Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation

JAHR Claassen, DHJ Thijssen… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Brain function critically depends on a close matching between metabolic demands,
appropriate delivery of oxygen and nutrients, and removal of cellular waste. This matching …

Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

Vascular dysfunction—the disregarded partner of Alzheimer's disease

MD Sweeney, A Montagne, AP Sagare, DA Nation… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence recognizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a multifactorial and
heterogeneous disease with multiple contributors to its pathophysiology, including vascular …

Cerebral blood flow decrease as an early pathological mechanism in Alzheimer's disease

N Korte, R Nortley, D Attwell - Acta neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Therapies targeting late events in Alzheimer's disease (AD), including aggregation of
amyloid beta (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau, have largely failed, probably because they …

Current state of Alzheimer's fluid biomarkers

JL Molinuevo, S Ayton, R Batrla, MM Bednar… - Acta …, 2018 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a complex and
heterogeneous pathophysiology. The number of people living with AD is predicted to …

Amyloid β oligomers constrict human capillaries in Alzheimer's disease via signaling to pericytes

R Nortley, N Korte, P Izquierdo, C Hirunpattarasilp… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the production of amyloid β (Aβ) oligomers
and downstream tau dysfunction are thought to cause neuronal damage, in particular a loss …

Cerebral blood flow regulation and neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

K Kisler, AR Nelson, A Montagne… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) regulation is essential for normal brain function. The mammalian
brain has evolved a unique mechanism for CBF control known as neurovascular coupling …

Unlocking the power of exosomes for crossing biological barriers in drug delivery

RO Elliott, M He - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since the 2013 Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of vesicle trafficking, a subgroup
of nanovesicles called exosomes has been driving the research field to a new regime for …

Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID): A report from the 2018 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of …

BV Zlokovic, RF Gottesman, KE Bernstein… - Alzheimer's & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) are characterized by
the aging neurovascular unit being confronted with and failing to cope with biological insults …

Reasons for failed trials of disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer disease and their contribution in recent research

KG Yiannopoulou, AI Anastasiou, V Zachariou… - Biomedicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite all scientific efforts and many protracted and expensive clinical trials, no new drug
has been approved by FDA for treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD) since 2003. Indeed …