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 …

Amyloid-β-independent regulators of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

R van der Kant, LSB Goldstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The global epidemic of Alzheimer disease (AD) is worsening, and no approved treatment
can revert or arrest progression of this disease. AD pathology is characterized by the …

Increased post-mitotic senescence in aged human neurons is a pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease

JR Herdy, L Traxler, RK Agarwal, L Karbacher… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The concept of senescence as a phenomenon limited to proliferating cells has been
challenged by growing evidence of senescence-like features in terminally differentiated …

APOE4 exacerbates synapse loss and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease patient iPSC-derived cerebral organoids

J Zhao, Y Fu, Y Yamazaki, Y Ren, MD Davis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(AD). To address the underlying mechanism, we develop cerebral organoid models using …

The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, LH Tsai - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless
promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed …

Age-dependent instability of mature neuronal fate in induced neurons from Alzheimer's patients

J Mertens, JR Herdy, L Traxler, ST Schafer… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) exclusively affects elderly people. Using direct
conversion of AD patient fibroblasts into induced neurons (iNs), we generated an age …

A 3D human triculture system modeling neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

J Park, I Wetzel, I Marriott, D Dréau, C D'Avanzo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by beta-amyloid accumulation, phosphorylated
tau formation, hyperactivation of glial cells, and neuronal loss. The mechanisms of AD …

The complexity of Alzheimer's disease: an evolving puzzle

C Ferrari, S Sorbi - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The history of Alzheimer's disease (AD) started in 1907, but we needed to wait until the end
of the century to identify the components of pathological hallmarks and genetic subtypes and …

Induced pluripotent stem cell technology: a decade of progress

Y Shi, H Inoue, JC Wu, S Yamanaka - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Since the advent of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology a decade ago,
enormous progress has been made in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Human …