Preclinical Alzheimer disease—the challenges ahead

RA Sperling, J Karlawish, KA Johnson - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2013 - nature.com
There is growing recognition that the pathophysiological process of Alzheimer disease (AD)
begins many years prior to clinically obvious symptoms, and the concept of a …

[HTML][HTML] Developing therapeutic antibodies for neurodegenerative disease

YJ Yu, RJ Watts - Neurotherapeutics, 2013 - Elsevier
The central nervous system has been considered off-limits to antibody therapeutics.
However, recent advances in preclinical and clinical drug development suggest that …

Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration

JM Wardlaw, EE Smith, GJ Biessels… - The Lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a common accompaniment of ageing. Features seen
on neuroimaging include recent small subcortical infarcts, lacunes, white matter …

Inflammatory components in human Alzheimer's disease and after active amyloid-β42 immunization

E Zotova, V Bharambe, M Cheaveau, W Morgan… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Inflammatory processes are important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and in
response to amyloid-β immunotherapy. We investigated the expression of multiple …

Anti–amyloid β autoantibodies in cerebral amyloid angiopathy–related inflammation: implications for amyloid‐modifying therapies

F Piazza, SM Greenberg, M Savoiardo… - Annals of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Cerebral amyloid angiopathy–related inflammation (CAA‐ri) is characterized by
vasogenic edema and multiple cortical/subcortical microbleeds, sharing several aspects …

Chronic rapamycin restores brain vascular integrity and function through NO synthase activation and improves memory in symptomatic mice modeling Alzheimer's …

AL Lin, W Zheng, JJ Halloran… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Vascular pathology is a major feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias. We
recently showed that chronic administration of the target-of-rapamycin (TOR) inhibitor …

Intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease: a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-finding trial

R Dodel, A Rominger, P Bartenstein, F Barkhof… - The Lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Three small trials suggest that intravenous immunoglobulin can affect
biomarkers and symptoms of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease. We tested the safety …

Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the relationship between Aβ deposition, cortical thickness, and memory in cognitively unimpaired individuals and in …

V Doré, VL Villemagne, P Bourgeat, J Fripp… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer disease. Aβ
deposition accelerates gray matter atrophy at early stages of the disease even before …

Cortical superficial siderosis and intracerebral hemorrhage risk in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

A Charidimou, AP Peeters, R Jaeger, Z Fox… - Neurology, 2013 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To investigate whether cortical superficial siderosis (cSS) on MRI, especially if
disseminated (involving more than 3 sulci), increases the risk of future symptomatic lobar …

Neurosteroids as regenerative agents in the brain: therapeutic implications

RD Brinton - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2013 - nature.com
Regenerative therapeutics hold the promise of self-renewal and repair. Ageing and age-
associated neurodegenerative diseases are marked by a decline in self-renewal and repair …