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  1. Serpin A3 is Increased in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and ARIA 2026-10-24
  2. Endothelial CD36 links arteriolar remodeling to metabolic and immune alterations in Alzheimer’s disease 2026-10-14
  3. Location-specific Longitudinal Patterns of Subcortical and Lobar Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease 2026-10-13

Studies

229 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 13
  • International journal of molecular sciences 11
  • bioRxiv 11
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 10
  • Molecular neurodegeneration 7

123 journals in all.

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  1. Serpin A3 is Increased in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and ARIA

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-24 Genetics

    Vascular pathology is an important contributor to dementia, and astrocyte dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a key mediator of cerebrovascular injury.

  2. Endothelial CD36 links arteriolar remodeling to metabolic and immune alterations in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-14 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is accompanied by profound cerebrovascular dysfunction, yet it remains unclear whether endothelial abnormalities reflect only vascular injury or altered regulatory states connecting vascular remodeling with metabolic and immune function.

  3. Location-specific Longitudinal Patterns of Subcortical and Lobar Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-13 Genetics

    Emerging evidence and expert opinion suggest that subcortical microhaemorrhages may be less closely related to cerebral amyloidosis than lobar lesions and may therefore warrant separate consideration in anti-amyloid treatment eligibility criteria.

  4. Oligodendrocyte stress response as a driver of vascular dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-13 Risk factors

    Vascular dementia (VaD) is a prevalent and devastating neurocognitive disorder characterized by profound white matter damage, yet the precise cellular mechanisms linking cerebrovascular stress to demyelination remain poorly understood.

  5. Disease stage-sensitive MFSD2A-caveolae axis insigates hippocampal blood–brain barrier disruption in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-08 Vascular contributions

    Blood-brain barrier (BBB) malfunction contributes to pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet the mechanisms that confer hippocampal endotheliocytes vulnerability remain unclear.

  6. Brain-wide Cerebrospinal Fluid Recirculation Collapse in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-04 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow and the glymphatic system are essential for maintaining brain homeostasis, yet the precise mechanisms driving their profound failure in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain largely elusive.

  7. The Alzheimer’s Disease-associated gene CD2AP regulates permeability of endothelial cells and transendothelial migration of immune cells

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-02 Vascular contributions

    Variants at the CD2AP locus, which encodes a branched-actin regulator, are associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and CD2AP-deficient mice show increased blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability.

  8. Neurodegeneration-inducing macromolecules exit the brain via nanovascular conduits formed by reticular fibroblasts

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-27 Vascular contributions

    Accumulation of proteins such as amyloid β (Aβ), hyperphosphorylated tau and α-synuclein within the brain alters neural information processing and causes neurodegeneration 1–3 , but how toxic solutes are cleared from the brain remains highly controversial 4,5 .

  9. Reducing Neutrophil Sialic Acid Residues Alleviates Cerebral Hypoperfusion in Alzheimer’s Models

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-24 Vascular contributions

    Elevated terminal sialylation of neutrophil glycoproteins contributes to capillary stalling and cerebral hypoperfusion in AD.

  10. Underlying histopathology features of white matter hyperintensities in vascular and neurodegenerative disorders: a systematic review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-20 Lewy body dementia

    White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are a hallmark of cerebral small vessel disease, commonly seen in cognitively normal older adults and patients with neurodegenerative disorders, and are thought to reflect varying degrees of tissue damage.

  11. High frame rate in vivo two-photon microscopy to quantify murine cerebrospinal fluid flow heterogeneity

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-11 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through perivascular spaces (PVSs) surrounding brain vasculature, and impaired flow has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. However, the mechanisms driving CSF flow and its oscillatory dynamics remain poorly understood.

  12. Subacute and Chronic Cognitive and Cerebrovascular Functional Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-27 Prevention trials

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the main cause of death and disability in the United States in people younger than 35 years old and is a common cause of wartime injuries.

  13. Cobalt-Based Drug Delivery to the Brain using Rapid Short-Pulses of Focused Ultrasound and Microbubbles reduces Aβ aggregation in 5XFAD mice

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-24 Treatments

    A major obstacle to effective Alzheimer’s disease therapy is the limited ability to deliver therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier.

  14. Brain endothelial Gαq/11 signalling in cerebrovascular function and cognition of aged mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2026-05-18 Vascular contributions

    The brain endothelial Gαq/11 signalling pathway preserves normal vascular reactivity, and its loss resembles mild endothelial dysfunction in the brain.

  15. Plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in intracranial atherosclerotic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain communications 2026-04-07 Biomarkers

    In multivariable analyses, none of the plasma biomarkers were significantly associated with cognitive impairment.

  16. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in Alzheimer's disease: from pathophysiology to individualized risk assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-03-28 Treatments

    Monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid-β are the first approved disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

  17. Early Binding of Anti-Amyloid Antibodies to CAA Drives Complement Activation, Inflammation and ARIA in Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2026-03-07 Treatments

    Anti-amyloid antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is linked to Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA), including vasogenic edema (ARIA-E) and microhemorrhages (ARIA-H), especially in ApoE ε4/4 carriers.

  18. Intravenous anti-Aβ immunotherapy acutely increases cerebral amyloid angiopathy and vascular damages in APOE4 mice

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-02-11 Treatments

    Anti-Aβ immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) have high rates of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA), an adverse side effect with markedly higher rates in APOE4 carriers.

  19. Vasomechanic treatment increases efflux of human brain proteins

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-01-23 Biomarkers

    An age-related decline in vasodilation mediated by neurovascular nitric oxide (NO) and vasoconstriction driven by the Piezo1 receptor precede the aggregation of soluble brain proteins such as amyloid-β (Aβ), which then causes further disruption of brain solute homeostasis, ultimately leading to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease.

  20. Distinct cerebrovascular pathways underlying Alzheimer's disease-related neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2025-12-11 Vascular contributions

    The etiology of cerebrovascular pathology is heterogeneous.

  21. Polygenic risk score predicts pathologically confirmed cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Treatments

    CAA-PRS was significantly associated with pathological CAA (OR = 1.766, p < 0.001), with an AUC of 0.783 overall and 0.766 (OR = 1.780, p = 0.002) in those with high amyloid burden.

  22. Reframing TDP-43 in Alzheimer's disease: From co-pathology to neurovascular culprit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is widely recognized as a multifactorial disorder involving neurovascular and glial dysfunction beyond amyloid-β and tau pathology.

  23. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: insights from a clinical case series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria 2025-11-28 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a small vessel disease characterized by the deposition of amyloid-beta in small cerebral vessels, which can lead to intracerebral hemorrhages and cognitive impairment.

  24. PCSK9 and High-Fat Diet Synergistically Induce Neurovascular Dysfunction and Neuroinflammation

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-10-31 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is strongly linked to metabolic risk factors and represents a major cause of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia.

  25. Exercise and the blood-brain barrier: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2025-10-30 Prevention trials

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a critical structure for maintaining homeostasis in the central nervous system, and its dysfunction is widely implicated in the pathogenesis and progression of various neurological disorders.

  26. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a narrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2025-09-16 Drug development

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebrovascular disorder characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) in the walls of cerebral vessels.

  27. Cerebrovascular p16INK4A expression induces cerebral small vessel disease-related phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2025-08-12 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is the most common cause of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and highly associated with Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

  28. Neurovascular coupling and functional connectivity changes through the Alzheimer's disease spectrum: Effects of simvastatin treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-08 Brain scans and imaging

    AD mice showed early decreases in NVC and bilateral connectivity (BC) in motor and cingulate cortex, and hypoconnectivity within the sensory-motor network.

  29. Focused ultrasound-mediated APOE4 knockdown in mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-07 Genetics

    FUS-enhanced delivery of AAV resulted in a 12.6% knockdown of APOE ε4 gene expression in the targeted hippocampus, accompanied by an over 20% decrease in apoE4 protein levels and significant reductions in astrocyte and microglia levels.

  30. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Clinical Presentation, Sequelae and Neuroimaging Features-An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Biomedicines 2025-03-01 Treatments

    The prevalence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) has been shown to increase with age, with rates reported to be around 50-60% in individuals over 80 years old who have cognitive impairment.

  31. Altered Clearance and Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2025-02-19 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) are parenchymal edema/effusion and hemorrhage that occur as side effects of immunotherapies targeting beta-amyloid for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Altered Clearance in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2025-02-19 Vascular contributions

    With our focus on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), the authors herein provided a comprehensive overview of impaired amyloid beta and tau clearance pathways observed through advanced neuroimaging techniques such as dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging, arterial spin labeling, phase contrast MR imaging, PET, and functional MR imaging.

  33. The immunology of stroke and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Immunity 2025-01-14 Treatments

    Ischemic stroke and vascular cognitive impairment, caused by a sudden arterial occlusion or more subtle but protracted vascular insufficiency, respectively, are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with limited therapeutic options.

  34. Endothelial cells as key players in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2025-01-02 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a vascular disorder that increases the risk of stroke and dementia and is diagnosed through brain MRI.

  35. Cerebrovascular-Specific Extracellular Matrix Bioink Promotes Blood-Brain Barrier Properties

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomaterials research 2024-12-05 Vascular contributions

    Chronic neuroinflammation is a principal cause of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

  36. The role of neuroinflammation in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2024-11-29 Treatments

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebrovascular disease characterized by vascular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition.

  37. Blood-brain barrier permeable β-blockers association with Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers levels in non-demented individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-11-25 Tau biomarkers

    β-blockers that easily cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) seem to diminish the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), hypothetically facilitating waste clearance.

  38. Neurovascular unit, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration markers in brain disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2024-10-25 Biomarkers

    Neurovascular unit (NVU) inflammation via activation of glial cells and neuronal damage plays a critical role in neurodegenerative diseases.

  39. Amyloid-β (Aβ) immunotherapy induced microhemorrhages are linked to vascular inflammation and cerebrovascular damage in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2024-10-21 Treatments

    Our study has established a significant link between CAA-Aβ antibody immune complex formation, immune activation and vascular damage leading to smooth muscle cell loss.

  40. Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: Mechanisms, treatment, and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2024-10 Vascular contributions

    Worldwide, around 50 million people live with dementia, and this number is projected to triple by 2050.

  41. Pathogenesis of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Role of the Glymphatic System Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-08-11 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a group of pathologies that affect the cerebral blood vessels.

  42. A pathologic study of Perivascular pTDP-43 Lin bodies in LATE-NC

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2024-07-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    As shown previously, there was a robust association between Lin bodies and GFAP-positive astrocyte processes.

  43. Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Is Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Normal Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-07-09 Vascular contributions

    A total of 124 participants with Alzheimer disease, cerebrovascular disease, or a mix Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular diseases and 55 controlparticipants underwent magnetic resonance imaging and neuropsychological testing.

  44. MINocyclinE to Reduce inflammation and blood-brain barrier leakage in small Vessel diseAse (MINERVA): A phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled experimental medicine trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-17 Clinical trials

    Forty-four participants were recruited between September 2019 and June 2022.

  45. Older adults with reduced cerebrovascular reactivity exhibit high white matter hyperintensity burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-03-30 Vascular contributions

    Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) deficits may contribute to small vessel disease, such as white matter hyperintensities (WMH).

  46. Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature 2024-02-28 Disease mechanisms

    The glymphatic movement of fluid through the brain removes metabolic waste 1-4 .

  47. Blood-based biomarkers of cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2024-02-27 Biomarkers

    Age-associated cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) represents a clinically heterogenous condition, arising from diverse microvascular mechanisms.

  48. The glymphatic system and cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2024-01-09 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease and glymphatic dysfunction are anatomically connected and significant risk factors are shared between the two.

  49. Amyloid Beta-Mediated Neurovascular Toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Vascular contributions

    The brain vascular system receives one-fifth of the total oxygen from the cardiac output, and this transport system is highly dependent on blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity.

  50. Greater White Matter Hyperintensity Volume Is Associated with the Number of Microhemorrhages in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024-01-01 Treatments

    These results indicate a strong association between WMH and MCH, a common manifestation of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and ARIA-H. These results suggest that increased WMH volume may represent an early sign of vessel amyloidosis, likely prior to the emergence of MCH.

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