abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular disease is associated with increased risk of dementia. Vascular health worsens with age. We investigated the relationship between self-reported vascular disease and brain pathology. METHODS:Brain donations to the population-based MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (n=456, age range 66-103 year...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Richardson K,Stephan BC,Ince PG,Brayne C,Matthews FE,Esiri MM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, the search for preventive strategies for cognitive decline and dementia appears to be of crucial importance, given that the therapeutic options currently available have demonstrated limited efficacy. Cumulative epidemiological evidence suggested that vascular and vascular-related factors may be important f...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Panza F,Frisardi V,Seripa D,Imbimbo BP,Sancarlo D,D'Onofrio G,Addante F,Paris F,Pilotto A,Solfrizzi V

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant body of evidence has accumulated suggesting that individual variation in intellectual ability, whether assessed directly by intelligence tests or indirectly through proxy measures, is related to risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) in later life. Important questions remain unanswered, however, suc...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Yeo RA,Arden R,Jung RE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale (ADAS-cog) is the most widely used cognitive outcome measure in AD trials. Although errors in administration and scoring have been suggested as factors masking accurate estimates and potential effects of treatments, there have been few formal exam...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Schafer K,De Santi S,Schneider LS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first reports of disorders that in terms of cognitive and behavioral symptoms resemble frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and in terms of motor symptoms resemble amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) bring us back to the second half of the 1800s. Over the last 150 years, and especially in the last two decades, there has ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Ferrari R,Kapogiannis D,Huey ED,Momeni P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the presenilin genes cause the majority of early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, presenilin mutations have been identified in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a common cause of heart failure and the most prevalent diagnosis in cardiac transplantation patients. However, the molecul...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Li A,Zhou C,Moore J,Zhang P,Tsai TH,Lee HC,Romano DM,McKee ML,Schoenfeld DA,Serra MJ,Raygor K,Cantiello HF,Fujimoto JG,Tanzi RE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of a plaque-dependent inflammation in Alzheimer's disease has been extensively documented in both human specimens and transgenic models of the disease. Since insoluble plaques are present in AD patients from early preclinical stages of the pathology, the point at which neuroinflammation first occurs in ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Ferretti MT,Cuello AC

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the amyloid hypothesis, studies for AD therapy have been mostly focused on removing β-amyloid. Recent results of amyloid immunotherapy raised the question whether β-amyloid is sufficient target for AD therapy. Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which contain hyperphosphorylated tau, are another pathological hall...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Takashima A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neuropsychiatric drug developments raise questions whether failures of some drugs occur due to flaws in methods. In three case studies of recent AD drug development failures with phenserine, metrifonate, and tarenflurbil we identified methodological lapses able to a...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Becker RE,Greig NH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definite diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is based on the detection of beta amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) - which are the pathological hallmarks of the disease- in the postmortem brains. Although regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF) and Cerebral Glucose Metabolism (CGM) abnormalities ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Valotassiou V,Archimandritis S,Sifakis N,Papatriantafyllou J,Georgoulias P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble amyloid beta (Abeta) oligomers might trigger early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) through the impairment of proper neuronal network function. We have recently shown that the short sequence Abeta(25-35) affects the spontaneous activity in hippocampal slices, when was added to the bath, at high...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Balleza-Tapia H,Huanosta-Gutiérrez A,Márquez-Ramos A,Arias N,Peña F

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory loss is a prominent health concern, second only to heart disease for older individuals. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the principle omega-3 fatty acid in brain and heart, plays an important role in neural and cardiac function. Decreases in plasma DHA are associated with cognitive decline in healthy elderly and Al...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Yurko-Mauro K

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of cholesterol have been proposed as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Polymorphism of genes encoding proteins that regulate cholesterol metabolism have also been associated with the frequency of Alzheimer's development. Some studies have shown that cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce the frequency...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Vestergaard M,Hamada T,Morita M,Takagi M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of natural compounds is an interesting stratagem in the search of drugs with therapeutic potential for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We report here the effect of the hyperforin derivative (IDN5706, tetrahydrohyperforin), a semi-synthetic derivative of the St. John's Wort, on the brain neuropatholo...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Cerpa W,Hancke JL,Morazzoni P,Bombardelli E,Riva A,Marin PP,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) and loss of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) stand prominently in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since the discovery of an Abeta - nAChR interaction, much effort has been expended to characterize the consequences of high versus low concentrations of Abeta on n...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Parri RH,Dineley TK

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating chronic neurodegenerative disease with currently no available disease modifying treatment. In recent years, the peptide amyloid-beta has been proposed as the major pathogenic force in the development and progression of AD. Microglia, the resident immune and phagocytic cells of...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Schlachetzki JC,Hüll M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau into paired-helical filaments is the defining characteristic of the tauopathies. It has become apparent that the hyperphosphorylation of tau likely plays a role in the aggregation process and thus strategies to reduce tau phosphorylation are generating wide int...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Yuzwa SA,Vocadlo DJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of aging and dementia research is advancing rapidly toward the stage of earlier identification of clinical symptoms. Ultimately, clinicians would like to be able to identify individuals who are asymptomatic but at risk for developing dementia. In the interim, the construct of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Petersen RC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial need exists for reliable Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnostic and prognostic tests. Given its intimate communication with the brain, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been surveyed intensively for reliable AD biomarkers. The heterogeneity of AD pathology and the unavoidable difficulties associated with the cl...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Maarouf CL,Andacht TM,Kokjohn TA,Castaño EM,Sue LI,Beach TG,Roher AE

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human memory can be split into familiarity and recollection processes which contribute to different aspects of memory function. These separate processes result in different experiential states. In this review, we examine how this dominant theoretical framework can explain the subjective experience of people with Alzhe...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Souchay C,Moulin CJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, the most reliable diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the post mortem identification of amyloid plaques, consisting of the Amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide, (and neurofibrillary tangles) in the brain of the patient. Great efforts are being made to identify reliable biomarkers for AD that are suitable for mini...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Funke SA,Birkmann E,Willbold D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amyloid deposits and neurofibrillary tangles. Cholinergic dysfunction is also a main pathological feature of the disease. Nevertheless, the links between cholinergic dysfunction and neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's are still unknown. In the...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Belarbi K,Schindowski K,Burnouf S,Caillierez R,Grosjean ME,Demeyer D,Hamdane M,Sergeant N,Blum D,Buée L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study aimed to compare the effects of different cholinesterase inhibitors on acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) activities and protein levels, in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. METHODS AND FINDINGS:AD patients aged 50-85 years were ra...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Nordberg A,Darreh-Shori T,Peskind E,Soininen H,Mousavi M,Eagle G,Lane R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta peptide (Abeta), 42-residue peptide and its variations, is known to form amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease. Solid-state NMR study reveals a parallel beta-sheet structure in the Abeta fibrils. The atomic level structure of Abeta in aqueous environment, however, has not been determined, because of its ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Takano K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a new paradigm of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs): the Auto-Contractive Maps (Auto-CM). The Auto-CM differ from the traditional ANNs under many viewpoints: the Auto-CM start their learning task without a random initialization of their weights, they meet their convergence criterion when all thei...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Buscema M,Grossi E,Snowdon D,Antuono P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the growing population of elderly people. A characteristic of AD is the accumulation of plaques in the brain of AD patients, and theses plaques mainly consist of aggregates of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta). All converging lines of evidence sugg...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Cerpa W,Dinamarca MC,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-secretase is a multi-protein complex that proteolyzes the transmembrane region of the amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) precursor (APP), producing the Abeta peptide implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This protease has been a top target for AD, and various inhibitors have been identified, incl...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Wolfe MS

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common diagnosis among dementia. As increasing longevity results in larger numbers of AD patients and thus rising economic costs, there has been intense research about the pathophysiology and treatment strategies during the last years. Since neurotrophic factors are not only respon...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Schulte-Herbrüggen O,Jockers-Scherübl MC,Hellweg R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing basic science and clinical evidence implicates inflammatory processes and resulting glial activation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease. Excess TNF-alpha, a cytokine with pleotropic effects in the CNS, has been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of AD. In addition to its pro-infl...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Tobinick E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the average ages of North Americans and Europeans continue to rise; similarly the incidence of "old age" associated illnesses likewise increases. Most notably among these ailments are conditions linked to dementia-related neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and st...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Tweedie D,Sambamurti K,Greig NH

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the resources needed by clinical pharmacology to test drugs in ways that model how the practitioner achieves optimal effectiveness and safety with each patient? I describe the applications of test-retest standard error of measurement, clinical decision rules, means or other statistical summaries of observatio...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Becker RE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anesthesia and surgery have been reported to produce long-term cognitive problems, and to accelerate neurodegenerative disorders in the elderly. In previous work, we found that inhaled anesthetics enhance fibril formation and cytotoxicity of amyloid beta peptide. In this work we show that the inhaled anesthetics halot...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Carnini A,Lear JD,Eckenhoff RG

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CATIE-AD was a multicenter effectiveness trial of atypical antipsychotics in patients with agitation and psychosis associated with AD who resided in the community. The study enrolled 421 participants. In this paper we present and discuss baseline characteristics of participants (demographics, cognitive, behavioral, an...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Ismail MS,Dagerman K,Tariot PN,Abbott S,Kavanagh S,Schneider LS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing prevalence of obesity world-wide has an expected consequent increase in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Less attention has been paid to the effect of obesity on dementia. This overview discusses methodological issues related to the epidemiologic study of obesity and dementia, reviews results of lon...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of genes and pathways that alter lifespan has allowed for new insights into factors that control the aging process as well as disease. While strong molecular links exist between aging and metabolism, we hypothesize that targeting the mechanisms involved in aging will also give rise to therapeutics that ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： DiStefano PS,Curtis R,Geddes BJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently the most prominent form of dementia among the elderly. Although AD manifests in late adult life, it is not clear when the disease actually starts and how long the neuropathological processes take to develop AD. The major unresolved question is the timing and the nature of triggeri...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Lahiri DK,Maloney B,Basha MR,Ge YW,Zawia NH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in the US and much of the world with rates increasing exponentially from age 65. Increases in life expectancy in the last century have resulted in a large number of people living to old ages and will result in a quadrupling of AD cases by the middle of the c...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Kawas CH,Corrada MM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in causing metabolic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The searches for mitochondrial DNA variants associated with AD susceptibility have generated conflicting results. The age-related accumulation of somatic mitochondrial DNA deletion has been suggested to play a...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Chen X,Stern D,Yan SD

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis has been postulated to play a possible causal role in the onset of Alzheimer's disease due to shortage of trophic supply, deafferentation and excessive production of free radicals. Many experiments in the past have demonstrated the requirement of de novo gene expression during neuronal apoptosis. In view of ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Cavallaro S,Calissano P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Twentieth Century witnessed tremendous advances in our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. Not least among them were the contributions from hyperendemic foci of neurodegenerative disorders in isolated human groups worldwide, with the knowledge gained applicable to our understanding of related neurodegener...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Garruto RM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00