[HTML][HTML] The amyloid-β oligomer hypothesis: beginning of the third decade

EN Cline, MA Bicca, KL Viola… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
The amyloid-β oligomer (AβO) hypothesis was introduced in 1998. It proposed that the brain
damage leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD) was instigated by soluble, ligand-like AβOs …

Synaptotoxic amyloid-β oligomers: a molecular basis for the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease?

WL Klein - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2013 - content.iospress.com
The oligomer hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) was introduced in 1998. It was based
on evidence that oligomers could exist free of amyloid fibrils, that fibril-free oligomer …

Aβ oligomers–a decade of discovery

DM Walsh, DJ Selkoe - Journal of neurochemistry, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Converging lines of evidence suggest that progressive accumulation of the amyloid β‐
protein (Aβ) plays a central role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease, but it was long …

[HTML][HTML] Inconsistencies and controversies surrounding the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease

GP Morris, IA Clark, B Vissel - Acta neuropathologica communications, 2014 - Springer
The amyloid hypothesis has driven drug development strategies for Alzheimer's disease for
over 20 years. We review why accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) oligomers is generally …

Amyloid β oligomers in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, treatment, and diagnosis

KL Viola, WL Klein - Acta neuropathologica, 2015 - Springer
Protein aggregation is common to dozens of diseases including prionoses, diabetes,
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Over the past 15 years, there has been a paradigm shift in …

The Aβ oligomer hypothesis for synapse failure and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease

ST Ferreira, WL Klein - Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2011 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the 3rd most costly disease and the leading cause of dementia.
It can linger for many years, but ultimately is fatal, the 6th leading cause of death …

Soluble Aβ oligomer production and toxicity

ME Larson, SE Lesné - Journal of neurochemistry, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
J. Neurochem.(2012) 120 (Suppl. 1), 125–139. Abstract For nearly 100 years following the
first description of this neurological disorder by Dr Alois Alzheimer, amyloid plaques and …

The toxic Aβ oligomer and Alzheimer's disease: an emperor in need of clothes

I Benilova, E Karran, B De Strooper - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
The'toxic Aβ oligomer'hypothesis has attracted considerable attention among Alzheimer's
disease researchers as a way of resolving the lack of correlation between deposited amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Neurotoxic soluble amyloid oligomers drive Alzheimer's pathogenesis and represent a clinically validated target for slowing disease progression

M Tolar, J Hey, A Power, S Abushakra - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
A large body of clinical and nonclinical evidence supports the role of neurotoxic soluble beta
amyloid (amyloid, Aβ) oligomers as upstream pathogenic drivers of Alzheimer's disease …

The essential role of soluble Aβ oligomers in Alzheimer's disease

ZX Wang, L Tan, J Liu, JT Yu - Molecular neurobiology, 2016 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disease characterized by
amyloid plaque and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT). With the finding that soluble nonfibrillar Aβ …