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    • 3D Visualization of the Temporal and Spatial Spread of Tau Pathology Reveals Extensive Sites of Tau Accumulation Associated with Neuronal Loss and Recognition Memory Deficit in Aged Tau Transgenic Mice 

      Fu, Hongjun; Hussaini, S. Abid; Wegmann, Susanne; Profaci, Caterina; Daniels, Jacob D.; Herman, Mathieu; Emrani, Sheina; Figueroa, Helen Y.; Hyman, Bradley T.; Davies, Peter; Duff, Karen E. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      3D volume imaging using iDISCO+ was applied to observe the spatial and temporal progression of tau pathology in deep structures of the brain of a mouse model that recapitulates the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease ...
    • \(A\beta\) alters the connectivity of olfactory neurons in the absence of amyloid plaques in vivo 

      Cao, Luxiang; Schrank, Benjamin R.; Rodriguez, Steven; Benz, Eric G.; Moulia, Thomas W.; Rickenbacher, Gregory T.; Gomez, Alexis C.; Levites, Yona; Edwards, Sarah R.; Golde, Todd E.; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Barnea, Gilad; Albers, Mark W (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      The amyloid beta peptide aggregates into amyloid plaques at presymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease, but the temporal relationship between plaque formation and neuronal dysfunction is poorly understood. Here we ...
    • Adult Onset Leukodystrophy with Neuroaxonal Spheroids: Clinical, Neuroimaging and Neuropathologic Observations 

      Freeman, Stefanie H.; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Sims, Katherine; Hedley-Whyte, E. Tessa; Vossough, Arastoo; Frosch, Matthew P.; Schmahmann, Jeremy Dan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
      Pigmented orthochromatic leukodystrophy (POLD) and Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids HDLS are two adult onset leukodystrophies with neuroaxonal spheroids presenting with prominent neurobehavioral, ...
    • 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 accelerates tau propagation and toxicity in a model of early Alzheimer’s disease 

      Pooler, Amy M; Polydoro, Manuela; Maury, Eduardo A; Nicholls, Samantha B; Reddy, Snigdha M; Wegmann, Susanne; William, Christopher; Saqran, Lubna; Cagsal-Getkin, Ozge; Pitstick, Rose; Beier, David R; Carlson, George A; Spires-Jones, Tara L; Hyman, Bradley T (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Introduction: In early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) are largely restricted to the entorhinal cortex and medial temporal lobe. At later stages, when clinical symptoms generally occur, ...
    • Aβ Imaging: Feasible, Pertinent, and Vital to Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease 

      Villemagne, Victor L.; Klunk, William E.; Mathis, Chester A.; Rowe, Christopher C.; Ikonomovic, Milos D.; Ishii, Kenji; Jack, Clifford R.; Jagust, William J.; Koeppe, Robert A.; Lowe, Val J.; Masters, Colin L.; Montine, Thomas J.; Morris, John C.; Nordberg, Agneta; Petersen, Ronald C.; Reiman, Eric M.; Van Laere, Koen; Drzezga, Alexander; Brooks, David J.; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Johnson, Keith Alan; Selkoe, Dennis J.; Sperling, Reisa Anne; Weiner, Michael W. (Springer-Verlag, 2012)
    • Behavioral deficits, early gliosis, dysmyelination and synaptic dysfunction in a mouse model of mucolipidosis IV 

      Grishchuk, Yulia; Sri, Sarmi; Rudinskiy, Nikita; Ma, Weiyuan; Stember, Katherine G; Cottle, Matthew W; Sapp, Ellen; Difiglia, Marian; Muzikansky, Alona; Betensky, Rebecca A; Wong, Andrew M S; Bacskai, Brian J; Hyman, Bradley T; Kelleher, Raymond J; Cooper, Jonathan D; Slaugenhaupt, Susan A (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Mucolipidosis IV (MLIV) is caused by mutations in the gene MCOLN1. Patients with MLIV have severe neurologic deficits and very little is known about the brain pathology in this lysosomal disease. Using an accurate mouse ...
    • Calcineurin activation causes retinal ganglion cell degeneration 

      Qu, Juan; Matsouaka, Roland Albert; Betensky, Rebecca Aubrey; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Grosskreutz, Cynthia Lee (Molecular Vision, 2012)
      Purpose: We previously reported that calcineurin, a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent serine/threonine phosphatase, is activated and proposed that it participates in retinal ganglion cell (RGC) apoptosis in two rodent ocular ...
    • Clustering of plaques contributes to plaque growth in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease 

      McCarter, Joanna F.; Liebscher, Sabine; Bachhuber, Teresa; Abou-Ajram, Claudia; Hübener, Mark; Hyman, Bradley T.; Haass, Christian; Meyer-Luehmann, Melanie (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
      Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposition plays a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Post-mortem analysis of plaque development in mouse models of AD revealed that plaques are initially small, but then ...
    • 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, ...
    • The Cortical Signature of Alzheimer's Disease: Regionally Specific Cortical Thinning Relates to Symptom Severity in Very Mild to Mild AD Dementia and is Detectable in Asymptomatic Amyloid-Positive Individuals 

      Dickerson, Bradford Clark; Bakkour, Akram; Salat, David H.; Feczko, Eric; Pacheco, Jenni; Greve, Douglas N.; Grodstein, Francine; Wright, Christopher Ian; Blacker, Deborah Lynne; Rosas, Herminia Diana; Sperling, Reisa Anne; Atri, Alireza; Growdon, John Herbert; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Morris, John C.; Fischl, Bruce R.; Buckner, Randy Lee (Oxford University Press, 2009)
      Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with neurodegeneration in vulnerable limbic and heteromodal regions of the cerebral cortex, detectable in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging. It is not clear whether abnormalities ...
    • Crystal Structure of the Complete Integrin αVβ3 Ectodomain Plus an α/β Transmembrane Fragment 

      Mahalingham, Bhuvaneshwari; Borrelli, Laura Ann; Rysiok, Thomas; Müller-Pompalla, Dirk; Goodman, Simon L.; Xiong, Jian-Ping; Alonso, Jose Luis; Rui, Xianliang; Anand, Saurabh; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Arnaout, M. Amin (The Rockefeller University Press, 2009)
      We determined the crystal structure of 1TM-αVβ3, which represents the complete unconstrained ectodomain plus short C-terminal transmembrane stretches of the αV and β3 subunits. 1TM-αVβ3 is more compact and less active in ...
    • Direct detection of alpha synuclein oligomers in vivo 

      Dimant, Hemi; Kalia, Suneil K; Kalia, Lorraine V; Zhu, Liya N; Kibuuka, Laura; Ebrahimi-Fakhari, Darius; McFarland, Nikolaus R; Fan, Zhanyun; Hyman, Bradley T; McLean, Pamela J (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Rat models of Parkinson’s disease are widely used to elucidate the mechanisms underlying disease etiology or to investigate therapeutic approaches. Models were developed using toxins such as MPTP or 6-OHDA to ...
    • Direct Visualization of CHIP-Mediated Degradation of Alpha-Synuclein In Vivo: Implications for PD Therapeutics 

      Dimant, Hemi; Zhu, Liya; Kibuuka, Laura N.; Fan, Zhanyun; Hyman, Bradley T.; McLean, Pamela J. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by Lewy bodies, a pathological hallmark comprised mostly of aggregated alpha synuclein. Accumulating evidence demonstrates the association of smaller ...
    • Dopamine-Induced Conformational Changes in Alpha-Synuclein 

      Outeiro, Tiago F.; Klucken, Jochen; Bercury, Kathryn; Tetzlaff, Julie; Putcha, Preeti; Oliveira, Luis M. A.; Quintas, Alexandre; McLean, Pamela June; Hyman, Bradley Theodore (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Background: Oligomerization and aggregation of α-synuclein molecules play a major role in neuronal dysfunction and loss in Parkinson's disease [1]. However, α-synuclein oligomerization and aggregation have mostly been ...
    • EM Structure of the Ectodomain of Integrin CD11b/CD18 and Localization of Its Ligand-Binding Site Relative to the Plasma Membrane 

      Adair, Brian; Xiong, Jian-Ping; Alonso, José Luis; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Arnaout, M. Amin (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      One-half of the integrin α-subunit Propeller domains contain and extra vWFA domain (αA domain), which mediates integrin binding to extracellular physiologic ligands via its metal-ion-dependent adhesion site (MIDAS). We ...
    • Exosome-associated AAV vector as a robust and convenient neuroscience tool 

      Hudry, Eloise; Martin, Courtney; Gandhi, Sheetal; György, Bence; Scheffer, Deborah I.; Mu, Dakai; Merkel, Steven F.; Mingozzi, Federico; Fitzpatrick, Zachary; Dimant, Hemi; Masek, Marissa; Ragan, Tim; Tan, Sisareuth; Brisson, Alain R.; Ramirez, Servio H.; Hyman, Bradley T.; Maguire, Casey A. (2016)
      Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are showing promise in gene therapy trials and have proven to be extremely efficient biological tools in basic neuroscience research. One major limitation to their widespread use in the ...
    • Formation of Toxic Oligomeric α-Synuclein Species in Living Cells 

      Outeiro, Tiago Fleming; Putcha, Preeti; Tetzlaff, Julie E.; Spoelgen, Robert; Koker, Mirjam; Carvalho, Filipe; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; McLean, Pamela June (Public Library of Science, 2008)
      Background: Misfolding, oligomerization, and fibrillization of α-synuclein are thought to be central events in the onset and progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) and related disorders. Although fibrillar α-synuclein is ...
    • Frequent and symmetric deposition of misfolded tau oligomers within presynaptic and postsynaptic terminals in Alzheimer’s disease 

      Tai, Hwan-Ching; Wang, Bo Y; Serrano–Pozo, Alberto; Frosch, Matthew P; Spires-Jones, Tara L; Hyman, Bradley T (BioMed Central, 2014)
      The accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) propagates with characteristic spatiotemporal patterns which follow brain network connections, implying trans-synaptic transmission of tauopathy. Since ...