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  1. Age-dependent accumulation of amyloid plaques in patients with sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with reduced amyloid clearance. Older microglia have a reduced ability to phagocytose amyloid, so ...

    Authors: Hyo Jung Shin, In Soo Kim, Seung Gyu Choi, Kayoung Lee, Hyewon Park, Juhee Shin, Dayoung Kim, Jaewon Beom, Yoon Young Yi, Deepak Prasad Gupta, Gyun Jee Song, Won-Suk Chung, C. Justin Lee and Dong Woon Kim
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:25
  2. Microglia are highly dynamic cells that play a critical role in tissue homeostasis through the surveillance of brain parenchyma and response to cues associated with damage. Aging and APOE4 genotype are the strong...

    Authors: Jordy Sepulveda, Jennifer Yejean Kim, Joseph Binder, Stefano Vicini and G. William Rebeck
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:24
  3. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the United States (US). Animal models, specifically mouse models have been developed to better elucidate disease mechanisms and test the...

    Authors: Michael Z. Zhong, Thomas Peng, Mariana Lemos Duarte, Minghui Wang and Dongming Cai
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:23
  4. Mutations in the β-glucocerebrosidase (GBA1) gene do cause the lysosomal storage Gaucher disease (GD) and are among the most frequent genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease (PD). So far, studies on both neu...

    Authors: Ilaria Gregorio, Loris Russo, Enrica Torretta, Pietro Barbacini, Gabriella Contarini, Giada Pacinelli, Dario Bizzotto, Manuela Moriggi, Paola Braghetta, Francesco Papaleo, Cecilia Gelfi, Enrico Moro and Matilde Cescon
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:22
  5. The conversion of native peptides and proteins into amyloid aggregates is a hallmark of over 50 human disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Increasing evidence implicates misfolded protein...

    Authors: Dillon J. Rinauro, Fabrizio Chiti, Michele Vendruscolo and Ryan Limbocker
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:20
  6. Novel phosphorylated-tau (p-tau) blood biomarkers (e.g., p-tau181, p-tau217 or p-tau231), are highly specific for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and can track amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau pathology. However, because thes...

    Authors: Juan Lantero-Rodriguez, Gemma Salvadó, Anniina Snellman, Laia Montoliu-Gaya, Wagner S. Brum, Andrea L. Benedet, Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren, Pontus Tideman, Shorena Janelidze, Sebastian Palmqvist, Erik Stomrud, Nicholas J. Ashton, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow and Oskar Hansson
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:19
  7. It has recently become well-established that there is a connection between Alzheimer’s disease pathology and gut microbiome dysbiosis. We have previously demonstrated that antibiotic-mediated gut microbiota pe...

    Authors: Megan E. Bosch, Hemraj B. Dodiya, Julia Michalkiewicz, Choonghee Lee, Shabana M. Shaik, Ian Q. Weigle, Can Zhang, Jack Osborn, Aishwarya Nambiar, Priyam Patel, Samira Parhizkar, Xiaoqiong Zhang, Marie L. Laury, Prasenjit Mondal, Ashley Gomm, Matthew John Schipma…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:18
  8. Amyloid and tau aggregates are considered to cause neurodegeneration and consequently cognitive decline in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, we explore the potential of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)...

    Authors: Sára Mravinacová, Vilma Alanko, Sofia Bergström, Claire Bridel, Yolande Pijnenburg, Göran Hagman, Miia Kivipelto, Charlotte Teunissen, Peter Nilsson, Anna Matton and Anna Månberg
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:15
  9. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) accumulation. The clinical features associated with CTE pathology are unclear. In brain do...

    Authors: Michael L. Alosco, Micaela White, Carter Bell, Farwa Faheem, Yorghos Tripodis, Eukyung Yhang, Zachary Baucom, Brett Martin, Joseph Palmisano, Kristen Dams-O’Connor, John F. Crary, Lee E. Goldstein, Douglas I. Katz, Brigid Dwyer, Daniel H. Daneshvar, Christopher Nowinski…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:10
  10. Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death characterised by lipid peroxidation as the terminal endpoint and a requirement for iron. Although it protects against cancer and infection, ferroptosis is also imp...

    Authors: Jeffrey R. Liddell, James B. W. Hilton, Kai Kysenius, Jessica L. Billings, Sara Nikseresht, Lachlan E. McInnes, Dominic J. Hare, Bence Paul, Stephen W. Mercer, Abdel A. Belaidi, Scott Ayton, Blaine R. Roberts, Joseph S. Beckman, Catriona A. McLean, Anthony R. White, Paul S. Donnelly…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:14
  11. Bioenergetic maladaptations and axonopathy are often found in the early stages of neurodegeneration. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), an essential cofactor for energy metabolism, is mainly synthesized ...

    Authors: Sen Yang, Zhen-Xian Niou, Andrea Enriquez, Jacob LaMar, Jui-Yen Huang, Karen Ling, Paymaan Jafar-Nejad, Jonathan Gilley, Michael P. Coleman, Jason M. Tennessen, Vidhya Rangaraju and Hui-Chen Lu
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:13
  12. Mitochondrial dysfunction and toxic protein aggregates have been shown to be key features in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Functional analysis of genes linke...

    Authors: Aitor Martinez, Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez, Jake T. Pickering, Madeleine J. Twyning, Ana Terriente-Felix, Po-Lin Chen, Chun-Hong Chen and Alexander J. Whitworth
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:12
  13. The extracellular matrix is a richly bioactive composition of substrates that provides biophysical stability, facilitates intercellular signaling, and both reflects and governs the physiological status of the ...

    Authors: Lauren K. Wareham, Robert O. Baratta, Brian J. Del Buono, Eric Schlumpf and David J. Calkins
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:11
  14. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of upper and lower motor neurons. Presently, three FDA-approved drugs are available to help slow functional de...

    Authors: Katherine E. Irwin, Udit Sheth, Philip C. Wong and Tania F. Gendron
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:9
  15. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are fatal neurodegenerative disorders on a disease spectrum that are characterized by the cytoplasmic mislocalization and aberrant phase tr...

    Authors: Bilal Khalil, Miriam Linsenmeier, Courtney L. Smith, James Shorter and Wilfried Rossoll
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:8
  16. Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. The pathological hallmark of PD is loss of dopaminergic neurons and the presence of aggregated α-synuclein, primarily in the subst...

    Authors: Araks Martirosyan, Rizwan Ansari, Francisco Pestana, Katja Hebestreit, Hayk Gasparyan, Razmik Aleksanyan, Silvia Hnatova, Suresh Poovathingal, Catherine Marneffe, Dietmar R. Thal, Andrew Kottick, Victor J. Hanson-Smith, Sebastian Guelfi, William Plumbly, T. Grant Belgard, Emmanouil Metzakopian…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:7
  17. Reactive oxidative stress is a critical player in the amyloid beta (Aβ) toxicity that contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Damaged mitochondria are one of the main sources of reactive ...

    Authors: Maria Calvo-Rodriguez, Elizabeth K. Kharitonova, Austin C. Snyder, Steven S. Hou, Maria Virtudes Sanchez-Mico, Sudeshna Das, Zhanyun Fan, Hamid Shirani, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Alberto Serrano-Pozo and Brian J. Bacskai
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:6
  18. Protein misfolding and accumulation defines a prevailing feature of many neurodegenerative disorders, finally resulting in the formation of toxic intra- and extracellular aggregates. Intracellular aggregates c...

    Authors: Veronica Giusti, Gurkirat Kaur, Elena Giusto and Laura Civiero
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:5
  19. Tauopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that includes Alzheimer’s disease, commonly lead to disturbances in sleep-wake patterns and circadian rhythm disorders. The circadian rhythm, a recurring 24-h...

    Authors: Gowoon Son, Thomas C. Neylan and Lea T. Grinberg
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:4
  20. Antibody-based immunoassays have enabled quantification of very low concentrations of phosphorylated tau (p-tau) protein forms in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), aiding in the diagnosis of AD. Mass spectrometry ena...

    Authors: Joseph Therriault, Marcel S. Woo, Gemma Salvadó, Johan Gobom, Thomas K. Karikari, Shorena Janelidze, Stijn Servaes, Nesrine Rahmouni, Cécile Tissot, Nicholas J. Ashton, Andréa Lessa Benedet, Laia Montoliu-Gaya, Arthur C. Macedo, Firoza Z. Lussier, Jenna Stevenson, Paolo Vitali…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:2
  21. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) plays a critical role in microglial activation, survival, and apoptosis, as well as in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis. We previously reported the MS...

    Authors: Lihua Wang, Niko-Petteri Nykänen, Daniel Western, Priyanka Gorijala, Jigyasha Timsina, Fuhai Li, Zhaohua Wang, Muhammad Ali, Chengran Yang, Menghan Liu, William Brock, Marta Marquié, Mercè Boada, Ignacio Alvarez, Miquel Aguilar, Pau Pastor…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024 19:1
  22. Untargeted high-resolution metabolomic profiling provides simultaneous measurement of thousands of metabolites. Metabolic networks based on these data can help uncover disease-related perturbations across inte...

    Authors: Kimberly C. Paul, Keren Zhang, Douglas I. Walker, Janet Sinsheimer, Yu Yu, Cynthia Kusters, Irish Del Rosario, Aline Duarte Folle, Adrienne M. Keener, Jeff Bronstein, Dean P. Jones and Beate Ritz
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:100
  23. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the single greatest genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Yet, the cell-specific effects of APOE on microglia function have remained unclear. Fortunately, two ...

    Authors: Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi and Mathew Blurton-Jones
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:99
  24. “Brain-predicted age” estimates biological age from complex, nonlinear features in neuroimaging scans. The brain age gap (BAG) between predicted and chronological age is elevated in sporadic Alzheimer disease ...

    Authors: Peter R Millar, Brian A Gordon, Julie K Wisch, Stephanie A Schultz, Tammie LS Benzinger, Carlos Cruchaga, Jason J Hassenstab, Laura Ibanez, Celeste Karch, Jorge J Llibre-Guerra, John C Morris, Richard J Perrin, Charlene Supnet-Bell, Chengjie Xiong, Ricardo F Allegri, Sarah B Berman…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:98
  25. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) maintain immune tolerance. While Treg-mediated neuroprotective activities are now well-accepted, the lack of defined antigen specificity limits their therapeutic potential. This is n...

    Authors: Pravin Yeapuri, Jatin Machhi, Yaman Lu, Mai Mohamed Abdelmoaty, Rana Kadry, Milankumar Patel, Shaurav Bhattarai, Eugene Lu, Krista L. Namminga, Katherine E. Olson, Emma G. Foster, R. Lee Mosley and Howard E. Gendelman
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:97
  26. Authors: Saadia Hasan, Michael S. Fernandopulle, Stewart W. Humble, Ashley M. Frankenfield, Haorong Li, Ryan Prestil, Kory R. Johnson, Brent J. Ryan, Richard Wade-Martins, Michael E. Ward and Ling Hao
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:96

    The original article was published in Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:87

  27. Microglia, the brain-resident macrophages perform immune surveillance and engage with pathological processes resulting in phenotype changes necessary for maintaining homeostasis. In preceding studies, we showe...

    Authors: Shabana M. Shaik, Yajun Cao, Joseph V. Gogola, Hemraj B. Dodiya, Xulun Zhang, Hejer Boutej, Weinong Han, Jasna Kriz and Sangram S. Sisodia
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:95
  28. Parkinson’s disease (PD), one of the most devastating neurodegenerative brain disorders, is characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and deposits of α-synuclei...

    Authors: Lu Geng, Wenqing Gao, Hexige Saiyin, Yuanyuan Li, Yu Zeng, Zhifei Zhang, Xue Li, Zuolong Liu, Qiang Gao, Ping An, Ning Jiang, Xiaofei Yu, Xiangjun Chen, Suhua Li, Lei Chen, Boxun Lu…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:94
  29. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients exhibit memory disruptions and profound sleep disturbances, including disruption of deep non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Slow-wave activity (SWA) is a major restorative f...

    Authors: Qiuchen Zhao, Megi Maci, Morgan R. Miller, Heng Zhou, Fang Zhang, Moustafa Algamal, Yee Fun Lee, Steven S. Hou, Stephen J. Perle, Hoang Le, Alyssa N. Russ, Eng H. Lo, Dmitry Gerashchenko, Stephen N. Gomperts, Brian J. Bacskai and Ksenia V. Kastanenka
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:93
  30. Recent genetic studies on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have brought microglia under the spotlight, as loci associated with AD risk are enriched in genes expressed in microglia. Several of these genes have been rec...

    Authors: Gizem Terzioglu and Tracy L. Young-Pearse
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:89
  31. Alpha-synuclein (α-syn) aggregation into proteinaceous intraneuronal inclusions, called Lewy bodies (LBs), is the neuropathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies. However, ...

    Authors: Morgan Bérard, Laura Martínez-Drudis, Razan Sheta, Omar M. A. El-Agnaf and Abid Oueslati
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:91
  32. Despite expressing many key risk genes, the role of microglia in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology is somewhat ambiguous, with various phenotypes reported to be either harmful or protective. Herei...

    Authors: Ari Sudwarts and Gopal Thinakaran
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:90
  33. Progranulin (PGRN) is a lysosomal glycoprotein implicated in various neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia and neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Over 70 mutations discovered in the GRN gene ...

    Authors: Saadia Hasan, Michael S. Fernandopulle, Stewart W. Humble, Ashley M. Frankenfield, Haorong Li, Ryan Prestil, Kory R. Johnson, Brent J. Ryan, Richard Wade-Martins, Michael E. Ward and Ling Hao
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:87

    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:96

  34. This narrative review focuses on the role of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) and peripheral lipoproteins in the vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). Humans have a perip...

    Authors: Tetiana Poliakova and Cheryl L. Wellington
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:86
  35. Plasma biomarkers reflecting the pathology of frontotemporal dementia would add significant value to clinical practice, to the design and implementation of treatment trials as well as our understanding of dise...

    Authors: Abbe Ullgren, Linn Öijerstedt, Jennie Olofsson, Sofia Bergström, Julia Remnestål, John C. van Swieten, Lize C. Jiskoot, Harro Seelaar, Barbara Borroni, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Fermin Moreno, Robert Laforce, Matthis Synofzik, Daniela Galimberti, James B. Rowe, Mario Masellis…
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:85
  36. Mitochondrial dysfunction is strongly implicated in the etiology of idiopathic and genetic Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, strategies aimed at ameliorating mitochondrial dysfunction, including antioxidants,...

    Authors: Martin T. Henrich, Wolfgang H. Oertel, D. James Surmeier and Fanni F. Geibl
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:83
  37. Peptides and their mimetics are increasingly recognised as drug-like molecules, particularly for intracellular protein-protein interactions too large for inhibition by small molecules, and inaccessible to larg...

    Authors: Scott G. Allen, Richard M. Meade, Lucy L. White Stenner and Jody M. Mason
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:80
  38. DNA sensing is a pivotal component of the innate immune system that is responsible for detecting mislocalized DNA and triggering downstream inflammatory pathways. Among the DNA sensors, cyclic GMP-AMP synthase...

    Authors: Yige Huang, Bangyan Liu, Subhash C. Sinha, Sadaf Amin and Li Gan
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:79
  39. Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) demonstrate great heterogeneity in the age at onset (AAO), which is closely related to the course of disease. However, most genetic studies focused on the risk...

    Authors: Chunyu Li, Qianqian Wei, Yanbing Hou, Junyu Lin, Ruwei Ou, Lingyu Zhang, Qirui Jiang, Yi Xiao, Kuncheng Liu, Xueping Chen, TianMi Yang, Wei Song, Bi Zhao, Ying Wu and Huifang Shang
    Citation: Molecular Neurodegeneration 2023 18:77