PAPER Chen J, Costa LG, Guizzetti M

Assessment of cholesterol homeostasis in astrocytes and neurons.

Methods Mol Biol. 2011;758:403-14. PubMed: 21815081

PAPER Wallis L

REACH VA helps family caregivers of dementia patients.

Am J Nurs. 2011 Jun;111(6):18. PubMed: 21613907

PAPER Yamamoto K, Ueta Y, Wang L, Yamamoto R, Inoue N, Inokuchi K, Aiba A, Yonekura H, Kato N

Suppression of a neocortical potassium channel activity by intracellular amyloid-β and its rescue with Homer1a.

J Neurosci. 2011 Aug 3;31(31):11100-9. PubMed: 21813671

PAPER Zhou XF, Wang YJ

The p75NTR extracellular domain: A potential molecule regulating the solubility and removal of amyloid-β

Prion. 2011 Jul 1;5(3) PubMed: 21814043

PAPER Wysocki M, Luo X, Schmeidler J, Dahlman K, Lesser GT, Grossman H, Haroutunian V, Beeri MS

Hypertension is Associated With Cognitive Decline in Elderly People at High Risk for Dementia.

Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011 Feb 16; PubMed: 21814158

Kaj Blennow on "Autoantibody-omics" Yields Potential Blood Biomarkers for AD

COMMENT Genomics and proteomics have become highly active research areas to search for novel genes and proteins involved in disease pathogenesis, or to identify novel biomarkers. Research has also expanded to include other “omics” such as metabolomics and lipidom

PAPER Lee G, Studer L

Modelling familial dysautonomia in human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 Aug 12;366(1575):2286-96. PubMed: 21727134

PAPER Fusaki N, Ban H, Nishiyama A, Saeki K, Hasegawa M

Efficient induction of transgene-free human pluripotent stem cells using a vector based on Sendai virus, an RNA virus that does not integrate into the host genome.

Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2009;85(8):348-62. PubMed: 19838014

PAPER Carter CJ

The Fox and the Rabbits—Environmental Variables and Population Genetics (1) Replication Problems in Association Studies and the Untapped Power of GWAS (2) Vitamin A Deficiency, Herpes Simplex Reactivation and Other Causes of Alzheimer's Disease

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Alzheimer’s Neurons Made to Order: Direct Conversion From Skin Cells

RESEARCH NEWS 2011-08-05 Research News This paper was  retracted  on 10 April 2014. A human brain with Alzheimer’s disease cannot be studied in a dish, but scientists can now do the next best thing. In a paper in today’s Cell, researchers led by Asa Abeliovich at Columbia Univers

Youth Group Promotes Alzheimer’s Research and Support for Elderly

COMMUNITY NEWS 2011-08-05 Community News “The youth is the hope of our future,” wrote the Filipino essayist Jose Rizal. This is no less true in the aging field, where today’s youth will become tomorrow’s researchers and gerontologists. A youth movement that started in California a

"Autoantibody-omics" Yields Potential Blood Biomarkers for AD

RESEARCH NEWS 2011-08-05 Research News Though Alzheimer’s is not typically considered an immune disease, serum autoantibodies just may hold promise as a blood-based AD diagnostic, suggests a study published August 3 in PLoS ONE. Using protein microarrays to probe human blood samp

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PAPER Bruggink KA, Kuiperij HB, Ekholm-Pettersson F, Verbeek MM

Detection of elevated levels of α-synuclein oligomers in CSF from patients with Parkinson disease.

Neurology. 2011 Aug 2;77(5):510; author reply 510-1. PubMed: 21810701

PAPER Gendron TF, Petrucelli L

Rodent models of TDP-43 proteinopathy: investigating the mechanisms of TDP-43-mediated neurodegeneration.

J Mol Neurosci. 2011 Nov;45(3):486-99. PubMed: 21811811