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Evaluating senescence-targeted approaches in Alzheimer's Disease: What we know and what lies ahead

1 month 3 weeks ago
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disease, which represents the most prevalent dementia worldwide. Although amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau pathology have been the classic focus of treatment, accumulating evidence indicates that ageing-associated cellular senescence plays a central role in AD pathogenesis. Senescent neurons, astrocytes, microglia and endothelial cells accumulate in the ageing and Alzheimer's brain and adopt a senescence-associated secretory...
Pratik Prashant Doshi

Cell type-specific gene regulatory atlas prioritizes drug targets and repurposable medicines in Alzheimer's disease

1 month 3 weeks ago
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex and poorly understood neurodegenerative disorder that lacks sufficiently effective treatments. Computational and integrative analyses that leverage multiomic data provide a promising strategy to uncover disease mechanisms and identify therapeutic opportunities. Here, we develop a cell type-specific regulatory atlas of the human middle temporal gyrus via leveraging single-nucleus RNA-seq (1,197,032 nuclei) and ATAC-seq (740,875 nuclei) data sets from 84...
Yunxiao Ren

DNA nanodevices detect an acidic nanolayer on the lysosomal surface

1 month 3 weeks ago
Lysosomes maintain a highly acidic lumen to regulate H^(+)-dependent hydrolase-mediated degradation, but how protons are 'leaked' out to regulate organellar functions through cytosolic effectors remains unknown. Here we developed DNA nanodevices on the cytosolic leaflet of lysosomal membranes to monitor juxta-organellar pH in cells. Unexpectedly, we revealed a radiating acidic layer (up to 21 nm in thickness) on the outer surface of all lysosomes, typically 0.2-0.7 pH units more acidic than the...
Yutong Zhang

Concurrent associations between visit-to-visit changes in actigraphy-based physical activity and cognitive aging in older adults

1 month 3 weeks ago
Physical activity (PA) is associated with lower dementia risk, yet few studies examine objectively measured PA with concurrently measured brain and cognitive aging outcomes longitudinally, leaving a gap in knowledge regarding temporality of these brain-behavior associations. We examined how longitudinal within-person changes in average daily step count track with changes in memory, executive function, hippocampal volumes, white matter hyperintensities (WMH), and depressive symptoms over time....
Ranjani P Shankar

Longitudinal body mass index exposure-based threshold to prevent mortality for populations with type 2 diabetes mellitus

1 month 3 weeks ago
The long-term body mass index (BMI) threshold to prevent mortality among aging individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains unclear. We quantify BMI exposure using two metrics: the percentage of time BMI above target range (TAR) and the percentage of time BMI within target range (TTR). In a cohort of 3,708 adults aged ≥40 years with T2DM and at least 5 BMI measurements across 4 years, 1,020 deaths occurred during a median 5-year follow-up. Sustained BMI ≥27 kg/m² (TAR) is positively...
Tingting Hu

Evaluating Senescence-Targeted Approaches in Alzheimer's Disease: What We Know and What Lies Ahead

1 month 3 weeks ago
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disease, which represents the most prevalent dementia worldwide. Although amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau pathology have been the classic focus of treatment, accumulating evidence indicates that ageing-associated cellular senescence plays a central role in AD pathogenesis. Senescent neurons, astrocytes, microglia and endothelial cells accumulate in the ageing and Alzheimer's brain and adopt a senescence-associated secretory...
Pratik Prashant Doshi

Divergent aging of nulliparous and parous mammary glands reveals IL33+ hybrid epithelial cells

1 month 3 weeks ago
Aging increases breast cancer risk while an early first pregnancy reduces a woman's life-long risk. Several studies have explored the effect of either aging or pregnancy on mammary stem/progenitor cells, however, the combined effect of both remains unclear. Here, we interrogate the functional and transcriptomic changes at single-cell resolution in the mammary gland of aged nulliparous and parous mice to discover that pregnancy normalizes age-related imbalances in lineage composition, while also...
Andrew Olander