Featured Publications

1.                   Dugan AJ, Nelson PT, Katsumata Y, Shade LMP, Boehme KL, Teylan MA, Cykowski MD, Mukherjee S, Kauwe JSK, Hohman TJ, Schneider JA; Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, Fardo DW. Analysis of genes (TMEM106B, GRN, ABCC9, KCNMB2, and APOE) implicated in risk for LATE-NC and hippocampal sclerosis provides pathogenetic insights: a retrospective genetic association study. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2021 Sep 15;9(1):152. doi: 10.1186/s40478-021-01250-2. PMID: 34526147

2.                   Wu X, Peng C, Nelson PT, Cheng Q. Random forest-integrated analysis in AD and LATE brain transcriptome-wide data to identify disease-specific gene expression. PLoS One. 2021 Sep 7;16(9):e0256648. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256648. PMID: 34492068

3.                    Nelson PT*. LATE Neuropathologic Changes with Little or No Alzheimer Disease is Common and is Associated with Cognitive Impairment but Not Frontotemporal Dementia. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2021 Aug 11;80(7):649-651. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlab050. PMID: 34270750

4.                   Niedowicz DM, Wang WX, Price DA, Nelson PT. Modulating Thyroid Hormone Levels in Adult Mice: Impact on Behavior and Compensatory Brain Changes. J Thyroid Res. 2021 Jun 24;2021:9960188. doi: 10.1155/2021/9960188. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34257897

5.                    Nelson PT*. What to do with unusual TDP-43 proteinopathy cases? Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2021 Jun 23. doi: 10.1111/nan.12745. PMID: 34164840

6.                   Karanth SD, Schmitt FA, Nelson PT, Katsumata Y, Kryscio RJ, Fardo DW, Harp JP, Abner EL. Four Common Late-Life Cognitive Trajectories Patterns Associate with Replicable Underlying Neuropathologies. J Alzheimers Dis. 2021 May 28. doi: 10.3233/JAD-210293. PMID: 34057090

7.                   Heindl S, Ricci A, Carofiglio O, Zhou Q, Arzberger T, Lenart N, Franzmeier N, Hortobagyi T, Nelson PT, Stowe AM, Denes A, Edbauer D, Liesz A. Chronic T cell proliferation in brains after stroke could interfere with the efficacy of immunotherapies. J Exp Med. 2021 Aug 2;218(8):e20202411. doi: 10.1084/jem.20202411. PMID: 34037669

8.                Bachstetter AD, Garrett FG, Jicha GA, Nelson PT. Space-occupying brain lesions, trauma-related tau astrogliopathy, and ARTAG: a report of two cases and a literature review. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2021 Mar 23;9(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s40478-021-01152-3. PMID: 33757579

9.                Kelly SC, Nelson PT, Counts SE. Pontine Arteriolosclerosis and Locus Coeruleus Oxidative Stress Differentiate Resilience from Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Clinical Pathologic Cohort. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2021 Mar 22;80(4):325-335. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlab017. PMID: 33709107

10.            Ly H, Verma N, Sharma S, Kotiya D, Despa S, Abner EL, Nelson PT, Jicha GA, Wilcock DM, Goldstein LB, Guerreiro R, Brás J, Hanson AJ, Craft S, Murray AJ, Biessels GJ, Troakes C, Zetterberg H, Hardy J, Lashley T, Aesg, Despa F. The association of circulating amylin with β-amyloid in familial Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2021 Jan 20;7(1):e12130. doi: 10.1002/trc2.12130 PMID: 33521236

11.            Shahidehpour RK, Higdon RE, Crawford NG, Neltner JH, Ighodaro ET, Patel E, Price D, Nelson PT, Bachstetter AD. Dystrophic microglia are associated with neurodegenerative disease and not healthy aging in the human brain. Neurobiol Aging. 2021 Jan 6;99:19-27. doi: 0.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.12.003. PMID: 33422891

12.            Attems J, Toledo JB, Walker L, Gelpi E, Gentleman S, Halliday G, Hortobagyi T, Jellinger K, Kovacs GG, Lee EB, Love S, McAleese KE, Nelson PT, Neumann M, Parkkinen L, Polvikoski T, Sikorska B, Smith C, Grinberg LT, Thal DR, Trojanowski JQ, McKeith IG.Acta Neuropathol. Neuropathological consensus criteria for the evaluation of Lewy pathology in post-mortem brains: a multi-centre study. 2021 Jan 5. doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02255-2. PMID: 33399945

13.            Bao WD, Pang P, Zhou XT, Hu F, Xiong W, Chen K, Wang J, Wang F, Xie D, Hu YZ, Han ZT, Zhang HH, Wang WX, Nelson PT, Chen JG, Lu Y, Man HY, Liu D, Zhu LQ. Loss of ferroportin induces memory impairment by promoting ferroptosis in Alzheimer’s disease. Cell Death Differ. 2021 Jan 4. doi: 10.1038/s41418-020-00685-9. PMID: 33398092

14.            Walker JM, Richardson TE, Farrell K, Iida MA, Foong C, Shang P, Attems J, Ayalon G, Beach TG, Bigio EH, Budson A, Cairns NJ, Corrada M, Cortes E, Dickson DW, Fischer P, Flanagan ME, Franklin E, Gearing M, Glass J, Hansen LA, Haroutunian V, Hof PR, Honig L, Kawas C, Keene CD, Kofler J, Kovacs GG, Lee EB, Lutz MI, Mao Q, Masliah E, McKee AC, McMillan CT, Mesulam MM, Murray M, Nelson PT, Perrin R, Pham T, Poon W, Purohit DP, Rissman RA, Sakai K, Sano M, Schneider JA, Stein TD, Teich AF, Trojanowski JQ, Troncoso JC, Vonsattel JP, Weintraub S, Wolk DA, Woltjer RL, Yamada M, Yu L, White CL, Crary JF. Early Selective Vulnerability of the CA2 Hippocampal Subfield in Primary Age-Related Tauopathy.  J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2021 Jan 20;80(2):102-111. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlaa153.PMID: 33367843

15.            Blevins BL, Vinters HV, Love S, Wilcock DM, Grinberg LT, Schneider JA, Kalaria RN, Katsumata Y, Gold BT, Wang DJJ, Ma SJ, Shade LMP, Fardo DW, Hartz AMS, Jicha GA, Nelson KB, Magaki SD, Schmitt FA, Teylan MA, Ighodaro ET, Phe P, Abner EL, Cykowski MD, Van Eldik LJ, Nelson PT*. Brain arteriolosclerosis. Acta Neuropathol. 2021 Jan;141(1):1-24. doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02235-6. PMID: 33098484

16.            Robinson JL, Porta S, Garrett FG, Zhang P, Xie SX, Suh E, Van Deerlin VM, Abner EL, Jicha GA, Barber JM, Lee VM, Lee EB, Trojanowski JQ, Nelson PT*. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy differs from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Brain. 2020 Sep 1;143(9):2844-2857. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa219. PMID: 32830216

17.             Katsumata Y, Abner EL, Karanth S, Teylan MA, Mock CN, Cykowski MD, Lee EB, Boehme KL, Mukherjee S, Kauwe JSK, Kryscio RJ, Schmitt FA, Fardo DW, Nelson PT*. Distinct clinicopathologic clusters of persons with TDP-43 proteinopathy. Acta Neuropathol. 2020 Nov;140(5):659-674. doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02211-0. Epub 2020 Aug 14. PMID: 32797255 Free PMC article.

18.            Nelson BG, Patel E, Arth D, Nelson PT. Embedding Brain Tissue for Routine Histopathology: A Processing Step Worthy of Consideration in the Digital Pathology Era. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2020 Nov/Dec;28(10):791-793. doi: 10.1097/PAI.0000000000000832. PMID: 32773433

19.            Smith CD, Van Eldik LJ, Jicha GA, Schmitt FA, Nelson PT, Abner EL, Kryscio RJ, Murphy RR, Andersen AH. Brain structure changes over time in normal and mildly impaired aged persons. AIMS Neurosci. 2020 May 20;7(2):120-135. doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2020009. PMID: 32607416

20.            Karanth S, Nelson PT, Katsumata Y, Kryscio RJ, Schmitt FA, Fardo DW, Cykowski MD, Jicha GA, Van Eldik LJ, Abner EL. Prevalence and Clinical Phenotype of Quadruple Misfolded Proteins in Older Adults. JAMA Neurol. 2020 Jun 22:e201741. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.1741. PMID: 32568358

21.            Schindler SE, Jicha GA, Nelson PT, Keene CD, Blennow K, Molinuevo JL, Masters CL, Hansson O, Teunissen CE, Galasko D, Shaw LM, Levey AI, Silverberg N. Maximizing Safety in the Conduct of Alzheimer’s Disease Fluid Biomarker Research in the Era of COVID-19. J Alzheimers Dis. 2020;76(1):27-31. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200684. PMID: 32568212

22.            Prajapati P, Wang WX, Nelson PT, Springer JE. Methodology for Subcellular Fractionation and MicroRNA Examination of Mitochondria, Mitochondria Associated ER Membrane (MAM), ER, and Cytosol from Human Brain. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2063:139-154. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0138-9_11. PubMed PMID: 31667768.

23.             Nelson PT*, Fardo DW, Katsumata Y. The MUC6/AP2A2 Locus and Its Relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2020 Jun 1;79(6):568-584. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlaa024. PMID: 32357373

24.            Mock C, Teylan M, Beecham G, Besser L, Cairns NJ, Crary JF, Katsumata Y, Nelson PT, Kukull W. The Utility of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center’s Database for the Rapid Assessment of Evolving Neuropathologic Conditions. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2020 Apr-Jun;34(2):105-111. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000380.  PMID: 32304374

25.            Winder Z, Sudduth TL, Fardo D, Cheng Q, Goldstein LB, Nelson PT, Schmitt FA, Jicha GA, Wilcock DM. Hierarchical Clustering Analyses of Plasma Proteins in Subjects With Cardiovascular Risk Factors Identify Informative Subsets Based on Differential Levels of Angiogenic and Inflammatory Biomarkers. Front Neurosci. 2020 Feb 6;14:84. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00084. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32116527 Free PMC article.

26.            Katsumata Y, Fardo DW, Bachstetter AD, Artiushin SC, Wang WX, Wei A, Brzezinski LJ, Nelson BG, Huang Q, Abner EL, Anderson S, Patel I, Shaw BC, Price DA, Niedowicz DM, Wilcock DW, Jicha GA, Neltner JH, Van Eldik LJ, Estus S, Nelson PT. Alzheimer Disease Pathology-Associated Polymorphism in a Complex Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Region Within the MUC6 Gene, Near the AP2A2 Gene. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2020 Jan 1;79(1):3-21. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlz116. PubMed PMID: 31748784.

27.            Besser LM, Teylan MA, Nelson PT. Limbic Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE): Clinical and Neuropathological Associations. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2019 Nov 28;. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlz126. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31845964.

28.             Nelson PT, Dickson DW, Trojanowski JQ, Jack CR, Boyle PA, Arfanakis K, Rademakers R, Alafuzoff I, Attems J, Brayne C, Coyle-Gilchrist ITS, Chui HC, Fardo DW, Flanagan ME, Halliday G, Hokkanen SRK, Hunter S, Jicha GA, Katsumata Y, Kawas CH, Keene CD, Kovacs GG, Kukull WA, Levey AI, Makkinejad N, Montine TJ, Murayama S, Murray ME, Nag S, Rissman RA, Seeley WW, Sperling RA, White Iii CL, Yu L, Schneider JA. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report. Brain. 2019 Apr 30. pii: awz099. doi: 10.1093/brain/awz099.

29.            Abner EL, Nelson PT, Jicha GA, Cooper GE, Fardo DW, Schmitt FA, Kryscio RJ. Tobacco Smoking and Dementia in a Kentucky Cohort: A Competing Risk Analysis. J Alzheimers Dis. 2019;68(2):625-633. doi: 10.3233/JAD-181119.

30.            Chornenkyy Y, Fardo DW, Nelson PT. Tau and TDP-43 proteinopathies: kindred pathologic cascades and genetic pleiotropy. Lab Invest. 2019 Feb 11. doi: 10.1038/s41374-019-0196-y. [Epub ahead of print] Review.

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