Upregulation of choline acetyltransferase activity in hippocampus and frontal cortex of elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment

ST DeKosky, MD Ikonomovic, SD Styren… - Annals of Neurology …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), loss of cortical and hippocampal choline acetyltransferase (ChAT)
activity has been correlated with dementia severity and disease duration, and it forms the …

Post-mortem correlates of in vivo PiB-PET amyloid imaging in a typical case of Alzheimer's disease

MD Ikonomovic, WE Klunk, EE Abrahamson, CA Mathis… - Brain, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB) binds
with high affinity to β-pleated sheet aggregates of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide in vitro. The in …

Validating novel tau positron emission tomography tracer [F‐18]‐AV‐1451 (T807) on postmortem brain tissue

…, WE Klunk, CA Mathis, MD Ikonomovic… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine region‐ and substrate‐specific autoradiographic and in vitro binding
patterns of positron emission tomography tracer [F‐18]‐AV‐1451 (previously known as T807)…

[HTML][HTML] Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

…, DL Tudorascu, VL Villemagne, MD Ikonomovic… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
An unresolved question for the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathophysiology
is why a significant percentage of amyloid-β (Aβ)-positive cognitively unimpaired (CU) …

Alzheimer's pathology in human temporal cortex surgically excised after severe brain injury

MD Ikonomovic, K Uryu, EE Abrahamson… - Experimental …, 2004 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
This immunohistochemical study determined the extent of AD-related changes in temporal …

Binding of the positron emission tomography tracer Pittsburgh compound-B reflects the amount of amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease brain but not in transgenic mouse …

WE Klunk, BJ Lopresti, MD Ikonomovic… - Journal of …, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
During the development of in vivo amyloid imaging agents, an effort was made to use micro-positron
emission tomography (PET) imaging in the presenilin-1 (PS1)/amyloid precursor …

Amyloid deposition begins in the striatum of presenilin-1 mutation carriers from two unrelated pedigrees

…, JA Hoge, AD Cohen, MD Ikonomovic… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
The amyloid cascade hypothesis suggests that the aggregation and deposition of amyloid-β
protein is an initiating event in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using amyloid imaging technology…

[PDF][PDF] Traumatic brain injury--football, warfare, and long-term effects

ST DeKosky, MD Ikonomovic… - The New England journal …, 2010 - dickyricky.com
1295 with alterations in many physiological processes. Altered proteostasis is among the
most obvious, because proteopathy is often evident at the histopathological level. Here, the …

Dissecting phenotypic traits linked to human resilience to Alzheimer's pathology

…, V Lowe, JE Parisi, RC Petersen, MD Ikonomovic… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Clinico-pathological correlation studies and positron emission tomography amyloid imaging
studies have shown that some individuals can tolerate substantial amounts of Alzheimer’s …

Human cholinergic basal forebrain: chemoanatomy and neurologic dysfunction

EJ Mufson, SD Ginsberg, MD Ikonomovic… - Journal of chemical …, 2003 - Elsevier
The human cholinergic basal forebrain (CBF) is comprised of magnocellular hyperchromic
neurons within the septal/diagonal band complex and nucleus basalis (NB) of Meynert. CBF …