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 …

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) …

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 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 …

Cholesterol and amyloid β fibrillogenesis

K Yanagisawa - Alzheimer's Disease: Cellular and Molecular Aspects of …, 2005 - Springer
Evidence is accumulating to suggest that cholesterol is a potent risk factor for the
development of Alzheimer's disease. An increase in cholesterol level in neuronal …

[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 …

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 …

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 as a causative factor in Alzheimer's disease: a debatable hypothesis

WG Wood, L Li, WE Müller… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
High serum/plasma cholesterol levels have been suggested as a risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Some reports, mostly retrospective epidemiological studies, have observed a …

Cholesterol paradox: is high total or low HDL cholesterol level a risk for Alzheimer's disease?

M Michikawa - Journal of neuroscience research, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Cholesterol is an essential component of membranes for maintaining their structure and
functions. The discovery that possession of apolipoprotein E (apoE), allele ϵ4 is a strong …