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 …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-gut-microbiota axis in Alzheimer's disease

K Kowalski, A Mulak - Journal of neurogastroenterology and …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Disturbances along the brain-gut-microbiota axis may significantly contribute to the
pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent …

Loss of TREM2 function increases amyloid seeding but reduces plaque-associated ApoE

S Parhizkar, T Arzberger, M Brendel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Coding variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are
associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). We demonstrate that amyloid plaque …

[HTML][HTML] Secondary nucleation in amyloid formation

M Törnquist, TCT Michaels, K Sanagavarapu… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleation of new peptide and protein aggregates on the surfaces of amyloid fibrils of the
same peptide or protein has emerged in the past two decades as a major pathway for both …

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 …

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 …

Microbes and Alzheimer's disease

RF Itzhaki, R Lathe, BJ Balin, MJ Ball… - … of Infection and …, 2017 - ebooks.iospress.nl
We are researchers and clinicians working on Alzheimer's disease (AD) or related topics,
and we write to express our concern that one particular aspect of the disease has been …

Spreading of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on human studies

J Brettschneider, KD Tredici, VMY Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The progression of many neurodegenerative diseases is thought to be driven by the
template-directed misfolding, seeded aggregation and cell–cell transmission of …

Self-propagation of pathogenic protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases

M Jucker, LC Walker - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
For several decades scientists have speculated that the key to understanding age-related
neurodegenerative disorders may be found in the unusual biology of the prion diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of pathogenic tau and Aβ protein spreading in Alzheimer's disease

P d 'Errico, M Meyer-Luehmann - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically defined by extracellular accumulation of amyloid-
β (Aβ) peptides generated by the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), strings of …