[HTML][HTML] Beta amyloid aggregates induce sensitised TLR4 signalling causing long-term potentiation deficit and rat neuronal cell death

C Hughes, ML Choi, JH Yi, SC Kim, A Drews… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The molecular events causing memory loss and neuronal cell death in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) over time are still unknown. Here we found that picomolar concentrations of soluble …

Identification of neurotoxic cross-linked amyloid-β dimers in the Alzheimer's brain

G Brinkmalm, W Hong, Z Wang, W Liu, TT O'Malley… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The primary structure of canonical amyloid-β-protein was elucidated more than 30 years
ago, yet the forms of amyloid-β that play a role in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis remain …

Cellular prion protein mediates the disruption of hippocampal synaptic plasticity by soluble tau in vivo

T Ondrejcak, I Klyubin, GT Corbett… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed of tau protein are a neuropathological
hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases, the most common of which is Alzheimer's …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory evolution of a sortase enzyme that modifies amyloid-β protein

CJ Podracky, C An, A DeSousa, BM Dorr… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Epitope-specific enzymes are powerful tools for site-specific protein modification but
generally require genetic manipulation of the target protein. Here, we describe the …

Target engagement in an alzheimer trial: Crenezumab lowers amyloid β oligomers in cerebrospinal fluid

T Yang, Y Dang, B Ostaszewski, D Mengel… - Annals of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Oligomeric forms of amyloid β protein (oAβ) are believed to be principally
responsible for neurotoxicity in Alzheimer disease (AD), but it is not known whether anti‐Aβ …

Soluble amyloid beta-containing aggregates are present throughout the brain at early stages of Alzheimer's disease

DI Sideris, JSH Danial, D Emin, FS Ruggeri… - Brain …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Protein aggregation likely plays a key role in the initiation and spreading of Alzheimer's
disease pathology through the brain. Soluble aggregates of amyloid beta are believed to …

Bioactive human Alzheimer brain soluble Aβ: pathophysiology and therapeutic opportunities

S Li, AM Stern - Molecular Psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
The accumulation of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) plays an early role in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The precise mechanism of how Aβ accumulation leads to synaptic …

Impairments of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in Alzheimer's disease

B Zott, A Konnerth - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is structural cell damage and neuronal
death in the brains of affected individuals. As these changes are irreversible, it is important …

Passive antiamyloid immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

JC Loureiro, MV Pais, F Stella… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Passive immunotherapy RCTs failed to show clinically relevant effects in patients with
clinically manifest or prodromal dementia. The high incidence of ARIAs indicates that the risk …

[HTML][HTML] Aβ oligomer concentration in mouse and human brain and its drug-induced reduction ex vivo

B Kass, S Schemmert, C Zafiu, M Pils, O Bannach… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
The elimination of amyloid beta (Aβ) oligomers is a promising strategy for therapeutic drug
development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD mouse models that develop Aβ pathology …