Lissa Ventura-Antunes, Alex Nackenoff, Wilber Romero-Fernandez, Allison M Bosworth, Alex Prusky, Emmeline Wang, Cristian Carvajal-Tapia, Alena Shostak, Hannah Harmsen, Bret Mobley, Jose Maldonado, Elena Solopova, J Caleb Snider, W David Merryman, Ethan S Lippmann, Matthew Schrag
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a vasculopathy characterized by vascular β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition on cerebral blood vessels. CAA is closely linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and intracerebral hemorrhage. CAA is associated with the loss of autoregulation in the brain, vascular rupture, and cognitive decline. To assess morphological and molecular changes associated with the degeneration of penetrating arterioles in CAA, we analyzed post-mortem human brain tissue from 26 patients with mild, moderate, and severe CAA end neurological controls...
April 17, 2024: bioRxiv