The cell biology of APOE in the brain

IA Windham, S Cohen - Trends in cell biology, 2024 - cell.com
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) traffics lipids in the central nervous system. The E4 variant of APOE
is a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and a multitude of other …

Lipid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

A Zarrouk, M Debbabi, M Bezine… - Current Alzheimer …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: There are now significant evidences that lipid metabolism is affected in
numerous neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease. These dysfunctions …

TREM2 regulates microglial cholesterol metabolism upon chronic phagocytic challenge

AA Nugent, K Lin, B Van Lengerich, S Lianoglou… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Loss-of-function (LOF) variants of TREM2, an immune receptor expressed in
microglia, increase Alzheimer's disease risk. TREM2 senses lipids and mediates myelin …

Concordant peripheral lipidome signatures in two large clinical studies of Alzheimer's disease

K Huynh, WLF Lim, C Giles, KS Jayawardana… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Changes to lipid metabolism are tightly associated with the onset and pathology of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lipids are complex molecules comprising many isomeric and …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant lipid metabolism in the forebrain niche suppresses adult neural stem cell proliferation in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease

LK Hamilton, M Dufresne, SE Joppé, S Petryszyn… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Lipid metabolism is fundamental for brain development and function, but its roles in normal
and pathological neural stem cell (NSC) regulation remain largely unexplored. Here, we …

Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase inhibition reverses immune, synaptic and cognitive impairments in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

LK Hamilton, G Moquin-Beaudry, CL Mangahas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The defining features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) include alterations in protein aggregation,
immunity, lipid metabolism, synapses, and learning and memory. Of these, lipid …

A mini review of nervonic acid: Source, production, and biological functions

Q Li, J Chen, X Yu, JM Gao - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Nervonic acid (NA) has attracted considerable attention because of its close relationship
with brain development. Sources of NA include oil crop seeds, oil-producing microalgae …

MicroRNA-298 reduces levels of human amyloid-β precursor protein (APP), β-site APP-converting enzyme 1 (BACE1) and specific tau protein moieties

N Chopra, R Wang, B Maloney, K Nho, JS Beck… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related form of dementia, associated with
deposition of intracellular neuronal tangles consisting primarily of hyperphosphorylated …

Metabolic profiling of Alzheimer's disease brains

K Inoue, H Tsutsui, H Akatsu, Y Hashizume… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive brain disease and can be
definitively diagnosed after death through an examination of senile plaques and …

Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 5 (SCD5), a Δ-9 fatty acyl desaturase in search of a function

RA Igal, DI Sinner - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A large body of research has demonstrated that human stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1),
a universally expressed fatty acid Δ9-desaturase that converts saturated fatty acids (SFA) …