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 …

15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

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 …

CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics: progress and prospects

T Li, Y Yang, H Qi, W Cui, L Zhang, X Fu, X He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9) gene-editing technology is the ideal tool of the future for treating diseases …

Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration development

W Zhang, D Xiao, Q Mao, H Xia - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease
and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and so on, have suggested that …

[HTML][HTML] Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in astrocytes and microglia

TCW Julia, L Qian, NH Pipalia, MJ Chao, SA Liang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The impact of apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4), the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease (AD), on human brain cellular function remains unclear. Here, we investigated the …

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 …

The amyloid-β pathway in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, J Hardy, K Blennow, C Chen, G Perry… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in molecular medicine have positioned the amyloid-β (Aβ) pathway at the
center of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. While the detailed molecular …

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 …

Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications

XY Tang, S Wu, D Wang, C Chu, Y Hong… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are three-dimensional (3D) miniature structures cultured in vitro produced from
either human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) or adult stem cells (AdSCs) derived from …