Not Just a Biomarker: YKL-40 Links Glial Clock to Amyloidosis
This astrocytic glycoprotein greases glial phagocytosis and reduces plaque burden in mice. The circadian clock protein Bmal1 suppresses it.
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This astrocytic glycoprotein greases glial phagocytosis and reduces plaque burden in mice. The circadian clock protein Bmal1 suppresses it.
Breaking familiar gene-disease patterns, HTT trinucleotide expansions lead to huntingtin aggregates in prefrontal cortex. Noncoding caveolin 1 variants suppress its expression.
This pathway may transmogrify microglia during neurodegeneration, without the help of TREM2.
People who report not participating in social or cognitive activities are more likely to develop dementia within the next few years, but not after that. The findings cast nonparticipation as a consequence, not a cause, of neurodegeneration.
Sensor algorithms can accurately capture patterns of resting tremor and dyskinesia. This could help clinicians manage symptoms and medication.
Transcriptomic and epigenomic data pin PD risk genes in GWAS loci; six affect splicing, five expression, four are new.
In mouse models of tauopathy, microglia populations are far from binary. Different activation stages emerge at different phases of disease, some marked by viral defense pathways.
Two cohorts—IDEAS and WHIMS—show Aβ accumulation and brain shrinkage in cognitively normal and impaired elderly who were exposed to levels of air pollution even within current EPA limits.
Researchers found that bits of tau from the protein’s microtubule-binding region can be detected in the cerebrospinal fluid. These, not phospho-tau or total tau, reflect neurofibrillary tangles in the Alzheimer’s brain.
Topline results suggested that the anti-inflammatory treatment stabilized cognition and function over six months. The trial did not include biomarkers.
Confronting unprecedented challenges this past year, scientists found ways to tide their research over and keep clinical trials mostly on track.
In cultured cells, lysosomal activity was necessary to enable tau seeds to break out of internalized exosomes and trigger the aggregation of tau in the cytosol.
Despite plaques and tangles in the brain, this group, on average, maintains their cognitive skills over two to four years, suggesting the presence of resilience factors.
Among 14 familial Alzheimer’s APP mutations, two don’t change the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio, but all of them yield long peptides of 45 to 49 residues that hide out in the membrane.
Assays will help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment in Taiwanese clinics.