The amyloid hypothesis in Alzheimer disease: new insights from new therapeutics

E Karran, B De Strooper - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Many drugs that target amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease (AD) have failed to demonstrate
clinical efficacy. However, four anti-Aβ antibodies have been shown to mediate the removal …

The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised

GB Frisoni, D Altomare, DR Thal, F Ribaldi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The current conceptualization of Alzheimer disease (AD) is driven by the amyloid
hypothesis, in which a deterministic chain of events leads from amyloid deposition and then …

Emerging roles of innate and adaptive immunity in Alzheimer's disease

X Chen, DM Holtzman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with
characteristic extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition and intracellular accumulation of …

Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

O Hansson - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases are needed to improve the diagnostic workup in
the clinic but also to facilitate the development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying …

Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer's disease

JW Vogel, AL Young, NP Oxtoby, R Smith… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the spread of tau pathology throughout the
cerebral cortex. This spreading pattern was thought to be fairly consistent across individuals …

Alzheimer's disease

P Scheltens, B De Strooper, M Kivipelto, H Holstege… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
In this Seminar, we highlight the main developments in the field of Alzheimer's disease. The
most recent data indicate that, by 2050, the prevalence of dementia will double in Europe …

Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges

Y Zhang, KM Wu, L Yang, Q Dong, JT Yu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Background Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by
neuronal and/or glial tau-positive inclusions. Main body Clinically, tauopathies can present …

Structure-based discovery of small molecules that disaggregate Alzheimer's disease tissue derived tau fibrils in vitro

PM Seidler, KA Murray, DR Boyer, P Ge… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the consequence of neuronal death and brain atrophy
associated with the aggregation of protein tau into fibrils. Thus disaggregation of tau fibrils …

Alzheimer's disease: Recent treatment strategies

M Vaz, S Silvestre - European journal of pharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by two
neuropathological hallmarks: extracellular deposition of amyloid plaques and intracellular …

Role of aducanumab in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Challenges and opportunities

M Vaz, V Silva, C Monteiro… - Clinical interventions in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Aducanumab is a monoclonal antibody selective for amyloid β (Aβ) aggregates. In June
2021, aducanumab became the first drug underlying the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's …