Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Astrocytic and microglial cells as the modulators of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

D Singh - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2022 - Springer
Neuroinflammation is instigated by the misfiring of immune cells in the central nervous
system (CNS) involving microglia and astrocytes as key cell-types. Neuroinflammation is a …

Restoring metabolism of myeloid cells reverses cognitive decline in ageing

PS Minhas, A Latif-Hernandez, MR McReynolds… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Ageing is characterized by the development of persistent pro-inflammatory responses that
contribute to atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, cancer and frailty,–. The ageing brain is …

Microglia in the neuroinflammatory pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and related therapeutic targets

Y Cai, J Liu, B Wang, M Sun, H Yang - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease worldwide,
characterized by progressive neuron degeneration or loss due to excessive accumulation of …

Lipid metabolism and Alzheimer's disease: clinical evidence, mechanistic link and therapeutic promise

F Yin - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age‐associated neurodegenerative disorder with
multifactorial etiology, intersecting genetic and environmental risk factors, and a lack of …

Macrophage de novo NAD+ synthesis specifies immune function in aging and inflammation

PS Minhas, L Liu, PK Moon, AU Joshi, C Dove… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances highlight a pivotal role for cellular metabolism in programming immune
responses. Here, we demonstrate that cell-autonomous generation of nicotinamide adenine …

Eliminating microglia in Alzheimer's mice prevents neuronal loss without modulating amyloid-β pathology

EE Spangenberg, RJ Lee, AR Najafi, RA Rice… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In addition to amyloid-β plaque and tau neurofibrillary tangle deposition, neuroinflammation
is considered a key feature of Alzheimer's disease pathology. Inflammation in Alzheimer's …

Inflammation in Alzheimer's disease: lessons learned from microglia-depletion models

EE Spangenberg, KN Green - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2017 - Elsevier
Microglia are the primary immune cell of the brain and function to protect the central nervous
system (CNS) from injury and invading pathogens. In the homeostatic brain, microglia serve …

Evaluating cell reprogramming, differentiation and conversion technologies in neuroscience

J Mertens, MC Marchetto, C Bardy… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The scarcity of live human brain cells for experimental access has for a long time limited our
ability to study complex human neurological disorders and elucidate basic neuroscientific …

Systemic inflammation and the brain: novel roles of genetic, molecular, and environmental cues as drivers of neurodegeneration

R Sankowski, S Mader… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The nervous and immune systems have evolved in parallel from the early bilaterians, in
which innate immunity and a central nervous system (CNS) coexisted for the first time, to …