Evolving concepts in progressive supranuclear palsy and other 4-repeat tauopathies

M Stamelou, G Respondek, N Giagkou… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Tauopathies are classified according to whether tau deposits predominantly contain tau
isoforms with three or four repeats of the microtubule-binding domain. Those in which four …

The role of the immune system in Alzheimer's disease

KM Wu, YR Zhang, YY Huang, Q Dong, L Tan… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder where the
accumulation of amyloid plaques and the formation of tau tangles are the prominent …

Safety and efficacy of anti-tau monoclonal antibody gosuranemab in progressive supranuclear palsy: a phase 2, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

T Dam, AL Boxer, LI Golbe, GU Höglinger, HR Morris… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 52-week study (no. NCT03068468)
evaluated gosuranemab, an anti-tau monoclonal antibody, in the treatment of progressive …

Current status of clinical trials on tau immunotherapies

C Ji, EM Sigurdsson - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
Tau immunotherapies have advanced from proof-of-concept studies to over a dozen clinical
trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. Mechanistic studies in animal and …

Soluble amyloid-β consumption in Alzheimer's disease

AJ Espay, A Sturchio, LS Schneider… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Brain proteins function in their soluble, native conformation and cease to function when
transformed into insoluble aggregates, also known as amyloids. Biophysically, the soluble-to …

Tau-targeting antibody therapies: too late, wrong epitope or wrong target?

E Jabbari, KE Duff - Nature Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Tau-targeting antibody therapies: too late, wrong epitope or wrong target? | Nature
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Neuropathology of progressive supranuclear palsy after treatment with tilavonemab

S Koga, DW Dickson, ZK Wszolek - The Lancet Neurology, 2021 - thelancet.com
We read with interest the Article by Günter Höglinger and colleagues reporting the results of
a phase 2, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of tilavonemab for patients with progressive …

Therapeutic ultrasound as a treatment modality for physiological and pathological ageing including Alzheimer's disease

J Götz, G Richter-Stretton, E Cruz - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Physiological and pathological ageing (as exemplified by Alzheimer's disease, AD) are
characterized by a progressive decline that also includes cognition. How this decline can be …

Crowdfunding for neuromuscular disease treatment: the ethical implications

A Livingstone, L Servais, DJC Wilkinson - The Lancet Neurology, 2021 - thelancet.com
The arrival of effective gene therapies for congenital neuromuscular disease is enormously
encouraging; however, it brings ethical challenges. In the past 5 years, many families of …

Sodium selenate as a disease-modifying treatment for progressive supranuclear palsy: protocol for a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

L Vivash, KL Bertram, CB Malpas, C Marotta… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative disorder for
which there are currently no disease-modifying therapies. The neuropathology of PSP is …