Alzheimer's disease: experimental models and reality

E Drummond, T Wisniewski - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Experimental models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are critical to gaining a better
understanding of pathogenesis and to assess the potential of novel therapeutic approaches …

Tau imaging: early progress and future directions

VL Villemagne, MT Fodero-Tavoletti… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Use of selective in-vivo tau imaging will enable improved understanding of tau aggregation
in the brain, facilitating research into causes, diagnosis, and treatment of major tauopathies …

Alzheimer's disease and the amyloid-β peptide

MP Murphy, H LeVine III - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2010 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis is widely believed to be driven by the production
and deposition of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ). For many years, investigators have been …

Neurodegenerative diseases: expanding the prion concept

LC Walker, M Jucker - Annual review of neuroscience, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The prion paradigm has emerged as a unifying molecular principle for the pathogenesis of
many age-related neurodegenerative diseases. This paradigm holds that a fundamental …

Amyloid fibril polymorphism: a challenge for molecular imaging and therapy

M Fändrich, S Nyström, KPR Nilsson… - Journal of Internal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of misfolded proteins (MP s), both unique and common, for different
diseases is central for many chronic degenerative diseases. In certain patients, MP …

Translational animal models for Alzheimer's disease: an Alzheimer's association business consortium think tank

MP Vitek, JA Araujo, M Fossel… - … Research & Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over 5 million Americans and 50 million individuals worldwide are living with Alzheimer's
disease (AD). The progressive dementia associated with AD currently has no cure. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Aβ plaques

LC Walker - Free neuropathology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aβ plaques are one of the two lesions in the brain that define the neuropathological
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Plaques are highly diverse structures; many of them …

Low PiB PET retention in presence of pathologic CSF biomarkers in Arctic APP mutation carriers

M Schöll, A Wall, S Thordardottir, D Ferreira… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To investigate the particular pathology of the Arctic APP (APP arc) early-onset
familial Alzheimer disease (eoFAD) mutation for the first time in vivo with PET in comparison …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid and tau positron emission tomography imaging in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

C Maschio, R Ni - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The detection and staging of Alzheimer's disease (AD) using non-invasive imaging
biomarkers is of substantial clinical importance. Positron emission tomography (PET) …

Nonhuman primate models of Alzheimer-like cerebral proteopathy

E Heuer, RF Rosen, A Cintron… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Nonhuman primates are useful for the study of age-associated changes in the brain and
behavior in a model that is biologically proximal to humans. The Aβ and tau proteins, two …