Emerging roles of innate and adaptive immunity in Alzheimer's disease

X Chen, DM Holtzman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with
characteristic extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition and intracellular accumulation of …

Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer disease: pathobiology and targeting strategies

Y Yamazaki, N Zhao, TR Caulfield, CC Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Polymorphism in the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is a major genetic risk determinant of
late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), with the APOE* ε 4 allele conferring an increased risk …

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 …

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 …

Lipids and Alzheimer's disease

YC Kao, PC Ho, YK Tu, IM Jou, KJ Tsai - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lipids, as the basic component of cell membranes, play an important role in human health
as well as brain function. The brain is highly enriched in lipids, and disruption of lipid …

Structure and mechanism of human ABC transporters

A Alam, KP Locher - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
ABC transporters are essential for cellular physiology. Humans have 48 ABC genes
organized into seven distinct families. Of these genes, 44 (in five distinct families) encode for …

Microglial efferocytosis: diving into the Alzheimer's disease gene pool

C Romero-Molina, F Garretti, SJ Andrews, E Marcora… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies and functional genomics studies have linked specific cell
types, genes, and pathways to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. In particular, AD risk alleles …

A quarter century of APOE and Alzheimer's disease: progress to date and the path forward

ME Belloy, V Napolioni, MD Greicius - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered a polygenic disorder. This view is clouded, however,
by lingering uncertainty over how to treat the quasi" monogenic" role of apolipoprotein E …

Apolipoprotein E: structural insights and links to Alzheimer disease pathogenesis

Y Chen, MR Strickland, A Soranno, DM Holtzman - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is of great interest due to its role as a cholesterol/lipid transporter in
the central nervous system (CNS) and as the most influential genetic risk factor for Alzheimer …

APOE2: protective mechanism and therapeutic implications for Alzheimer's disease

Z Li, F Shue, N Zhao, M Shinohara, G Bu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2020 - Springer
Investigations of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, the major genetic risk modifier for
Alzheimer's disease (AD), have yielded significant insights into the pathogenic mechanism …