| Literature DB >> 24529419 |
Elizabeth Guerrero-Berroa1, James Schmeidler2, Michal Schnaider Beeri3.
Abstract
Postmortem studies have shown that cerebrovascular disease (CVD) neuropathology occurs frequently in type 2 diabetes (T2D) through mechanisms associated with chronic hyperglycemia such as advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). The involvement of T2D in Alzheimer׳s disease (AD)-type neuropathology has been more controversial. While postmortem data from animal studies have supported the involvement of T2D in AD-type neuropathology through insulin mechanism that may affect the development of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), findings from postmortem studies in humans, of the association of T2D with AD, have been mainly negative. To complicate matters, medications to treat T2D have been implicated in reduced AD-type neuropathology. In this review we summarize the literature on animal and human postmortem studies of T2D neuropathology, mainly the mechanisms involved in hyperglycemia-related CVD neuropathology and hyperinsulinemia-related AD-type neuropathology.Entities:
Keywords: Alzheimer׳s disease; Cerebrovascular disease; Neuropathology; Review; Type 2 diabetes
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24529419 PMCID: PMC4116474 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2014.01.019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Neuropsychopharmacol ISSN: 0924-977X Impact factor: 4.600