APOE and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence Mounts that Targeting APOE4 may Combat Alzheimer's Pathogenesis

Uddin, MS; Kabir, MT; Al Mamun, A; Abdel-Daim, MM; Barreto, GE; Ashraf, GM

Keywords: amyloid, alzheimer's disease, senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, tauopathy, APOE4

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an immutable neurodegenerative disease featured by the two hallmark brain pathologies that are the extracellular amyloid ss (A ss) and intraneuronal tau protein. People carrying the APOE4 allele are at high risk of AD concerning the ones carrying the epsilon 3 allele, while the epsilon 2 allele abates risk. ApoE isoforms exert a central role in controlling the transport of brain lipid, neuronal signaling, mitochondrial function, glucose metabolism, and neuroinflammation. Regardless of widespread indispensable studies, the appropriate function of APOE in AD etiology stays ambiguous. Existing proof recommends that the disparate outcomes of ApoE isoforms on A accretion and clearance have a distinct function in AD pathogenesis. ApoE-lipoproteins combine diverse cell-surface receptors to transport lipids and moreover to lipophilic A peptide, that is believed to begin deadly events that generate neurodegeneration in the AD. ApoE has great influence in tau pathogenesis, tau-mediated neurodegeneration, and neuroinflammation, as well as -synucleinopathy, lipid metabolism, and synaptic plasticity despite the presence of A pathology. ApoE4 shows the deleterious effect for AD while the lack of ApoE4 is defensive. Therapeutic strategies primarily depend on APOE suggest to lessen the noxious effects of ApoE4 and reestablish the protective aptitudes of ApoE. This appraisal represents the critical interactions of APOE and AD pathology, existing facts on ApoE levels in the central nervous system (CNS), and the credible active stratagems for AD therapy by aiming ApoE. This review also highlighted utmost ApoE targeting therapeutic tactics that are crucial for controlling Alzheimer's pathogenesis.

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Título según WOS: APOE and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence Mounts that Targeting APOE4 may Combat Alzheimer's Pathogenesis
Título de la Revista: MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
Volumen: 56
Número: 4
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 2450
Página final: 2465
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.1007/s12035-018-1237-z

Notas: ISI