[HTML][HTML] Astrocytes and microglia but not neurons preferentially generate N-terminally truncated Aβ peptides

TJ Oberstein, P Spitzer, HW Klafki, P Linning… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease include extracellular neuritic
plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The neuritic plaques contain β-amyloid peptides (Aβ …

Amyloid-β-induced amyloid-β secretion: a possible feed-forward mechanism in Alzheimer's Disease

IT Marsden, LS Minamide… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2011 - content.iospress.com
Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, 36–43 amino acids in length, are produced from β-and γ-secretase
cleavage of the amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP), and are one of the causative agents of …

Pyroglutamate‐modified amyloid β‐peptides–AβN3 (pE)–strongly affect cultured neuron and astrocyte survival

C Russo, E Violani, S Salis, V Venezia… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
N‐terminally truncated amyloid‐β (Aβ) peptides are present in early and diffuse plaques of
individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD), are overproduced in early onset familial AD and …

Early amyloid-β deposits show different immunoreactivity to the amino-and carboxy-terminal regions of β-peptide in Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome brain

E Kida, KE Wisniewski, HM Wisniewski - Neuroscience letters, 1995 - Elsevier
That the topography, severity, and progression of β-amyloid deposition in the brain of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down's syndrome (DS) cases is not uniform is well …

Focusing the amyloid cascade hypothesis on N-truncated Abeta peptides as drug targets against Alzheimer's disease

TA Bayer, O Wirths - Acta neuropathologica, 2014 - Springer
Although N-truncated Aβ variants are known to be the main constituent of amyloid plaques
in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, their potential as targets for …

Neuronal and glial β‐secretase (BACE) protein expression in transgenic Tg2576 mice with amyloid plaque pathology

S Roßner, J Apelt, R Schliebs… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We measured tissue distribution and expression pattern of the beta‐site amyloid precursor
protein (APP)‐cleaving enzyme (BACE) in the brains of transgenic Tg2576 mice that show …

Intracellular accumulation of detergent‐soluble amyloidogenic Aβ fragment of Alzheimer's disease precursor protein in the hippocampus of aged transgenic mice

QX Li, C Maynard, R Cappai, CA McLean… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
To study amyloid β‐protein (Aβ) production and aggregation in vivo, we created two
transgenic (Tg) mouse lines expressing the C‐terminal 100 amino acids of human amyloid …

Secreted amyloid β-proteins in a cell culture model include N-terminally extended peptides that impair synaptic plasticity

AT Welzel, JE Maggio, GM Shankar, DE Walker… - Biochemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Evidence for a central role of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease
(AD) has led to advanced human trials of Aβ-lowering agents. The “amyloid hypothesis” of …

Pyroglutamate-modified amyloid beta peptides: emerging targets for Alzheimer s disease immunotherapy

R Perez-Garmendia… - Current …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Extracellular and intraneuronal accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide aggregates in the
brain has been hypothesized to play an important role in the neuropathology of Alzheimer's …

Secretion and intracellular generation of truncated Aβ in β-site amyloid-β precursor protein-cleaving enzyme expressing human neurons

EB Lee, DM Skovronsky, F Abtahian, RW Doms… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
Insoluble pools of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) in brains of Alzheimer's disease patients
exhibit considerable N-and C-terminal heterogeneity. Mounting evidence suggests that both …