Understanding disease progression and improving Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: Recent highlights from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

DP Veitch, MW Weiner, PS Aisen, LA Beckett… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction The overall goal of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is to
validate biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials. ADNI is a multisite …

Dental pulp stem cell-derived secretome and its regenerative potential

JK Bar, A Lis-Nawara, PG Grelewski - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The therapeutic potential of the dental pulp stem (DSC) cell-derived secretome, consisting of
various biomolecules, is undergoing intense research. Despite promising in vitro and in vivo …

Human and mouse single-nucleus transcriptomics reveal TREM2-dependent and TREM2-independent cellular responses in Alzheimer's disease

Y Zhou, WM Song, PS Andhey, A Swain, T Levy… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Glia have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Variants of the
microglia receptor triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) increase AD …

Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fluid production

L Pellegrini, C Bonfio, J Chadwick, F Begum, M Skehel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The choroid plexus is a secretory epithelial tissue of the central nervous
system (CNS) responsible for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production and functions as a barrier …

Systemic inflammation during midlife and cognitive change over 20 years: The ARIC Study

KA Walker, RF Gottesman, A Wu, DS Knopman… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To examine the association between systemic inflammation measured during
midlife and 20-year cognitive decline. Methods Within the Atherosclerosis Risk in …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially exploring RNA biology in archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues

Z Bai, D Zhang, Y Gao, B Tao, D Zhang, S Bao… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The capability to spatially explore RNA biology in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE)
tissues holds transformative potential for histopathology research. Here, we present …

Damaged brain accelerates bone healing by releasing small extracellular vesicles that target osteoprogenitors

W Xia, J Xie, Z Cai, X Liu, J Wen, ZK Cui, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical evidence has established that concomitant traumatic brain injury (TBI) accelerates
bone healing, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. This study shows that after TBI …

Large-scale plasma proteomic analysis identifies proteins and pathways associated with dementia risk

KA Walker, J Chen, J Zhang, M Fornage, Y Yang… - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
The plasma proteomic changes that precede the onset of dementia could yield insights into
disease biology and highlight new biomarkers and avenues for intervention. We quantified …

Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways

PP Zandi, AE Jaffe, FS Goes, EE Burke… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent genetic studies have identified variants associated with bipolar disorder (BD), but it
remains unclear how brain gene expression is altered in BD and how genetic risk for BD …

Age-related neurodegenerative disease associated pathways identified in retinal and vitreous proteome from human glaucoma eyes

M Mirzaei, VB Gupta, JM Chick, TM Greco, Y Wu… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Glaucoma is a chronic disease that shares many similarities with other neurodegenerative
disorders of the central nervous system. This study was designed to evaluate the association …