Sex differences in biological aging with a focus on human studies

S Hägg, J Jylhävä - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging is a complex biological process characterized by hallmark features accumulating over
the life course, shaping the individual's aging trajectory and subsequent disease risks. There …

History and progress of hypotheses and clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease

PP Liu, Y Xie, XY Meng, JS Kang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive
memory loss along with neuropsychiatric symptoms and a decline in activities of daily life. Its …

The major risk factors for Alzheimer's disease: age, sex, and genes modulate the microglia response to Aβ plaques

CS Frigerio, L Wolfs, N Fattorelli, N Thrupp, I Voytyuk… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Gene expression profiles of more than 10,000 individual microglial cells isolated from cortex
and hippocampus of male and female App NL-GF mice over time demonstrate that …

Mitophagy inhibits amyloid-β and tau pathology and reverses cognitive deficits in models of Alzheimer's disease

EF Fang, Y Hou, K Palikaras, BA Adriaanse… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accumulation of damaged mitochondria is a hallmark of aging and age-related
neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The molecular mechanisms of …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence-based prevention of Alzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of 243 observational prospective studies and 153 randomised …

JT Yu, W Xu, CC Tan, S Andrieu, J Suckling… - Journal of Neurology …, 2020 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Evidence on preventing Alzheimer's disease (AD) is challenging to interpret
due to varying study designs with heterogeneous endpoints and credibility. We completed a …

Deep learning encodes robust discriminative neuroimaging representations to outperform standard machine learning

A Abrol, Z Fu, M Salman, R Silva, Y Du, S Plis… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent critical commentaries unfavorably compare deep learning (DL) with standard
machine learning (SML) approaches for brain imaging data analysis. However, their …

Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality

AR DeCasien, E Guma, S Liu, A Raznahan - Biology of Sex Differences, 2022 - Springer
The presence, magnitude, and significance of sex differences in the human brain are hotly
debated topics in the scientific community and popular media. This debate is largely fueled …

Mechanistic insight into female predominance in Alzheimer's disease based on aberrant protein S-nitrosylation of C3

H Yang, C Oh, H Amal, JS Wishnok, S Lewis… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Protein S-nitros (yl) ation (SNO) is a posttranslational modification involved in diverse
processes in health and disease and can contribute to synaptic damage in Alzheimer's …

Sex differences in the adult human brain: evidence from 5216 UK biobank participants

SJ Ritchie, SR Cox, X Shen, MV Lombardo… - Cerebral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Sex differences in the human brain are of interest for many reasons: for example, there are
sex differences in the observed prevalence of psychiatric disorders and in some …

Subjective cognitive decline: level of risk for future dementia and mild cognitive impairment, a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

KE Pike, MG Cavuoto, L Li, BJ Wright… - Neuropsychology review, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) in older adults has been identified as a risk
factor for dementia, although the literature is inconsistent, and it is unclear which factors …