CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Keystone Symposium: Alzheimer’s Disease Beyond Aβ
Copper Mountain, Colorado
10 – 15 January 2010
Copper Mountain: Can CREB Save Memory?
The Keystone Symposium at Copper Mountain, Colorado, was convened to discuss therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer disease besides those that target amyloid-β...
Copper Mountain: Knight Vision—SIRT1 Aids ADAM10, Slays Aβ
Gizem Donmez reported that SIRT1 might protect against AD by boosting ADAM10 (aka α-secretase) and promoting non-amyloidogenic processing of Aβ APP...
Copper Mountain Brief: Rat-a-tat—New Model Comes a Knockin’
Bigger, smarter, and more amenable than mice to the imaging techniques that are rapidly becoming indispensable in AD research, rats could be a valuable model for studying AD...
Copper Mountain: Death and Trophin Receptors—New Insight, New Drugs?
Death and taxes are reputedly inevitable, though death and receptors may be more interesting to Alzforum readers...
Copper Mountain: Fractious Receptors, Glia, and AD Pathology
Researchers tried to make sense of the different cells and chemokine signaling pathways that might make the difference between quietly clearing Aβ and setting off a pro-inflammatory cascade...
Copper Mountain: Origins and Actions of Glial Cells in AD
There’s more to the brain than neurons; astrocytes and microglia play crucial roles in the development and maintenance of a healthy brain...