Dementia in Down syndrome: unique insights for Alzheimer disease research

IT Lott, E Head - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Virtually all adults with Down syndrome (DS) show the neuropathological changes of
Alzheimer disease (AD) by the age of 40 years. This association is partially due to …

Markers of microglia in post-mortem brain samples from patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

KE Hopperton, D Mohammad, MO Trépanier… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Neuroinflammation is proposed as one of the mechanisms by which Alzheimer's disease
pathology, including amyloid-β plaques, leads to neuronal death and dysfunction. Increases …

Omics sciences for systems biology in Alzheimer's disease: State-of-the-art of the evidence

H Hampel, R Nisticò, NT Seyfried, AI Levey… - Ageing Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by non-linear, genetic-driven pathophysiological
dynamics with high heterogeneity in biological alterations and disease spatial-temporal …

Epigenetics of Alzheimer's disease

M Nikolac Perkovic, A Videtic Paska, M Konjevod… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
There are currently no validated biomarkers which can be used to accurately diagnose
Alzheimer's disease (AD) or to distinguish it from other dementia-causing neuropathologies …

Epigenetics in Alzheimer's disease

X Gao, Q Chen, H Yao, J Tan, Z Liu, Y Zhou… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease with unknown pathogenesis and
complex pathological manifestations. At present, a large number of studies on targeted …

A histone acetylome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease identifies disease-associated H3K27ac differences in the entorhinal cortex

SJ Marzi, SK Leung, T Ribarska, E Hannon… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We quantified genome-wide patterns of lysine H3K27 acetylation (H3K27ac) in entorhinal
cortex samples from Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and matched controls using chromatin …

Current concepts of neurodegenerative mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease

KB Magalingam, A Radhakrishnan… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Neurodegenerative diseases are hereditary or sporadic conditions that result in the
progressive loss of the structure and function of neurons as well as neuronal death …

PI3K signaling in neurons: a central node for the control of multiple functions

K Sánchez-Alegría, M Flores-León… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling contributes to a variety of processes, mediating
many aspects of cellular function, including nutrient uptake, anabolic reactions, cell growth …

Genomic integrity and the ageing brain

H Chow, K Herrup - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
DNA damage is correlated with and may drive the ageing process. Neurons in the brain are
postmitotic and are excluded from many forms of DNA repair; therefore, neurons are …

Mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death in neurodegenerative diseases through nitroxidative stress

M Akbar, MM Essa, G Daradkeh, MA Abdelmegeed… - Brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
Mitochondria are important for providing cellular energy ATP through the oxidative
phosphorylation pathway. They are also critical in regulating many cellular functions …