Cerebral blood flow decrease as an early pathological mechanism in Alzheimer's disease

N Korte, R Nortley, D Attwell - Acta neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Therapies targeting late events in Alzheimer's disease (AD), including aggregation of
amyloid beta (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau, have largely failed, probably because they …

Brain arteriolosclerosis

BL Blevins, HV Vinters, S Love, DM Wilcock… - Acta …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Brain arteriolosclerosis (B-ASC), characterized by pathologic arteriolar wall
thickening, is a common finding at autopsy in aged persons and is associated with cognitive …

Cerebrovascular disease in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

S Love, JS Miners - Acta neuropathologica, 2016 - Springer
Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) have more in common than
their association with ageing. They share risk factors and overlap neuropathologically. Most …

Vascular cognitive impairment neuropathology guidelines (VCING): the contribution of cerebrovascular pathology to cognitive impairment

OA Skrobot, J Attems, M Esiri, T Hortobágyi… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
There are no generally accepted protocols for post-mortem assessment in cases of
suspected vascular cognitive impairment. Neuropathologists from seven UK centres have …

Integrative network analysis of nineteen brain regions identifies molecular signatures and networks underlying selective regional vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease

M Wang, P Roussos, A McKenzie, X Zhou, Y Kajiwara… - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized
by progressive cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration. However, despite extensive …

Pathological changes within the cerebral vasculature in Alzheimer's disease: New perspectives

RA Fisher, JS Miners, S Love - Brain Pathology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cerebrovascular disease underpins vascular dementia (VaD), but structural and functional
changes to the cerebral vasculature contribute to disease pathology and cognitive decline in …

ACE2 activation protects against cognitive decline and reduces amyloid pathology in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

CE Evans, JS Miners, G Piva, CL Willis, DM Heard… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Mid-life hypertension and cerebrovascular dysfunction are associated with increased risk of
later life dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The classical renin–angiotensin …

Selective loss of cortical endothelial tight junction proteins during Alzheimer's disease progression

Y Yamazaki, M Shinohara, M Shinohara, A Yamazaki… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
While the accumulation and aggregation of amyloid-β and tau are central events in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, there is increasing evidence that cerebrovascular …

Multimodal data analysis of Alzheimer's disease based on clustering evolutionary random forest

X Bi, X Hu, H Wu, Y Wang - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a severe medical challenge. Advances in
technologies produced high-dimensional data of different modalities including functional …

Differing associations between Aβ accumulation, hypoperfusion, blood–brain barrier dysfunction and loss of PDGFRB pericyte marker in the precuneus and parietal …

JS Miners, I Schulz, S Love - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies implicate loss of pericytes in hypoperfusion and blood–brain barrier (BBB)
leakage in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we have measured levels of the pericyte …