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 …

Tau ubiquitination in Alzheimer's disease

L Li, Y Jiang, JZ Wang, R Liu, X Wang - Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Paired helical filaments (PHFs) from the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain are highly
ubiquitinated and ubiquitination likely plays a vital role in tau filament formation. Whether tau …

Tau accelerates α-synuclein aggregation and spreading in Parkinson's disease

L Pan, C Li, L Meng, Y Tian, M He, X Yuan, G Zhang… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The aggregation and prion-like propagation of α-synuclein are involved in the pathogenesis
of Parkinson's disease. However, the underlying mechanisms regulating the assembly and …

FRET-based Tau seeding assay does not represent prion-like templated assembly of Tau filaments

S Kaniyappan, K Tepper, J Biernat… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Tau aggregation into amyloid fibers based on the cross-beta structure is a hallmark of
several Tauopathies, including Alzheimer Disease (AD). Trans-cellular propagation of Tau …

[HTML][HTML] Posttranscriptional regulation of neurofilament proteins and tau in health and disease

A Yuan, RA Nixon - Brain research bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurofilament and tau proteins are neuron-specific cytoskeletal proteins that are enriched in
axons, regulated by many of the same protein kinases, interact physically, and are the …

[HTML][HTML] Neurodevelopmental clues to neurodegeneration

NF Schor, DW Bianchi - Pediatric neurology, 2021 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by neuronal loss, usually in late life. But
recently, abnormalities of proteins implicated in neurodegenerative disorders have been …

Network pharmacology-based and experimental identification of the effects of quercetin on Alzheimer's disease

P Qi, J Li, S Gao, Y Yuan, Y Sun, N Liu, Y Li… - Frontiers in aging …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the neurodegenerative brain disorders inducing nearly
half of dementia cases, and the diagnosis and treatment of AD are the primary issues …

Influence of microchannel geometry on device performance and electrophysiological recording fidelity during long-term studies of connected neural populations

N Goshi, G Girardi, F da Costa Souza, A Gardner… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Compartmentalized microfluidic neural cell culture platforms, which physically separate
axons from the neural soma using a series of microchannels, have been used for studying a …

PAC1 receptor–mediated clearance of tau in postsynaptic compartments attenuates tau pathology in mouse brain

AW Schaler, AM Runyan, CL Clelland… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Accumulation of pathological tau in synapses has been identified as an early event in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and correlates with cognitive decline in patients with AD. Tau is a …

Disrupted ubiquitin proteasome system underlying tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

F Weng, L He - Neurobiology of aging, 2021 - Elsevier
Accumulation of phosphorylated tau (p-tau) has long been an underappreciated hallmark of
Alzheimer's disease. Tau is one of the major components of microtubule networks in …