Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

T Guo, D Zhang, Y Zeng, TY Huang, H Xu… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder seen in age-
dependent dementia. There is currently no effective treatment for AD, which may be …

The physiological roles of tau and Aβ: implications for Alzheimer's disease pathology and therapeutics

SA Kent, TL Spires-Jones, CS Durrant - Acta neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Tau and amyloid beta (Aβ) are the prime suspects for driving pathology in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and, as such, have become the focus of therapeutic development. Recent …

New insights into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

L Fan, C Mao, X Hu, S Zhang, Z Yang, Z Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common neurodegenerative disease in the elderly and the most
prevalent cause of dementia, is characterized by progressive cognitive impairment. The …

Visualization of neurofibrillary tangle maturity in Alzheimer's disease: A clinicopathologic perspective for biomarker research

CM Moloney, VJ Lowe, ME Murray - Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurofibrillary tangles, one of the neuropathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, have a
dynamic lifespan of maturity that associates with progressive neuronal dysfunction and …

The complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Tau in physiology and pathology

Y Wang, E Mandelkow - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that has a role in stabilizing neuronal microtubules
and thus in promoting axonal outgrowth. Structurally, tau is a natively unfolded protein, is …

Tau and tauopathies

T Arendt, JT Stieler, M Holzer - Brain research bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by intracellular aggregates of insoluble
proteins. As for the majority of these disorders, aetiology and pathogenesis are only poorly …

Propagation of tau aggregates and neurodegeneration

M Goedert, DS Eisenberg… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
A pathway from the natively unfolded microtubule-associated protein Tau to a highly
structured amyloid fibril underlies human Tauopathies. This ordered assembly causes …

Tau protein hyperphosphorylation and aggregation in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, and possible neuroprotective strategies

G Šimić, M Babić Leko, S Wray, C Harrington, I Delalle… - Biomolecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Abnormal deposition of misprocessed and aggregated proteins is a common final pathway
of most neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is …

Tau strains shape disease

J Vaquer-Alicea, MI Diamond, LA Joachimiak - Acta neuropathologica, 2021 - Springer
Tauopathies consist of over 25 different neurodegenerative diseases that include
argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal …