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 …

[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 …

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) …

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) …

The link between cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease

M Sjögren, K Blennow - The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
A leading hypothesis on the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the mis-
metabolism of amyloid precursor protein. This mis-metabolism causes the 42-amino acid …

Cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease: a still poorly understood correlation

R Ricciarelli, E Canepa, B Marengo, UM Marinari… - IUBMB …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A large amount of evidence suggests a pathogenic link between cholesterol homeostasis
dysregulation and Alzheimer's disease (AD). In cell culture systems, the production of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Brain cholesterol pathology is the cause of Alzheimer's disease

AR Koudinov, NV Koudinova - Clin. Med. Health Res, 2001 - staticweb.bmj.com
Several recent reports provided important knowledge on how “inhibiting cholesterol
production in the brain might inhibit amyloid b (Ab) ABBR production, and reduce the …