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 …

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 …

Role of Aβ in Alzheimer's-related synaptic dysfunction

H Zhang, X Jiang, L Ma, W Wei, Z Li… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Synaptic dysfunction is closely related to Alzheimer's disease (AD) which is also recognized
as synaptic disorder. β-amyloid (Aβ) is one of the main pathogenic factors in AD, which …

Wnt signaling in the nervous system and in Alzheimer's disease

NC Inestrosa, L Varela-Nallar - Journal of molecular cell biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Wnts comprise a large family of proteins that have shown to be part of a signaling cascade
that regulates several aspects of development including organogenesis, midbrain …

Nuclear envelope budding enables large ribonucleoprotein particle export during synaptic Wnt signaling

SD Speese, J Ashley, V Jokhi, J Nunnari, R Barria, Y Li… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Localized protein synthesis requires assembly and transport of translationally silenced
ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs), some of which are exceptionally large. Where in the cell …

WNT signaling in neuronal maturation and synaptogenesis

SB Rosso, NC Inestrosa - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The Wnt signaling pathway plays a role in the development of the central nervous system
and growing evidence indicates that Wnts also regulates the structure and function of the …

Dysfunctional synapse in Alzheimer's disease–A focus on NMDA receptors

SI Mota, IL Ferreira, AC Rego - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia in the elderly. Alterations
capable of causing brain circuitry dysfunctions in AD may take several years to develop …

Deficiency in LRP6-mediated Wnt signaling contributes to synaptic abnormalities and amyloid pathology in Alzheimer's disease

CC Liu, CW Tsai, F Deak, J Rogers, M Penuliar… - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurological disorder characterized by synaptic
loss and dementia. The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6 (LRP6) is an …

Aberrant excitatory–inhibitory synaptic mechanisms in entorhinal cortex microcircuits during the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

AL Petrache, A Rajulawalla, A Shi, A Wetzel… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Synaptic dysfunction is widely proposed as an initial insult leading to the neurodegeneration
observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We hypothesize that the initial insult originates in the …

Wnt signaling in the regulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis

L Varela-Nallar, NC Inestrosa - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
In the adult brain new neurons are continuously generated mainly in two regions, the
subventricular zone (SVZ) of the lateral ventricles and the subgranular zone (SGZ) in the …