In trying to treat neuroinflammation, scientists need better ways to visualize microglia in the brains of living people. Current microglial PET tracers target the mitochondrial transporter TSPO, but ...
R47H is a rare variant in TREM2 that triples the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in heterozygous carriers. This knock-in rat model carries the R47H mutation in the rat Trem2 gene and a humanized Aβ ...
Mounting evidence links infections to a greater risk of dementia, and vaccination to neuroprotection. What underlies this relationship? In a preprint posted to Research Square on January 13, ...
To create this model, an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector encoding human tau with the P301L mutation was injected into the ventricles of neonatal mice. At 6 months of age, Tau P301L-AAV mice ...
CpG 1018 is a proprietary immune adjuvant made up of short, unmethylated cytosine-phosphate-guanine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs). Its components mimic bacterial DNA to activate innate immunity ...
PSEN1 encodes presenilin-1, a subunit of γ-secretase, the aspartyl protease responsible for Aβ generation. More than 300 mutations in PSEN1 have been reported and mutations in PSEN1 are the most ...
Species: Mouse Genes: SNCA Modification: SNCA: Transgenic Disease Relevance: Parkinson's Disease Strain Name: B6;DBA-Tg(Thy1-SNCA)61Ema Genetic Background: (C57BL/6 x DBA/2)F1 (strain of origin) ...
Please see new entry for CP-13 in the AlzAntbodies database.
Clinical trials for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases are expensive and slow, in part because they cannot find enough participants. Of the 5 million people with Alzheimer’s in the ...
Abraham Fisher has a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Tel Aviv Univ, M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry and B.Sc. in Chemistry from The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel ...
The center does not accept donations. Collection is limited to participants in longitudinal research projects conducted by the center. Phenotypes collected include Alzheimer's disease, cognitively ...
In Rare Autoimmune Disease, Hyperactive Neurons Lead Tau Astray Add To My AlzForum 2 Comments 16 Jan 2026 Research News Could the rare autoimmune disease anti-IgLON5 ...