Amyloid beta: structure, biology and structure-based therapeutic development

G Chen, T Xu, Y Yan, Y Zhou, Y Jiang… - Acta pharmacologica …, 2017 - nature.com
Amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) is produced through the proteolytic processing of a
transmembrane protein, amyloid precursor protein (APP), by β-and γ-secretases. Aβ …

Using mice to model Alzheimer's dementia: an overview of the clinical disease and the preclinical behavioral changes in 10 mouse models

SJ Webster, AD Bachstetter, PT Nelson… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The goal of this review is to discuss how behavioral tests in mice relate to the pathological
and neuropsychological features seen in human Alzheimer's disease (AD), and present a …

Dopamine neuronal loss contributes to memory and reward dysfunction in a model of Alzheimer's disease

A Nobili, EC Latagliata, MT Viscomi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Alterations of the dopaminergic (DAergic) system are frequently reported in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) patients and are commonly linked to cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms …

NLRP3 is activated in Alzheimer's disease and contributes to pathology in APP/PS1 mice

MT Heneka, MP Kummer, A Stutz, A Delekate… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is the world's most common dementing illness. Deposition of amyloid-β
peptide drives cerebral neuroinflammation by activating microglia,. Indeed, amyloid-β …

BDNF-based synaptic repair as a disease-modifying strategy for neurodegenerative diseases

B Lu, G Nagappan, X Guan, PJ Nathan… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Increasing evidence suggests that synaptic dysfunction is a key pathophysiological hallmark
in neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. Understanding the role of …

The amyloid beta peptide: a chemist's perspective. Role in Alzheimer's and fibrillization

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the role of fibrillization of the amyloid β (Aβ)-peptide in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The perspective is that of a physical chemist, and one aim is to …

Alzheimer's disease

HW Querfurth, FM LaFerla - New England Journal of Medicine, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
This review of Alzheimer's disease assembles a variety of findings relevant to the
mechanism of the disease and ties them together using the current understanding of the …

Multiscale causal networks identify VGF as a key regulator of Alzheimer's disease

ND Beckmann, WJ Lin, M Wang, AT Cohain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Though discovered over 100 years ago, the molecular foundation of sporadic Alzheimer's
disease (AD) remains elusive. To better characterize the complex nature of AD, we …

Amyloid-β–induced neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: from synapses toward neural networks

JJ Palop, L Mucke - Nature neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder and the most common
cause of dementia in the elderly. Diverse lines of evidence suggest that amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Neuroinflammatory TNFα impairs memory via astrocyte signaling

S Habbas, M Santello, D Becker, H Stubbe, G Zappia… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The occurrence of cognitive disturbances upon CNS inflammation or infection has been
correlated with increased levels of the cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα). To date …