Search Results - "Tracy, Tara E."
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Acetylated Tau Obstructs KIBRA-Mediated Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity and Promotes Tauopathy-Related Memory Loss
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (20-04-2016)“…Tau toxicity has been implicated in the emergence of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the mechanism by which tau alters synapse physiology…”
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Astrocyte senescence promotes glutamate toxicity in cortical neurons
Published in PloS one (16-01-2020)“…Neurodegeneration is a major age-related pathology. Cognitive decline is characteristic of patients with Alzheimer's and related dementias and cancer patients…”
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Amyloid beta emerges from below the neck to disable the brain
Published in PLoS biology (15-09-2021)“…Accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) in the brain in Alzheimer disease drives pathophysiology. A study in this issue of PLOS Biology revealed that Aβ from the…”
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Critical role of acetylation in tau-mediated neurodegeneration and cognitive deficits
Published in Nature medicine (01-10-2015)“…Acetylation of tau at K174 is identified in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain tissue and exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration and memory impairments in…”
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Scalable Production of iPSC-Derived Human Neurons to Identify Tau-Lowering Compounds by High-Content Screening
Published in Stem cell reports (10-10-2017)“…Lowering total tau levels is an attractive therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies. High-throughput screening in neurons derived…”
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Pathogenic Tau Impairs Axon Initial Segment Plasticity and Excitability Homeostasis
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (06-11-2019)“…Dysregulation of neuronal excitability underlies the pathogenesis of tauopathies, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with tau inclusions. A majority of…”
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Tau-mediated synaptic and neuronal dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease
Published in Current opinion in neurobiology (01-08-2018)“…•Soluble tau oligomers promote pathophysiology in neurons.•Pathogenic tau affects mechanisms that regulate both presynaptic and postsynaptic…”
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Acute knockdown of AMPA receptors reveals a trans-synaptic signal for presynaptic maturation
Published in The EMBO journal (20-04-2011)“…Newly formed glutamatergic synapses often lack postsynaptic AMPA‐type glutamate receptors (AMPARs). Aside from ‘unsilencing’ the postsynaptic site, however,…”
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Acetylated tau in Alzheimer's disease: An instigator of synaptic dysfunction underlying memory loss: Increased levels of acetylated tau blocks the postsynaptic signaling required for plasticity and promotes memory deficits associated with tauopathy
Published in BioEssays (01-04-2017)“…Pathogenesis in tauopathies involves the accumulation of tau in the brain and progressive synapse loss accompanied by cognitive decline. Pathological tau is…”
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Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes associated with neurodegeneration
Published in Cell (17-02-2022)“…Tau (MAPT) drives neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer disease (AD) and other tauopathies. To dissect the underlying mechanisms, we combined an engineered…”
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Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-05-2023)“…Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) precede clinical symptoms by years, indicating a period of cognitive resilience before the onset of…”
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Reducing acetylated tau is neuroprotective in brain injury
Published in Cell (13-05-2021)“…Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the largest non-genetic, non-aging related risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We report here that TBI induces tau…”
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AD-linked R47H- TREM2 mutation induces disease-enhancing microglial states via AKT hyperactivation
Published in Science translational medicine (01-12-2021)“…The hemizygous R47H variant of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 ( ), a microglia-specific gene in the brain, increases risk for late-onset…”
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Acetylated tau in Alzheimer's disease: An instigator of synaptic dysfunction underlying memory loss
Published in BioEssays (01-04-2017)“…Pathogenesis in tauopathies involves the accumulation of tau in the brain and progressive synapse loss accompanied by cognitive decline. Pathological tau is…”
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Acetylated tau destabilizes the cytoskeleton in the axon initial segment and is mislocalized to the somatodendritic compartment
Published in Molecular neurodegeneration (29-06-2016)“…Neurons are highly polarized cells in which asymmetric axonal-dendritic distribution of proteins is crucial for neuronal function. Loss of polarized…”
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KIBRA repairs synaptic plasticity and promotes resilience to tauopathy-related memory loss
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-02-2024)“…Synaptic plasticity is obstructed by pathogenic tau in the brain, representing a key mechanism that underlies memory loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and…”
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Effect of KIBRA on tau‐mediated synaptic and memory deficits
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-12-2021)“…Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by an accumulation of tau in the brain and progressive memory decline. Previous work showed that aberrant…”
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Nav1.1-Overexpressing Interneuron Transplants Restore Brain Rhythms and Cognition in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (04-04-2018)“…Inhibitory interneurons regulate the oscillatory rhythms and network synchrony that are required for cognitive functions and disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease…”
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Acute knockdown of AMPA receptors reveals a trans-synaptic signal for presynaptic maturation: AMPA receptor modulates presynaptic maturation
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