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Peter T. Nelson is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research expertise spans multiple fields with a strong focus on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The primary subfields in which they have published include Neurology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their work prominently addresses topics such as:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Loss of ferroportin induces memory impairment by promoting ferroptosis in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Neuropathological consensus criteria for the evaluation of Lewy pathology in post-mortem brains: a multi-centre study, 2021, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Prevalence and Clinical Phenotype of Quadruple Misfolded Proteins in Older Adults, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Brain arteriolosclerosis, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Dystrophic microglia are associated with neurodegenerative disease and not healthy aging in the human brain, 2021, Neurobiology of Aging

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Erin L. Abner, Yuriko Katsumata, Gregory A. Jicha, David W. Fardo, and Donna M. Wilcock, reflecting sustained scientific partnerships.

Publications by this researcher have appeared in venues frequently contributing to the fields of neuroscience and neurodegenerative disease research. Most prominent among these are:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Best Publications

  • National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer's disease

    Bradley T. Hyman;Creighton H. Phelps;Thomas G. Beach;Eileen H. Bigio

  • National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer’s Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer’s disease: a practical approach

    Thomas J. Montine;Creighton H. Phelps;Thomas G. Beach;Eileen H. Bigio

  • Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature

    Peter T Nelson;Irina Alafuzoff;Eileen H Bigio;Constantin Bouras

  • Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    John F. Crary;John Q. Trojanowski;Julie A. Schneider;Jose F. Abisambra

  • Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report.

    Peter T. Nelson;Dennis W. Dickson;John Q. Trojanowski;Clifford R. Jack

  • The Expression of MicroRNA miR-107 Decreases Early in Alzheimer's Disease and May Accelerate Disease Progression through Regulation of β-Site Amyloid Precursor Protein-Cleaving Enzyme 1

    Wang-Xia Wang;Bernard W. Rajeev;Arnold J. Stromberg;Na Ren

  • A combined computational-experimental approach predicts human microRNA targets

    Marianthi Kiriakidou;Peter T. Nelson;Andrei Kouranov;Petko Fitziev

  • Neuropathology and Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer Disease: A Complex but Coherent Relationship

    Peter T. Nelson;Heiko Braak;William R. Markesbery

  • Using mice to model Alzheimer's dementia: an overview of the clinical disease and the preclinical behavioral changes in 10 mouse models.

    Scott J Webster;Adam D Bachstetter;Peter T Nelson;Frederick A Schmitt

  • Microarray-based, high-throughput gene expression profiling of microRNAs

    Peter T Nelson;Don A Baldwin;L Marie Scearce;J Carl Oberholtzer

  • An mRNA m7G cap binding-like motif within human Ago2 represses translation.

    Marianthi Kiriakidou;Grace S. Tan;Styliani Lamprinaki;Mariangels De Planell-Saguer

  • Loss of ferroportin induces memory impairment by promoting ferroptosis in Alzheimer's disease.

    Wen Dai Bao;Pei Pang;Xiao Ting Zhou;Fan Hu

  • Neuropathological and Genetic Correlates of Survival and Dementia Onset in Synucleinopathies: A Retrospective Analysis

    David J Irwin;Murray Grossman;Daniel Weintraub;Daniel Weintraub;Howard I Hurtig

  • Analysis of 13 cell types reveals evidence for the expression of numerous novel primate- And tissue-specific microRNAs

    Eric Londina;Phillipe Lohera;Aristeidis G. Telonis;Kevin Quann

  • Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): harmonized evaluation strategy

    Gabor G. Kovacs;Isidro Ferrer;Lea T. Grinberg;Lea T. Grinberg;Irina Alafuzoff

  • The microRNA World: Small Is Mighty

    Peter Nelson;Marianthi Kiriakidou;Anup Sharma;Elsa Maniataki

  • Alzheimer’s disease is not “brain aging”: neuropathological, genetic, and epidemiological human studies

    Peter T. Nelson;Elizabeth Head;Frederick A. Schmitt;Paulina R. Davis

  • The miR-15/107 group of microRNA genes: evolutionary biology, cellular functions, and roles in human diseases.

    John R. Finnerty;John R. Finnerty;Wang-Xia Wang;Wang-Xia Wang;Sébastien S. Hébert;Sébastien S. Hébert;Bernard R. Wilfred;Bernard R. Wilfred

  • Energizing miRNA research: a review of the role of miRNAs in lipid metabolism, with a prediction that miR-103/107 regulates human metabolic pathways.

    Bernard R. Wilfred;Wang-Xia Wang;Peter T. Nelson

  • MicroRNAs (miRNAs) in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Peter T. Nelson;Wang-Xia Wang;Bernard W. Rajeev

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory A. Jicha
Gregory A. Jicha University of Kentucky
Frederick A. Schmitt
Frederick A. Schmitt University of Kentucky
Richard J. Kryscio
Richard J. Kryscio University of Kentucky
Linda J. Van Eldik
Linda J. Van Eldik University of Kentucky
Charles D. Smith
Charles D. Smith University of Kentucky
Walter A. Kukull
Walter A. Kukull University of Washington
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania
Julie A. Schneider
Julie A. Schneider Rush University Medical Center
Thomas J. Montine
Thomas J. Montine Stanford University
William R. Markesbery
William R. Markesbery University of Kentucky

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