Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

M Grossman, WW Seeley, AL Boxer, AE Hillis… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is one of the most common causes of early-onset
dementia and presents with early social–emotional–behavioural and/or language changes …

Single-cell genomic profiling of human dopamine neurons identifies a population that selectively degenerates in Parkinson's disease

T Kamath, A Abdulraouf, SJ Burris, J Langlieb… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The loss of dopamine (DA) neurons within the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) is a
defining pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). Nevertheless, the molecular …

Compilation of reported protein changes in the brain in Alzheimer's disease

M Askenazi, T Kavanagh, G Pires… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Proteomic studies of human Alzheimer's disease brain tissue have potential to identify
protein changes that drive disease, and to identify new drug targets. Here, we analyse 38 …

Molecular signatures underlying neurofibrillary tangle susceptibility in Alzheimer's disease

M Otero-Garcia, SU Mahajani, D Wakhloo, W Tang… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Tau aggregation in neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is closely associated with
neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the …

Hypothesis: Tau pathology is an initiating factor in sporadic Alzheimer's disease

AFT Arnsten, D Datta, K Del Tredici… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The etiology of the common, sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease (sAD) is unknown. We
hypothesize that tau pathology within select projection neurons with susceptible …

A single-cell atlas of the human substantia nigra reveals cell-specific pathways associated with neurological disorders

D Agarwal, C Sandor, V Volpato, TM Caffrey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We describe a human single-nuclei transcriptomic atlas for the substantia nigra (SN),
generated by sequencing approximately 17,000 nuclei from matched cortical and SN …

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 …

Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight

JW Vogel, N Corriveau-Lecavalier… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are the most common cause of dementia. Although their
underlying molecular pathologies have been identified, there is substantial heterogeneity in …

Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer's disease

K Leng, E Li, R Eser, A Piergies, R Sit, M Tan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the selective vulnerability of specific neuronal
populations, the molecular signatures of which are largely unknown. To identify and …