Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

Animal models of neurodegenerative diseases

TM Dawson, TE Golde, C Lagier-Tourenne - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Animal models of adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases have enhanced the
understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease …

Amyloid-type protein aggregation and prion-like properties of amyloids

D Willbold, B Strodel, GF Schröder, W Hoyer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review will focus on the process of amyloid-type protein aggregation. Amyloid fibrils are
an important hallmark of protein misfolding diseases and therefore have been investigated …

Alzheimer's disease

P Scheltens, K Blennow, MMB Breteler, B De Strooper… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Although the prevalence of dementia continues to increase worldwide, incidence in the
western world might have decreased as a result of better vascular care and improved brain …

Propagation and spread of pathogenic protein assemblies in neurodegenerative diseases

M Jucker, LC Walker - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are characterized by the progressive appearance of abnormal …

α-Synuclein strains target distinct brain regions and cell types

A Lau, RWL So, HHC Lau, JC Sang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The clinical and pathological differences between synucleinopathies such as Parkinson's
disease and multiple system atrophy have been postulated to stem from unique strains of α …

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

M Goedert - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most
common human neurodegenerative diseases. AD is primarily a dementing disease, and PD …

A clinicopathological approach to the diagnosis of dementia

FM Elahi, BL Miller - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2017 - nature.com
The most definitive classification systems for dementia are based on the underlying
pathology which, in turn, is categorized largely according to the observed accumulation of …

Interactions of pathological proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

TL Spires-Jones, J Attems, DR Thal - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTD), Lewy body disease (LBD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic …