Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Molecular and metabolic heterogeneity of astrocytes and microglia

P Hasel, WH Aisenberg, FC Bennett, SA Liddelow - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Astrocytes and microglia are central players in a myriad of processes in the healthy and
diseased brain, ranging from metabolism to immunity. The crosstalk between these two cell …

CD98hc is a target for brain delivery of biotherapeutics

KS Chew, RC Wells, A Moshkforoush, D Chan… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain exposure of systemically administered biotherapeutics is highly restricted by the blood-
brain barrier (BBB). Here, we report the engineering and characterization of a BBB transport …

Targeting synapse function and loss for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

B Dejanovic, M Sheng, JE Hanson - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Synapse dysfunction and loss are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases that correlate
with cognitive decline. However, the mechanisms and therapeutic strategies to prevent or …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics in patients with Alzheimer's disease reveals five molecular subtypes with distinct genetic risk profiles

BM Tijms, EM Vromen, O Mjaavatten, H Holstege… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is heterogenous at the molecular level. Understanding this
heterogeneity is critical for AD drug development. Here we define AD molecular subtypes …

Receptor-mediated drug delivery of bispecific therapeutic antibodies through the blood-brain barrier

WM Pardridge - Frontiers in drug delivery, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Therapeutic antibody drug development is a rapidly growing sector of the pharmaceutical
industry. However, antibody drug development for the brain is a technical challenge, and …

Alzheimer's targeted treatments: focus on amyloid and inflammation

T Iwatsubo, MC Irizarry, JW Lewcock… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia that is now threatening the lives of
billions of elderly people on the globe, and recent progress in the elucidation of the …

Immune Activation in Alzheimer Disease

A Mary, R Mancuso, MT Heneka - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, and with no
efficient curative treatment available, its medical, social, and economic burdens are …

[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's disease and neuroinflammation: will new drugs in clinical trials pave the way to a multi-target therapy?

D Melchiorri, S Merlo, B Micallef, JJ Borg… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Despite extensive research, no disease-modifying therapeutic option, able to prevent, cure
or halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease [AD], is currently available. AD, a devastating …

Biomimetic Nanovesicles as a Dual Gene Delivery System for the Synergistic Gene Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease

S Jiang, G Cai, Z Yang, H Shi, H Zeng, Q Ye, Z Hu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The association between dysfunctional microglia and amyloid-β (Aβ) is a fundamental
pathological event and increases the speed of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Additionally, the …