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ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2020

Mechanisms of Pathogenic Tau and Aβ Protein Spreading in Alzheimer's Disease.

Paolo d'Errico, Melanie Meyer-Luehmann

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Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

109 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  19. High-caloric intake rescues early symptomatic AD-induced hippocampal neurovascular coupling deficits.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  20. Gaultheria leucocarpa inhibits Aβ fibrillization and enhances mitophagy-mediated degradation of pathogenic proteins.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Paolo d'ErricoDepartment of Neurology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Melanie Meyer-LuehmannDepartment of Neurology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically defined by extracellular accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides generated by the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), strings of hyperphosphorylated Tau proteins accumulating inside neurons known as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and neuronal loss. The association between the two hallmarks and cognitive decline has been known since the beginning of the 20th century when the first description of the disease was carried out by Alois Alzheimer. Today, more than 40 million people worldwide are affected by AD that represents the most common cause of dementia and there is still no effective treatment available to cure the disease. In general, the aggregation of Aβ is considered an essential trigger in AD pathogenesis that gives rise to NFTs, neuronal dysfunction and dementia. During the process leading to AD, tau and Aβ first misfold and form aggregates in one brain region, from where they spread to interconnected areas of the brain thereby inducing its gradual morphological and functional deterioration. In this mini-review article, we present an overview of the current literature on the spreading mechanisms of Aβ and tau pathology in AD since a more profound understanding is necessary to design therapeutic approaches aimed at preventing or halting disease progression.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseamyloid-βpropagationspreadingtau

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PMID33061903
PMCPMC7481386

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