Alzheimer's Research

The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Ninth Annual Fall Symposium & Luncheon Raises Record-Breaking Total of Over $1.6 Million Ronald S. Lauder, David R. Weinreb, Alice Shure, Leonard A. Lauder,...

MaterialsAntibodies for p65, p-p65, BDNF, claudin-5, occludin, caludin-1, iNOS, COX-2, and β-actin were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA). Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits for cytokines were purchased from Ebioscience (San Diego, CA)....

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Fig. 2Representative histological images of wake-promoting nuclei. LC (top), LHA (middle), and TMN (bottom) tissue sections are depicted with their corresponding neurotransmitter/enzymes (TH, orexin, or HDC, respectively; in red) and tau (CP13; in brown). Notice...

A Partnership with The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation's (ADDF) Diagnostics Accelerator initiative has announced a new $5 million commitment to projects targeting the development...

Transformation-based integration overviewBringing together individual data types undoubtedly enriches the systematic view on the Alzheimer’s disease, giving researchers the opportunity to understand molecular mechanisms from the genetic to protein levels. However, it also involves...

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging would like to extend a warm welcome to our talented incoming faculty members. We are proud of their accomplishments and...

Brain autopsies of 779 decedents were examined. Baseline latent class analysis on 10 neuropsychological measures was previously assigned: mixed-domains impairment (n = 39, 5%), memory-specific impairment (n = 210, 27%), frontal impairment (n = 113, 14.5%), average cognition (n =...

A scientific strategy that explores therapeutic targets based on the biology of aging is gaining ground as an effective approach to prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease, according to...

Acute stress rescues impaired LTP in the hippocampal CA1 region of AD miceIn the first set of experiments, we determined whether acute stress alters LTP in the CA1 region by recording fEPSPs in acutely...