Targeting pathological tau protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies has shown great potential in animal models. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Research
27,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
A variety of human diseases are suspected to be directly linked to protein misfolding. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Using an in vitro translation assay to screen a human brain cDNA library, we isolated the microtubule-associated protein Tau and determined it to be a caspase-3 substrate whose C-terminal cleavage occurred during neuronal apoptosis. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Recent data indicate that Tau immunotherapy may be relevant for interfering with neurofibrillary degeneration in Alzheimer disease and related disorders referred to as Tauopathies. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The major constituent of the paired helical filaments (PHFs) of Alzheimer's disease is the abnormally phosphorylated form of the microtubule-associated protein, tau. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Neurodegenerative disease is one of the greatest health crises in the world and as life expectancy rises, the number of people affected will continue to increase. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The localisation of 14-3-3 proteins compared to that of tau and ubiquitin-protein conjugates in sections of hippocampus from Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains was examined by immunohistochemistry. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Oxidative and nitrative injury is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS), but no direct evidence links this type of injury to the formation of neurofibrillary tau lesions. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Hyperphosphorylated tau protein is the major constituent of the paired helical filament (PHF), the major fibrous component of the neurofibrillary lesions of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Microtubule-associated protein tau in a hyperphosphorylated state is the major component of the filamentous lesions that define a number of neurodegenerative diseases commonly referred to as tauopathies. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In addition to the deposition of tau oligomers, our results also provide compelling evidence of co-occurrence of α-synuclein and tau into their most toxic forms, i.e., oligomers suggesting that these species interact and influence each other's aggregation via an interface in synucleinopathies. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the most frequent progressive neuropsychiatric disorder worldwide leading to dementia. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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To investigate the extent to which whole tau proteins, structurally abnormal tau and fragments of tau are incorporated into neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease, an immunocytochemical mapping study using a panel of antibodies to several synthetic human tau peptides has been performed. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the pathological accumulation of tau appears to be a downstream effect of amyloid β protein (Aβ). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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A monoclonal antibody (AP422) specific for phosphoserine 422 in microtubule-associated protein tau has been produced. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The spread of tau pathology correlates with cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Ten monoclonal antibodies raised against Alzheimer's neurofibrillary tangles (ANTs) were characterized for reactivity with heat-stable microtubule fractions from bovine and human brain. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Antisera were raised in rabbits to purified bovine tau and to isolated Alzheimer paired helical filaments (PHF) washed with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Post-mortem diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease relies on high numbers of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) stained in distinct brain areas. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by accumulation of Tau amyloids, and include Alzheimer disease and certain frontotemporal dementias. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Neurofibrillary tangles are a characteristic hallmark of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Pick's disease (PiD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The tau-immunoreactive A68 polypeptides found in brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease have been studied by Western blotting using (1) antibodies to synthetic peptides corresponding to sequences that span the complete human tau molecule, and (2) antibodies specific for inserts 1 and 2 found towards the N-terminus of some tau isoforms. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) and Tau in the brain. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Microtubule-associated protein tau was characterized in 5 Alzheimer and 5 control brains using two monoclonal antibodies, Alz 50 and Tau-1. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Microtubule-associated protein tau in a hyperphosphorylated state is the major component of the filamentous lesions that define a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, Pick's disease, argyrophilic grain disease and frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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From across this tag
10 of the 388 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.
- Tau PET imaging in neurodegenerative tauopathies-still a challenge
- Lithium reduces tau phosphorylation but not A beta or working memory deficits in a transgenic model with both plaques and tangles
- The neuroprotection of liraglutide on Alzheimer-like learning and memory impairment by modulating the hyperphosphorylation of tau and neurofilament proteins and insulin signaling pathways in mice
- Structural Insights and Biological Effects of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3-specific Inhibitor AR-A014418
- Amyloid-Beta and Phosphorylated Tau Accumulations Cause Abnormalities at Synapses of Alzheimer's disease Neurons
- In silico design and physicochemical characterisation of a dual-action intranasal nanoparticle formulation for Alzheimer’s disease
- Current Status of Clinical Trials on Tau Immunotherapies
- Tau blocks traffic of organelles, neurofilaments, and APP vesicles in neurons and enhances oxidative stress
- Idebenone treatment in Friedreich patients: One-year-long randomized placebo-controlled trial
- TFEB regulates lysosomal exocytosis of tau and its loss of function exacerbates tau pathology and spreading
Where “Free full text” comes from
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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.
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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 27,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.1% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.3%), 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.
1,034 records (3.7% 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.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →