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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Santiago Ramirez, Suelyn Koerich, Natalia Astudillo, Nicole De Gregorio, Rabab Al-Lahham, Tyler Allison, Natalia Pessoa Rocha, Fei Wang, Claudio Soto
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of removing Aβ from blood plasma on the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain. The results showed a reduction in Aβ levels in the plasma and insoluble brain fractions, as well as a decrease in amyloid plaque burden and changes in plaque size distribution in the cortex and hippocampus. These findings support the importance of targeting Aβ in the periphery and suggest plasma exchange as a potential non-pharmacological strategy for slowing down AD pathogenesis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
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Clinical Neurology
Sarah K. Royse, Davneet S. Minhas, Brian J. Lopresti, Alice Murphy, Tyler Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Santiago Bullich, Susan DeSanti, William J. Jagust, Susan M. Landau
Summary: This study addressed challenges in multisite studies using multiple beta-amyloid radiotracers by deriving standardized Centiloid transformations and internally consistent positivity thresholds for [F-18]florbetaben (FBB) and [F-18]florbetapir (FBP) PET data. The findings demonstrate the feasibility of harmonized PET acquisition and analysis and the internal consistency of positivity thresholds in standardized units, contributing to improved replicability in research and clinical trials.
ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Jacob M. Basak, Aura Ferreiro, Lucy S. Cohen, Patrick W. Sheehan, Collin J. Nadarajah, Michael F. Kanan, Kimberley V. Sukhum, Gautam Dantas, Erik S. Musiek
Summary: The study reveals that sepsis may exacerbate amyloid plaque deposition and plaque-related inflammation, potentially leading to increased dementia in older sepsis survivors.
NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Wojciech K. Panek, David M. Murdoch, Margaret E. Gruen, Freya M. Mowat, Robert D. Marek, Natasha J. Olby
Summary: Similar neurological disorders associated with aging, such as Alzheimer's disease and canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome, have been observed in both humans and dogs. The concentrations of A beta 42 and A beta 40 in plasma increase with age in both species, but decrease in individuals with the diseases.
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Poul F. Hoilund-Carlsen, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim, Abass Alavi, Nagichettiar Satyamurthy, Jorge R. Barrio
Summary: Using amyloid PET imaging as the primary efficacy measure in Alzheimer's disease immunotherapy trials is unjustified due to lack of specificity and questionable quantification models. The FDA should require rigorous evidence and documentation before granting approval to other immunotherapy candidates.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Poul F. Hoilund-Carlsen, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim, Tommaso Costa, Kasper P. Kepp, Rudolph J. Castellani, George Perry, Abass Alavi, Jorge R. Barrio
Summary: In June 2021, the FDA accelerated approved aducanumab and in January 2023 also lecanemab, based on perceived drug-induced removal of cerebral amyloid-beta as assessed by amyloid-PET and, in the case of lecanemab, limited clinical efficacy assumption. Approval for donanemab is pending further data. However, published trial data indicate minimal and uncertain clinical benefits, similar to conventional medication. Additionally, amyloid-PET signal decrease may reflect increased cell damage instead of amyloid removal, as supported by increased amyloid-related imaging abnormalities and brain volume loss in treated patients compared to placebo. We also question the current AD diagnostic criteria based on amyloid-PET imaging biomarkers and recommend future anti-AD therapy trials to incorporate (1) diagnosis based on cognitive decline and decreased cerebral metabolism assessed by FDA-approved FDG-PET, (2) therapy efficacy determined by cognitive ability, cerebral metabolism by FDG-PET, and brain volumes by MRI, and (3) neuropathologic examination of all deaths occurring in these trials.
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Clinical Neurology
Patrick Oeckl, Marina Bluma, Marco Bucci, Steffen Halbgebauer, Konstantinos Chiotis, Anna Sandebring-Matton, Nicholas J. Ashton, Guglielmo Di Molfetta, Lana Grotschel, Miia Kivipelto, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Irina Savitcheva, Agneta Nordberg, Markus Otto
Summary: Plasma beta-synuclein levels were found to be higher in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment with amyloid-beta positivity. It demonstrated good discrimination and prediction of amyloid-beta status. The correlation between plasma beta-synuclein and amyloid-beta PET was observed in multiple cortical regions. These findings suggest that beta-synuclein is not a direct marker of amyloid-beta pathology and highlight the different longitudinal dynamics of synaptic degeneration and amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease.
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sung-Eun Chung, Hyung-Ji Kim, Sungyang Jo, Sunju Lee, Yoojin Lee, Jee Hoon Roh, Jae-Hong Lee
Summary: Accumulation of aggregated amyloid-beta (A beta) in the brain is considered the first pathological event within the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study found that the posterior cingulate/precuneus and the lateral temporal and parietal cortices may be the earliest areas to be affected by A beta accumulation.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mikihiro Mitsubori, Keisuke Takeda, Shun Nagashima, Satoshi Ishido, Masaaki Matsuoka, Ryoko Inatome, Shigeru Yanagi
Summary: The formation of expanded/dense-core-containing A beta plaques accelerated the progression of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology by reducing contacts between the plaques and astrocytes.
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Clifford R. Jack Jr, Heather J. Wiste, Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich, Dan J. Figdore, Christopher G. Schwarz, Val J. Lowe, Vijay K. Ramanan, Prashanthi Vemuri, Michelle M. Mielke, David S. Knopman, Jonathan Graff-Radford, Bradley F. Boeve, Kejal Kantarci, Petrice M. Cogswell, Matthew L. Senjem, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Terry M. Therneau, Ronald C. Petersen
Summary: Staging the severity of Alzheimer's disease pathology is important for therapeutic trials and clinical prognosis. Biomarkers such as amyloid and tau PET can be used for disease staging, but plasma biomarkers would be more practical.
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Clinical Neurology
Jay Shah, Fei Gao, Baoxin Li, Valentina Ghisays, Ji Luo, Yinghua Chen, Wendy Lee, Yuxiang Zhou, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Yi Su, Teresa Wu
Summary: A Residual Inception Encoder-Decoder Neural Network model was developed and validated to harmonize amyloid PET imaging data from different tracers, resulting in significantly stronger correlations between global amyloid burden indices and voxel-wise measurements in both training and testing cohorts. Further investigation is ongoing to improve the model and apply it to additional tracers.
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Eleanor Drummond, Tomas Kavanagh, Geoffrey Pires, Mitchell Marta-Ariza, Evgeny Kanshin, Shruti Nayak, Arline Faustin, Valentin Berdah, Beatrix Ueberheide, Thomas Wisniewski
Summary: This study comprehensively identified proteins that are enriched in amyloid plaques using unbiased proteomics in two subtypes of early onset AD: sporadic early onset AD (EOAD) and Down Syndrome (DS) with AD. The study found that many proteins were consistently enriched in amyloid plaques compared to beta amyloid (A beta), with endosomal/lysosomal proteins particularly highly enriched. The study also showed that the amount of enrichment of some proteins differed between EOAD and DS. These findings suggest that these enriched proteins could serve as potential therapeutic targets and/or biomarkers for AD.
ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Harshitha Santhosh Kumar, James Moore, Adrian C. Steiner, Emmanuel Sotirakis, Benjamin Schaerli, Patricia Isnard-Petit, Kader Thiam, David P. Wolfer, Erik C. Boettger
Summary: This study investigates the role of protein homeostasis in the accumulation of Alzheimer's associated protein A beta and levels of associated Tau phosphorylation. Surprisingly, disruptions in protein homeostasis did not significantly affect A beta accumulation and phosphorylated Tau levels.
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Shizuo Hatashita, Daichi Wakebe
Summary: This study found that some initially amyloid-negative non-demented subjects converted to globally amyloid-positive during a long-term follow-up, with some association with the APOE epsilon 4 allele. Early regional increases in PIB DVR were most frequently observed in the right lateral temporal cortex.
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Clinical Neurology
Qihui Zhang, Xiaobin Zhao, Peng Lei, Hank F. Kung, Zhi Yang, Lin Zhu, Shujing Wang, Hua Zhu, Xiangxi Meng, Yunyun Duan, Li Sun, Jianwei Pan, Ruixue Ma, Haiyan Hong, Xingquan Zhao, Andrew Demchuk, Eric E. Smith, Yongjun Wang
Summary: This study investigated the distribution of the novel PET ligand [68Ga] Ga-p14-032 in patients diagnosed clinically with probable CAA and found that it exhibited stronger cortical retention in CAA patients compared to AD and NC patients. The results suggest that [68Ga] Ga-p14-032 may be a useful tracer for diagnosing CAA by preferentially binding to vascular amyloid.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Natsumi Ishikawa, Takeshi Fuchigami, Tatsuya Mizoguchi, Sakura Yoshida, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2018)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Kotaro Kimura, Keishi Yamasaki, Hideaki Nakamura, Mamoru Haratake, Kazuaki Taguchi, Masaki Otagiri
CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN
(2018)
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Biophysics
Wataru Uehara, Sakura Yoshida, Yui Emaya, Takeshi Fuchigami, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
(2018)
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Chemistry, Applied
Sakura Yoshida, Miho Iwataka, Takeshi Fuchigami, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eriko Hori, Sakura Yoshida, Takeshi Fuchigami, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Takeshi Fuchigami, Masao Kawasaki, Ryusuke Koyama, Mari Nakaie, Takehiro Nakagaki, Kazunori Sano, Ryuichiro Atarashi, Sakura Yoshida, Mamoru Haratake, Masahiro Ono, Noriyuki Nishida, Morio Nakayama
ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2019)
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Medicine, Research & Experimental
Hideaki Nakamura, Eva Koziolova, Petr Chytil, Tomas Etrych, Mamoru Haratake, Hiroshi Maeda
MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
(2019)
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Engineering, Biomedical
Eva Randarova, Hideaki Nakamura, Rayhanul Islam, Martin Studenovsky, Haratake Mamoru, Jun Fang, Petr Chytil, Tomas Etrych
ACTA BIOMATERIALIA
(2020)
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Oncology
Takeshi Fuchigami, Natsumi Ishikawa, Iori Nozaki, Yusuke Miyanari, Sakura Yoshida, Motohiro Yamauchi, Ayumi Soejima, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Hideaki Nakamura, Appiah Enoch, Shotaro Iwaya, Sakura Furusho, Shoko Tsunoda, Ma-moru Haratake
Summary: By conjugating polyethylene glycol to fDAO to form PEG-fDAO, high enzymatic activity can accumulate in tumor tissue and exhibit anti-tumor effects; however, high enzyme activity in the plasma limits therapeutic outcome.
CURRENT DRUG DELIVERY
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Sakura Yoshida, Akinori Yamamoto, Hiroshi Masumoto, Takeshi Fuchigami, Akira Toriba, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
Summary: Research indicates that selenium can be transported to the brain through alternative pathways independent of SELENOP, as even Selenop-knockout mice fed a diet containing adequate selenium do not exhibit neurological dysfunction observed in selenium-deficient diet-fed Selenop-knockout mice. This suggests that selenium from low-mass selenium-source compounds can be transported to the brain via alternative pathways.
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Enoch Appiah, Hideaki Nakamura, Robert Pola, Eliska Grossmanova, Ondrej Lidicky, Akihiko Kuniyasu, Tomas Etrych, Mamoru Haratake
Summary: This study designed and synthesized a novel HPMA-based copolymer conjugate of BK, which showed tumor-selective action and improved accumulation of nanomedicines in the tumor, resulted in enhanced intratumoral blood flow and increased tumor deposition of nanomedicines.
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
(2021)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Sakura Yoshida, Kaori Koga, Miho Iwataka, Takeshi Fuchigami, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN
(2017)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Takeshi Fuchigami, Hokuto Ono, Kohta Oyadomari, Mayumi Iwatake, Daisuke Hayasaka, Masoud Akbari, Katsuyuki Yui, Kodai Nishi, Takashi Kudo, Sakura Yoshida, Mamoru Haratake, Morio Nakayama
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Masao Kawasaki, Takeshi Fuchigami, Nobuya Kobashi, Takehiro Nakagaki, Kazunori Sano, Ryuichiro Atarashi, Sakura Yoshida, Mamoru Haratake, Noriyuki Nishida, Morio Nakayama
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2017)