Astrocyte energy and neurotransmitter metabolism in Alzheimer's disease: integration of the glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle

JV Andersen, A Schousboe, A Verkhratsky - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Astrocytes contribute to the complex cellular pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Neurons and astrocytes function in close collaboration through neurotransmitter recycling …

Neuronal hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease: what are the drivers behind this aberrant phenotype?

H Targa Dias Anastacio, N Matosin, L Ooi - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to loss of
cognitive abilities and ultimately, death. With no cure available, limited treatments mostly …

Network abnormalities and interneuron dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

JJ Palop, L Mucke - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
The function of neural circuits and networks can be controlled, in part, by modulating the
synchrony of their components' activities. Network hypersynchrony and altered oscillatory …

Rodent models for Alzheimer disease

J Götz, LG Bodea, M Goedert - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Animal models are indispensable tools for Alzheimer disease (AD) research. Over the
course of more than two decades, an increasing number of complementary rodent models …

Neuronal activity enhances tau propagation and tau pathology in vivo

JW Wu, SA Hussaini, IM Bastille, GA Rodriguez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Tau protein can transfer between neurons transneuronally and trans-synaptically, which is
thought to explain the progressive spread of tauopathy observed in the brain of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal excitation/inhibition imbalance: core element of a translational perspective on Alzheimer pathophysiology

F Maestú, W de Haan, MA Busche, J DeFelipe - Ageing Research Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Our incomplete understanding of the link between Alzheimer's Disease pathology and
symptomatology is a crucial obstacle for therapeutic success. Recently, translational studies …

The road to restoring neural circuits for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

RG Canter, J Penney, LH Tsai - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive loss of memory and cognition, for which there is no
cure. Although genetic studies initially suggested a primary role for amyloid-in Alzheimer's …

Epileptic activity in Alzheimer's disease: causes and clinical relevance

KA Vossel, MC Tartaglia, HB Nygaard… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Epileptic activity is frequently associated with Alzheimer's disease; this association has
therapeutic implications, because epileptic activity can occur at early disease stages and …

Dendritic tau in Alzheimer's disease

A Ittner, LM Ittner - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The microtubule-associated protein tau and amyloid-β (Aβ) are key players in Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Aβ and tau are linked in a molecular pathway at the post-synapse with tau …

Mechanisms of hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease hiPSC-derived neurons and cerebral organoids vs isogenic controls

S Ghatak, N Dolatabadi, D Trudler, XT Zhang, Y Wu… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Human Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and transgenic AD mouse models manifest
hyperexcitability. This aberrant electrical activity is caused by synaptic dysfunction that …