Amyloid beta from axons and dendrites reduces local spine number and plasticity

W Wei, LN Nguyen, HW Kessels, H Hagiwara… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Excessive synaptic loss is thought to be one of the earliest events in Alzheimer's disease.
Amyloid beta (Aβ), a peptide secreted in an activity-modulated manner by neurons, has …

Microglial activation and tau propagate jointly across Braak stages

TA Pascoal, AL Benedet, NJ Ashton, MS Kang… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests that microglial activation is involved in the
spread of tau tangles over the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested the …

[HTML][HTML] Fibrillar Aβ triggers microglial proteome alterations and dysfunction in Alzheimer mouse models

L Sebastian Monasor, SA Müller, AV Colombo… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Microglial dysfunction is a key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but little is
known about proteome-wide changes in microglia during the course of AD and their …

Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models

S Hong, VF Beja-Glasser, BM Nfonoyim, A Frouin, S Li… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Synapse loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD) correlates with cognitive decline. Involvement of
microglia and complement in AD has been attributed to neuroinflammation, prominent late in …

[HTML][HTML] An aging, pathology burden, and glial senescence build-up hypothesis for late onset Alzheimer's disease

V Lau, L Ramer, MÈ Tremblay - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) predominantly occurs as a late onset (LOAD) form involving
neurodegeneration and cognitive decline with progressive memory loss. Risk factors that …

Oligomeric Aβ in the monkey brain impacts synaptic integrity and induces accelerated cortical aging

D Beckman, S Ott, K Donis-Cox… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
As the average age of the population continues to rise, the number of individuals affected
with age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has increased and is …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Basal forebrain degeneration precedes and predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer's pathology

TW Schmitz, R Nathan Spreng - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
There is considerable debate whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) originates in basal
forebrain or entorhinal cortex. Here we examined whether longitudinal decreases in basal …

Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

T Bartels, S De Schepper, S Hong - Science, 2020 - science.org
Dementia is a rapidly rising global health crisis that silently disables families and ends lives
and livelihoods around the world. To date, however, no early biomarkers or effective …