ApoE in Alzheimer's disease: pathophysiology and therapeutic strategies

AC Raulin, SV Doss, ZA Trottier, TC Ikezu, G Bu… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide, and its
prevalence is rapidly increasing due to extended lifespans. Among the increasing number of …

Liver X receptors in lipid signalling and membrane homeostasis

B Wang, P Tontonoz - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2018 - nature.com
Liver X receptors α and β (LXRα and LXRβ) are nuclear receptors with pivotal roles in the
transcriptional control of lipid metabolism. Transcriptional activity of LXRs is induced in …

scRNA-seq of gastric tumor shows complex intercellular interaction with an alternative T cell exhaustion trajectory

K Sun, R Xu, F Ma, N Yang, Y Li, X Sun, P Jin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) in gastric cancer (GC) has been shown to be important
for tumor control but the specific characteristics for GC are not fully appreciated. We …

Oxidized phospholipids are proinflammatory and proatherogenic in hypercholesterolaemic mice

X Que, MY Hung, C Yeang, A Gonen, TA Prohaska… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Oxidized phospholipids (OxPL) are ubiquitous, are formed in many inflammatory tissues,
including atherosclerotic lesions, and frequently mediate proinflammatory changes …

Amelioration of Tau and ApoE4-linked glial lipid accumulation and neurodegeneration with an LXR agonist

A Litvinchuk, JH Suh, JL Guo, K Lin, SS Davis… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a strong genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(LOAD). APOE4 increases and APOE2 decreases risk relative to APOE3. In the P301S …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages and lipid metabolism

A Remmerie, CL Scott - Cellular immunology, 2018 - Elsevier
Distinct macrophage populations throughout the body display highly heterogeneous
transcriptional and epigenetic programs. Recent research has highlighted that these profiles …

Cholesterol, inflammation and innate immunity

AR Tall, L Yvan-Charvet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Hypercholesterolaemia leads to cholesterol accumulation in macrophages and other
immune cells, which promotes inflammatory responses, including augmentation of Toll-like …

The role of APOE4 in disrupting the homeostatic functions of astrocytes and microglia in aging and Alzheimer's disease

CG Fernandez, ME Hamby, ML McReynolds… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
APOE4 is the greatest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), increasing
the risk of developing the disease by 3-fold in the 14% of the population that are carriers …

Liver X receptors in lipid metabolism: opportunities for drug discovery

C Hong, P Tontonoz - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
The liver X receptors (LXRs) are pivotal regulators of lipid homeostasis in mammals. These
transcription factors control the expression of a battery of genes involved in the uptake …

Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

S Fukuda, H Toh, K Hase, K Oshima, Y Nakanishi… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The human gut is colonized with a wide variety of microorganisms, including species, such
as those belonging to the bacterial genus Bifidobacterium, that have beneficial effects on …