scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease.

TLDR
By better understanding AD inflammatory and immunoregulatory processes, it should be possible to develop anti-inflammatory approaches that may not cure AD but will likely help slow the progression or delay the onset of this devastating disorder.
About
This article is published in Neurobiology of Aging.The article was published on 2000-05-01. It has received 4319 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alzheimer's disease & Neuroinflammation.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels

TL;DR: In searching for T-cell gateways into and out of the meninges, functional lymphatic vessels lining the dural sinuses are discovered, which may call for a reassessment of basic assumptions in neuroimmunology and sheds new light on the aetiology of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases associated with immune system dysfunction.
Journal ArticleDOI

Mechanisms underlying inflammation in neurodegeneration.

TL;DR: There is evidence for a remarkable convergence in the mechanisms responsible for the sensing, transduction, and amplification of inflammatory processes that result in the production of neurotoxic mediators in neurodegenerative diseases.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Effect of cytokines, dexamethazone and the A/T-signal peptide polymorphism on the expression of alpha1-antichymotrypsin in astrocytes: significance for Alzheimer's disease

TL;DR: Findings are discussed in terms of a model in which cytokine-induced α1-antichymotrypsin synthesis in astrocytes constitutes a specific inflammatory pathway that accelerates the development of Alzheimer's disease and could at least partly underlie the regional specificity and species restriction of the neuropathology.
Journal ArticleDOI

Diurnal variation in kainate-induced AP-1 activation in rat brain: influence of glucocorticoids

TL;DR: Immunoprecipitation of glucocorticoid receptors from cortical nuclear extracts co-precipitated c-Jun indicates that the mechanism accounting for the suppression of AP-1 activity by glucOCorticoids may involve direct interactions between activated glucoc Corticoid receptor receptors and AP- 1 constituent proteins.
Journal ArticleDOI

Suppression of Aβ-induced monocyte neurotoxicity by antiinflammatory compounds

TL;DR: It is shown that prior exposure of peripheral blood monocytes to aggregated beta-amyloid peptide can be inhibited by three differentially-acting antiinflammatory drugs, indomethacin, dexamethasone, and colchicine, which are typically used clinically to treat peripheral inflammatory disease.
Journal ArticleDOI

Anti-inflammatory substances - a new therapeutic option in Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: Among several pathogenetic elements underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD), a brain-specific inflammatory response has recently attracted attention as a cause of neurodegeneration and progressive cognitive decline.
Journal ArticleDOI

The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug tepoxalin inhibits interleukin-6 and alphal-anti-chymotrypsin synthesis in astrocytes by preventing degradation of IκB-alpha

TL;DR: It is concluded that tepoxalin may be of therapeutic benefit for the treatment of AD patients and should therefore be tested in clinical trials on the basis of the documented therapeutic efficacy of NSAIDs in AD.
Related Papers (5)