Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease

H Akiyama, S Barger, S Barnum, B Bradt, J Bauer… - Neurobiology of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Inflammation clearly occurs in pathologically vulnerable regions of the Alzheimer's disease
(AD) brain, and it does so with the full complexity of local peripheral inflammatory responses …

Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

RA Armstrong - Folia neuropathologica, 2019 - termedia.pl
Early reviews identified over 20 risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD)
including age, familial inheritance, exposure to aluminium, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and …

What causes Alzheimer's disease?

RA Armstrong - Folia neuropathologica, 2013 - termedia.pl
Since the earliest descriptions of Alzheimer's disease (AD), many theories have been
advanced as to its cause. These include:(1) exacerbation of aging,(2) degeneration of …

Cerebral amyloid deposition and diffuse plaques in``normal''aging: Evidence for presymptomatic and very mild Alzheimer's disease

JC Morris, M Storandt, DW McKeel Jr, EH Rubin… - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
Methods. Subjects. All were enrolled as healthy elderly control subjects in a longitudinal
study of DAT for which the recruitment, entry characteristics, and assessment methods have …

Butyrylcholinesterase reactivity differentiates the amyloid plaques of aging from those of dementia

M Mesulam, C Geula - Annals of Neurology: Official Journal of …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
In a sample of consecutively received, 4 demented and 4 age‐matched nondemented
brains, the total cortical area covered by plaque‐like Aβ amyloid and butyrylcholinesterase …

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and Alzheimer-type pathology in aging

IRA Mackenzie, DG Munoz - Neurology, 1998 - AAN Enterprises
Anti-inflammatory drugs have been suggested as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's
disease (AD). The association of immune proteins and immune-competent microglial cells …

The cause of neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

JC Vickers, TC Dickson, PA Adlard, HL Saunders… - Progress in …, 2000 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease is associated with a specific pattern of pathological changes in the brain
that result in neurodegeneration and the progressive development of dementia. Pathological …

Butyrylcholinesterase Is Associated With β-Amyloid Plaques in the Transgenic APPSWE/PSEN1dE9 Mouse Model of Alzheimer Disease

S Darvesh, MK Cash, GA Reid, E Martin… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Histochemical analysis of Alzheimer disease (AD) brain tissues indicates that
butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) is present in β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques. The role of BuChE in …

Role of microglia in senile plaque formation

IRA Mackenzie, C Hao, DG Munoz - Neurobiology of aging, 1995 - Elsevier
To assess the role of microglial cells in senile plaque (SP) formation, we examined the
density and distribution of microglia in the temporal neocortex of three groups of …

Amyloid-β deposits in the cerebral cortex of the aged common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus): incidence and chemical composition

C Geula, N Nagykery, CK Wu - Acta neuropathologica, 2002 - Springer
The incidence, distribution and chemical composition of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide-positive
deposits were investigated in the lower primate species common marmoset (Callithrix …