Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

The synapse as a treatment avenue for Alzheimer's Disease

L Peng, I Bestard-Lorigados, W Song - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with devastating symptoms,
including memory impairments and cognitive deficits. Hallmarks of AD pathology are …

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 …

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 …

The clinical promise of biomarkers of synapse damage or loss in Alzheimer's disease

M Colom-Cadena, T Spires-Jones, H Zetterberg… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Synapse damage and loss are fundamental to the pathophysiology of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and lead to reduced cognitive function. The goal of this review is to …

[HTML][HTML] Tau and neuroinflammation: What impact for Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies?

C Laurent, L Buée, D Blum - Biomedical journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the most common
type of dementia (60–80% of cases). In 2016, nearly 44 million people were affected by AD …

Synaptic impairment in Alzheimer's disease: a dysregulated symphony

S Forner, D Baglietto-Vargas, AC Martini… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by memory loss, cognitive decline, and
devastating neurodegeneration, not only as a result of the extracellular accumulation of beta …

Mechanisms of secretion and spreading of pathological tau protein

CA Brunello, M Merezhko, RL Uronen… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Accumulation of misfolded and aggregated forms of tau protein in the brain is a
neuropathological hallmark of tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal …

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 …

Synaptic tau seeding precedes tau pathology in human Alzheimer's disease brain

SL DeVos, BT Corjuc, DH Oakley… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is defined by the presence of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles
(NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates as well as extracellular amyloid …