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The Role Of Apolipoprotein E In Alzheimer Disease: From Therapy To Mechanism, Tien-Phat Vuong Huynh
The Role Of Apolipoprotein E In Alzheimer Disease: From Therapy To Mechanism, Tien-Phat Vuong Huynh
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with irreversible damage to the brain, which manifests in cognitive dysfunction, memory loss, and eventual death. The pathological hallmarks of AD are amyloid plaques, which are cerebral aggregates consisting of fibrils of the amyloid β-protein (Aβ), and filamentous lesions of the microtubule-associated protein tau known as neurofibrillary tangles. In the early 1990s, the apolipoprotein E (apoE) was found to co-localize with amyloid plaques. The ε4 allele of the APOE gene was sequentially identified as the strongest genetic risk factor for AD, increasing the risk by 4 – 12-fold, whereas the ε2 allele …