Tau depletion prevents progressive blood-brain barrier damage in a mouse model of tauopathy

LJ Blair, HD Frauen, B Zhang, BA Nordhues… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2015 - Springer
Introduction The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is damaged in tauopathies, including progressive
supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is thought to contribute to …

Soluble pathogenic tau enters brain vascular endothelial cells and drives cellular senescence and brain microvascular dysfunction in a mouse model of tauopathy

SA Hussong, AQ Banh, CE Van Skike… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vascular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) may constitute a therapeutically
addressable biological pathway underlying dementia. We previously demonstrated that …

Tau induces blood vessel abnormalities and angiogenesis-related gene expression in P301L transgenic mice and human Alzheimer's disease

RE Bennett, AB Robbins, M Hu, X Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Mixed pathology, with both Alzheimer's disease and vascular abnormalities, is the most
common cause of clinical dementia in the elderly. While usually thought to be concurrent …

Trafficking of immune cells across the blood-brain barrier is modulated by neurofibrillary pathology in tauopathies

P Majerova, A Michalicova, M Cente, J Hanes, J Vegh… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Tauopathies represent a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders
characterized by abnormal deposition of the hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated …

Impact of tau on neurovascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease

E Canepa, S Fossati - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the most prevalent
cause of dementia. The main cerebral histological hallmarks are represented by …

Tau protein and its role in blood–brain barrier dysfunction

A Michalicova, P Majerova, A Kovac - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) plays a crucial role in maintaining the specialized
microenvironment of the central nervous system (CNS). In aging, the stability of the BBB …

Tau mediates synergistic influence of vascular risk and Aβ on cognitive decline

WYW Yau, Z Shirzadi, HS Yang, AP Ikoba… - Annals of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Elevated vascular risk and beta‐amyloid (Aβ) burden have been synergistically
associated with cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD), although the …

Cerebrovascular senescence is associated with tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

AG Bryant, M Hu, BC Carlyle, SE Arnold… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is associated with neuropathological changes, including
aggregation of tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and amyloid-beta plaques. Mounting …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral microvascular accumulation of tau oligomers in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies

DL Castillo-Carranza, AN Nilson, CE Van Skike… - Aging and …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The importance of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID)
associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative diseases is …

Cerebrovascular disease promotes tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

KK Laing, S Simoes, GP Baena-Caldas… - Brain …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Small vessel cerebrovascular disease, visualized as white matter hyperintensities on T2-
weighted magnetic resonance imaging, contributes to the clinical presentation of …