Restoring Wnt/β-catenin signaling is a promising therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease

L Jia, J Piña-Crespo, Y Li - Molecular brain, 2019 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an aging-related neurological disorder characterized by
synaptic loss and dementia. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an essential signal transduction …

Can we safely target the WNT pathway?

M Kahn - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
WNT–β-catenin signalling is involved in a multitude of developmental processes and the
maintenance of adult tissue homeostasis by regulating cell proliferation, differentiation …

WNT signaling in disease

LF Ng, P Kaur, N Bunnag, J Suresh, ICH Sung, QH Tan… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Developmental signaling pathways control a vast array of biological processes during
embryogenesis and in adult life. The WNT pathway was discovered simultaneously in …

WNT signalling pathways as therapeutic targets in cancer

JN Anastas, RT Moon - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Since the initial discovery of the oncogenic activity of WNT1 in mouse mammary glands, our
appreciation for the complex roles for WNT signalling pathways in cancer has increased …

Oligomeric Aβ-induced synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

S Tu, S Okamoto, SA Lipton, H Xu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2014 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disease characterized by synaptic and neuronal
loss in the elderly. Compelling evidence suggests that soluble amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) …

Activating Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway for disease therapy: Challenges and opportunities

P Huang, R Yan, X Zhang, L Wang, X Ke… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is essential for embryo development and adult tissue
homeostasis and regeneration, abnormal regulation of the pathway is tightly associated with …

Wnt signaling deregulation in the aging and Alzheimer's brain

E Palomer, J Buechler, PC Salinas - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Growing evidence suggests that synaptic signaling is compromised in the aging brain and in
Alzheimer's disease (AD), contributing to synaptic decline. Wnt signaling is a prominent …

Apolipoprotein E and apolipoprotein E receptors: normal biology and roles in Alzheimer disease

DM Holtzman, J Herz, G Bu - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer disease
(AD); the ε4 allele increases risk and the ε2 allele is protective. In the central nervous system …

Role of Wnt signaling in adult hippocampal neurogenesis in health and disease

SB Arredondo, D Valenzuela-Bezanilla… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurogenesis persists during adulthood in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. Signals
provided by the local hippocampal microenvironment support neural stem cell proliferation …

The GSK3 hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease

C Hooper, R Killick, S Lovestone - Journal of neurochemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
J. Neurochem.(2008) 104, 1433–1439. Abstract Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) is a
constitutively active, proline‐directed serine/threonine kinase that plays a part in a number of …