Beta-amyloid, neuronal death and Alzheimer's disease

Current Molecular Medicine
J Carter, C F Lippa

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disease that affects cognitive function in the elderly. Large extracellular beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques and tau-containing intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles characterize AD from a histopathologic perspective. However, the severity of dementia in AD is more closely related to the degree of the associated neuronal and synaptic loss. It is not known how neurons die and synapses are lost in AD; the current review summarizes what is known about this issue. Most evidence indicates that amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing is central to the AD process. The Abeta in plaques is a metabolite of the APP that forms when an alternative (beta-secretase and then gamma-secretase) enzymatic pathway is utilized for processing. Mutations of the APP gene lead to AD by influencing APP metabolism. One leading theory is that the Abeta in plaques leads to AD because Abeta is directly toxic to the adjacent neurons. Other theories advance the notion that neuronal death is triggered by intracellular events that occur during APP processing or by extraneuronal preplaque Abeta oligomers. Some investigators speculate that in many cases there is a more general disorder of protein processing in ...Continue Reading

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