HSD17B10 and Alzheimer disease: 17βHSD10 has also been known under the name of amyloid binding alcohol dehydrogenase (ABAD) because of its capacity to bind β-amyloid (Aβ; Lustbader et al., 2004; Yan et al., 2007), which is a key pathologic marker in AD (Querfurth and LaFerla, 2010).