Hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases

DM Wilson, MR Cookson, L Van Den Bosch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of research have identified genetic factors and biochemical pathways involved in
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). We present evidence for the following eight hallmarks …

The expanding amyloid family: Structure, stability, function, and pathogenesis

MR Sawaya, MP Hughes, JA Rodriguez, R Riek… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The hidden world of amyloid biology has suddenly snapped into atomic-level focus,
revealing over 80 amyloid protein fibrils, both pathogenic and functional. Unlike globular …

Alzheimer's disease: pathogenesis, diagnostics, and therapeutics

S Tiwari, V Atluri, A Kaushik, A Yndart… - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Currently, 47 million people live with dementia globally, and it is estimated to increase more
than threefold (~ 131 million) by 2050. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the major …

Alzheimer's disease: From immunotherapy to immunoprevention

M Jucker, LC Walker - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Recent Aβ-immunotherapy trials have yielded the first clear evidence that removing
aggregated Aβ from the brains of symptomatic patients can slow the progression of …

Lewy pathology in Parkinson's disease consists of crowded organelles and lipid membranes

SH Shahmoradian, AJ Lewis, C Genoud, J Hench… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease, the most common age-related movement disorder, is a progressive
neurodegenerative disease with unclear etiology. Key neuropathological hallmarks are …

The human connectome in Alzheimer disease—relationship to biomarkers and genetics

M Yu, O Sporns, AJ Saykin - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
The pathology of Alzheimer disease (AD) damages structural and functional brain networks,
resulting in cognitive impairment. The results of recent connectomics studies have now …

Age-dependent formation of TMEM106B amyloid filaments in human brains

M Schweighauser, D Arseni, M Bacioglu, M Huang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Many age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's,
are characterized by abundant inclusions of amyloid filaments. Filamentous inclusions of the …

Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

Amyloid-beta peptide and tau protein crosstalk in Alzheimer's disease

AR Roda, G Serra-Mir, L Montoliu-Gaya… - Neural regeneration …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that accounts for most of the 50-million
dementia cases worldwide in 2018. A large amount of evidence supports the amyloid …

New technologies for analysis of extracellular vesicles

H Shao, H Im, CM Castro, X Breakefield… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are diverse, nanoscale membrane vesicles actively released by
cells. Similar-sized vesicles can be further classified (eg, exosomes, microvesicles) based …