The pivotal role of NF-kB in the pathogenesis and therapeutics of Alzheimer's disease

E Sun, A Motolani, L Campos, T Lu - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, with a
high prevalence that is expected to double every 20 years. Besides the formation of Aβ …

Astrocyte energy and neurotransmitter metabolism in Alzheimer's disease: integration of the glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle

JV Andersen, A Schousboe, A Verkhratsky - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Astrocytes contribute to the complex cellular pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Neurons and astrocytes function in close collaboration through neurotransmitter recycling …

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 …

Amyloid-beta: a crucial factor in Alzheimer's disease

S Sadigh-Eteghad, B Sabermarouf, A Majdi… - Medical principles and …, 2015 - karger.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia which affects people older
than 60 years of age. In AD, the dysregulation of the amyloid-beta (Aβ) level leads to the …

Alzheimer's disease, β‐amyloid, glutamate, NMDA receptors and memantine–searching for the connections

W Danysz, CG Parsons - British journal of pharmacology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
β‐amyloid (Aβ) is widely accepted to be one of the major pathomechanisms underlying
Alzheimer's disease (AD), although there is presently lively debate regarding the relative …

Soluble Aβ oligomers inhibit long-term potentiation through a mechanism involving excessive activation of extrasynaptic NR2B-containing NMDA receptors

S Li, M Jin, T Koeglsperger… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia severity correlates strongly with decreased synapse
density in hippocampus and cortex. Numerous studies report that hippocampal long-term …

Astrocyte dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

C Acosta, HD Anderson… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes are glial cells that are distributed throughout the central nervous system in an
arrangement optimal for chemical and physical interaction with neuronal synapses and …

Soluble oligomers of amyloid β protein facilitate hippocampal long-term depression by disrupting neuronal glutamate uptake

S Li, S Hong, NE Shepardson, DM Walsh, GM Shankar… - Neuron, 2009 - cell.com
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the impairment of declarative memory coincides with the
accumulation of extracellular amyloid-β protein (Aβ) and intraneuronal tau aggregates …

Paradigm shift in neuroprotection by NMDA receptor blockade: memantine and beyond

SA Lipton - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Neuroprotective drugs tested in clinical trials, particularly those that block N-methyl-d-
aspartate-sensitive glutamate receptors (NMDARs), have failed miserably in large part …

Glutamate system, amyloid β peptides and tau protein: functional interrelationships and relevance to Alzheimer disease pathology

TJ Revett, GB Baker, J Jhamandas, S Kar - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2013 - jpn.ca
Alzheimer disease is the most prevalent form of dementia globally and is characterized
premortem by a gradual memory loss and deterioration of higher cognitive functions and …