Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue

M Békés, DR Langley, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to
tackle disease-causing proteins that have historically been highly challenging to target with …

Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer's disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

CJ Mummery, A Börjesson-Hanson, DJ Blackburn… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tau plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology, and accumulating
evidence suggests that lowering tau may reduce this pathology. We sought to inhibit MAPT …

Tau biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: towards implementation in clinical practice and trials

R Ossenkoppele, R van der Kant… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Deposition of tau aggregates is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease
that is closely linked both spatially and temporally to emergence of neurodegeneration and …

Microglial activation and tau propagate jointly across Braak stages

TA Pascoal, AL Benedet, NJ Ashton, MS Kang… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests that microglial activation is involved in the
spread of tau tangles over the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested the …

Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges

Y Zhang, KM Wu, L Yang, Q Dong, JT Yu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Background Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by
neuronal and/or glial tau-positive inclusions. Main body Clinically, tauopathies can present …

[HTML][HTML] A current view on Tau protein phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease

S Wegmann, J Biernat, E Mandelkow - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The functions of the neuronal microtubule-associated protein Tau in the central nervous
system are regulated by manifold posttranslational modifications at more than 50 sites. Tau …

Mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

M Yokoyama, H Kobayashi, L Tatsumi… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory loss
and personality changes, eventually leading to dementia. The pathological hallmarks of AD …

Selective removal of astrocytic APOE4 strongly protects against tau-mediated neurodegeneration and decreases synaptic phagocytosis by microglia

C Wang, M Xiong, M Gratuze, X Bao, Y Shi, PS Andhey… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease and directly influences tauopathy and tau-mediated neurodegeneration. ApoE4 has …

Amyloid-β-independent regulators of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

R van der Kant, LSB Goldstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The global epidemic of Alzheimer disease (AD) is worsening, and no approved treatment
can revert or arrest progression of this disease. AD pathology is characterized by the …