APOE4 was originally studied in the context of blood lipids and cardiovascular disease and first characterized at the protein level as one of three inherited ApoE isoforms with unique ...
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Tau hyperphosphorylation and conformational changes in the brain parenchyma start around seven months. Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser ...
Back in July, the U.S. POINTER study showed that a structured lifestyle makeover in older adults slightly improves scores on memory and thinking tests (Baker et al., 2025; Aug 2025 conference news).
Epidemiological suggestions that the shingles vaccine might protect against dementia keep rolling in. Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University, presented his group’s latest findings at this year’s ...
At the turn of the 20th century, bovine tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that infected cows and spilled over to humans via milk ran rampant in France. Today, a weakened form of that same ...
Ring-shaped RNAs floating in a person’s bloodstream might mean bad news for their brain. At the 18th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease, held December 1–4 in San Diego, Bridget Phillips, a ...
Monoclonal antibodies continue to show their ability to rid the brain of amyloid plaques. Trouble is, those antibodies need to be injected on the regular to keep taking down their targets in the brain ...
In Pick’s disease, as in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia, tangled tau spells trouble. In this subtype of FTD, abnormal clumps of three-repeat tau called Pick bodies abound in neurons.
This humanized IgG1 antibody inhibits an immune checkpoint protein called programmed death ligand, aka PD-L1, stimulating the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, including other antibodies, are ...
Paper Citations Demars M, Hu YS, Gadadhar A, Lazarov O. Impaired neurogenesis is an early event in the etiology of familial Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice. J Neurosci Res. 2010 Aug 1;88 ...
reactive to aa 1-16 of Aβ and to APP; reacts to the abnormally processed isoforms, as well as precursor forms ...