[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's disease as a viral disease: Revisiting the infectious hypothesis

F Bruno, P Abondio, R Bruno, L Ceraudo… - Ageing research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the most frequent type of dementia in elderly people.
Two major forms of the disease exist: sporadic-the causes of which have not yet been fully …

Review of current strategies for delivering Alzheimer's disease drugs across the blood-brain barrier

KH Wong, MK Riaz, Y Xie, X Zhang, Q Liu… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Effective therapy for Alzheimer's disease is a major challenge in the pharmaceutical
sciences. There are six FDA approved drugs (eg, donepezil, memantine) that show some …

Presence of Tat and transactivation response element in spinal fluid despite antiretroviral therapy

LJ Henderson, TP Johnson, BR Smith, LB Reoma… - Aids, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The aim of this study was to measure the protein concentration and biological
activity of HIV-1 Tat in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of individuals on suppressive antiretroviral …

Microbial infections are a risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases

SK Lotz, BM Blackhurst, KL Reagin… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, comprise a family of disorders characterized by progressive …

Biotypes of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders based on viral and immune pathogenesis

TP Johnson, A Nath - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Subtyping patients into subgroups based on biotypes has emerged as a useful approach for
studying heterogeneous diseases. Understanding biotypes of HIV-associated …

HIV neuroinfection and Alzheimer's disease: similarities and potential links?

G Canet, C Dias, A Gabelle, Y Simonin… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Environmental factors such as chemicals, stress and pathogens are now widely believed to
play important roles in the onset of some brain diseases, as they are associated with …

Dementia, infections and vaccines: 30 years of controversy

F Ecarnot, V Boccardi, A Calcagno… - Aging Clinical and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper reports the proceedings of a virtual meeting convened by the European
Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing (EICA), to discuss the involvement of infectious disorders …

Antiretroviral therapy intensification for neurocognitive impairment in human immunodeficiency virus

SL Letendre, H Chen, A McKhann, J Roa… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Neurocognitive impairment (NCI) in people with HIV (PWH) on antiretroviral
therapy (ART) is common and may result from persistent HIV replication in the central …

Genetic variation and function of the HIV-1 Tat protein

C Spector, AR Mele, B Wigdahl… - Medical microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) encodes a transactivator of transcription (Tat)
protein, which has several functions that promote viral replication, pathogenesis, and …

Pathogenesis of age-related HIV neurodegeneration

M Mackiewicz, C Overk, CL Achim, E Masliah - Journal of neurovirology, 2019 - Springer
People over the age of 50 are the fastest growing segment of the HIV-infected population in
the USA. Although antiretroviral therapy has remarkable success controlling the systemic …