Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

SC Cunnane, E Trushina, C Morland… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The brain requires a continuous supply of energy in the form of ATP, most of which is
produced from glucose by oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, complemented by …

Astrocyte-neuron metabolic cooperation shapes brain activity

G Bonvento, JP Bolaños - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
The brain has almost no energy reserve, but its activity coordinates organismal function, a
burden that requires precise coupling between neurotransmission and energy metabolism …

Perivascular cells induce microglial phagocytic states and synaptic engulfment via SPP1 in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

S De Schepper, JZ Ge, G Crowley, LSS Ferreira… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by synaptic loss, which can result from
dysfunctional microglial phagocytosis and complement activation. However, what signals …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics define the natural history of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

ECB Johnson, S Bian, RU Haque, EK Carter… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology develops many years before the onset of cognitive
symptoms. Two pathological processes—aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide into …

Single-cell atlas reveals correlates of high cognitive function, dementia, and resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology

H Mathys, Z Peng, CA Boix, MB Victor, N Leary, S Babu… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide, but the
molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment remain poorly …

hdWGCNA identifies co-expression networks in high-dimensional transcriptomics data

S Morabito, F Reese, N Rahimzadeh, E Miyoshi… - Cell reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Biological systems are immensely complex, organized into a multi-scale hierarchy of
functional units based on tightly regulated interactions between distinct molecules, cells …

Single-cell multiregion dissection of Alzheimer's disease

H Mathys, CA Boix, LA Akay, Z Xia, J Davila-Velderrain… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia worldwide, but the cellular pathways
that underlie its pathological progression across brain regions remain poorly understood …

Loss of fatty acid degradation by astrocytic mitochondria triggers neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

Y Mi, G Qi, F Vitali, Y Shang, AC Raikes, T Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Astrocytes provide key neuronal support, and their phenotypic transformation is implicated in
neurodegenerative diseases. Metabolically, astrocytes possess low mitochondrial oxidative …

Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level

ECB Johnson, EK Carter, EB Dammer, DM Duong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The biological processes that are disrupted in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain remain
incompletely understood. In this study, we analyzed the proteomes of more than 1,000 brain …

Positive feedback regulation of microglial glucose metabolism by histone H4 lysine 12 lactylation in Alzheimer's disease

RY Pan, L He, J Zhang, X Liu, Y Liao, J Gao, Y Liao… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
The pro-inflammatory activation of microglia is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and
this process involves a switch from oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) toward glycolysis …