DNA hypomethylation promotes the expression of CASPASE-4 which exacerbates inflammation and amyloid-β deposition in Alzheimer’s disease

Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the USA. It is established that neuroinflammation contributes to the synaptic loss, neuronal death, and symptomatic decline of AD patients. Accumulating evidence suggests a critical role for microglia, innate immune phagocytes...

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Main Authors: Kylene P. Daily, Asmaa Badr, Mostafa Eltobgy, Shady Estfanous, Owen Whitham, Michelle H. Tan, Cierra Carafice, Kathrin Krause, Andrew McNamara, Kaitlin Hamilton, Samuel Houle, Spandan Gupta, Gauruv A. Gupta, Shruthi Madhu, Julie Fitzgerald, Abbey A. Saadey, Brooke Laster, Pearlly Yan, Amy Webb, Xiaoli Zhang, Maciej Pietrzak, Olga N. Kokiko-Cochran, Hazem E. Ghoneim, Amal O. Amer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-02-01
Series:Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-024-01390-2