Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease

EE Congdon, EM Sigurdsson - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. Pathologically, AD is
characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, with associated …

The intersection of amyloid beta and tau at synapses in Alzheimer's disease

TL Spires-Jones, BT Hyman - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
The collapse of neural networks important for memory and cognition, including death of
neurons and degeneration of synapses, causes the debilitating dementia associated with …

Tau pathology and neurodegeneration contribute to cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

A Bejanin, DR Schonhaut, R La Joie, JH Kramer… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Neuropathological and in vivo studies have revealed a tight relationship between tau
pathology and cognitive impairment across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum. However, tau …

Autophagy flux in CA1 neurons of Alzheimer hippocampus: Increased induction overburdens failing lysosomes to propel neuritic dystrophy

M Bordi, MJ Berg, PS Mohan, CM Peterhoff… - Autophagy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Defective autophagy contributes to Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis although
evidence is conflicting on whether multiple stages are impaired. Here, for the first time, we …

Autophagy failure in Alzheimer's disease—locating the primary defect

RA Nixon, DS Yang - Neurobiology of disease, 2011 - Elsevier
Autophagy, the major degradative pathway for organelles and long-lived proteins, is
essential for the survival of neurons. Mounting evidence has implicated defective autophagy …

Incipient Alzheimer's disease: microarray correlation analyses reveal major transcriptional and tumor suppressor responses

EM Blalock, JW Geddes, KC Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
The pathogenesis of incipient Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been resistant to analysis
because of the complexity of AD and the overlap of its early-stage markers with normal …

Engineered nucleic acids encoding a modified erythropoietin and their expression

JP Schrum, NB Afeyan, GJ Sieczkiewicz… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
First worldwide family litigation filed litigation Critical https://patents. darts-ip. com/? family=
46147671&utm_source= google_patent&utm_medium= platform_link&utm_campaign …

Cholinergic system during the progression of Alzheimer's disease: therapeutic implications

EJ Mufson, SE Counts, SE Perez… - Expert review of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a progressive phenotypic downregulation of
markers within cholinergic basal forebrain (CBF) neurons, frank CBF cell loss and reduced …

Autophagy, amyloidogenesis and Alzheimer disease

RA Nixon - Journal of cell science, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Autophagy is the sole pathway for organelle turnover in cells and is a vital pathway for
degrading normal and aggregated proteins, particularly under stress or injury conditions …

Glutaredoxin systems

CH Lillig, C Berndt, A Holmgren - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2008 - Elsevier
Glutaredoxins utilize the reducing power of glutathione to maintain and regulate the cellular
redox state and redox-dependent signaling pathways, for instance, by catalyzing reversible …