Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease

EE Congdon, EM Sigurdsson - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. Pathologically, AD is
characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, with associated …

Tau in Alzheimer's disease: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

Y Gao, L Tan, JT Yu, L Tan - Current Alzheimer Research, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Objective: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most important progressive neurodegenerative
disorder, is characterized by cognitive and behavioral disabilities. Nowadays, tau, as a …

[HTML][HTML] Synaptic tau seeding precedes tau pathology in human Alzheimer's disease brain

SL DeVos, BT Corjuc, DH Oakley… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is defined by the presence of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles
(NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates as well as extracellular amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Tau in neurodegenerative disease

YL Gao, N Wang, FR Sun, XP Cao… - Annals of translational …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is the main component of the intracellular filamentous
inclusions that are involved in neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including …

Tau immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies: progress and potential pitfalls

EM Sigurdsson - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Tau immunotherapies have now advanced from proof-of-concept studies to Phase II clinical
trials. This review briefly outlines developments in the field and discusses how these …

[HTML][HTML] Highly specific and selective anti-pS396-tau antibody C10. 2 targets seeding-competent tau

N Rosenqvist, AA Asuni, CR Andersson… - Alzheimer's & Dementia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction The abnormal hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau
plays a crucial role in neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other …

[HTML][HTML] Innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease: the relevance of animal models?

DK Franco Bocanegra, JAR Nicoll, D Boche - Journal of neural …, 2018 - Springer
The mouse is one of the organisms most widely used as an animal model in biomedical
research, due to the particular ease with which it can be handled and reproduced in …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of therapeutic potential of a naturally occurring human antibody targeting a phosphorylated Ser422 containing epitope on pathological tau

J van Ameijde, R Crespo, R Janson, J Juraszek… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2018 - Springer
Aggregation of tau protein and spreading of tau aggregates are pivotal pathological
processes in a range of neurological disorders. Accumulating evidence suggests that …

Lower serum antibodies against tau protein and heavy neurofilament in Alzheimer's disease

A Bartos, L Fialová, J Švarcová - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Background: Unlike antibodies against amyloid-β, little is known about serum antibodies to
neuron-specific cytoskeletal proteins in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Objective …

Phos-tau peptide immunization of amyloid-tg-mice reduced non-mutant phos-tau pathology, improved cognition and reduced amyloid plaques

S Benhamron, L Rozenstein-Tsalkovich, K Nitzan… - Experimental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tau-immumotherapy has shown promising results in tangle/tauopathy-tg animal models.
Here we immunized amyloid-mice (APPSwe/PSEN1dE9-tg, presenting amyloid-plaques, not …