The synapse as a treatment avenue for Alzheimer's Disease

L Peng, I Bestard-Lorigados, W Song - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with devastating symptoms,
including memory impairments and cognitive deficits. Hallmarks of AD pathology are …

[HTML][HTML] Melatonin regulates Aβ production/clearance balance and Aβ neurotoxicity: A potential therapeutic molecule for Alzheimer's disease

Y Li, J Zhang, J Wan, A Liu, J Sun - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with multiple
predisposing factors and complicated pathogenesis. Aβ peptide is one of the most important …

Expression of a noncoding RNA is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and drives rapid feed-forward regulation of β-secretase

MA Faghihi, F Modarresi, AM Khalil, DE Wood… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
Recent efforts have revealed that numerous protein-coding messenger RNAs have natural
antisense transcript partners, most of which seem to be noncoding RNAs. Here we identify a …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of GSK3β-mediated BACE1 expression reduces Alzheimer-associated phenotypes

PTT Ly, Y Wu, H Zou, R Wang, W Zhou… - The Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Deposition of amyloid β protein (Aβ) to form neuritic plaques in the brain is the pathological
hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ is generated from sequential cleavages of the β …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for natural antisense transcript-mediated inhibition of microRNA function

MA Faghihi, M Zhang, J Huang, F Modarresi… - Genome biology, 2010 - Springer
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have the potential to regulate diverse sets of mRNA
targets. In addition, mammalian genomes contain numerous natural antisense transcripts …

The expression of microRNA miR-107 decreases early in Alzheimer's disease and may accelerate disease progression through regulation of β-site amyloid precursor …

WX Wang, BW Rajeev, AJ Stromberg… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small regulatory RNAs that participate in posttranscriptional gene
regulation in a sequence-specific manner. However, little is understood about the role (s) of …

Increased NF-κB signalling up-regulates BACE1 expression and its therapeutic potential in Alzheimer's disease

CH Chen, W Zhou, S Liu, Y Deng, F Cai… - International Journal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Elevated levels of β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) were found in the brain of some
sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients; however, the underlying mechanism is …

[HTML][HTML] The Alzheimer's disease β-secretase enzyme, BACE1

SL Cole, R Vassar - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2007 - Springer
The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is highly complex. While several pathologies
characterize this disease, amyloid plaques, composed of the β-amyloid peptide are hallmark …

NRF2/ARE pathway negatively regulates BACE1 expression and ameliorates cognitive deficits in mouse Alzheimer's models

G Bahn, JS Park, UJ Yun, YJ Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
BACE1 is the rate-limiting enzyme for amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) generation, a key event in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). By an unknown mechanism, levels of BACE1 …

Hypoxia facilitates Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis by up-regulating BACE1 gene expression

X Sun, G He, H Qing, W Zhou, F Dobie… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
The molecular mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of the majority of cases of sporadic
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown. A history of stroke was found to be associated with …