Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Advances in the development of new biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

TO Klyucherev, P Olszewski, AA Shalimova… - Translational …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, heterogeneous, progressive disease and is the most
common type of neurodegenerative dementia. The prevalence of AD is expected to increase …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosome dysfunction as a cause of neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Root, P Merino, A Nuckols, M Johnson… - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders that are thought to exist on a clinical and pathological …

Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS

M DeJesus-Hernandez, IR Mackenzie, BF Boeve… - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
Several families have been reported with autosomal-dominant frontotemporal dementia
(FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), genetically linked to chromosome 9p21 …

Caspase-1 inhibition alleviates cognitive impairment and neuropathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

J Flores, A Noël, B Foveau, J Lynham, C Lecrux… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an intractable progressive neurodegenerative disease
characterized by cognitive decline and dementia. An inflammatory neurodegenerative …

Progranulin, lysosomal regulation and neurodegenerative disease

AW Kao, A McKay, PP Singh, A Brunet… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The discovery that heterozygous and homozygous mutations in the gene encoding
progranulin are causally linked to frontotemporal dementia and lysosomal storage disease …

Strikingly different clinicopathological phenotypes determined by progranulin-mutation dosage

KR Smith, J Damiano, S Franceschetti… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
We performed hypothesis-free linkage analysis and exome sequencing in a family with two
siblings who had neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL). Two linkage peaks with maximum …

The pathobiology of TDP-43 C-terminal fragments in ALS and FTLD

BA Berning, AK Walker - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
During neurodegenerative disease, the multifunctional RNA-binding protein TDP-43
undergoes a vast array of post-translational modifications, including phosphorylation …

Sortilin-mediated endocytosis determines levels of the frontotemporal dementia protein, progranulin

F Hu, T Padukkavidana, CB Vægter, OA Brady… - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
The most common inherited form of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) known
stems from Progranulin (GRN) mutation and exhibits TDP-43 plus ubiquitin aggregates …

The lysosomal function of progranulin, a guardian against neurodegeneration

DH Paushter, H Du, T Feng, F Hu - Acta neuropathologica, 2018 - Springer
Progranulin (PGRN), encoded by the GRN gene in humans, is a secreted growth factor
implicated in a multitude of processes ranging from regulation of inflammation to wound …