Amyloid-β-independent regulators of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

R van der Kant, LSB Goldstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The global epidemic of Alzheimer disease (AD) is worsening, and no approved treatment
can revert or arrest progression of this disease. AD pathology is characterized by the …

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, LH Tsai - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless
promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics in patients with Alzheimer's disease reveals five molecular subtypes with distinct genetic risk profiles

BM Tijms, EM Vromen, O Mjaavatten, H Holstege… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is heterogenous at the molecular level. Understanding this
heterogeneity is critical for AD drug development. Here we define AD molecular subtypes …

APOE4 exacerbates synapse loss and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease patient iPSC-derived cerebral organoids

J Zhao, Y Fu, Y Yamazaki, Y Ren, MD Davis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(AD). To address the underlying mechanism, we develop cerebral organoid models using …

Age-dependent instability of mature neuronal fate in induced neurons from Alzheimer's patients

J Mertens, JR Herdy, L Traxler, ST Schafer… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) exclusively affects elderly people. Using direct
conversion of AD patient fibroblasts into induced neurons (iNs), we generated an age …

Restoring Wnt/β-catenin signaling is a promising therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease

L Jia, J Piña-Crespo, Y Li - Molecular brain, 2019 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an aging-related neurological disorder characterized by
synaptic loss and dementia. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an essential signal transduction …

Human pluripotent-stem-cell-derived organoids for drug discovery and evaluation

JJ Vandana, C Manrique, LA Lacko, S Chen - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and three-dimensional organoids have ushered in a
new era for disease modeling and drug discovery. Over the past decade, significant …

Neurogenesis in aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases

L Culig, X Chu, VA Bohr - Ageing research reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Adult neurogenesis, the process by which neurons are generated in certain areas of the
adult brain, declines in an age-dependent manner and is one potential target for extending …

[HTML][HTML] Making neurons, made easy: The use of Neurogenin-2 in neuronal differentiation

AJ Hulme, S Maksour, MSC Glover, S Miellet, M Dottori - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Directed neuronal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), neural
progenitors, or fibroblasts using transcription factors has allowed for the rapid and highly …

Cerebrospinal fluid tau levels are associated with abnormal neuronal plasticity markers in Alzheimer's disease

PJ Visser, LM Reus, J Gobom, I Jansen, E Dicks… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background Increased total tau (t-tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a key characteristic of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is considered to result from neurodegeneration. T-tau levels …