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 …

Brain lipidomics: From functional landscape to clinical significance

JH Yoon, Y Seo, YS Jo, S Lee, E Cho… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Lipids are crucial components of cellular function owing to their role in membrane formation,
intercellular signaling, energy storage, and homeostasis maintenance. In the brain, lipid …

Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

T Bartels, S De Schepper, S Hong - Science, 2020 - science.org
Dementia is a rapidly rising global health crisis that silently disables families and ends lives
and livelihoods around the world. To date, however, no early biomarkers or effective …

Lipids and Alzheimer's disease

YC Kao, PC Ho, YK Tu, IM Jou, KJ Tsai - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lipids, as the basic component of cell membranes, play an important role in human health
as well as brain function. The brain is highly enriched in lipids, and disruption of lipid …

The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease at 25 years

DJ Selkoe, J Hardy - EMBO molecular medicine, 2016 - embopress.org
Despite continuing debate about the amyloid β‐protein (or Aβ hypothesis, new lines of
evidence from laboratories and clinics worldwide support the concept that an imbalance …

Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models

S Hong, VF Beja-Glasser, BM Nfonoyim, A Frouin, S Li… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Synapse loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD) correlates with cognitive decline. Involvement of
microglia and complement in AD has been attributed to neuroinflammation, prominent late in …

Immune attack: the role of inflammation in Alzheimer disease

FL Heppner, RM Ransohoff, B Becher - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
The past two decades of research into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) have
been driven largely by the amyloid hypothesis; the neuroinflammation that is associated with …

Towards an understanding of amyloid-β oligomers: characterization, toxicity mechanisms, and inhibitors

SJC Lee, E Nam, HJ Lee, MG Savelieff… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by an imbalance between production and
clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) species. Aβ peptides can transform structurally from monomers …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-to-cell communication by extracellular vesicles: focus on microglia

RC Paolicelli, G Bergamini, L Rajendran - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles, including exosomes and microvesicles, are small, nano-to-micrometer
vesicles that are released from cells. While initially observed in immune cells and …

New insights on the role of microglia in synaptic pruning in health and disease

S Hong, L Dissing-Olesen, B Stevens - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Recent GWAS identified microglia-related pathways as risk factors for
Alzheimer's.•Role of immune molecules in synapse loss, a hallmark of Alzheimer's, is poorly …