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April 2013 25
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2013-04-23
Improving end-of-life care in nursing homes: implementation and evaluation of an intervention to sustain quality of care
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative medicine
Key finding: A lower level of nursing support managed to sustain and build on the initial outcomes. +1 more finding
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2013-04-23
Factors regulating microglia activation
49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Frontiers in cellular neuroscience
Key finding: However, it is especially important to create and maintain an intact tissue homeostasis to support the neuronal cells, which are very sensitive even to minor changes in their environment. +3 more findings
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2013-04-19
Neuroprotective effects of D-Ala(2)GIP on Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in an APP/PS1 mouse model
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Alzheimer's research & therapy
Key finding: The results demonstrate that D-Ala(2)GIP has neuroprotective properties on key hallmarks found in AD. +1 more finding
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2013-04-19
Nardilysin in human brain diseases: both friend and foe
32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Amino acids
Key finding: Nardilysin is a metalloprotease that cleaves peptides, such as dynorphin-A, α-neoendorphin, and glucagon, at the N-terminus of arginine and lysine residues in dibasic moieties. +4 more findings
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2013-04-18
Anle138b: a novel oligomer modulator for disease-modifying therapy of neurodegenerative diseases such as prion and Parkinson’s disease
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Acta Neuropathologica
Key finding: Our findings indicate that oligomer modulators provide a new approach for disease-modifying therapy in these diseases, for which only symptomatic treatment is available so far. +1 more finding
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2013-04-18
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Entropy
Key finding: Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
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2013-04-18
Impairment of proteostasis network in Down syndrome prior to the development of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology: redox proteomics analysis of human brain
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Biochimica et biophysica acta
Key finding: Growing studies demonstrated that increased oxidative damage, accumulation of unfolded/damaged protein aggregates and dysfunction of intracellular degradative system are key players in neurodegenerative processes. +4 more findings
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2013-04-18
Subscale validation of the neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire: comparison of Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative and national Alzheimer's coordinating center cohorts
46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Key finding: Neuropsychiatric symptoms are prevalent in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) and commonly measured using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). +3 more findings
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2013-04-18
A phenotypic change but not proliferation underlies glial responses in Alzheimer disease
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers The American journal of pathology
Key finding: We conclude that a phenotypic change of existing glial cells, rather than a marked proliferation of glial precursors, accounts for the majority of the glial responses observed in the AD brain.
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2013-04-17
Saxagliptin: a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor ameliorates streptozotocin induced Alzheimer's disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuropharmacology
Key finding: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the major risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). +1 more finding
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2013-04-17
Twenty-year changes in dementia occurrence suggest decreasing incidence in central Stockholm, Sweden
75/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Neurology
Key finding: This study is based on 2 cross-sectional surveys of people aged 75 years or over conducted in central Stockholm: the Kungsholmen Project (KP) (1987-1989, n = 1,700) and the Swedish National study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K) (2001-2004, n = 1,575). +3 more findings
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2013-04-17
Altered expression of diabetes-related genes in Alzheimer's disease brains: the Hisayama study
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
Key finding: The hippocampi of AD brains showed the most significant alteration in gene expression profile. +2 more findings
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2013-04-16
Metabolic networks underlying cognitive reserve in prodromal Alzheimer disease: a European Alzheimer disease consortium project
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Key finding: The clusters of significant depression and compensation were further used as volumetric regions of interest (ROIs) in a brain interregional correlation analysis in each prodromal AD subgroup to explore metabolic connectivity. +2 more findings
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2013-04-16
Clathrin adaptor CALM/PICALM is associated with neurofibrillary tangles and is cleaved in Alzheimer's brains
49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Acta neuropathologica
Key finding: We found that PICALM was abnormally cleaved in AD samples and that the level of the uncleaved 65-75 kDa full-length PICALM species was significantly decreased in AD brains. +3 more findings
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2013-04-12
Modeling disease progression via multi-task learning
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment NeuroImage
Key finding: Identifying biomarkers that can track the progress of the disease has recently received increasing attentions in AD research. +3 more findings
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2013-04-12
The effects of hypertension on the cerebral circulation
46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology
Key finding: Hypertensive artery remodeling results in reduction in the lumen diameter and an increase in the wall-to-lumen ratio in most cerebral arteries; this is linked to reduced blood flow postischemia and increased ischemic damage.
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2013-04-11
Vascular alterations in PDAPP mice after anti-Aβ immunotherapy: Implications for amyloid-related imaging abnormalities
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: These data suggest that vascular leakage events, such as microhemorrhage, may be related to the removal of vascular Aβ. +4 more findings
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2013-04-11
Caregivers' understanding of dementia predicts patients' comfort at death: a prospective observational study
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care BMC medicine
Key finding: Awareness of the terminal nature of dementia may improve patient comfort at the end of life. +1 more finding
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2013-04-11
Patient and Physician Adherence in Hypertension Management
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of Clinical Hypertension
Key finding: The authors observed that “Our findings showed that nurses provided chronic disease management that was acceptable, feasible and sustainable.” +4 more findings
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2013-04-10
Bapineuzumab and solanezumab for Alzheimer's disease: is the 'amyloid cascade hypothesis' still alive?
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Expert opinion on biological therapy
Key finding: Expert opinion Phase III trials showed that bapineuzumab failed to improve cognitive and functional performances in AD patients, and was associated with a high incidence of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA). +3 more findings
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2013-04-10
The case for soluble Aβ oligomers as a drug target in Alzheimer's disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Trends in pharmacological sciences
Key finding: Accumulating scientific data suggest that soluble Aβ oligomers represent the optimal intervention target within the amyloid manifold.
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2013-04-10
Qualitative evaluation of advanced care planning in early dementia (ACP-ED)
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care PloS one
Key finding: This qualitative evaluation of ACP in early dementia has encouragingly positive results which support the wider application of the intervention in memory services and community mental health teams. +1 more finding
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2013-04-10
Complement receptor 1 coding variant p.Ser1610Thr in Alzheimer's disease and related endophenotypes
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: A recent study, however, reported a rare CR1 coding variant p.Ser1610Thr (rs4844609) associated with AD susceptibility, explaining the effect of genome wide association (GWA) top single nucleotide polymorphism rs6656401. +3 more findings
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2013-04-10
Emerging roles for intersectin (ITSN) in regulating signaling and disease pathways
39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's International journal of molecular sciences
Key finding: Lower eukaryotes have only one ITSN gene, whereas higher eukaryotes have two ITSN genes. +4 more findings
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2013-04-10
Head-to-head comparison of 11C-PiB and 18F-AZD4694 (NAV4694) for β-amyloid imaging in aging and dementia
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Key finding: (18)F-AZD4694 showed reversible binding kinetics similar to (11)C-PiB, reaching an apparent steady state at 50 min after injection. +1 more finding
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