Unraveling the Paradox of Statins with Human Neurons: New Leads in Alzheimer's Disease.

Blanchard, Joel W; Tsai, Li-Huei · Cell Stem Cell · 2019

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Abstract

Conflicting clinical studies have reported that statins both reduce and accelerate cognitive impairments in Alzheimer's disease. In this issue, Van der Kant et al. (2019) use iPSC-derived neurons to thoroughly dissect the link between cholesterol synthesis, phospho-Tau, and amyloid-β, revealing new therapeutic opportunities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

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