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Firoz Akhter

Stony Brook UniversityORCID 0000-0002-8836-601XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewedNov 17, 2025

Amyloid Beta Glycation Induces Neuronal Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Alzheimers Pathogenesis via VDAC1-Dependent mtDNA Efflux

Firoz Akhter, Asma Akhter, Xiongwei Zhu…·Donghui Zhu

This paper shows that glycated amyloid-beta causes mitochondrial dysfunction and Alzheimer's pathology by triggering the cGAS-STING pathway via VDAC1-dependent mtDNA release.

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