[HTML][HTML] A human brain vascular atlas reveals diverse mediators of Alzheimer's risk

AC Yang, RT Vest, F Kern, DP Lee, M Agam, CA Maat… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The human brain vasculature is of great medical importance: its dysfunction causes
disability and death, and the specialized structure it forms—the blood–brain barrier …

A human brain vascular atlas reveals diverse cell mediators of Alzheimer's disease risk

AC Yang, RT Vest, F Kern, DP Lee, CA Maat… - Biorxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The human brain vasculature is of vast medical importance: its dysfunction causes disability
and death, and the specialized structure it forms—the blood-brain barrier—impedes …

Single-cell dissection of the human brain vasculature

FJ Garcia, N Sun, H Lee, B Godlewski, H Mathys… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the importance of the cerebrovasculature in maintaining normal brain physiology
and in understanding neurodegeneration and drug delivery to the central nervous system …

A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature

M Vanlandewijck, L He, MA Mäe, J Andrae, K Ando… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Cerebrovascular disease is the third most common cause of death in developed countries,
but our understanding of the cells that compose the cerebral vasculature is limited. Here …

Role of the MEOX2 homeobox gene in neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

Z Wu, H Guo, N Chow, J Sallstrom, RD Bell, R Deane… - Nature medicine, 2005 - nature.com
Neurovascular dysfunction substantially contributes to Alzheimer disease. Here, we show
that transcriptional profiling of human brain endothelial cells (BECs) defines a subset of …

Aged blood impairs hippocampal neural precursor activity and activates microglia via brain endothelial cell VCAM1

H Yousef, CJ Czupalla, D Lee, MB Chen, AN Burke… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
An aged circulatory environment can activate microglia, reduce neural precursor cell activity
and impair cognition in mice. We hypothesized that brain endothelial cells (BECs) mediate …

Neurodegeneration and the neurovascular unit

BV Zlokovic - Nature medicine, 2010 - nature.com
An important concept that has not been sufficiently represented in research into
neurodegenerative diseases1–7 is the role of the neurovascular unit. The neurovascular …

Reconstruction of the human blood–brain barrier in vitro reveals a pathogenic mechanism of APOE4 in pericytes

JW Blanchard, M Bula, J Davila-Velderrain, LA Akay… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
In Alzheimer's disease, amyloid deposits along the brain vasculature lead to a condition
known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which impairs blood–brain barrier (BBB) …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacologically reversible zonation-dependent endothelial cell transcriptomic changes with neurodegenerative disease associations in the aged brain

L Zhao, Z Li, JSL Vong, X Chen, HM Lai… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The molecular signatures of cells in the brain have been revealed in unprecedented detail,
yet the ageing-associated genome-wide expression changes that may contribute to …

Single-nucleus transcriptome analysis reveals dysregulation of angiogenic endothelial cells and neuroprotective glia in Alzheimer's disease

SF Lau, H Cao, AKY Fu, NY Ip - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia but has no effective
treatment. A comprehensive investigation of cell type-specific responses and cellular …