Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer's disease

MA Busche, BT Hyman - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) present with both extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)
plaques and intracellular tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. For many years …

Microglia in Alzheimer's disease at single-cell level. Are there common patterns in humans and mice?

Y Chen, M Colonna - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2021 - rupress.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular aggregates of amyloid β peptides,
intraneuronal tau aggregates, and neuronal death. This pathology triggers activation of …

Mechanisms and pathology of protein misfolding and aggregation

N Louros, J Schymkowitz, F Rousseau - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in machine learning-based protein structure prediction, we are still far
from fully understanding how proteins fold into their native conformation. The conventional …

Gut microbiota and dysbiosis in Alzheimer's disease: implications for pathogenesis and treatment

S Liu, J Gao, M Zhu, K Liu, HL Zhang - Molecular neurobiology, 2020 - Springer
Understanding how gut flora influences gut-brain communications has been the subject of
significant research over the past decade. The broadening of the term “microbiota-gut-brain …

The human connectome in Alzheimer disease—relationship to biomarkers and genetics

M Yu, O Sporns, AJ Saykin - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
The pathology of Alzheimer disease (AD) damages structural and functional brain networks,
resulting in cognitive impairment. The results of recent connectomics studies have now …

Alzheimer's disease: From immunotherapy to immunoprevention

M Jucker, LC Walker - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Recent Aβ-immunotherapy trials have yielded the first clear evidence that removing
aggregated Aβ from the brains of symptomatic patients can slow the progression of …

Post-translational modifications of soluble α-synuclein regulate the amplification of pathological α-synuclein

S Zhang, R Zhu, B Pan, H Xu, MF Olufemi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell-to-cell transmission and subsequent amplification of pathological proteins promote
neurodegenerative disease progression. Most research on this has focused on pathological …

Serum neurofilament dynamics predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease

O Preische, SA Schultz, A Apel, J Kuhle, SA Kaeser… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a promising fluid biomarker of disease progression for
various cerebral proteopathies. Here we leverage the unique characteristics of the …

Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight

JW Vogel, N Corriveau-Lecavalier… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are the most common cause of dementia. Although their
underlying molecular pathologies have been identified, there is substantial heterogeneity in …