Scientists have spotted a new variety of riled-up microglia that drives swelling in the human brain. In the November 18 Neuron, researchers from China led by Haixiao Liu, Shunnan Ge, and Yan Qu at ...

L444P KI mice were generated using a loxP replacement vector, resulting in the insertion of a point mutation of leucine to proline (L444P) in exon 10 of the Gba1 gene (Ginns et al., 2014). These Gba1 ...

This is an active immunotherapy strategy. ACC-001 is a conjugate of multiple short Aβ fragments linked to a carrier made of inactivated diphtheria toxin. Vanutide cridificar is designed to avoid the ...

DZNE maintains a brainbank at five different sites in Germany, at Bonn, Dresden, Munich, Rostock/Greifswald and Tübingen.

Cars patched up after a wreck may look fixed—but never run quite as before. The same may hold true for chromatin, according to a study published in Science on November 6. In response to double-strand ...

Move over, amyloid, reactive astrocytes and activated microglia may be the main drivers of the Alzheimer’s disease pathological cascade. In the November 6 Nature Neuroscience, scientists led by Pedro ...

Hypertension heightens the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but exactly how is not understood. In a bioRxiv preprint posted September 19, scientists led by Costantino Iadecola at Weill Cornell Medical ...

The App SAA mouse joins a list of knock-in models that carry a humanized Aβ sequence within the murine App gene (App knock-in (humanized Aβ), APP NL-F Knock-in, APP NL-G-F Knock-in). As in the latter ...

This knock-in (KI) mouse model was generated by introducing a D427V point mutation into exon 10 of the mouse Gba1 (glucosidase, beta, acid 1) gene, which corresponds to the human D409V mutation (The ...

Background Acute administration of nicotine to AD patients improved accuracy of delayed recall, as well as deficits in attention and information processing (Sahakian et al. 1989; Wesnes and Warburton, ...

These mice have a targeted deletion in the mouse gene β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1). Homozygous mice are viable, fertile, normal in size, and do not display any gross physical or behavioral ...

These mice model a “two-hit” hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease, specifically elevated Aβ and vascular dysfunction. Aβ production is enhanced courtesy of a human APP transgene bearing the Swedish ...