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Showing 1–20 of 20 studies in Inflammation and the immune system scoring ≤ 29 out of 100 · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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What “Inflammation and the immune system” covers

Inflammation and the immune system — The brain's immune cells and inflammatory signals, and their role in how Alzheimer's starts and progresses.

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.

Precision nutrition is a tailored dietary approach that considers an individual’s genetic and metabolic profile, lifestyle factors, and specific nutritional needs to improve health and potentially modify disease progression. 5 key findings →

Design: narrative review Evidence: low

This study aims to comprehensively review the role of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) as a marker of astrocyte activation in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

Previous studies have shown that preeclampsia increases the risk of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, as well as cognitive impairments, up to evolving dementia in the future. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia globally and is marked by amyloid-β plaque accumulation, decreased brain pH, disrupted metabolism, and increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

High-content imaging of live microglia-containing Alzheimer’s disease brain organoids

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-27

This method establishes a platform for high-throughput longitudinal drug screening in immunocompetent human COs that will enable the identification of new therapeutic candidates to modulate Aβ aggregation, glial reactivity, and neurodegeneration. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

Beyond reduced alpha power: a weaker temporal link between alpha and other brain rhythms in Alzheimer’s disease

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-26

At the group level, the resting alpha abnormality in AD comprises two partly nonredundant dimensions: reduced expression and a weaker temporal link between alpha and subsequent multi-rhythm activity. 1 key finding →

Participants: 36 Evidence: low

Pantethine and Neurodegeneration: A Coenzyme A-Centered Framework Linking Metabolism, Neuroinflammation, and Mitochondrial Dysfunction

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-23

Neurodegenerative diseases are a growing global health burden associated with aging and characterized by progressive neuronal dysfunction, metabolic failure, mitochondrial impairment, oxidative stress, and chronic neuroinflammation. 1 key finding →

Design: narrative review Evidence: low

Maternal microbiome-dependent programming of neuroimmune and metabolic pathways during early development may critically shape sex-specific susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) later in life. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

GPR6 Protects Medial Entorhinal Cortex in 5×FAD Mice from Early Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by progressive memory decline, with the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) representing an early vulnerable hub for spatial cognition. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Stimulating microglial neuroinflammation with amyloid-beta oligomers compatible with solid-state NMR structural characterization

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-20

Soluble amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers are considered the primary neurotoxic species in Alzheimer’s disease, yet the relationship between oligomer structure and biological activity remains poorly understood. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, in which epitranscriptomic modifications, especially RNA methylation, may exert crucial regulatory effects. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

We define an astrocyte–microglia axis in which astrocytic sEH limits EET availability and thereby sustains microglial STING signaling. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Protective or Pathogenic? Microglial Responses at the Intersection of Amyloid-β, Tau, and Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-20

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation, pathological tau aggregation, and neuronal loss. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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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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