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Research

27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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A note on reading research. One study is rarely the final word.

We try to note the size of a study, whether it was in humans or animals, and how early-stage the finding is. If a summary here doesn't make that clear, treat it with extra caution and check the original source.

Soluble TREM2 levels reflect the recruitment and expansion of TREM2+ macrophages that localize to fibrotic areas and limit NASH

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of hepatology 2022-06-21

& aims Previous single-cell RNA-sequencing analyses have shown that Trem2-expressing macrophages are present in the liver during obesity, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Trem2 promotes anti-inflammatory responses in microglia and is suppressed under pro-inflammatory conditions

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2020-11-01

Genome-wide association studies have reported that, amongst other microglial genes, variants in TREM2 can profoundly increase the incidence of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2 in the pathogenesis of AD: a lipid metabolism regulator and potential metabolic therapeutic target

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-06-03

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a single-pass transmembrane immune receptor that is mainly expressed on microglia in the brain and macrophages in the periphery. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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A Subset of TREM2+ Dermal Macrophages Secretes Oncostatin M to Maintain Hair Follicle Stem Cell Quiescence and Inhibit Hair Growth

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cell stem cell 2019-03-28

Hair growth can be induced from resting mouse hair follicles by topical application of JAK inhibitors, suggesting that JAK-STAT signaling is required for maintaining hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) in a quiescent state. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2 receptor protects against complement-mediated synaptic loss by binding to complement C1q during neurodegeneration

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Immunity 2023-07-12

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is strongly linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, but its functions are not fully understood. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Therapeutic Trem2 activation ameliorates amyloid-beta deposition and improves cognition in the 5XFAD model of amyloid deposition

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2020-08-14

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell-2 (TREM2) is a lipid and lipoprotein binding receptor expressed by cells of myeloid origin. 4 key findings →

Evidence: high

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Viral gene transfer of APPsα rescues synaptic failure in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-11-04

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by synaptic failure, dendritic and axonal atrophy, neuronal death and progressive loss of cognitive functions. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Phospholipids of APOE lipoproteins activate microglia in an isoform-specific manner in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-07

APOE and Trem2 are major genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how they affect microglia response to Aβ remains unclear. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2 inhibition triggers antitumor cell activity of myeloid cells in glioblastoma

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Science advances 2023-05-12

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) plays important roles in brain microglial function in neurodegenerative diseases, but the role of TREM2 in the GBM TME has not been examined. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Opposite microglial activation stages upon loss of PGRN or TREM2 result in reduced cerebral glucose metabolism

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2019-06-01

Microglia adopt numerous fates with homeostatic microglia (HM) and a microglial neurodegenerative phenotype (MGnD) representing two opposite ends. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Deficiency of TYROBP, an adapter protein for TREM2 and CR3 receptors, is neuroprotective in a mouse model of early Alzheimer's pathology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2017-06-13

Conventional genetic approaches and computational strategies have converged on immune-inflammatory pathways as key events in the pathogenesis of late onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Loss of TREM2 rescues hyperactivation of microglia, but not lysosomal deficits and neurotoxicity in models of progranulin deficiency

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2022-01-12

Haploinsufficiency of the progranulin (PGRN)-encoding gene (GRN) causes frontotemporal lobar degeneration (GRN-FTLD) and results in microglial hyperactivation, TREM2 activation, lysosomal dysfunction, and TDP-43 deposition. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Homozygous TREM2 mutation in a family with atypical frontotemporal dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-04-18

TREM2 mutations were first identified in Nasu-Hakola disease, a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent fractures because of bone cysts and presenile dementia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Wild-type sTREM2 blocks Aβ aggregation and neurotoxicity, but the Alzheimer's R47H mutant increases Aβ aggregation

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2021-01-01

TREM2 is a pattern recognition receptor, expressed on microglia and myeloid cells, detecting lipids and Aβ and inducing an innate immune response. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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CSF concentrations of soluble TREM2 as a marker of microglial activation in HIV-1 infection

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2018-11-07

CSF sTREM2 increased with systemic and CNS HIV-1 disease severity, with the highest levels found in patients with HIV-associated dementia (HAD). 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

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From across this tag

10 of the 3,521 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.

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Where “Free full text” comes from

Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read

How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped

This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.

  • Journal tier up to 10 pts
  • Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
  • Study design up to 12 pts
  • Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
  • Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
  • How recent up to 5 pts
  • Sample size up to 4 pts
  • Effect reported up to 3 pts
  • Studied in people up to 3 pts
  • Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
  • Times cited up to 7 pts
  • Citations per year up to 5 pts
  • Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
  • Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
  • Still being cited up to 4 pts
  • Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
  • Institution's track record up to 3 pts
  • Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
  • Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
  • Free to read up to 2 pts

Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.

Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.

We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.

The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.

See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 27,380 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.

What this library is — and isn't

This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.

1,032 records (3.8% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.

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