The cholinergic system in Alzheimer's disease

P Kása, Z Rakonczay, K Gulya - Progress in neurobiology, 1997 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed an enormous increase in our knowledge of the variety and
complexity of neuropathological and neurochemical changes in Alzheimer's disease …

GABAA receptors in aging and Alzheimer's disease

RA Rissman, AL De Blas… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we present a comprehensive review of relevant research and reports on the
GABAA receptor in the aged and Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. In comparison to …

Neurotransmitter changes in Alzheimer's disease: implications to diagnostics and therapy

KJ Reinikainen, H Soininen… - Journal of neuroscience …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, dopaminergic, GABAergic
and somatostatinergic neurons were investigated to determine their roles in Alzheimer's …

Differential alteration of various cholinergic markers in cortical and subcortical regions of human brain in Alzheimer's disease

DM Araujo, PA Lapchak, Y Robitaille… - Journal of …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
The main objective of the present study was to determine whether cholinergic markers
(choline acetyltransferase activity and nicotinic and muscarinic receptors) are altered in …

The regulation of amyloid precursor protein metabolism by cholinergic mechanisms and neurotrophin receptor signaling

S Roßner, U Ueberham, R Schliebs… - Progress in …, 1998 - Elsevier
The increased expression and/or abnormal processing of the amyloid precursor protein
(APP) is associated with the formation of amyloid plaques and cerebrovascular amyloid …

Alzheimer's disease: changes in hippocampal N-methyl-d-aspartate, quisqualate, neurotensin, adenosine, benzodiazepine, serotonin and opioid receptors—an …

KLR Jansen, RLM Faull, M Dragunow, BL Synek - Neuroscience, 1990 - Elsevier
The following receptors were assessed post-mortem in the hippocampi (anterior region) of
eight patients with Alzheimer's disease and nine age-matched controls, using …

Novel Variance-Component TWAS method for studying complex human diseases with applications to Alzheimer's dementia

S Tang, AS Buchman, PL De Jager, DA Bennett… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have been widely used to integrate
transcriptomic and genetic data to study complex human diseases. Within a test dataset …

Cholinergic activity and amyloid precursor protein metabolism

MR Roberson, LE Harrell - Brain Research Reviews, 1997 - Elsevier
With more than 4 million Alzheimer's victims nationwide, there is intense research to
elucidate the relationship among the hallmarks of the disease, amyloid plaques …

Loss of highaffinity agonist binding to M1 muscarinic receptors in Alzheimer's disease: implications for the failure of cholinergic replacement therapies

DD Flynn, DA Weinstein… - Annals of Neurology …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Cholinergic replacement therapies have yielded little or no clinical improvement in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since the number of postsynaptic muscarinic receptors remains …

The distribution of cerebral muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in vivo in patients with dementia: a controlled study with 123IQNB and single photon emission …

DR Weinberger, R Gibson, R Coppola… - Archives of …, 1991 - jamanetwork.com
• A high-affinity muscarinic receptor antagonist, 123 IQNB (3-quinuclidinyl-4-io-dobenzilate
labeled with iodine 123), was used with single photon emission computed tomography to …