Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer's disease

MA Busche, BT Hyman - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) present with both extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)
plaques and intracellular tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. For many years …

Revisiting the grammar of Tau aggregation and pathology formation: how new insights from brain pathology are shaping how we study and target Tauopathies

G Limorenko, HA Lashuel - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Converging evidence continues to point towards Tau aggregation and pathology formation
as central events in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other Tauopathies …

Tau molecular diversity contributes to clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease

S Dujardin, C Commins, A Lathuiliere, P Beerepoot… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes unrelenting, progressive cognitive impairments, but its
course is heterogeneous, with a broad range of rates of cognitive decline. The spread of tau …

[HTML][HTML] Trem2 restrains the enhancement of tau accumulation and neurodegeneration by β-amyloid pathology

SH Lee, WJ Meilandt, L Xie, VD Gandham, H Ngu… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Loss-of-function TREM2 mutations strongly increase Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. Trem2
deletion has revealed protective Trem2 functions in preclinical models of β-amyloidosis, a …

Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer's disease

JW Vogel, Y Iturria-Medina, OT Strandberg… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tau is a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease, and animal models have suggested that
tau spreads from cell to cell through neuronal connections, facilitated by β-amyloid (A β). We …

Amyloid-β plaques enhance Alzheimer's brain tau-seeded pathologies by facilitating neuritic plaque tau aggregation

Z He, JL Guo, JD McBride, S Narasimhan, H Kim… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and
intracellular tau inclusions. However, the exact mechanistic link between these two AD …

Tau impairs neural circuits, dominating amyloid-β effects, in Alzheimer models in vivo

MA Busche, S Wegmann, S Dujardin, C Commins… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The coexistence of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the neocortex is
linked to neural system failure and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. However, the …

Aβ deposition is associated with increases in soluble and phosphorylated tau that precede a positive Tau PET in Alzheimer's disease

N Mattsson-Carlgren, E Andersson, S Janelidze… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The links between β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau in Alzheimer's disease are unclear. Cognitively
unimpaired persons with signs of Aβ pathology had increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

In vivo rate-determining steps of tau seed accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

G Meisl, E Hidari, K Allinson, T Rittman, SL DeVos… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Both the replication of protein aggregates and their spreading throughout the brain are
implicated in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the rates of these …

Activated microglia mitigate Aβ-associated tau seeding and spreading

M Gratuze, Y Chen, S Parhizkar, N Jain… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
In Alzheimer's disease (AD) models, AD risk variants in the microglial-expressed TREM2
gene decrease Aβ plaque–associated microgliosis and increase neuritic dystrophy as well …