The amyloid-β oligomer hypothesis: beginning of the third decade

EN Cline, MA Bicca, KL Viola… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
The amyloid-β oligomer (AβO) hypothesis was introduced in 1998. It proposed that the brain
damage leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD) was instigated by soluble, ligand-like AβOs …

A mechanistic hypothesis for the impairment of synaptic plasticity by soluble Aβ oligomers from Alzheimer's brain

S Li, DJ Selkoe - Journal of neurochemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is increasingly accepted that early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease results in
considerable part from synaptic dysfunction caused by the accumulation of a range of …

Reversal of synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models by targeting mGluR5 to prevent synaptic tagging by C1Q

J Spurrier, LS Nicholson, XT Fang, AJ Stoner… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Microglia-mediated synaptic loss contributes to the development of cognitive impairments in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the basis for this immune-mediated attack on synapses …

The Hsp70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery in neurodegenerative diseases

RE Lackie, A Maciejewski, VG Ostapchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the human brain is one of the critical features of
many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembles of beta …

α-synuclein interacts with PrPC to induce cognitive impairment through mGluR5 and NMDAR2B

DG Ferreira, M Temido-Ferreira… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, are
neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by the accumulation of α-synuclein …

Amyloid β oligomers (AβOs) in Alzheimer's disease

B Mroczko, M Groblewska, A Litman-Zawadzka… - Journal of Neural …, 2018 - Springer
The causative role of amyloid β 1–42 (Aβ42) aggregation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) has been under debate for over 25 years. Primarily, scientific efforts have …

Astrocyte transforming growth factor beta 1 protects synapses against Aβ oligomers in Alzheimer's disease model

LP Diniz, V Tortelli, I Matias, J Morgado… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Alzheimer9s disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline, increasingly
attributed to neuronal dysfunction induced by amyloid-β oligomers (AβOs). Although the …

Aβ oligomers induce pathophysiological mGluR5 signaling in Alzheimer's disease model mice in a sex-selective manner

KS Abd-Elrahman, A Albaker, JM de Souza… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The prevalence, presentation, and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) differ between
men and women, although β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition is a pathological hallmark of AD in …

The biological function of the prion protein: a cell surface scaffold of signaling modules

R Linden - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The prion glycoprotein (PrPC) is mostly located at the cell surface, tethered to the plasma
membrane through a glycosyl-phosphatydil inositol (GPI) anchor. Misfolding of PrPC is …

PET imaging of synaptic density: a new tool for investigation of neuropsychiatric diseases

Z Cai, S Li, D Matuskey, N Nabulsi, Y Huang - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A) is expressed ubiquitously in neurons of the central
nervous system, and is the binding target of the anti-epileptic drug levetiracetam. Because of …