Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

B Bellaver, G Povala, PCL Ferreira, JP Ferrari-Souza… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
An unresolved question for the understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology
is why a significant percentage of amyloid-β (Aβ)-positive cognitively unimpaired (CU) …

Tau molecular diversity contributes to clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease

S Dujardin, C Commins, A Lathuiliere, P Beerepoot… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes unrelenting, progressive cognitive impairments, but its
course is heterogeneous, with a broad range of rates of cognitive decline. The spread of tau …

A soluble phosphorylated tau signature links tau, amyloid and the evolution of stages of dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease

NR Barthélemy, Y Li, N Joseph-Mathurin, BA Gordon… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Development of tau-based therapies for Alzheimer's disease requires an
understanding of the timing of disease-related changes in tau. We quantified the …

Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer's disease

JW Vogel, AL Young, NP Oxtoby, R Smith… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the spread of tau pathology throughout the
cerebral cortex. This spreading pattern was thought to be fairly consistent across individuals …

Cerebrospinal fluid tau and ptau181 increase with cortical amyloid deposition in cognitively normal individuals: Implications for future clinical trials of Alzheimer's …

AM Fagan, MA Mintun, AR Shah, P Aldea… - EMBO molecular …, 2009 - embopress.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is estimated to develop many years before detectable
cognitive decline. Fluid and imaging biomarkers may identify people in early symptomatic …

Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer's disease

MA Busche, BT Hyman - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) present with both extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)
plaques and intracellular tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. For many years …

Amyloid-β-independent regulators of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

R van der Kant, LSB Goldstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The global epidemic of Alzheimer disease (AD) is worsening, and no approved treatment
can revert or arrest progression of this disease. AD pathology is characterized by the …

Amyloid-β plaques enhance Alzheimer's brain tau-seeded pathologies by facilitating neuritic plaque tau aggregation

Z He, JL Guo, JD McBride, S Narasimhan, H Kim… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and
intracellular tau inclusions. However, the exact mechanistic link between these two AD …

Plasma brain-derived tau is an amyloid-associated neurodegeneration biomarker in Alzheimer's disease

F Gonzalez-Ortiz, BE Kirsebom, J Contador… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Staging amyloid-beta (Aβ) pathophysiology according to the intensity of neurodegeneration
could identify individuals at risk for cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In blood …

Amyloid-associated increases in soluble tau relate to tau aggregation rates and cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's disease

A Pichet Binette, N Franzmeier, N Spotorno… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
For optimal design of anti-amyloid-β (Aβ) and anti-tau clinical trials, we need to better
understand the pathophysiological cascade of Aβ-and tau-related processes. Therefore, we …