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 …

The physiological roles of tau and Aβ: implications for Alzheimer's disease pathology and therapeutics

SA Kent, TL Spires-Jones, CS Durrant - Acta neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Tau and amyloid beta (Aβ) are the prime suspects for driving pathology in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and, as such, have become the focus of therapeutic development. Recent …

Stress granules and neurodegeneration

B Wolozin, P Ivanov - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances suggest that the response of RNA metabolism to stress has an important
role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly amyotrophic lateral …

Neuronal cell death

M Fricker, AM Tolkovsky, V Borutaite… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Neuronal cell death occurs extensively during development and pathology, where it is
especially important because of the limited capacity of adult neurons to proliferate or be …

[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology in the retina

BP Gaire, Y Koronyo, DT Fuchs, H Shi… - Progress in retinal and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The retina is an emerging CNS target for potential noninvasive diagnosis and tracking of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Studies have identified the pathological hallmarks of AD …

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 …

Roles of tau protein in health and disease

T Guo, W Noble, DP Hanger - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Tau is well established as a microtubule-associated protein in neurons. However, under
pathological conditions, aberrant assembly of tau into insoluble aggregates is accompanied …

Untangling the association of amyloid-β and tau with synaptic and axonal loss in Alzheimer's disease

JB Pereira, S Janelidze, R Ossenkoppele… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
It is currently unclear how amyloid-β and tau deposition are linked to changes in synaptic
function and axonal structure over the course of Alzheimer's disease. Here, we assessed …

Changes in the synaptic proteome in tauopathy and rescue of tau-induced synapse loss by C1q antibodies

B Dejanovic, MA Huntley, A De Mazière, WJ Meilandt… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Synapse loss and Tau pathology are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other
tauopathies, but how Tau pathology causes synapse loss is unclear. We used unbiased …

Tau in physiology and pathology

Y Wang, E Mandelkow - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that has a role in stabilizing neuronal microtubules
and thus in promoting axonal outgrowth. Structurally, tau is a natively unfolded protein, is …