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Alzheimer's disease as homeostatic responses to age-related myelin breakdown

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This work delineates empirically testable mechanisms of action for genes underlying FAD and LOAD and provides "upstream" treatment targets and reframes key observations such as axonal transport disruptions, formation of axonal swellings/sphenoids and neuritic plaques, and proteinaceous deposits as by-products of homeostatic myelin repair processes.
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The connectomics of brain disorders

TL;DR: This work considers how brain-network topology shapes neural responses to damage, highlighting key maladaptive processes and the resources and processes that enable adaptation, and shows how knowledge of network topology allows for predictive models of the spread and functional consequences of brain disease.
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The Cellular Phase of Alzheimer’s Disease

TL;DR: Evidence supporting a long, complex cellular phase consisting of feedback and feedforward responses of astrocytes, microglia, and vasculature is reviewed.
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Intramuscular desferrioxamine in patients with Alzheimer's disease

TL;DR: In this paper, a single-blind study was conducted to investigate whether the progression of dementia could be slowed by the trivalent ion chelator, desferrioxamine.
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White matter characterization with diffusional kurtosis imaging.

TL;DR: A physically meaningful interpretation of DKI metrics in white matter regions consisting of more or less parallel aligned fiber bundles is provided by modeling the tissue as two non-exchanging compartments, the intra-axonal space and extra-AXonal space.
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Abnormal brain iron homeostasis in human and animal prion disorders.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that prion disease–affected human, hamster, and mouse brains show increased total and redox-active Fe (II) iron, and a paradoxical increase in major iron uptake proteins transferrin (Tf) and transferrin receptor (TFR) at the end stage of disease.
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X-ray diffraction evidence for myelin disorder in brain from humans with Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: Wide-angle X-ray diffraction studies revealed that the lipid phase transition temperature of myelin from brain tissue of humans with Alzheimer's disease was about 12 degrees C lower than that of normal age-matched controls, indicating differences in the physical organization of the myelin lipid bilayer.
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Expression profiling in APP23 mouse brain: inhibition of Aβ amyloidosis and inflammation in response to LXR agonist treatment

TL;DR: The results show that LXR agonists could alleviate AD pathology by acting on amyloid deposition and brain inflammation and an upregulation of genes related to lipid metabolism/transport, metabolism of xenobiotics and detoxification is demonstrated.
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FAD mutants unable to increase neurotoxic Abeta 42 suggest that mutation effects on neurodegeneration may be independent of effects on Abeta.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the mechanism by which FAD mutations promote neurodegeneration and AD may be independent of their effects on Aβ production, and several presenilin 1 FAD mutants failed to increase production of A β 42 or the Aβ 42/40 ratio.

Author's response to commentaries Quadratic trajectories of brain myelin content: unifying construct for neuropsychiatric disorders

TL;DR: Bartzokis et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a developmental model of age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease, which is applicable to a wider range of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.
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