New insights into drug discovery targeting tau protein

Y Soeda, A Takashima - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Microtubule-associated protein tau is characterized by the fact that it is an intrinsically
disordered protein due to its lack of a stable conformation and high flexibility. Intracellular …

Chemokines in chronic pain: cellular and molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential

BC Jiang, T Liu, YJ Gao - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Chronic pain resulting from nerve injury, tissue inflammation, and tumor invasion or
treatment, is a major health problem impacting the quality of life and producing a significant …

SARS‐CoV‐2 targets neurons of 3D human brain organoids

A Ramani, L Müller, PN Ostermann, E Gabriel… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
COVID‐19 pandemic caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is a public health emergency.
COVID‐19 typically exhibits respiratory illness. Unexpectedly, emerging clinical reports …

Diffuse axonal injury predicts neurodegeneration after moderate–severe traumatic brain injury

NSN Graham, A Jolly, K Zimmerman, NJ Bourke… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Traumatic brain injury is associated with elevated rates of neurodegenerative diseases such
as Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. In experimental models …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and considerations in AD tau-targeted immunotherapy

A Bittar, N Bhatt, R Kayed - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
The multifactorial and complex nature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has made it difficult to
identify therapeutic targets that are causally involved in the disease process. However …

Tau immunotherapies: Lessons learned, current status and future considerations

LA Sandusky-Beltran, EM Sigurdsson - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
The majority of clinical trials targeting the tau protein in Alzheimer's disease and other
tauopathies are tau immunotherapies. Because tau pathology correlates better with the …

Extracellular vesicles derived from human ES-MSCs protect retinal ganglion cells and preserve retinal function in a rodent model of optic nerve injury

SZ Seyedrazizadeh, S Poosti, A Nazari… - Stem cell research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Retinal and/or optic nerve injury is one of the leading causes of blindness due
to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) degeneration. There have been extensive efforts to suppress …

Traumatic brain injury triggers APP and Tau cleavage by delta-secretase, mediating Alzheimer's disease pathology

Z Wu, ZH Wang, X Liu, Z Zhang, X Gu, SP Yu… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated in some studies with clinical dementia, and
neuropathological features, including amyloid plaque deposition and Tau neurofibrillary …

Tau filament self-assembly and structure: tau as a therapeutic target

SS Oakley, MB Maina, KE Marshall, YK Al-Hilaly… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tau plays an important pathological role in a group of neurodegenerative diseases called
tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, chronic traumatic …

Peptidyl-Prolyl Cis/Trans Isomerase Pin1 and Alzheimer's Disease

L Wang, Y Zhou, D Chen, TH Lee - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia with cognitive decline. The
neuropathology of AD is characterized by intracellular aggregation of neurofibrillary tangles …