Alzheimer's disease associated with Down syndrome: a genetic form of dementia

J Fortea, SH Zaman, S Hartley, MS Rafii… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Adults with Down syndrome develop the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's
disease and are at very high risk of developing early-onset dementia, which is now the …

Tauvid™: the first FDA-approved PET tracer for imaging tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

CVML Jie, V Treyer, R Schibli, L Mu - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tauvid has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2020 for
positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of adult patients with cognitive impairments …

Distinct molecular signatures of amyloid-beta and tau in Alzheimer's disease associated with down syndrome

S Ichimata, I Martinez-Valbuena, S Lee, J Li… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Limited comparative data exist on the molecular spectrum of amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau
deposition in individuals with Down syndrome (DS) and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) …

Detection of brain tau pathology in Down syndrome using plasma biomarkers

S Janelidze, BT Christian, J Price, C Laymon… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Novel plasma biomarkers, especially phosphorylated tau (p-tau), can detect
brain tau aggregates in Alzheimer disease. Objective To determine which plasma biomarker …

Tau biomarkers in dementia: positron emission tomography radiopharmaceuticals in tauopathy assessment and future perspective

M Ricci, A Cimini, R Camedda, A Chiaravalloti… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Abnormal accumulation of Tau protein is closely associated with neurodegeneration and
cognitive impairment and it is a biomarker of neurodegeneration in the dementia field …

Physical activity and cognitive and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome

V Fleming, B Piro-Gambetti, A Patrick, M Zammit… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adults with Down syndrome (DS) are at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Despite sharing trisomy
21, however, there is variability in the age of disease onset. This variability may mean that …

Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons: linking down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease

JL Martinez, MD Zammit, NR West… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Down syndrome (DS, trisomy 21) is characterized by intellectual impairment at birth and
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in middle age. As individuals with DS age, their …

Exploring the role of sex differences in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis in Down syndrome

EJ Andrews, AC Martini, E Head - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet little is known about
sex-specific effects on the development of AD in the Down syndrome (DS) population. DS is …

Characterizing the emergence of amyloid and tau burden in Down syndrome

MD Zammit, TJ Betthauser, AK McVea… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION Almost all individuals with Down syndrome (DS) will develop
neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Understanding AD biomarker …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid-β and tau deposition influences cognitive and functional decline in Down syndrome

M Grigorova, E Mak, SSG Brown, J Beresford-Webb… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates whether tau has (i) an independent effect from amyloid-β on changes
in cognitive and functional performance and (ii) a synergistic relationship with amyloid-β in …