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 …

[HTML][HTML] Past, present and future of therapeutic strategies against amyloid-β peptides in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review

D Jeremic, L Jiménez-Díaz, JD Navarro-López - Ageing research reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in ageing,
affecting around 46 million people worldwide but few treatments are currently available. The …

[HTML][HTML] Lecanemab in early Alzheimer's disease

CH Van Dyck, CJ Swanson, P Aisen… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The accumulation of soluble and insoluble aggregated amyloid-beta (Aβ) may
initiate or potentiate pathologic processes in Alzheimer's disease. Lecanemab, a humanized …

Diagnostic accuracy of a plasma phosphorylated tau 217 immunoassay for Alzheimer disease pathology

NJ Ashton, WS Brum, G Di Molfetta, AL Benedet… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Phosphorylated tau (p-tau) is a specific blood biomarker for Alzheimer disease
(AD) pathology, with p-tau217 considered to have the most utility. However, availability of p …

Amyloid beta in aging and Alzheimer's disease

U Sehar, P Rawat, AP Reddy, J Kopel… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD), is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects behavior,
thinking, learning, and memory in elderly individuals. AD occurs in two forms, early onset …

Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition

TCT Michaels, D Qian, A Šarić, M Vendruscolo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of amyloid fibrils is a general class of protein self-assembly behaviour, which
is associated with both functional biology and the development of a number of disorders …

Anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies are transformative treatments that redefine Alzheimer's disease therapeutics

J Cummings - Drugs, 2023 - Springer
Two anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (MABs)—lecanemab (Leqembi®) and
aducanumab (Aduhelm®)—have been approved in the USA for the treatment of Alzheimer's …

Clinical applications of stem cell-derived exosomes

F Tan, X Li, Z Wang, J Li, K Shahzad… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Although stem cell-based therapy has demonstrated considerable potential to manage
certain diseases more successfully than conventional surgery, it nevertheless comes with …

Mitophagy in Alzheimer's disease: Molecular defects and therapeutic approaches

A Mary, F Eysert, F Checler, M Chami - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial dysfunctions are central players in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In addition,
impairments in mitophagy, the process of selective mitochondrial degradation by autophagy …

[HTML][HTML] Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease

JA Trejo-Lopez, AT Yachnis, S Prokop - Neurotherapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
The key pathological hallmarks—extracellular plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary
tangles (NFT)—described by Alois Alzheimer in his seminal 1907 article are still central to …