Effects of chaducanumab‐mediated plaque removal on amyloid‐tau synergy

Lindsay A Welikovitch, Anastasie Mate de Gerando, Anita Khasnavis, Harshil Bhavsar, Jonah C Meltzer, Luc Buee, Thierry Bussière, Bradley T. T Hyman · 2025

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Lindsay Welikovitch and co-authors test in 2025 whether clearing amyloid plaques from the brain also slows the tau tangles of Alzheimer disease. Drug antibodies clear plaques well in patients, but most animal tests modeled amyloid alone. Their mice carried both plaque and tangle traits, which mirrors patients more closely.

After three months of weekly antibody doses, treated mice had far fewer plaques in two brain regions. Yet tangle counts did not budge in any region, even though amyloid is known to speed tangle growth in this strain. The result suggests plaque clearing alone may not stop the tau side of the disease once it is under way.

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CREATORLindsay A Welikovitch, Anastasie Mate de Gerando, Anita Khasnavis, Harshil Bhavsar, Jonah C Meltzer, Luc Buee, Thierry Bussière, Bradley T. T Hyman
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
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VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11710244

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