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 …

[PDF][PDF] Hallmarks of brain aging: adaptive and pathological modification by metabolic states

MP Mattson, TV Arumugam - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
During aging, the cellular milieu of the brain exhibits tell-tale signs of compromised
bioenergetics, impaired adaptive neuroplasticity and resilience, aberrant neuronal network …

Senolytic therapy alleviates Aβ-associated oligodendrocyte progenitor cell senescence and cognitive deficits in an Alzheimer's disease model

P Zhang, Y Kishimoto, I Grammatikakis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Neuritic plaques, a pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, comprise
extracellular aggregates of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and degenerating neurites that …

Frontotemporal dementia

J Bang, S Spina, BL Miller - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella clinical term that encompasses a group of
neurodegenerative diseases characterised by progressive deficits in behaviour, executive …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosome dysfunction as a cause of neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Root, P Merino, A Nuckols, M Johnson… - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders that are thought to exist on a clinical and pathological …

Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders

S Ducharme, A Dols, R Laforce, E Devenney, F Kumfor… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a frequent cause of early-
onset dementia. The diagnosis of bvFTD remains challenging because of the limited …

[PDF][PDF] ALS/FTD mutation-induced phase transition of FUS liquid droplets and reversible hydrogels into irreversible hydrogels impairs RNP granule function

T Murakami, S Qamar, JQ Lin, GSK Schierle, E Rees… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The mechanisms by which mutations in FUS and other RNA binding proteins cause ALS
and FTD remain controversial. We propose a model in which low-complexity (LC) domains …

Self-propagation of pathogenic protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases

M Jucker, LC Walker - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
For several decades scientists have speculated that the key to understanding age-related
neurodegenerative disorders may be found in the unusual biology of the prion diseases …

C9orf72 nucleotide repeat structures initiate molecular cascades of disease

AR Haeusler, CJ Donnelly, G Periz, EAJ Simko… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
A hexanucleotide repeat expansion (HRE),(GGGGCC) n, in C9orf72 is the most common
genetic cause of the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …

ER–mitochondria associations are regulated by the VAPB–PTPIP51 interaction and are disrupted by ALS/FTD-associated TDP-43

R Stoica, KJ De Vos, S Paillusson, S Mueller… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) form tight structural associations and
these facilitate a number of cellular functions. However, the mechanisms by which regions of …