Alzheimer's disease

L Mucke - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer's disease is becoming more prevalent in ageing
populations worldwide. The identification of effective treatments will require a better …

Deciphering the mechanism underlying late-onset Alzheimer disease

D Krstic, I Knuesel - Nature reviews neurology, 2013 - nature.com
Despite tremendous investments in understanding the complex molecular mechanisms
underlying Alzheimer disease (AD), recent clinical trials have failed to show efficacy. A …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroinflammation and neuronal loss precede Aβ plaque deposition in the hAPP-J20 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

AL Wright, R Zinn, B Hohensinn, LM Konen… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Recent human trials of treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been largely
unsuccessful, raising the idea that treatment may need to be started earlier in the disease …

Formation and maintenance of Alzheimer's disease β-amyloid plaques in the absence of microglia

SA Grathwohl, RE Kälin, T Bolmont, S Prokop… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
In Alzheimer's disease, microglia cluster around β-amyloid deposits, suggesting that these
cells are important for amyloid plaque formation, maintenance and/or clearance. We crossed …

Integrative in situ mapping of single-cell transcriptional states and tissue histopathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

H Zeng, J Huang, H Zhou, WJ Meilandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Complex diseases are characterized by spatiotemporal cellular and molecular changes that
may be difficult to comprehensively capture. However, understanding the spatiotemporal …

Alzheimer disease: progress or profit?

C Mount, C Downton - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease is the most common cause of dementia. According to the World Health
Organization, an estimated 37 million people worldwide currently have dementia; Alzheimer …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue

P d'Errico, S Ziegler-Waldkirch, V Aires… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia appear activated in the vicinity of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques, but whether microglia
contribute to Aβ propagation into unaffected brain regions remains unknown. Using …

Scavenger receptor-mediated adhesion of microglia to β-amyloid fibrils

JE Khoury, SE Hickman, CA Thomas, L Cao… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
A PATHOLOGICALhallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the senile plaque, containing β-
amyloid fibrils, microglia and astrocytes1. β-amyloid fibrils exert a cytotoxic effect on …

A shared disease-associated oligodendrocyte signature among multiple CNS pathologies

M Kenigsbuch, P Bost, S Halevi, Y Chang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, perturbing neuronal and
non-neuronal cell populations. In this study, using single-cell transcriptomics, we mapped all …

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 …