Phosphorylated tau in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

P Rawat, U Sehar, J Bisht, A Selman… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in elderly people. Amyloid beta
(Aβ) deposits and neurofibrillary tangles are the major pathological features in an …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

Plasma p-tau231: a new biomarker for incipient Alzheimer's disease pathology

NJ Ashton, TA Pascoal, TK Karikari, AL Benedet… - Acta …, 2021 - Springer
The quantification of phosphorylated tau in biofluids, either cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or
plasma, has shown great promise in detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology …

Alzheimer's disease

JAS Lopez, HM González, GC Léger - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia refers to a particular onset and course of cognitive and
functional decline associated with age together with a particular neuropathology. It was first …

Role of tau as a microtubule-associated protein: structural and functional aspects

P Barbier, O Zejneli, M Martinho, A Lasorsa… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Microtubules (MTs) play a fundamental role in many vital processes such as cell division
and neuronal activity. They are key structural and functional elements in axons, supporting …

Tau: Enabler of diverse brain disorders and target of rapidly evolving therapeutic strategies

CW Chang, E Shao, L Mucke - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The microtubule-associated protein tau has been implicated in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and a range of other neurodegenerative disorders …

Cellular and pathological heterogeneity of primary tauopathies

DC Chung, S Roemer, L Petrucelli… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Microtubule-associated protein tau is abnormally aggregated in neuronal and glial cells in a
range of neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively referred to as tauopathies …

Distribution patterns of tau pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy

GG Kovacs, MJ Lukic, DJ Irwin, T Arzberger… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a 4R-tauopathy predominated by subcortical
pathology in neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendroglia associated with various clinical …

An update on genetic frontotemporal dementia

CV Greaves, JD Rohrer - Journal of neurology, 2019 - Springer
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a highly heritable group of neurodegenerative disorders,
with around 30% of patients having a strong family history. The majority of that heritability is …

BACE1 inhibitors: Current status and future directions in treating Alzheimer's disease

NM Moussa‐Pacha, SM Abdin, HA Omar… - Medicinal research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder
with no current cure. One of the important therapeutic approaches of AD is the inhibition of β …