Insights into Alzheimer's disease from single-cell genomic approaches

MH Murdock, LH Tsai - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disease pathologically defined by the deposition
of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain parenchyma. Single-cell profiling …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

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 …

Early Alzheimer's disease pathology in human cortex involves transient cell states

V Gazestani, T Kamath, NM Nadaf, A Dougalis… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cellular perturbations underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are primarily studied in human
postmortem samples and model organisms. Here, we generated a single-nucleus atlas from …

Neuronal APOE4 removal protects against tau-mediated gliosis, neurodegeneration and myelin deficits

N Koutsodendris, J Blumenfeld, A Agrawal, M Traglia… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is the strongest known genetic risk factor for late-onset
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Conditions of stress or injury induce APOE expression within …

Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals genes associated with the vulnerability of middle temporal gyrus in Alzheimer's disease

S Chen, Y Chang, L Li, D Acosta, Y Li, Q Guo… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2022 - Springer
Human middle temporal gyrus (MTG) is a vulnerable brain region in early Alzheimer's
disease (AD), but little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying this regional …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated multimodal cell atlas of Alzheimer's disease

MI Gabitto, KJ Travaglini, VM Rachleff… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older adults.
Neuropathological and imaging studies have demonstrated a progressive and stereotyped …

[HTML][HTML] Neurodegeneration cell per cell

S Balusu, R Praschberger, E Lauwers, B De Strooper… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The clinical definition of neurodegenerative diseases is based on symptoms that reflect
terminal damage of specific brain regions. This is misleading as it tells little about the initial …

Human iPSC 4R tauopathy model uncovers modifiers of tau propagation

CP Bravo, AM Giani, J Madero-Perez, Z Zhao, Y Wan… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Tauopathies are age-associated neurodegenerative diseases whose mechanistic
underpinnings remain elusive, partially due to a lack of appropriate human models. Here …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals molecular dysfunction associated with cortical Lewy pathology

TM Goralski, L Meyerdirk, L Breton, L Brasseur… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A key hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) is Lewy pathology. Composed of α-synuclein,
Lewy pathology is found both in dopaminergic neurons that modulate motor function, and …