Immune attack: the role of inflammation in Alzheimer disease

FL Heppner, RM Ransohoff, B Becher - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
The past two decades of research into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) have
been driven largely by the amyloid hypothesis; the neuroinflammation that is associated with …

Aging and Alzheimer's disease: comparison and associations from molecular to system level

X Xia, Q Jiang, J McDermott, JDJ Han - Aging cell, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent cause of dementia, which is defined by the
combined presence of amyloid and tau, but researchers are gradually moving away from the …

Inflammation in Alzheimer disease—a brief review of the basic science and clinical literature

T Wyss-Coray, J Rogers - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Biochemical and neuropathological studies of brains from individuals with Alzheimer
disease (AD) provide clear evidence for an activation of inflammatory pathways, and long …

Therapeutic inhibition of the complement system in diseases of the central nervous system

SM Carpanini, M Torvell, BP Morgan - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The complement system plays critical roles in development, homeostasis, and regeneration
in the central nervous system (CNS) throughout life; however, complement dysregulation in …

Oligodendrocyte‐microglia cross‐talk in the central nervous system

L Peferoen, M Kipp, P van der Valk, JM van Noort… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Communication between the immune system and the central nervous system (CNS) is
exemplified by cross‐talk between glia and neurons shown to be essential for maintaining …

Immunologic reactions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis brain and spinal cord tissue.

T Kawamata, H Akiyama, T Yamada… - The American journal of …, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Expression of proteins associated with immune function was investigated
immunohistochemically in postmortem brain and spinal cord of patients with amyotrophic …

The gut-brain axis, including the microbiome, leaky gut and bacterial translocation: mechanisms and pathophysiological role in Alzheimer's disease

CA Kohler, M Maes, A Slyepchenko… - Current …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is a progressive disorder
manifested by gradual memory loss and subsequent impairment in mental and behavioral …

Microglia in degenerative neurological disease

PL McGeer, T Kawamata, DG Walker, H Akiyama… - Glia, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia express many leukocyte surface antigens which are upregulated in such chronic
degenerative neurological diseases as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and amyotrophic lateral …

Inverse association of anti‐inflammatory treatments and Alzheimer's disease: initial results of a co‐twin control study

JCS Breitner, BA Gau, KA Welsh, BL Plassman… - Neurology, 1994 - neurology.org
We conducted a co-twin control study among 50 elderly twin pairs with onsets of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) separated by 3 or more years. Twenty-three male pairs (46%) were screened …

Retrogenesis: clinical, physiologic, and pathologic mechanisms in brain aging, Alzheimer's and other dementing processes

B Reisberg, EH Franssen, SM Hasan, I Monteiro… - European archives of …, 1999 - Springer
Data from clinical, electrophysiologic, neurophysiologic, neuroimaging and neuropathologic
sources indicates that the progression of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) …