Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders

AN Brandebura, A Paumier, TS Onur… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
There is increasing appreciation that non-neuronal cells contribute to the initiation,
progression and pathology of diverse neurodegenerative disorders. This Review focuses on …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics define the natural history of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

ECB Johnson, S Bian, RU Haque, EK Carter… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology develops many years before the onset of cognitive
symptoms. Two pathological processes—aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide into …

[HTML][HTML] hdWGCNA identifies co-expression networks in high-dimensional transcriptomics data

S Morabito, F Reese, N Rahimzadeh, E Miyoshi… - Cell reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Biological systems are immensely complex, organized into a multi-scale hierarchy of
functional units based on tightly regulated interactions between distinct molecules, cells …

Exercise hormone irisin is a critical regulator of cognitive function

MR Islam, S Valaris, MF Young, EB Haley, R Luo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Identifying secreted mediators that drive the cognitive benefits of exercise holds great
promise for the treatment of cognitive decline in ageing or Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive evaluation of the 5XFAD mouse model for preclinical testing applications: a MODEL-AD study

AL Oblak, PB Lin, KP Kotredes, RS Pandey… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ability to investigate therapeutic interventions in animal models of neurodegenerative
diseases depends on extensive characterization of the model (s) being used. There are …

Molecular signatures underlying neurofibrillary tangle susceptibility in Alzheimer's disease

M Otero-Garcia, SU Mahajani, D Wakhloo, W Tang… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Tau aggregation in neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is closely associated with
neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the …

Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates new proteins in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

AP Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, J Gockley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for Alzheimer's
disease (AD),, but how these loci confer AD risk is unclear. Here, we aimed to identify loci …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic phenotyping and characterization of the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

S Forner, S Kawauchi, G Balderrama-Gutierrez… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Mouse models of human diseases are invaluable tools for studying pathogenic mechanisms
and testing interventions and therapeutics. For disorders such as Alzheimer's disease in …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in brain protein expression and disease

AP Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil, J Liu… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Most complex human traits differ by sex, but we have limited insight into the underlying
mechanisms. Here, we investigated the influence of biological sex on protein expression …