The amyloid hypothesis in Alzheimer disease: new insights from new therapeutics

E Karran, B De Strooper - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Many drugs that target amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease (AD) have failed to demonstrate
clinical efficacy. However, four anti-Aβ antibodies have been shown to mediate the removal …

Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

O Hansson - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases are needed to improve the diagnostic workup in
the clinic but also to facilitate the development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying …

Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer's disease

JW Vogel, AL Young, NP Oxtoby, R Smith… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the spread of tau pathology throughout the
cerebral cortex. This spreading pattern was thought to be fairly consistent across individuals …

Biomarker-based prediction of longitudinal tau positron emission tomography in Alzheimer disease

A Leuzy, R Smith, NC Cullen, O Strandberg… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is currently no consensus as to which biomarkers best predict longitudinal
tau accumulation at different clinical stages of Alzheimer disease (AD). Objective To …

Predicting amyloid PET and tau PET stages with plasma biomarkers

CR Jack Jr, HJ Wiste, A Algeciras-Schimnich… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Staging the severity of Alzheimer's disease pathology using biomarkers is useful for
therapeutic trials and clinical prognosis. Disease staging with amyloid and tau PET has face …

Structural progression of Alzheimer's disease over decades: The MRI staging scheme

V Planche, JV Manjon, B Mansencal… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The chronological progression of brain atrophy over decades, from pre-symptomatic to
dementia stages, has never been formally depicted in Alzheimer's disease. This is mainly …

Lipid profiling of Alzheimer's disease brain highlights enrichment in glycerol (phospho) lipid, and sphingolipid metabolism

S Akyol, Z Ugur, A Yilmaz, I Ustun, SKK Gorti, K Oh… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is reported to be closely linked with abnormal lipid metabolism. To
gain a more comprehensive understanding of what causes AD and its subsequent …

Network Tau spreading is vulnerable to the expression gradients of APOE and glutamatergic-related genes

V Montal, I Diez, CM Kim, W Orwig… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
A key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is the intracellular accumulation of tau
protein in the form of neurofibrillary tangles across large-scale networks of the human brain …

APOE ε4 genotype, amyloid-β, and sex interact to predict tau in regions of high APOE mRNA expression

A Dincer, CD Chen, NS McKay, LN Koenig… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele is strongly linked with cerebral β-amyloidosis, but its
relationship with tauopathy is less established. We investigated the relationship between …

Cortical hypometabolism reflects local atrophy and tau pathology in symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

A Strom, L Iaccarino, L Edwards, OH Lesman-Segev… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Posterior cortical hypometabolism measured with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET is a
well-known marker of Alzheimer's disease-related neurodegeneration, but its associations …