Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

Neuronal cell death

M Fricker, AM Tolkovsky, V Borutaite… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Neuronal cell death occurs extensively during development and pathology, where it is
especially important because of the limited capacity of adult neurons to proliferate or be …

[HTML][HTML] X-linked ubiquitin-specific peptidase 11 increases tauopathy vulnerability in women

Y Yan, X Wang, D Chaput, MK Shin, Y Koh, L Gan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Although women experience significantly higher tau burden and increased risk for
Alzheimer's disease (AD) than men, the underlying mechanism for this vulnerability has not …

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 …

Propagation and spread of pathogenic protein assemblies in neurodegenerative diseases

M Jucker, LC Walker - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are characterized by the progressive appearance of abnormal …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] MAPT mutations, tauopathy, and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

KH Strang, TE Golde, BI Giasson - Laboratory investigation, 2019 - Elsevier
In multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), a prominent
pathological feature is the aberrant aggregation and inclusion formation of the microtubule …

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

M Goedert - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most
common human neurodegenerative diseases. AD is primarily a dementing disease, and PD …