Amyloid-β and tau — a toxic pas de deux in Alzheimer's disease

LM Ittner, J Götz - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Amyloid-β and tau are the two hallmark proteins in Alzheimer's disease. Although both
amyloid-β and tau have been extensively studied individually with regard to their separate …

Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

T Arendt - Acta neuropathologica, 2009 - Springer
Synaptic loss is the major neurobiological substrate of cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Synaptic failure is an early event in the pathogenesis that is clearly detectable …

Targeting p38 MAPK pathway for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

L Munoz, AJ Ammit - Neuropharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
Accumulating evidence indicates that p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) could
play more than one role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology and that patients …

Neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease: integrated molecular, physiological, anatomical, biomarker, and cognitive dimensions

J Raskin, J Cummings, J Hardy… - Current Alzheimer …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is a progressive
neurodegenerative disorder with interrelated molecular, physiological, anatomical …

[HTML][HTML] Early oligodendrocyte/myelin pathology in Alzheimer's disease mice constitutes a novel therapeutic target

MK Desai, MA Mastrangelo, DA Ryan, KL Sudol… - The American journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The detection of myelin disruptions in Alzheimer's disease (AD)–affected brain raises the
possibility that oligodendrocytes undergo pathophysiological assault over the protracted …

Axonal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease: when signaling abnormalities meet the axonal transport system

NM Kanaan, GF Pigino, ST Brady, O Lazarov… - Experimental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive, age-dependent degeneration of
neurons in the central nervous system. A large body of evidence indicates that neurons …

Structural principles of tau and the paired helical filaments of Alzheimer's disease

E Mandelkow, M Von Bergen, J Biernat… - Brain …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Tau, a major microtubule‐associated protein in brain, forms abnormal fibers in Alzheimer's
disease and several other neurodegenerative diseases. Tau is highly soluble and adopts a …

Mechanisms of axon degeneration: from development to disease

S Saxena, P Caroni - Progress in neurobiology, 2007 - Elsevier
Axon degeneration is an active, tightly controlled and versatile process of axon segment self-
destruction. Although not involving cell death, it resembles apoptosis in its logics. It involves …

Mechanisms of Aβ mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

PJ Crouch, SME Harding, AR White… - The international journal …, 2008 - Elsevier
Development of a comprehensive therapeutic treatment for the neurodegenerative
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is limited by our understanding of the underlying biochemical …

Mitochondrial dysfunction-the beginning of the end in Alzheimer's disease? Separate and synergistic modes of tau and amyloid-β toxicity

A Eckert, K Schmitt, J Götz - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2011 - Springer
The pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid plaques (aggregates
of amyloid-β (Aβ)) and neurofibrillary tangles (aggregates of tau) and is accompanied by …