Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

Traumatic brain injury and risk of neurodegenerative disorder

BL Brett, RC Gardner, J Godbout, K Dams-O'Connor… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly of greater severity (ie, moderate to severe), has
been identified as a risk factor for all-cause dementia and Parkinson's disease, with risk for …

Cerebrospinal fluid influx drives acute ischemic tissue swelling

H Mestre, T Du, AM Sweeney, G Liu, AJ Samson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) covers and protects the brain from mechanical
injury. CSF also flows along an interconnected network of perivascular spaces surrounding …

Advances in developing novel therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease

J Cao, J Hou, J Ping, D Cai - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease of aging,
affects one in eight older Americans. Nearly all drug treatments tested for AD today have …

Cis P-tau is a central circulating and placental etiologic driver and therapeutic target of preeclampsia

S Jash, S Banerjee, S Cheng, B Wang, C Qiu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Preeclampsia (PE) is the leading cause of maternal and fetal mortality globally and may
trigger dementia later in life in mothers and their offspring. However, the etiological drivers …

Tau pathology in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer's disease: similarities and differences

A Katsumoto, H Takeuchi, F Tanaka - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been associated with the development of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) because these conditions share common pathological hallmarks: amyloid-β …

Current status of clinical trials on tau immunotherapies

C Ji, EM Sigurdsson - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
Tau immunotherapies have advanced from proof-of-concept studies to over a dozen clinical
trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. Mechanistic studies in animal and …

Disrupting pathologic phase transitions in neurodegeneration

BT Hurtle, L Xie, CJ Donnelly - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Solid-like protein deposits found in aged and diseased human brains have revealed a
relationship between insoluble protein accumulations and the resulting deficits in neurologic …

Microglia in Alzheimer's disease: risk factors and inflammation

A Katsumoto, H Takeuchi, K Takahashi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that originate from
myeloid progenitor cells in the embryonic yolk sac and are maintained independently of …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and considerations in AD tau-targeted immunotherapy

A Bittar, N Bhatt, R Kayed - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
The multifactorial and complex nature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has made it difficult to
identify therapeutic targets that are causally involved in the disease process. However …