The role of innate immune responses and neuroinflammation in amyloid accumulation and progression of Alzheimer's disease

A Webers, MT Heneka… - Immunology and cell …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid beta (Aβ) accumulation, tau pathology
and neuroinflammation. Recently, there has been considerable interest in the role of …

The intersection of amyloid beta and tau at synapses in Alzheimer's disease

TL Spires-Jones, BT Hyman - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
The collapse of neural networks important for memory and cognition, including death of
neurons and degeneration of synapses, causes the debilitating dementia associated with …

The importance of tau phosphorylation for neurodegenerative diseases

W Noble, DP Hanger, CCJ Miller… - Frontiers in neurology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Fibrillar deposits of highly phosphorylated tau are a key pathological feature of several
neurodegenerative tauopathies including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and some …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid beta and tau cooperate to cause reversible behavioral and transcriptional deficits in a model of Alzheimer's disease

EK Pickett, AG Herrmann, J McQueen, K Abt, O Dando… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
A key knowledge gap blocking development of effective therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease
(AD) is the lack of understanding of how amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide and pathological forms of …

Alzheimer's disease as a synaptopathy: Evidence for dysfunction of synapses during disease progression

S Meftah, J Gan - Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The synapse has consistently been considered a vulnerable and critical target within
Alzheimer's disease, and synapse loss is, to date, one of the main biological correlates of …

Mitochondrial aspects of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

Q Cai, P Tammineni - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by brain deposition of amyloid plaques and tau
neurofibrillary tangles along with steady cognitive decline. Synaptic damage, an early …

Riluzole, a glutamate modulator, slows cerebral glucose metabolism decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease

DC Matthews, X Mao, K Dowd, D Tsakanikas, CS Jiang… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Dysregulation of glutamatergic neural circuits has been implicated in a cycle of toxicity,
believed among the neurobiological underpinning of Alzheimer's disease. Previously, we …

A unifying hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease: from plaques to neurodegeneration

FA Edwards - Trends in neurosciences, 2019 - cell.com
Evidence suggests that amyloid β is highly toxic to synapses in a phospho-Tau-dependent
manner. Here, I present a hypothesis that links previous evidence from the first rise of …

A role for tau at the synapse in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

AM Pooler, W Noble, DP Hanger - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by brain deposition of amyloid plaques and tau
neurofibrillary tangles along with steady cognitive decline. Although the mechanism by …

Tau oligomers: the toxic player at synapses in Alzheimer's disease

MJ Guerrero-Muñoz, J Gerson… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive disorder in which the most noticeable symptoms
are cognitive impairment and memory loss. However, the precise mechanism by which …