Abnormal brain cholesterol homeostasis in Alzheimer’s disease—a targeted metabolomic and transcriptomic study [PDF]
The role of brain cholesterol metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains unclear. Peripheral and brain cholesterol levels are largely independent due to the impermeability of the blood brain barrier (BBB), highlighting the importance of studying the ...
Vijay R. Varma +14 more
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Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9, Brain Cholesterol Homeostasis and Potential Implication for Alzheimer’s Disease [PDF]
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been associated with dysregulation of brain cholesterol homeostasis. Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), beyond the known role in the regulation of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, was first ...
Maria Pia Adorni +4 more
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Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Alter Metabolites of Brain Cholesterol Homeostasis in An Alzheimer’s Model [PDF]
Objective: Disruption of cholesterol homeostasis in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) plays a crucial role in diseasepathogenesis, making it a potential therapeutic target.
Mehrnaz Karimi Darabi +8 more
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Brain cholesterol in normal and pathological aging [PDF]
Aberrations in cerebral cholesterol homeostasis can lead to severe neurological diseases. Recent findings strengthen the link between brain cholesterol metabolism and factors involved in synaptic plasticity, a process essential for learning and memory ...
Vanmierlo Tim +2 more
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Assessment of cholesterol homeostasis in the living human brain [PDF]
Alterations in brain cholesterol homeostasis have been broadly implicated in neurological disorders. Notwithstanding the complexity by which cholesterol biology is governed in the mammalian brain, excess neuronal cholesterol is primarily eliminated by metabolic clearance via cytochrome P450 46A1 (CYP46A1).
Ahmed Haider +31 more
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SREBP-1 upregulates lipophagy to maintain cholesterol homeostasis in brain tumor cells
Summary: Cholesterol is a structural component of cell membranes. How rapidly growing tumor cells maintain membrane cholesterol homeostasis is poorly understood. Here, we found that glioblastoma (GBM), the most lethal brain tumor, maintains normal levels
Feng Geng +8 more
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The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) mainly includes the decrease of neurons and synapses, the deposition of the extracellular β⁃ amyloid protein (Aβ), the formation of neuritic plaques (NPs) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) caused by ...
WANG Su⁃su +3 more
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Transcriptomic analysis unveils correlations between regulative apoptotic caspases and genes of cholesterol homeostasis in human brain. [PDF]
Regulative circuits controlling expression of genes involved in the same biological processes are frequently interconnected. These circuits operate to coordinate the expression of multiple genes and also to compensate dysfunctions in specific elements of
Raffaella Picco +3 more
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Disruption of cerebral cholesterol homeostasis by PS-NPs: astrocytic endoplasmic reticulum stress [PDF]
Cholesterol plays a crucial role in regulating synaptic membrane fluidity and ion channels. Due to the blood-brain barrier, cholesterol in the brain is primarily self-synthesized by astrocytes.
Lei Tian +12 more
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Increased protein expression of ABCA1, HMG-CoA reductase, and CYP46A1 induced by garlic and allicin in the brain mouse and astrocytes-isolated from C57BL/6J [PDF]
Objective: Regulation of cholesterol level is essential for the brain optimal function. The beneficial effect of garlic consumption on cholesterol homeostasis is well known; however, the molecular mechanism to support its properties is unclear.
Zahra Nazeri +4 more
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