Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: novel insights and future directions

SJ Andrews, AE Renton, B Fulton-Howard… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex multifactorial neurodegenerative
disorder and the most common form of dementia. AD is highly heritable, with heritability …

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 …

Advancing cell therapy for neurodegenerative diseases

S Temple - Cell stem cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cell-based therapies are being developed for various neurodegenerative diseases that
affect the central nervous system (CNS). Concomitantly, the roles of individual cell types in …

Amelioration of Tau and ApoE4-linked glial lipid accumulation and neurodegeneration with an LXR agonist

A Litvinchuk, JH Suh, JL Guo, K Lin, SS Davis… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a strong genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(LOAD). APOE4 increases and APOE2 decreases risk relative to APOE3. In the P301S …

Neuronal γ-secretase regulates lipid metabolism, linking cholesterol to synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

S Essayan-Perez, TC Südhof - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Presenilin mutations that alter γ-secretase activity cause familial Alzheimer's disease (AD),
whereas ApoE4, an apolipoprotein for cholesterol transport, predisposes to sporadic AD …

Cell death by phagocytosis

GC Brown - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Cells can die as a consequence of being phagocytosed by other cells—a form of cell death
that has been called phagotrophy, cell cannibalism, programmed cell removal and primary …

Genetic variants of phospholipase C-γ2 alter the phenotype and function of microglia and confer differential risk for Alzheimer's disease

AP Tsai, C Dong, PBC Lin, AL Oblak, GV Di Prisco… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Genetic association studies have demonstrated the critical involvement of the microglial
immune response in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Phospholipase C-gamma-2 …

Stimulation of TREM2 with agonistic antibodies—an emerging therapeutic option for Alzheimer's disease

K Schlepckow, E Morenas-Rodríguez, S Hong… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, are associated with
microgliosis. Microglia have long been considered to have detrimental roles in Alzheimer's …

Brain cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease: challenges and opportunities in probe and drug development

H Ahmed, Y Wang, WJ Griffiths, AI Levey, I Pikuleva… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cholesterol homeostasis is impaired in Alzheimer's disease; however, attempts to modulate
brain cholesterol biology have not translated into tangible clinical benefits for patients to …