Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer disease: pathobiology and targeting strategies

Y Yamazaki, N Zhao, TR Caulfield, CC Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Polymorphism in the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is a major genetic risk determinant of
late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), with the APOE* ε 4 allele conferring an increased risk …

Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease: findings, hypotheses, and potential mechanisms

N Koutsodendris, MR Nelson, A Rao… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder that involves
dysregulation of many cellular and molecular processes. It is notoriously difficult to develop …

Neuronal APOE4 removal protects against tau-mediated gliosis, neurodegeneration and myelin deficits

N Koutsodendris, J Blumenfeld, A Agrawal, M Traglia… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is the strongest known genetic risk factor for late-onset
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Conditions of stress or injury induce APOE expression within …

[HTML][HTML] Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in Alzheimer's disease: A roadmap to clinical relevance

E Salta, O Lazarov, CP Fitzsimons, R Tanzi… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) drops sharply during early stages of Alzheimer's
disease (AD), via unknown mechanisms, and correlates with cognitive status in AD patients …

The role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in brain health and disease

T Toda, SL Parylak, SB Linker, FH Gage - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is highly regulated by a number
of environmental and cell-intrinsic factors to adapt to environmental changes. Accumulating …

Neuronal hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease: what are the drivers behind this aberrant phenotype?

H Targa Dias Anastacio, N Matosin, L Ooi - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to loss of
cognitive abilities and ultimately, death. With no cure available, limited treatments mostly …

Mitochondria as central regulators of neural stem cell fate and cognitive function

M Khacho, R Harris, RS Slack - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Emerging evidence now indicates that mitochondria are central regulators of neural stem
cell (NSC) fate decisions and are crucial for both neurodevelopment and adult …

Gain of toxic apolipoprotein E4 effects in human iPSC-derived neurons is ameliorated by a small-molecule structure corrector

C Wang, R Najm, Q Xu, D Jeong, D Walker… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Efforts to develop drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have shown promise in animal studies,
only to fail in human trials, suggesting a pressing need to study AD in human model …

Hippocampal GABAergic inhibitory interneurons

KA Pelkey, R Chittajallu, MT Craig… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
In the hippocampus GABAergic local circuit inhibitory interneurons represent only~ 10–15%
of the total neuronal population; however, their remarkable anatomical and physiological …

Cell type-specific roles of APOE4 in Alzheimer disease

J Blumenfeld, O Yip, MJ Kim, Y Huang - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
The ɛ4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE), which translates to the APOE4 isoform,
is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD). Within the CNS …