Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the International Working Group

B Dubois, N Villain, GB Frisoni, GD Rabinovici… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary In 2018, the US National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association
proposed a purely biological definition of Alzheimer's disease that relies on biomarkers …

Microglial activation and tau propagate jointly across Braak stages

TA Pascoal, AL Benedet, NJ Ashton, MS Kang… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests that microglial activation is involved in the
spread of tau tangles over the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested the …

The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review

KP Kepp, NK Robakis, PF Høilund-Carlsen, SL Sensi… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Results from recent clinical trials of antibodies that target amyloid-β (Aβ) for Alzheimer's
disease have created excitement and have been heralded as corroboration of the amyloid …

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 …

Synaptic oligomeric tau in Alzheimer's disease—A potential culprit in the spread of tau pathology through the brain

M Colom-Cadena, C Davies, S Sirisi, JE Lee… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
In Alzheimer's disease, fibrillar tau pathology accumulates and spreads through the brain
and synapses are lost. Evidence from mouse models indicates that tau spreads trans …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between Aβ and tau in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

H Zhang, W Wei, M Zhao, L Ma, X Jiang… - … journal of biological …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Extracellular neuritic plaques composed of amyloid‑β (Aβ) protein and intracellular
neurofibrillary tangles containing phosphorylated tau protein are the two hallmark proteins of …

[HTML][HTML] The foundation and architecture of precision medicine in neurology and psychiatry

H Hampel, P Gao, J Cummings, N Toschi… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Neurological and psychiatric diseases have high degrees of genetic and pathophysiological
heterogeneity, irrespective of clinical manifestations. Traditional medical paradigms have …

Alzheimer's disease

JAS Lopez, HM González, GC Léger - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia refers to a particular onset and course of cognitive and
functional decline associated with age together with a particular neuropathology. It was first …

A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …