Current status of clinical trials on tau immunotherapies

C Ji, EM Sigurdsson - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
Tau immunotherapies have advanced from proof-of-concept studies to over a dozen clinical
trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. Mechanistic studies in animal and …

[HTML][HTML] “Don't Phos Over Tau”: recent developments in clinical biomarkers and therapies targeting tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

Y Xia, S Prokop, BI Giasson - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2021 - Springer
Phosphorylation is one of the most prevalent post-translational modifications found in
aggregated tau isolated from Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient brains. In tauopathies like …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting Pin1 renders pancreatic cancer eradicable by synergizing with immunochemotherapy

K Koikawa, S Kibe, F Suizu, N Sekino, N Kim, TD Manz… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by notorious resistance to
current therapies attributed to inherent tumor heterogeneity and highly desmoplastic and …

BBB pathophysiology–independent delivery of siRNA in traumatic brain injury

W Li, J Qiu, XL Li, S Aday, J Zhang, G Conley, J Xu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)–based therapeutics can mitigate the long-term sequelae of
traumatic brain injury (TBI) but suffer from poor permeability across the blood-brain barrier …

Cis P-tau underlies vascular contribution to cognitive impairment and dementia and can be effectively targeted by immunotherapy in mice

C Qiu, O Albayram, A Kondo, B Wang, N Kim… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Compelling evidence supports vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
(VCID) including Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the underlying pathogenic mechanisms and …

Late-in-life neurodegeneration after chronic sleep loss in young adult mice

JE Owen, Y Zhu, P Fenik, G Zhan, P Bell, C Liu… - Sleep, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Chronic short sleep (CSS) is prevalent in modern societies and has been proposed as a risk
factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). In support, short-term sleep loss acutely increases levels …

Cobalt induces neurodegenerative damages through Pin1 inactivation in mice and human neuroglioma cells

F Zheng, Y Li, F Zhang, Y Sun, C Zheng, Z Luo… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cobalt is a hazardous material that has harmful effects on neurotoxicity. Excessive exposure
to cobalt or inactivation of the unique proline isomerase Pin1 contributes to age-dependent …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: update on current clinical diagnosis and management

K Pierre, K Dyson, A Dagra, E Williams, K Porche… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a disease afflicting individuals exposed to repetitive
neurotrauma. Unfortunately, diagnosis is made by postmortem pathologic analysis, and …

Inhibition of death-associated protein kinase 1 attenuates cis P-tau and neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury

N Kim, B Wang, K Koikawa, Y Nezu, C Qiu… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and disability in young people
and may lead to the development of progressive neurodegeneration, such as that observed …

An update on the association between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease: Focus on Tau pathology and synaptic dysfunction

L Li, J Liang, H Fu - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract LP Li, JW Liang and HJ Fu. An update on the association between traumatic brain
injury and Alzheimer's disease: Focus on Tau pathology and synaptic dysfunction …