Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Cellular and pathological functions of tau

C Parra Bravo, SA Naguib, L Gan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Tau protein is involved in various cellular processes, including having a canonical role in
binding and stabilization of microtubules in neurons. Tauopathies are neurodegenerative …

Neuronal hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease: what are the drivers behind this aberrant phenotype?

H Targa Dias Anastacio, N Matosin, L Ooi - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to loss of
cognitive abilities and ultimately, death. With no cure available, limited treatments mostly …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Tau association with synaptic vesicles causes presynaptic dysfunction

L Zhou, J McInnes, K Wierda, M Holt… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Tau is implicated in more than 20 neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's
disease. Under pathological conditions, Tau dissociates from axonal microtubules and …

Molecular pathogenesis of the tauopathies

J Götz, G Halliday, RM Nisbet - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The tauopathies constitute a group of diseases that have Tau inclusions in neurons or glia
as their common denominator. In this review, we describe the biochemical and histological …

Long road to ruin: noradrenergic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease

D Weinshenker - Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
It has been known for decades that degeneration of the locus coeruleus (LC), the major
noradrenergic nucleus in the brain, occurs in both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's …

TIA1 potentiates tau phase separation and promotes generation of toxic oligomeric tau

PEA Ash, S Lei, J Shattuck… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Tau protein plays an important role in the biology of stress granules and in the stress
response of neurons, but the nature of these biochemical interactions is not known. Here we …

Synaptogyrin-3 mediates presynaptic dysfunction induced by tau

J McInnes, K Wierda, A Snellinx, L Bounti, YC Wang… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Synaptic dysfunction is an early pathological feature of neurodegenerative diseases
associated with Tau, including Alzheimer's disease. Interfering with early synaptic …

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 …