Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease

H Akiyama, S Barger, S Barnum, B Bradt, J Bauer… - Neurobiology of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Inflammation clearly occurs in pathologically vulnerable regions of the Alzheimer's disease
(AD) brain, and it does so with the full complexity of local peripheral inflammatory responses …

The important interface between apolipoprotein E and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

CM Kloske, DM Wilcock - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of neurodegenerative disease, currently
affecting over 5 million Americans with projections expected to rise as the population ages …

Expression and secretion of apoE isoforms in astrocytes and microglia during inflammation

MF Lanfranco, J Sepulveda, G Kopetsky, GW Rebeck - Glia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroinflammation is a common feature in neurodegenerative diseases, modulated by the
Alzheimer's disease risk factor, apolipoprotein E (APOE). In the brain, apoE protein is …

Neuronal ApoE4 in Alzheimer's disease and potential therapeutic targets

L Zhang, Y Xia, Y Gui - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The most prevalent genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is Apolipoprotein E
(ApoE), a gene located on chromosome 19 that encodes three alleles (e2, e3, and e4) that …

Say NO to Alzheimer's disease: the putative links between nitric oxide and dementia of the Alzheimer's type

A Law, S Gauthier, R Quirion - Brain research reviews, 2001 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with progressive cognitive
deficits being the primary symptom. AD is neuropathologically characterized by amyloid and …

APOE genotype alters glial activation and loss of synaptic markers in mice

Y Zhu, E Nwabuisi‐Heath, SB Dumanis, LM Tai, C Yu… - Glia, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The ϵ4 allele of the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for late‐
onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), and affects clinical outcomes of chronic and acute brain …

Invited Review: APOE at the interface of inflammation, neurodegeneration and pathological protein spread in Alzheimer's disease

M Tzioras, C Davies, A Newman… - Neuropathology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite more than a century of research, the aetiology of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD)
remains unclear and finding disease modifying treatments for AD presents one of the …

Glial activation in Alzheimer's disease: the role of Aβ and its associated proteins

L Meda, P Baron, G Scarlato - Neurobiology of aging, 2001 - Elsevier
A common feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is the abundance of reactive
astrocytes and activated microglia in close proximity to neuritic plaques containing amyloid …

Downregulation of microglial activation by apolipoprotein E and apoE-mimetic peptides

DT Laskowitz, AD Thekdi, SD Thekdi, SKD Han… - Experimental …, 2001 - Elsevier
Apolipoprotein E plays an important role in recovery from acute brain injury and risk of
developing Alzheimer's disease. We demonstrate that biologically relevant concentrations of …

Genetics ignite focus on microglial inflammation in Alzheimer's disease

M Malik, I Parikh, JB Vasquez, C Smith, L Tai… - Molecular …, 2015 - Springer
In the past five years, a series of large-scale genetic studies have revealed novel risk factors
for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Analyses of these risk factors have focused attention upon the …