Review on Alzheimer's disease: inhibition of amyloid beta and tau tangle formation

H Ashrafian, EH Zadeh, RH Khan - International journal of biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is reported that approximately 40 million people are suffering from dementia, globally.
Dementia is a group of symptoms that affect neurons and cause some mental disorders …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease

EE Congdon, EM Sigurdsson - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. Pathologically, AD is
characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, with associated …

Tau reduction prevents neuronal loss and reverses pathological tau deposition and seeding in mice with tauopathy

SL DeVos, RL Miller, KM Schoch, BB Holmes… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau directly correlates with cognitive decline in
Alzheimer's disease and other primary tauopathies. One therapeutic strategy may be to …

Tau pathology and neurodegeneration

MG Spillantini, M Goedert - The Lancet Neurology, 2013 - thelancet.com
The pathway leading from soluble and monomeric to hyperphosphorylated, insoluble and
filamentous tau protein is at the centre of many human neurodegenerative diseases …

Therapeutics of Alzheimer's disease: Past, present and future

R Anand, KD Gill, AA Mahdi - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide. The etiology is
multifactorial, and pathophysiology of the disease is complex. Data indicate an exponential …

Synaptic tau seeding precedes tau pathology in human Alzheimer's disease brain

SL DeVos, BT Corjuc, DH Oakley… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is defined by the presence of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles
(NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates as well as extracellular amyloid …

A walk through tau therapeutic strategies

S Jadhav, J Avila, M Schöll, GG Kovacs… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2019 - Springer
Tau neuronal and glial pathologies drive the clinical presentation of Alzheimer's disease
and related human tauopathies. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that …

Tau in Alzheimer's disease: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

Y Gao, L Tan, JT Yu, L Tan - Current Alzheimer Research, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Objective: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most important progressive neurodegenerative
disorder, is characterized by cognitive and behavioral disabilities. Nowadays, tau, as a …

[PDF][PDF] Anti-tau antibodies that block tau aggregate seeding in vitro markedly decrease pathology and improve cognition in vivo

K Yanamandra, N Kfoury, H Jiang, TE Mahan, S Ma… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Tau aggregation occurs in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease and
many other disorders collectively termed tauopathies. trans-cellular propagation of tau …

[PDF][PDF] The many faces of tau

M Morris, S Maeda, K Vossel, L Mucke - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
While the microtubule-binding capacity of the protein tau has been known for many years,
new functions of tau in signaling and cytoskeletal organization have recently emerged. In …