The centrality of the amyloid hypothesis for AD pathology
is evident at the World Alzheimer Congress 2000, not only by the sheer number of papers and
posters devoted to it, but also by...
The potential contribution of ApoE to AD pathology was cast in a novel light in data presented as a poster today by Huang et al. They were studying the fate of ApoE when expressed by transient transfection in Neuro-2a cells...
It has been a century since Alzheimer and Bielchowsky reported senile plaques (SP) in AD brain, but it was only relatively recently appreciated that SPs are embraced by reactive astrocytes and microglia...
Do individual neurons gradually waste away in inherited neurodegenerative diseases, or are they functioning more or less normally until one catastrophic event does them in? A study published in tomorrow's Nature suggests...
One of the first symposia of the conference was dedicated to an overview of the
current and future treatments for AD. Six presenters gave their perspectives on many treatment issues...
Amyloid plaques are still the main attraction, and tangles have certainly not left the stage, but there is still a lot of interest at this meeting (off-Broadway, so to speak) in other potential players in AD pathology...
The editors of the Journal of Alzheimer Disease announced today that Suzanne de la Monte was the recipient of its Alzheimer Medal for best article published in the past year...
Transplanted stem cells have provided compelling news stories in recent years, promising regeneration of damaged nervous systems, but another possibility—that the adult brain itself could provide the pluripotent cells...
One of the challenges to diagnosing Alzheimer's disease is the lack of a nonbehavioral clinical test. The definitive diagnosis can only be made when amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are seen at autopsy...
Finding a safe way to get therapeutic genes past the blood-brain barrier has led to some interesting approaches using the barrier's own transport
systems to shuttle DNA across the blood capillary wall...
Results presented by three research groups this week all confirm that presenilin is, at the least, essential for γ-secretase to cleave amyloid precursor protein in the process that releases amyloid-β-...
The discovery that Huntington's disease results from a particular mutation of the gene for the protein dubbed "huntingtin" has created great hope that this neurodegenerative movement disorder will soon have effective treatments...
How are short-term memories converted to long-term memories? The process is certain to be complex, and a study in the 23 June issue of Science suggests thetranscription factor NPAS2 may play an important role...
Peter Lansbury, like I and others, has long promulgated
the idea that intermediates in CNS disease-related fibrillogenesis
processes are likely to be pathogenic, whereas mature matted fibrils
(although not desirable) are relatively inert...
Last July, Dale Schenk and colleagues from Elan
Pharmaceuticals reported the remarkable observation that simple
immunization of PDAPP transgenic mice...