Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Glymphatic system clears extracellular tau and protects from tau aggregation and neurodegeneration

K Ishida, K Yamada, R Nishiyama… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Accumulation of tau has been implicated in various neurodegenerative diseases termed
tauopathies. Tau is a microtubule-associated protein but is also actively released into the …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

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 …

Imaging the evolution and pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease

W Jagust - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Technologies for imaging the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) now permit
studies of the relationships between the two major proteins deposited in this disease …

Tau kinetics in neurons and the human central nervous system

C Sato, NR Barthélemy, KG Mawuenyega… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
We developed stable isotope labeling and mass spectrometry approaches to measure the
kinetics of multiple isoforms and fragments of tau in the human central nervous system …

The complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Aggregated Tau activates NLRP3–ASC inflammasome exacerbating exogenously seeded and non-exogenously seeded Tau pathology in vivo

IC Stancu, N Cremers, H Vanrusselt, J Couturier… - Acta …, 2019 - Springer
Brains of Alzheimer's disease patients are characterized by the presence of amyloid plaques
and neurofibrillary tangles, both invariably associated with neuroinflammation. A crucial role …

Neuronal activity enhances tau propagation and tau pathology in vivo

JW Wu, SA Hussaini, IM Bastille, GA Rodriguez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Tau protein can transfer between neurons transneuronally and trans-synaptically, which is
thought to explain the progressive spread of tauopathy observed in the brain of patients with …