A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammation as a central mechanism in Alzheimer's disease

JW Kinney, SM Bemiller, AS Murtishaw… - Alzheimer's & Dementia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized
by cognitive decline and the presence of two core pathologies, amyloid β plaques and …

Current state of Alzheimer's fluid biomarkers

JL Molinuevo, S Ayton, R Batrla, MM Bednar… - Acta …, 2018 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a complex and
heterogeneous pathophysiology. The number of people living with AD is predicted to …

[HTML][HTML] The continuum of aging and age-related diseases: common mechanisms but different rates

C Franceschi, P Garagnani, C Morsiani, M Conte… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Geroscience, the new interdisciplinary field that aims to understand the relationship between
aging and chronic age-related diseases (ARDs) and geriatric syndromes (GSs), is based on …

Imaging the evolution and pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease

W Jagust - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Technologies for imaging the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) now permit
studies of the relationships between the two major proteins deposited in this disease …

Inflammation: the link between comorbidities, genetics, and Alzheimer's disease

EA Newcombe, J Camats-Perna, ML Silva… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, most cases of which lack a clear
causative event. This has made the disease difficult to characterize and, thus, diagnose …

Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?

G Coughlan, J Laczó, J Hort, AM Minihane… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Detection of incipient Alzheimer disease (AD) pathophysiology is critical to identify
preclinical individuals and target potentially disease-modifying therapies towards them …

Discriminative accuracy of [18F] flortaucipir positron emission tomography for Alzheimer disease vs other neurodegenerative disorders

R Ossenkoppele, GD Rabinovici, R Smith, H Cho… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The positron emission tomography (PET) tracer [18 F] flortaucipir allows in vivo
quantification of paired helical filament tau, a core neuropathological feature of Alzheimer …

Amyloid-β and tau complexity—towards improved biomarkers and targeted therapies

JC Polanco, C Li, LG Bodea… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are proteinopathies, which are characterized by the
aggregation of misfolded proteins. Although many proteins have an intrinsic propensity to …

Advances in developing novel therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease

J Cao, J Hou, J Ping, D Cai - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease of aging,
affects one in eight older Americans. Nearly all drug treatments tested for AD today have …