Complement in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

Morgan, Bryan Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-7676 2018. Complement in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Seminars in Immunopathology 40 (1) , pp. 113-124. 10.1007/s00281-017-0662-9

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Abstract

The emergence of complement as an important player in normal brain development and pathological remodelling has come as a major surprise to most scientists working in neuroscience and almost all those working in complement. That a system, evolved to protect the host against infection, should have these unanticipated roles has forced a rethink about what complement might be doing in the brain in health and disease, where it is coming from, and whether we can, or indeed should, manipulate complement in the brain to improve function or restore homeostasis. Complement has been implicated in diverse neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases well reviewed elsewhere, from depression through epilepsy to demyelination and dementia, in most complement drives inflammation to exacerbate the disease. Here, I will focus on just one disease, the most common cause of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease. I will briefly review the current understanding of what complement does in the normal brain, noting, in particular, the many gaps in understanding, then describe how complement may influence the genesis and progression of pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, I will discuss the problems and pitfalls of therapeutic inhibition of complement in the Alzheimer brain.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Springer Verlag (Germany)
ISSN:	1863-2297
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 November 2017
Date of Acceptance:	13 November 2017
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 10:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/106949

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