The link between altered cholesterol metabolism and Alzheimer's disease

P Gamba, G Testa, B Sottero, S Gargiulo… - Annals of the New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is characterized by the
progressive loss of neurons and synapses, and by extracellular deposits of amyloid‐β (Aβ) …

Cholesterol and pathological processes in Alzheimer's disease

K Yanagisawa - Journal of neuroscience research, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Fundamental questions on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are how nontoxic,
soluble amyloid β‐protein (Aβ) is converted to its toxic, aggregated form and how functional …

[HTML][HTML] Cholesterol and the biology of Alzheimer's disease

B Wolozin - Neuron, 2004 - cell.com
Recent results implicating cholesterol metabolism in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) bring cholesterol to the forefront of AD research. Research from genetics …

Potential mechanisms linking cholesterol to Alzheimer's disease-like pathology in rabbit brain, hippocampal organotypic slices, and skeletal muscle

O Ghribi - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2008 - content.iospress.com
Epidemiological, animal, and cellular studies suggest that abnormalities in cholesterol
metabolism are important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), potentially by …

Use of in Vivo Models to Study the Role of Cholesterol in the Etiology of Alzheimer's Disease

M Burns, K Duff - Neurochemical research, 2003 - Springer
Cholesterol has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, both through
intracellular effects, and through an extracellular effect due to its physical interaction with …

Cholesterol: from heart attacks to Alzheimer's disease

RL Raffaï, KH Weisgraber - Journal of lipid research, 2003 - ASBMB
The accumulation and aggregation of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) in the brain are important
contributing factors to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Consequently, blocking the generation of …

The role of cholesterol in pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease: dual metabolic interaction between amyloid β-protein and cholesterol

M Michikawa - Molecular neurobiology, 2003 - Springer
The implication that cholesterol plays an essential role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) is based on the 1993 finding that the presence of apolipoprotein E (apoE) …

Cholesterol dysmetabolism in Alzheimer's disease: a starring role for astrocytes?

E Staurenghi, S Giannelli, G Testa, B Sottero… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the impairment of cholesterol metabolism in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been intensively investigated, and it has been recognized to …

Cholesterol, oxidative stress, and Alzheimer's disease: expanding the horizons of pathogenesis

MA Pappolla, MA Smith, T Bryant-Thomas… - Free Radical Biology …, 2002 - Elsevier
Recent epidemiological, clinical, and experimental data suggest that cholesterol may play a
role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have recently shown that cholesterolemia has a …

Cholesterol in Alzheimer's disease and tauopathy

M Burns, K Duff - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Cholesterol has been implicated in the pathogenesis of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and in the formation of neurofibrillary pathology in Niemann‐Pick disease …