CERT1 and Alzheimer disease: Crivelli et al. recently revealed that genetically modified enhancement of CERTL expression in the brain in a familial Alzheimer’s disease model in mice reduces the amyloid-β level, accompanied by a decreasing ceramide level concomitant with increasing sphingomyelin level in the brain; they also found that administration of HPA-12 to the model mice for 4 weeks exacerbated the ceramide level and amyloid-β pathology [65].