Reynoso-Robles… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Millions of urban children are chronically exposed to high concentrations of air pollutants, ie,
fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) and ozone, associated with increased risk for Alzheimer's …

Reduced regional cerebral blood flow relates to poorer cognition in older adults with type 2 diabetes

KJ Bangen, ML Werhane, AJ Weigand… - Frontiers in aging …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases risk for dementia, including Alzheimer's disease
(AD). Many previous studies of brain changes underlying cognitive impairment in T2DM …

Associations between amyloid β and white matter hyperintensities: a systematic review

A Roseborough, J Ramirez, SE Black… - Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction This systematic review synthesizes current evidence for associations between
cortical amyloid β, visualized on amyloid positron emission tomography imaging, and white …

Neurovascular unit dysregulation, white matter disease, and executive dysfunction: the shared triad of vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

A Levit, V Hachinski, SN Whitehead - Geroscience, 2020 - Springer
Executive dysfunction is the most important predictor for loss of independence in dementia.
As executive function involves the coordination of distributed cerebral functions, executive …

Blood will out: vascular contributions to Alzheimer's disease

S Strickland - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The fundamental pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is neuronal dysfunction leading to
cognitive impairment. The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), derived from amyloid precursor protein, is …