Endo-lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases: Opinion on current progress and future direction in the use of exosomes as biomarkers

M Herman, GW Randall, JL Spiegel… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past two decades, increased research has highlighted the connection between
endosomal trafficking defects and neurodegeneration. The endo-lysosomal network is an …

Clusterin is a potential therapeutic target in Alzheimer's disease

N Palihati, Y Tang, Y Yin, D Yu, G Liu, Z Quan… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
In recent years, Clusterin, a glycosylated protein with multiple biological functions, has
attracted extensive research attention. It is closely associated with the physiological and …

Gene-SGAN: discovering disease subtypes with imaging and genetic signatures via multi-view weakly-supervised deep clustering

Z Yang, J Wen, A Abdulkadir, Y Cui, G Erus… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Disease heterogeneity has been a critical challenge for precision diagnosis and treatment,
especially in neurologic and neuropsychiatric diseases. Many diseases can display multiple …

iPSC‐derived microglia carrying the TREM2 R47H/+ mutation are proinflammatory and promote synapse loss

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, A Loon, O Cerit, V Dileep… - Glia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic findings have highlighted key roles for microglia in the pathology of
neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). A number of mutations in …

Causal relationship between immune cells and neurodegenerative diseases: a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study

C Tang, X Lei, Y Ding, S Yang, Y Ma, D He - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background There is increasing evidence that the types of immune cells are associated with
various neurodegenerative diseases. However, it is currently unclear whether these …

Humanin variant P3S is associated with longevity in APOE4 carriers and resists APOE4‐induced brain pathology

B Miller, SJ Kim, K Cao, HH Mehta, N Thumaty… - Aging cell, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The APOE4 allele is recognized as a significant genetic risk factor to Alzheimer's disease
(AD) and influences longevity. Nonetheless, some APOE4 carriers exhibit resistance to AD …

BHLHE40/41 regulate microglia and peripheral macrophage responses associated with Alzheimer's disease and other disorders of lipid-rich tissues

A Podleśny-Drabiniok, G Novikova, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic and experimental evidence suggests that Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk alleles and
genes may influence disease susceptibility by altering the transcriptional and cellular …

TrkB-dependent regulation of molecular signaling across septal cell types

LA Rodriguez, MN Tran, R Garcia-Flores, S Oh… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
The lateral septum (LS), a GABAergic structure located in the basal forebrain, is implicated
in social behavior, learning, and memory. We previously demonstrated that expression of …

Unraveling the intercellular communication disruption and key pathways in Alzheimer's disease: an integrative study of single-nucleus transcriptomes and genetic …

A Liu, BS Fernandes, C Citu, Z Zhao - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2024 - Springer
Background Recently, single-nucleus RNA-seq (snRNA-seq) analyses have revealed
important cellular and functional features of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a prevalent …

A Bayesian approach to Mendelian randomization using summary statistics in the univariable and multivariable settings with correlated pleiotropy

AJ Grant, S Burgess - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to make causal
inferences on the effect of an exposure on an outcome. Due to the recent abundance of high …