Exercise helps stave off Alzheimer’s disease, but exactly how it does so is murky. In the February 18 Cell, scientists led by Saul Villeda at the University of California, San Francisco, offered one ...
Can AI bring more order to amyloid scans? In the February 11 Alzheimer’s & Dementia, scientists led by Pierrick Bourgeat at CSIRO Australian eHealth Research Center, Brisbane, and Vincent Doré of ...
This noninvasive approach attempts to modulate the noradrenergic system of the locus coeruleus by stimulating the vagal nerve. It uses electrodes clipped on the outer ear to stimulate the auricular ...
Paper Citations Demars M, Hu YS, Gadadhar A, Lazarov O. Impaired neurogenesis is an early event in the etiology of familial Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice. J Neurosci Res. 2010 Aug 1;88 ...
Synonyms: High-copy SOD1-G93A, B6SJL.SOD1-G93A, Tg(hSOD1-G93A)1GUR mice, Gurney mice ...
This humanized IgG1 antibody inhibits an immune checkpoint protein called programmed death ligand, aka PD-L1, stimulating the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, including other antibodies, are ...
News Peptide Brace Against AD—Insulin, Neuropeptide Y Tame Aβ Toxicity 10 Feb 2009 Aβ and Phospho-tau: Strange Bedfellows Get Intimate at Synapses 19 Sep 2008 The Skinny on FAT: APP’s Role in Fast ...
This mouse model of ALS overexpresses wild-type human TARDBP (TDP-43) in postnatal neurons. Mice in this line, called TAR4, develop ALS-related phenotypes, including severe motor impairment, loss of ...
People with Parkinson’s disease have α-synuclein clumps in the brain, but these aggregates are not the only thing clogging them up. Constipation plagues many PD patients, often decades before motor ...
Scientists have attempted to bolster microglia in the Alzheimer’s brain by switching on TREM2 signaling, but so far, these efforts have met with little success. Might it work better to bypass TREM2 by ...
CpG 1018 is a proprietary immune adjuvant made up of short, unmethylated cytosine-phosphate-guanine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs). Its components mimic bacterial DNA to activate innate immunity ...
In trying to treat neuroinflammation, scientists need better ways to visualize microglia in the brains of living people. Current microglial PET tracers target the mitochondrial transporter TSPO, but ...