Common features of neurodegenerative disease: exploring the brain-eye connection and beyond (part 2): the 2021 pre-symposium of the 15th international conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Sharyn L. Rossi, BrightFocus Foundation; Preeti Subramanian, BrightFocus Foundation; Guojin Bu, Mayo Clinic; Adriana Di Polo, University of Montreal; Todd Golde, Emory University; Diane E. Bovenkamp, BrightFocus Foundation
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-11-01
• Publisher: BMC
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2022
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13024-022-00571-7
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: MOLECULAR NEURODEGENERATION
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 69
• End Page: 69
• Grant/Funding Information: Thank you to the donors of BrightFocus Foundation for helping to fund the Common Features of Neurodegenerative Diseases: Exploring the Eye-Brain Connection and Beyond meeting, which may lead to innovative discoveries and solutions towards preventions, treatments and cures for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, glaucoma and macular degeneration.
• Keywords: Axon; Vascular contributions; Retinal ganglion cells (RGC); Science & Technology; Thrombosis; Intraocular pressure; Neurovascular unit; Imaging; Ischemic; Neurodegeneration; Endothelial cells; Hippocampal atrophy; Neurosciences; Electrophysiology; Blood retina barrier (BRB); Genetic; Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias; Vasodilation; Skeletal cells; Age-related macular degeneration (AMD); Aging; Glaucoma; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA); Astrocytes; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Biomarker; Maintenance; Microglia; Inflammation; Stroke; Neurosciences & Neurology; Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID); Inter-pericyte tunneling nanotubes (IP-TNT); Pericytes; Blood brain barrier (BBB); Vasoconstriction; Cellular senescence
• Research Categories: Biology, Cell; Gerontology; Biology, Neuroscience

Abstract

BrightFocus Foundation sponsored the third iteration of the “Common Features of Neurodegenerative Disease: Exploring the Brain-Eye Connection and Beyond” pre-conference symposium that preceded the 15th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases (AD/PD 2021). Part 1 of the meeting report was previously published in Molecular Neurodegeneration. This completes the description of the meeting with Part 2. Session III, “Why are the vascular components and blood-brain/blood-retina barriers of the brain and eye important contributors to the tipping point between health and disease?” was chaired by Dr. Adriana Di Polo.