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    • 3D culture models of Alzheimer’s disease: a road map to a “cure-in-a-dish” 

      Choi, Se Hoon; Kim, Young Hye; Quinti, Luisa; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Kim, Doo Yeon (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD) transgenic mice have been used as a standard AD model for basic mechanistic studies and drug discovery. These mouse models showed symbolic AD pathologies including β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques, gliosis ...
    • A 3D Human Neural Cell Culture System for Modeling Alzheimer's Disease 

      Kim, Young Hye; Choi, Se Hoon; D'Avanzo, Carla; Hebisch, Matthias; Sliwinski, Christopher; Bylykbashi, Enjana; Washicosky, Kevin J.; Klee, Justin B.; Brüstle, Oliver; Tanzi, Rudolph; Kim, Doo Yeon (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015-06-11)
      Stem cell technologies have facilitated the development of human cellular disease models that can be used to study pathogenesis and test therapeutic candidates. These models hold promise for complex neurological diseases ...
    • Adjusting heterogeneous ascertainment bias for genetic association analysis with extended families 

      Park, Suyeon; Lee, Sungyoung; Lee, Young; Herold, Christine; Hooli, Basavaraj; Mullin, Kristina; Park, Taesung; Park, Changsoon; Bertram, Lars; Lange, Christoph; Tanzi, Rudolph; Won, Sungho (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: In family-based association analysis, each family is typically ascertained from a single proband, which renders the effects of ascertainment bias heterogeneous among family members. This is contrary to case–control ...
    • Age-dependent postoperative cognitive impairment and Alzheimer-related neuropathology in mice 

      Xu, Zhipeng; Dong, Yuanlin; Wang, Hui; Culley, Deborah J.; Marcantonio, Edward R.; Crosby, Gregory; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Zhang, Yiying; Xie, Zhongcong (Nature Publishing Group, 2014)
      Post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is associated with increased cost of care, morbidity, and mortality. However, its pathogenesis remains largely to be determined. Specifically, it is unknown why elderly patients ...
    • An AICD-based functional screen to identify APP metabolism regulators 

      Zhang, Can; Khandelwal, Preeti J; Chakraborty, Ranjita; Cuellar, Trinna L; Sarangi, Srikant; Patel, Shyam A; Cosentino, Christopher P; O'Connor, Michael; Lee, Jeremy C; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile; Saunders, Aleister J (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: A central event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the regulated intramembraneous proteolysis of the β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), to generate the β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide and the APP intracellular domain (AICD). ...
    • Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid-\(\beta\) Links Lens and Brain Pathology in Down Syndrome 

      Moncaster, Juliet A.; Lu, Suqian; Burton, Mark A.; Ghosh, Joy G.; Soscia, Stephanie J.; Mocofanescu, Anca; Kuszak, Jer R.; Pineda, Roberto; Moir, Robert D.; Ericsson, Maria; Folkerth, Rebecca Dunn; Robb, Richard Moore; Clark, John I.; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile; Hunter, David; Goldstein, Lee David (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Down syndrome (DS, trisomy 21) is the most common chromosomal disorder and the leading genetic cause of intellectual disability in humans. In DS, triplication of chromosome 21 invariably includes the APP gene (21q21) ...
    • The Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Amyloid \(\beta\)-Protein Is an Antimicrobial Peptide 

      Soscia, Stephanie; Kirby, James Edward; Washicosky, Kevin J.; Tucker, Stephanie; Ingelsson, Martin; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Burton, Mark A.; Duong, Scott; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile; Moir, Robert D.; Goldstein, Lee E. (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Background: The amyloid \(\beta\)-protein (A\(\beta\)) is believed to be the key mediator of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. A\(\beta\) is most often characterized as an incidental catabolic byproduct that lacks a ...
    • The Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Amyloid β-Protein Is an Antimicrobial Peptide 

      Kirby, James Edward; Washicosky, Kevin J.; Tucker, Stephanie M.; Ingelsson, Martin; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Burton, Mark A.; Goldstein, Lee E.; Duong, Scott; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile; Moir, Robert D. (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Background: The amyloid β-protein (Aβ) is believed to be the key mediator of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Aβ is most often characterized as an incidental catabolic byproduct that lacks a normal physiological role. ...
    • Amyloid-β Protein Protects Against Microbial Infection In Transgenic C. elegans and 5XFAD Mice 

      Kumar, Deepak; Choi, Se Hoon; Washicosky, Kevin J.; Eimer, William; Tucker, Stephanie Catherine; Ghofrani, Jessica; Lefkowitz, Aaron; McColl, Gawain; Goldstein, Lee E.; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile; Moir, Robert D. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016)
      The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is a key protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. We previously reported in vitro evidence suggesting Aβ is an antimicrobial peptide. Here we provide the first in vivo evidence showing high ...
    • Astrocytic interleukin-3 programs microglia and limits Alzheimer’s disease 

      McAlpine, Cameron; Park, Joseph; Griciuc, Ana; Kim, Eunhee; Choi, Se Hoon; Iwamoto, Yoshiko; Kiss, Máté G.; Christie, Kathleen; Vinegoni, Claudio; Poller, Wolfram; Mindur, John; Chan, Christopher; He, Shun; Janssen, Henrike; Wong, Lai Ping; Downey, Jeffrey; Singh, Sumnima; Anzai, Atsushi; Kahles, Florian; Jorfi, Mehdi; Feruglio, Paulo; Sadreyev, Ruslan; Weissleder, Ralph; Kleinstiver, Benjamin; Nahrendorf, Matthias; Tanzi, Rudolph; Swirski, Filip (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-07-14)
      Communication within the glial cell ecosystem is essential to neuronal and brain health1–3. The influence of glial cells on β-amyloid (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tau accumulation and clearance in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is ...
    • A Circadian Clock Gene, Cry, Affects Heart Morphogenesis and Function in Drosophila as Revealed by Optical Coherence Microscopy 

      Alex, Aneesh; Li, Airong; Zeng, Xianxu; Tate, Rebecca E.; McKee, Mary L.; Capen, Diane E.; Zhang, Zhan; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Zhou, Chao (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Circadian rhythms are endogenous, entrainable oscillations of physical, mental and behavioural processes in response to local environmental cues such as daylight, which are present in the living beings, including humans. ...
    • Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis 

      Whitcomb, David C.; LaRusch, Jessica; Krasinskas, Alyssa M.; Klei, Lambertus; Smith, Jill P.; Brand, Randall E.; Neoptolemos, John P.; Lerch, Markus M.; Tector, Matt; Sandhu, Bimaljit S.; Guda, Nalini M.; Orlichenko, Lidiya; Alkaade, Samer; Amann, Stephen T.; Anderson, Michelle A.; Baillie, John; Banks, Peter A.; Conwell, Darwin; Coté, Gregory A.; Cotton, Peter B.; DiSario, James; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Forsmark, Chris E.; Johnstone, Marianne; Gardner, Timothy B.; Gelrud, Andres; Greenhalf, William; Haines, Jonathan L.; Hartman, Douglas J.; Hawes, Robert A.; Lawrence, Christopher; Lewis, Michele; Mayerle, Julia; Mayeux, Richard; Melhem, Nadine M.; Money, Mary E.; Muniraj, Thiruvengadam; Papachristou, Georgios I.; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Romagnuolo, Joseph; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Sherman, Stuart; Simon, Peter; Singh, Vijay K.; Slivka, Adam; Stolz, Donna; Sutton, Robert; Weiss, Frank Ulrich; Wilcox, C. Mel; Zarnescu, Narcis Octavian; Wisniewski, Stephen R.; O'Connell, Michael R.; Kienholz, Michelle L.; Roeder, Kathryn; Barmada, M. Michael; Yadav, Dhiraj; Devlin, Bernie; Albert, Marilyn S.; Albin, Roger L.; Apostolova, Liana G.; Arnold, Steven E.; Baldwin, Clinton T.; Barber, Robert; Barnes, Lisa L.; Beach, Thomas G.; Beecham, Gary W.; Beekly, Duane; Bennett, David A.; Bigio, Eileen H.; Bird, Thomas D.; Blacker, Deborah; Boxer, Adam; Burke, James R.; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Cairns, Nigel J.; Cantwell, Laura B.; Cao, Chuanhai; Carney, Regina M.; Carroll, Steven L.; Chui, Helena C.; Clark, David G.; Cribbs, David H.; Crocco, Elizabeth A.; Cruchaga, Carlos; DeCarli, Charles; Demirci, F. Yesim; Dick, Malcolm; Dickson, Dennis W.; Duara, Ranjan; Ertekin-Taner, Nilufer; Faber, Kelley M.; Fallon, Kenneth B.; Farlow, Martin R.; Ferris, Steven; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Frosch, Matthew P.; Galasko, Douglas R.; Ganguli, Mary; Gearing, Marla; Geschwind, Daniel H.; Ghetti, Bernardino; Gilbert, John R.; Gilman, Sid; Glass, Jonathan D.; Goate, Alison M.; Graff-Radford, Neill R.; Green, Robert C.; Growdon, John H.; Hakonarson, Hakon; Hamilton-Nelson, Kara L.; Hamilton, Ronald L.; Harrell, Lindy E.; Head, Elizabeth; Honig, Lawrence S.; Hulette, Christine M.; Hyman, Bradley T.; Jicha, Gregory A.; Jin, Lee-Way; Jun, Gyungah; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Karydas, Anna; Kaye, Jeffrey A.; Kim, Ronald; Koo, Edward H.; Kowall, Neil W.; Kramer, Joel H.; Kramer, Patricia; Kukull, Walter A.; LaFerla, Frank M.; Lah, James J.; Leverenz, James B.; Levey, Allan I.; Li, Ge; Lin, Chiao-Feng; Lieberman, Andrew P.; Lopez, Oscar L.; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Lyketsos, Constantine G.; Mack, Wendy J.; Marson, Daniel C.; Martin, Eden R.; Martiniuk, Frank; Mash, Deborah C.; Masliah, Eliezer; McKee, Ann C.; Mesulam, Marsel; Miller, Bruce L.; Miller, Carol A.; Miller, Joshua W.; Montine, Thomas J.; Morris, John C.; Murrell, Jill R.; Naj, Adam C.; Olichney, John M.; Parisi, Joseph E.; Peskind, Elaine; Petersen, Ronald C.; Pierce, Aimee; Poon, Wayne W.; Potter, Huntington; Quinn, Joseph F.; Raj, Ashok; Raskind, Murray; Reiman, Eric M.; Reisberg, Barry; Reitz, Christiane; Ringman, John M.; Roberson, Erik D.; Rosen, Howard J.; Rosenberg, Roger N.; Sano, Mary; Saykin, Andrew J.; Schneider, Julie A.; Schneider, Lon S.; Seeley, William W.; Smith, Amanda G.; Sonnen, Joshua A.; Spina, Salvatore; Stern, Robert A.; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Trojanowski, John Q.; Troncoso, Juan C.; Tsuang, Debby W.; Valladares, Otto; Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.; Van Eldik, Linda J.; Vardarajan, Badri N.; Vinters, Harry V.; Vonsattel, Jean Paul; Wang, Li-San; Weintraub, Sandra; Welsh-Bohmer, Kathleen A.; Williamson, Jennifer; Woltjer, Randall L.; Wright, Clinton B.; Younkin, Steven G.; Yu, Chang-En; Yu, Lei (2012)
      Pancreatitis is a complex, progressively destructive inflammatory disorder. Alcohol was long thought to be the primary causative agent, but genetic contributions have been of interest since the discovery that rare PRSS1, ...
    • Family-based Association Analyses of Imputed Genotypes Reveal Genome-Wide Significant Association of Alzheimer’s disease with OSBPL6, PTPRG and PDCL3 

      Herold, Christine; Hooli, Basavaraj V.; Mullin, Kristina; Liu, Tian; Roehr, Johannes T; Mattheisen, Manuel; Parrado, Antonio R.; Bertram, Lars; Lange, Christoph; Tanzi, Rudolph E. (2015)
      The genetic basis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is complex and heterogeneous. Over 200 highly penetrant pathogenic variants in the genes APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 cause a subset of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD). ...
    • Genetic Meta-Analysis of Diagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease Identifies New Risk Loci and Implicates Aβ, Tau, Immunity and Lipid Processing 

      Grenier-Boley, Benjamin; Sims, Rebecca; Bis, Joshua C.; Damotte, Vincent; Naj, Adam C.; Boland, Anne; Vronskaya, Maria; van der Lee, Sven J.; Amlie-Wolf, Alexandre; Bellenguez, Céline; Frizatti, Aura; Chouraki, Vincent; Martin, Eden R.; Sleegers, Kristel; Badarinarayan, Nandini; Jakobsdottir, Johanna; Hamilton-Nelson, Kara L.; Moreno-Grau, Sonia; Olaso, Robert; Raybould, Rachel; Chen, Yuning; Kuzma, Amanda B.; Hiltunen, Mikko; Morgan, Taniesha; Ahmad, Shahzad; Vardarajan, Badri N.; Epelbaum, Jacques; Hoffmann, Per; Boada, Merce; Beecham, Gary W.; Garnier, Jean-Guillaume; Harold, Denise; Fitzpatrick, Annette L.; Valladares, Otto; Moutet, Marie-Laure; Gerrish, Amy; Smith, Albert V.; Qu, Liming; Bacq, Delphine; Denning, Nicola; Jian, Xueqiu; Zhao, Yi; Del Zompo, Maria; Fox, Nick C.; Choi, Seung-Hoan; Mateo, Ignacio; Hughes, Joseph T.; Adams, Hieab H.; Malamon, John; Sanchez-Garcia, Florentino; Patel, Yogen; Brody, Jennifer A.; Dombroski, Beth A.; Naranjo, Maria Candida Deniz; Daniilidou, Makrina; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Mukherjee, Shubhabrata; Wallon, David; Uphill, James; Aspelund, Thor; Cantwell, Laura B.; Garzia, Fabienne; Galimberti, Daniela; Hofer, Edith; Butkiewicz, Mariusz; Fin, Bertrand; Scarpini, Elio; Sarnowski, Chloe; Bush, Will S.; Meslage, Stéphane; Kornhuber, Johannes; White, Charles C.; Song, Yuenjoo; Barber, Robert C.; Engelborghs, Sebastiaan; Sordon, Sabrina; Voijnovic, Dina; Adams, Perrie M.; Vandenberghe, Rik; Mayhaus, Manuel; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Albert, Marilyn S.; De Deyn, Peter P.; Gu, Wei; Himali, Jayanadra J.; Beekly, Duane; Squassina, Alessio; Hartmann, Annette M.; Orellana, Adelina; Blacker, Deborah; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Eloy; Lovestone, Simon; Garcia, Melissa E.; Doody, Rachelle S.; Munoz-Fernadez, Carmen; Sussams, Rebecca; Lin, Honghuang; Fairchild, Thomas J.; Benito, Yolanda A.; Holmes, Clive; Karamujić-Čomić, Hata; Frosch, Matthew P.; Thonberg, Hakan; Maier, Wolfgang; Roshchupkin, Gennady; Ghetti, Bernardino; Giedraitis, Vilmantas; Kawalia, Amit; Li, Shuo; Huebinger, Ryan M.; Kilander, Lena; Moebus, Susanne; Hernández, Isabel; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Brundin, RoseMarie; Turton, James; Yang, Qiong; Katz, Mindy J.; Concari, Letizia; Lord, Jenny; Beiser, Alexa S.; Keene, C. Dirk; Helisalmi, Seppo; Kloszewska, Iwona; Kukull, Walter A.; Koivisto, Anne Maria; Lynch, Aoibhinn; Tarraga, Lluís; Larson, Eric B.; Haapasalo, Annakaisa; Lawlor, Brian; Mosley, Thomas H.; Lipton, Richard B.; Solfrizzi, Vincenzo; Gill, Michael; Longstreth, W. T.; Montine, Thomas J.; Frisardi, Vincenza; Diez-Fairen, Monica; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Petersen, Ronald C.; Deramecourt, Vincent; Alvarez, Ignacio; Salani, Francesca; Ciaramella, Antonio; Boerwinkle, Eric; Reiman, Eric M.; Fievet, Nathalie; Rotter, Jerome I.; Reisch, Joan S.; Hanon, Olivier; Cupidi, Chiara; Andre Uitterlinden, A. G.; Royall, Donald R.; Dufouil, Carole; Maletta, Raffaele Giovanni; de Rojas, Itziar; Sano, Mary; Brice, Alexis; Cecchetti, Roberta; George-Hyslop, Peter St; Ritchie, Karen; Tsolaki, Magda; Tsuang, Debby W.; Dubois, Bruno; Craig, David; Wu, Chuang-Kuo; Soininen, Hilkka; Avramidou, Despoina; Albin, Roger L.; Fratiglioni, Laura; Germanou, Antonia; Apostolova, Liana G.; Keller, Lina; Koutroumani, Maria; Arnold, Steven E.; Panza, Francesco; Gkatzima, Olymbia; Asthana, Sanjay; Hannequin, Didier; Whitehead, Patrice; Atwood, Craig S.; Caffarra, Paolo; Hampel, Harald; Quintela, Inés; Carracedo, Ángel; Lannfelt, Lars; Rubinsztein, David C.; Barnes, Lisa L.; Pasquier, Florence; Frölich, Lutz; Barral, Sandra; McGuinness, Bernadette; Beach, Thomas G.; Johnston, Janet A.; Becker, James T.; Passmore, Peter; Bigio, Eileen H.; Schott, Jonathan M.; Bird, Thomas D.; Warren, Jason D.; Boeve, Bradley F.; Lupton, Michelle K.; Bowen, James D.; Proitsi, Petra; Boxer, Adam; Powell, John F.; Burke, James R.; Kauwe, John S. K.; Burns, Jeffrey M.; Mancuso, Michelangelo; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Bonuccelli, Ubaldo; Cairns, Nigel J.; McQuillin, Andrew; Cao, Chuanhai; Livingston, Gill; Carlson, Chris S.; Bass, Nicholas J.; Carlsson, Cynthia M.; Hardy, John; Carney, Regina M.; Bras, Jose; Carrasquillo, Minerva M.; Guerreiro, Rita; Allen, Mariet; Chui, Helena C.; Fisher, Elizabeth; Masullo, Carlo; Crocco, Elizabeth A.; DeCarli, Charles; Bisceglio, Gina; Dick, Malcolm; Ma, Li; Duara, Ranjan; Graff-Radford, Neill R.; Evans, Denis A.; Hodges, Angela; Faber, Kelley M.; Scherer, Martin; Fallon, Kenneth B.; Riemenschneider, Matthias; Fardo, David W.; Heun, Reinhard; Farlow, Martin R.; Kölsch, Heike; Ferris, Steven; Leber, Markus; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Heuser, Isabella; Galasko, Douglas R.; Giegling, Ina; Gearing, Marla; Hüll, Michael; Geschwind, Daniel H.; Gilbert, John R.; Morris, John; Mayo, Kevin; Feulner, Thomas; Hamilton, Ronald L.; Harrell, Lindy E.; Drichel, Dmitriy; Honig, Lawrence S.; Cushion, Thomas D.; Huentelman, Matthew J.; Hollingworth, Paul; Hulette, Christine M.; Marshall, Rachel; Jarvik, Gail P.; Meggy, Alun; Abner, Erin; Menzies, Georgina E.; Jin, Lee-Way; Leonenko, Ganna; Real, Luis M.; Jun, Gyungah R.; Baldwin, Clinton T.; Grozeva, Detelina; Karydas, Anna; Russo, Giancarlo; Kaye, Jeffrey A.; Kim, Ronald; Jessen, Frank; Kowall, Neil W.; Vellas, Bruno; Kramer, Joel H.; Vardy, Emma; LaFerla, Frank M.; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Lah, James J.; Dichgans, Martin; Leverenz, James B.; Mann, David; Levey, Allan I.; Pickering-Brown, Stuart; Lieberman, Andrew P.; Klopp, Norman; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Wichmann, H-Erich; Lyketsos, Constantine G.; Morgan, Kevin; Marson, Daniel C.; Brown, Kristelle; Martiniuk, Frank; Medway, Christopher; Mash, Deborah C.; Nöthen, Markus M.; Masliah, Eliezer; Hooper, Nigel M.; McCormick, Wayne C.; Daniele, Antonio; McCurry, Susan M.; Bayer, Anthony; McDavid, Andrew N.; Gallacher, John; McKee, Ann C.; van den Bussche, Hendrik; Mesulam, Marsel; Brayne, Carol; Miller, Bruce L.; Riedel-Heller, Steffi; Miller, Carol A.; Miller, Joshua W.; Al-Chalabi, Ammar; Morris, John C.; Shaw, Christopher E.; Myers, Amanda J.; Wiltfang, Jens; O’Bryant, Sid; Olichney, John M.; Alvarez, Victoria; Parisi, Joseph E.; Singleton, Andrew B.; Paulson, Henry L.; Collinge, John; Perry, William R.; Mead, Simon; Peskind, Elaine; Cribbs, David H.; Rossor, Martin; Pierce, Aimee; Ryan, Natalie S.; Poon, Wayne W.; Nacmias, Benedetta; Potter, Huntington; Sorbi, Sandro; Quinn, Joseph F.; Sacchinelli, Eleonora; Raj, Ashok; Spalletta, Gianfranco; Raskind, Murray; Caltagirone, Carlo; Bossù, Paola; Orfei, Maria Donata; Reisberg, Barry; Clarke, Robert; Reitz, Christiane; Smith, A David; Ringman, John M.; Warden, Donald; Roberson, Erik D.; Wilcock, Gordon; Rogaeva, Ekaterina; Bruni, Amalia Cecilia; Rosen, Howard J.; Gallo, Maura; Rosenberg, Roger N.; Ben-Shlomo, Yoav; Sager, Mark A.; Mecocci, Patrizia; Saykin, Andrew J.; Pastor, Pau; Cuccaro, Michael L.; Vance, Jeffery M.; Schneider, Julie A.; Schneider, Lori S.; Slifer, Susan; Seeley, William W.; Smith, Amanda G.; Sonnen, Joshua A.; Spina, Salvatore; Stern, Robert A.; Swerdlow, Russell H.; Tang, Mitchell; Trojanowski, John Q.; Troncoso, Juan C.; Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.; Van Eldik, Linda J.; Vinters, Harry V.; Vonsattel, Jean Paul; Weintraub, Sandra; Welsh-Bohmer, Kathleen A.; Wilhelmsen, Kirk C.; Williamson, Jennifer; Wingo, Thomas S.; Woltjer, Randall L.; Wright, Clinton B.; Yu, Chang-En; Yu, Lei; Saba, Yasaman; Pilotto, Alberto; Bullido, Maria J.; Peters, Oliver; Crane, Paul K.; Bennett, David; Bosco, Paola; Coto, Eliecer; Boccardi, Virginia; De Jager, Phil L.; Lleo, Alberto; Warner, Nick; Lopez, Oscar L.; Ingelsson, Martin; Deloukas, Panagiotis; Cruchaga, Carlos; Graff, Caroline; Gwilliam, Rhian; Fornage, Myriam; Goate, Alison M.; Sanchez-Juan, Pascual; Kehoe, Patrick G.; Amin, Najaf; Ertekin-Taner, Nilifur; Berr, Claudine; Debette, Stéphanie; Love, Seth; Launer, Lenore J.; Younkin, Steven G.; Dartigues, Jean-Francois; Corcoran, Chris; Ikram, M. Arfan; Dickson, Dennis W.; Nicolas, Gael; Campion, Dominique; Tschanz, JoAnn; Schmidt, Helena; Hakonarson, Hakon; Clarimon, Jordi; Munger, Ron; Schmidt, Reinhold; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Van Broeckhoven, Christine; C. O’Donovan, Michael; DeStefano, Anita L.; Jones, Lesley; Haines, Jonathan L.; Deleuze, Jean-Francois; Owen, Michael J.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Mayeux, Richard; Escott-Price, Valentina; Psaty, Bruce M.; Ramirez, Alfredo; Wang, Li-San; Ruiz, Agustin; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Holmans, Peter A.; Seshadri, Sudha; Williams, Julie; Amouyel, Phillippe; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Lambert, Jean-Charles; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Kunkle, Brian; Green, Robert; Growdon, John; Hyman, Bradley; Tanzi, Rudolph (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-02-28)
      Risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed the largest genome-wide association meta-analysis of clinically diagnosed ...
    • Identification of Altered Metabolomic Profiles Following a Panchakarma-based Ayurvedic Intervention in Healthy Subjects: The Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative (SBTI) 

      Peterson, Christine Tara; Lucas, Joseph; John-Williams, Lisa St.; Thompson, J. Will; Moseley, M. Arthur; Patel, Sheila; Peterson, Scott N.; Porter, Valencia; Schadt, Eric E.; Mills, Paul J.; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Doraiswamy, P. Murali; Chopra, Deepak (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      The effects of integrative medicine practices such as meditation and Ayurveda on human physiology are not fully understood. The aim of this study was to identify altered metabolomic profiles following an Ayurveda-based ...
    • Isoflurane-Induced Apoptosis: A Potential Pathogenic Link Between Delirium and Dementia 

      Xie, Zhongcong; Dong, Y.; Maeda, U.; Moir, Robert D.; Inouye, Sharon; Culley, Deborah Jean; Crosby, Gregory; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2006)
      Background. Dementia and delirium have been postulated to share common pathophysiologic mechanisms; however, identification of these unifying mechanisms has remained elusive. The inhalation anesthetic isoflurane has been ...
    • Optogenetic pacing in Drosophila melanogaster 

      Alex, Aneesh; Li, Airong; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Zhou, Chao (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015)
      Electrical stimulation is currently the gold standard for cardiac pacing. However, it is invasive and nonspecific for cardiac tissues. We recently developed a noninvasive cardiac pacing technique using optogenetic tools, ...
    • Palmitoylated APP Forms Dimers, Cleaved by BACE1 

      Bhattacharyya, Raja; Fenn, Rebecca H.; Barren, Cory; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Kovacs, Dora M. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      A major rate-limiting step for Aβ generation and deposition in Alzheimer’s disease brains is BACE1-mediated cleavage (β-cleavage) of the amyloid precursor protein (APP). We previously reported that APP undergoes palmitoylation ...
    • Peripheral Surgical Wounding and Age-Dependent Neuroinflammation in Mice 

      Xu, Zhipeng; Dong, Yuanlin; Wang, Hui; Culley, Deborah J.; Marcantonio, Edward R.; Crosby, Gregory; Tanzi, Rudolph E.; Zhang, Yiying; Xie, Zhongcong (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Post-operative cognitive dysfunction is associated with morbidity and mortality. However, its neuropathogenesis remains largely to be determined. Neuroinflammation and accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ) have been reported to ...
    • RNAi-Mediated Knock-Down of Dab and Numb Attenuate Aβ Levels via γ-Secretase Mediated APP Processing 

      Xie, Zhongcong; Dong, Yuanlin; Maeda, Uta; Xia, Weiming; Tanzi, Rudolph Emile (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Amyloid-β-protein (Aβ), the key component of senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, is produced from amyloid precursor protein (APP) by cleavage of β-secretase and then γ-secretase. APP adaptor proteins with ...