Locus coeruleus volume and cell population changes during Alzheimer's disease progression: a stereological study in human postmortem brains with potential …

P Theofilas, AJ Ehrenberg, S Dunlop, ATDL Alho… - Alzheimer's & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression follows a specific spreading pattern,
emphasizing the need to characterize those brain areas that degenerate first. The …

Neuropathologic correlates of psychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease

AJ Ehrenberg, CK Suemoto… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Clarifying the relationships between neuropsychiatric symptoms and Alzheimer's disease
(AD)-related pathology may open avenues for effective treatments. Here, we investigate the …

d-serine levels in Alzheimer's disease: implications for novel biomarker development

C Madeira, MV Lourenco, C Vargas-Lopes… - Translational …, 2015 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder still in search of effective
methods of diagnosis. Altered levels of the NMDA receptor co-agonist, d-serine, have been …

Global and local ancestry modulate APOE association with Alzheimer's neuropathology and cognitive outcomes in an admixed sample

MS Naslavsky, CK Suemoto, LA Brito, MO Scliar… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Dementia is more prevalent in Blacks than in Whites, likely due to a combination of
environmental and biological factors. Paradoxically, clinical studies suggest an attenuation …

Very low levels of education and cognitive reserve: a clinicopathologic study

JM Farfel, R Nitrini, CK Suemoto, LT Grinberg… - Neurology, 2013 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: We conducted a clinicopathologic study in a large population with very low levels
of education to determine whether very few years of education could contribute to cognitive …

Cell number changes in Alzheimer's disease relate to dementia, not to plaques and tangles

CH Andrade-Moraes, AV Oliveira-Pinto… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease is the commonest cause of dementia in the elderly, but its pathological
determinants are still debated. Amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles have been …

Neuropathological diagnoses and clinical correlates in older adults in Brazil: A cross-sectional study

CK Suemoto, REL Ferretti-Rebustini… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Clinicopathological studies are important in determining the brain lesions
underlying dementia. Although almost 60% of individuals with dementia live in developing …

Probing the correlation of neuronal loss, neurofibrillary tangles, and cell death markers across the Alzheimer's disease Braak stages: a quantitative study in humans

P Theofilas, AJ Ehrenberg, A Nguy, JM Thackrey… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Clarifying the mechanisms connecting neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) neurotoxicity to neuronal
dysfunction in humans is likely to be pivotal for developing effective treatments for …

Activated forms of astrocytes with higher GLT-1 expression are associated with cognitive normal subjects with Alzheimer pathology in human brain

E Kobayashi, M Nakano, K Kubota, N Himuro… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Although the cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is believed to be caused by
amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), several postmortem studies have …

Repair of oxidative DNA damage, cell-cycle regulation and neuronal death may influence the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease

ART Silva, ACF Santos, JM Farfel, LT Grinberg… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline associated with
a featured neuropathology (neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles). Several studies …