[HTML][HTML] ApoE in Alzheimer's disease: pathophysiology and therapeutic strategies

AC Raulin, SV Doss, ZA Trottier, TC Ikezu, G Bu… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide, and its
prevalence is rapidly increasing due to extended lifespans. Among the increasing number of …

Functional roles of reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

R Patani, GE Hardingham, SA Liddelow - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in uncovering the mechanisms that underlie neuroinflammation and
neurodegenerative disease, therapies that prevent neuronal loss remain elusive. Targeting …

APOE4 impairs myelination via cholesterol dysregulation in oligodendrocytes

JW Blanchard, LA Akay, J Davila-Velderrain… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease,–. However, the effects of
APOE4 on the human brain are not fully understood, limiting opportunities to develop …

Emerging roles of innate and adaptive immunity in Alzheimer's disease

X Chen, DM Holtzman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with
characteristic extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition and intracellular accumulation of …

Transforming the understanding of brain immunity

G Castellani, T Croese, JM Peralta Ramos, M Schwartz - Science, 2023 - science.org
Contemporary studies have completely changed the view of brain immunity from envisioning
the brain as isolated and inaccessible to peripheral immune cells to an organ in close …

[HTML][HTML] APOE in the bullseye of neurodegenerative diseases: impact of the APOE genotype in Alzheimer's disease pathology and brain diseases

R Fernández-Calle, SC Konings… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
ApoE is the major lipid and cholesterol carrier in the CNS. There are three major human
polymorphisms, apoE2, apoE3, and apoE4, and the genetic expression of APOE4 is one of …

[HTML][HTML] The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: novel insights and future directions

SJ Andrews, AE Renton, B Fulton-Howard… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex multifactorial neurodegenerative
disorder and the most common form of dementia. AD is highly heritable, with heritability …

Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders

AN Brandebura, A Paumier, TS Onur… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
There is increasing appreciation that non-neuronal cells contribute to the initiation,
progression and pathology of diverse neurodegenerative disorders. This Review focuses on …

Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy

ZP Chen, S Wang, X Zhao, W Fang, Z Wang, H Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reactive astrocytes play an important role in neurological diseases, but their molecular and
functional phenotypes in epilepsy are unclear. Here, we show that in patients with temporal …

[HTML][HTML] APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer's disease microglia

MS Haney, R Pálovics, CN Munson, C Long… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Several genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease implicate genes involved in lipid
metabolism and many of these lipid genes are highly expressed in glial cells. However, the …