An aging, pathology burden, and glial senescence build-up hypothesis for late onset Alzheimer's disease

V Lau, L Ramer, MÈ Tremblay - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) predominantly occurs as a late onset (LOAD) form involving
neurodegeneration and cognitive decline with progressive memory loss. Risk factors that …

Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease: findings, hypotheses, and potential mechanisms

N Koutsodendris, MR Nelson, A Rao… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder that involves
dysregulation of many cellular and molecular processes. It is notoriously difficult to develop …

Microglial phagocytosis of neurons in neurodegeneration, and its regulation

CA Butler, AS Popescu, EJA Kitchener… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing evidence that excessive microglial phagocytosis of neurons and synapses
contributes to multiple brain pathologies. RNA‐seq and genome‐wide association (GWAS) …

Cell type-specific roles of APOE4 in Alzheimer disease

J Blumenfeld, O Yip, MJ Kim, Y Huang - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
The ɛ4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE), which translates to the APOE4 isoform,
is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD). Within the CNS …

A “multi-omics” analysis of blood–brain barrier and synaptic dysfunction in APOE4 mice

G Barisano, K Kisler, B Wilkinson… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4), the main susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's disease, leads to
blood–brain barrier (BBB) breakdown in humans and mice. Remarkably, BBB dysfunction …

The important interface between apolipoprotein E and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

CM Kloske, DM Wilcock - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of neurodegenerative disease, currently
affecting over 5 million Americans with projections expected to rise as the population ages …

Intersection of pathological tau and microglia at the synapse

T Vogels, AN Murgoci, T Hromádka - Acta neuropathologica …, 2019 - Springer
Tauopathies are a heterogenous class of diseases characterized by cellular accumulation of
aggregated tau and include diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), progressive …

Insight into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease: A comprehensive review of the role of rare variants

J Hoogmartens, R Cacace… - … & Dementia: Diagnosis …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Early‐onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) is generally known as a dominant disease due to
highly penetrant pathogenic mutations in the amyloid precursor protein, presenilin 1 and 2 …

[HTML][HTML] APOE4 confers transcriptomic and functional alterations to primary mouse microglia

SI Machlovi, SM Neuner, BM Hemmer, R Khan… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Common genetic variants in more than forty loci modulate risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).
AD risk alleles are enriched within enhancers active in myeloid cells, suggesting that …

Impaired cellular copper regulation in the presence of ApoE4

B Blades, YH Hung, AA Belaidi… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The strongest genetic risk factor for late‐onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is allelic variation of
the APOE gene, with the following risk structure: ε4> ε3> ε2. The biochemical basis for this …