Search Results - "DeVos, Sarah"
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Distinct Tau Prion Strains Propagate in Cells and Mice and Define Different Tauopathies
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (18-06-2014)“…Prion-like propagation of tau aggregation might underlie the stereotyped progression of neurodegenerative tauopathies. True prions stably maintain unique…”
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Increased 4R-Tau Induces Pathological Changes in a Human-Tau Mouse Model
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-06-2016)“…Pathological evidence for selective four-repeat (4R) tau deposition in certain dementias and exon 10-positioned MAPT mutations together suggest a 4R-specific…”
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Lysosomal functions of progranulin and implications for treatment of frontotemporal dementia
Published in Trends in cell biology (01-04-2023)“…Loss-of-function heterozygous mutations in GRN, the gene encoding progranulin (PGRN), were identified in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)…”
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The role of microglia in processing and spreading of bioactive tau seeds in Alzheimer's disease
Published in Journal of neuroinflammation (18-09-2018)“…Misfolding of microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) within neurons into neurofibrillary tangles is an important pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease…”
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Heparan sulfate proteoglycans mediate internalization and propagation of specific proteopathic seeds
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-08-2013)“…Recent experimental evidence suggests that transcellular propagation of fibrillar protein aggregates drives the progression of neurodegenerative diseases in a…”
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Neuronal uptake and propagation of a rare phosphorylated high-molecular-weight tau derived from Alzheimer’s disease brain
Published in Nature communications (13-10-2015)“…Tau pathology is known to spread in a hierarchical pattern in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain during disease progression, likely by trans-synaptic tau transfer…”
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Antisense Oligonucleotides: Treating Neurodegeneration at the Level of RNA
Published in Neurotherapeutics (01-07-2013)“…Adequate therapies are lacking for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and other neurodegenerative…”
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Enhanced Tau Aggregation in the Presence of Amyloid β
Published in The American journal of pathology (01-07-2017)“…Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles co-occur in Alzheimer disease, but with different topological and temporal patterns. Whether these two lesions are…”
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Synaptic Tau Seeding Precedes Tau Pathology in Human Alzheimer's Disease Brain
Published in Frontiers in neuroscience (24-04-2018)“…Alzheimer's disease (AD) is defined by the presence of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates as well as…”
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Tau Protein Disrupts Nucleocytoplasmic Transport in Alzheimer’s Disease
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (05-09-2018)“…Tau is the major constituent of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the mechanism underlying tau-associated neural damage remains unclear…”
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Pathogenic tau accelerates aging-associated activation of transposable elements in the mouse central nervous system
Published in Progress in neurobiology (01-01-2022)“…•Retrotransposon transcripts increase in the aging brain and in three mouse models of tauopathy.•Retrotransposon-encoded protein is elevated in brains of tau…”
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Characterization of TauC3 antibody and demonstration of its potential to block tau propagation
Published in PloS one (22-05-2017)“…The spread of neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) pathology through the human brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is thought to be caused by the…”
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Direct intraventricular delivery of drugs to the rodent central nervous system
Published in Journal of visualized experiments (12-05-2013)“…Due to an inability to cross the blood brain barrier, certain drugs need to be directly delivered into the central nervous system (CNS). Our lab focuses…”
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Tau Antibody Targeting Pathological Species Blocks Neuronal Uptake and Interneuron Propagation of Tau in Vitro
Published in The American journal of pathology (01-06-2017)“…The clinical progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with the accumulation of tau neurofibrillary tangles, which may spread throughout the cortex…”
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Tau reduction in the presence of amyloid-β prevents tau pathology and neuronal death in vivo
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-07-2018)“…In vivo tau reduction strategies thus far have been studied in the absence of Aβ deposition. DeVos et al. suppress human tau in mice that develop both Aβ and…”
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Seed-competent high-molecular-weight tau species accumulates in the cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer's disease mouse model and human patients
Published in Annals of neurology (01-09-2016)“…Objective Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau is an excellent surrogate marker for assessing neuropathological changes that occur in Alzheimer's disease (AD)…”
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In vivo rate-determining steps of tau seed accumulation in Alzheimer's disease
Published in Science advances (29-10-2021)“…Both the replication of protein aggregates and their spreading throughout the brain are implicated in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the…”
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Removing endogenous tau does not prevent tau propagation yet reduces its neurotoxicity
Published in The EMBO journal (14-12-2015)“…In Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies, tau protein aggregates into neurofibrillary tangles that progressively spread to synaptically connected brain regions…”
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Antisense reduction of tau in adult mice protects against seizures
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (31-07-2013)“…Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in regard to both neurofibrillary tangle formation and…”
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Tau at the Crossroads between Neurotoxicity and Neuroprotection
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (17-05-2017)“…In contrast to the idea that tau phosphorylation is toxic, Ittner et al. (2016) recently showed that specific tau phosphorylation is neuroprotective,…”
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