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Newest in this topic

  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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Monogenic causes of cerebral small vessel disease and stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Handbook of clinical neurology 2024 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVDs) account for 25% of stroke and are a frequent cause of cognitive or motor disability in adults.

  2. BBBO was achieved in 5 out of 6 subjects with an average volume of 983±626 mm 3 following FUS at the right frontal lobe both in white and gray matter regions.

  3. This editorial summarizes advances from the Clearance of Interstitial Fluid and Cerebrospinal Fluid (CLIC) group, within the Vascular Professional Interest Area (PIA) of the Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART).

  4. Plasma neurofilament light chain associated with impaired regional cerebral blood flow in healthy individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Current journal of neurology 2023-10-07 Biomarkers

    We found non-significant differences in age (F(2, 141) = 1.304; P = 0.275) and years of education (F(2, 141) = 0.013; P = 0.987).

  5. Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-10-03 Treatments

    The increase in blood flow evoked by whisker stimulation (functional hyperemia) or by endothelial and smooth muscle vasoactivity was markedly attenuated in WT → Tg2576 chimeras but was fully restored in CD36-/- → Tg2576 chimeras, in which BAM ROS production was suppressed.

  6. Clinical considerations in early-onset cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-10-03 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is an important cerebral small vessel disease associated with brain haemorrhage and cognitive change.

  7. Blood-brain barrier pathology in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2023-09-22 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease is a neurological disease that affects the brain microvasculature and which is commonly observed among the elderly.

  8. Our study establishes a connection between Aβ antibodies engaged at CAA deposits, the activation of perivascular macrophages, and the upregulation of genes involved in vascular permeability.

  9. Vascular cognitive impairment - Past, present, and future challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-08-25 Vascular contributions

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is a lifelong process encompassing a broad spectrum of cognitive disorders, ranging from subtle or mild deficits to prodromal and fully developed dementia, originating from cerebrovascular lesions such as large and small vessel disease.

  10. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation: A Case Report and Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology 2023-08-09 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-RI) is an encephalopathy caused by inflammation of β-amyloid peptide deposition in cerebrovascular vessels.

  11. White matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's disease: An alternative view of an alternative hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-12 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) - - areas of increased signal appearing on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging - - are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk and progression in late onset and genetic forms.

  12. Single-nucleus multiregion transcriptomic analysis of brain vasculature in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2023-06-01 Genetics

    Cerebrovascular dysregulation is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the changes that occur in specific cell types have not been fully characterized.

  13. Enlarged perivascular spaces and plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-04-14 Biomarkers

    Dilation of perivascular spaces (PVS) in the brain may indicate poor fluid drainage due to the accumulation of perivascular cell debris, waste, and proteins, including amyloid-beta (Aβ).

  14. Astrocytic APOE4 removal confers cerebrovascular protection despite increased cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-03-16 Vascular contributions

    Reducing the levels of APOE4 in astrocytes shifted the deposition of fibrillar Aβ from the brain parenchyma to the cerebrovasculature.

  15. A brief overview of a mouse model of cerebral hypoperfusion by bilateral carotid artery stenosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2023-03-08 Vascular contributions

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) refers to all forms of cognitive disorder related to cerebrovascular diseases, including vascular mild cognitive impairment, post-stroke dementia, multi-infarct dementia, subcortical ischemic vascular dementia (SIVD), and mixed dementia.

  16. Blood-brain barrier opening of the default mode network in Alzheimer's disease with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Biomarkers

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain but is also an important obstacle for the effective delivery of therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  17. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Normal Aging and Neurodegeneration: Mechanisms, Impact, and Treatments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stroke 2023-02-27 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral endothelial cells and their linking tight junctions form a unique, dynamic and multi-functional interface, the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

  18. Endothelial Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-02-02 Vascular contributions

    The cerebral vascular system stringently regulates cerebral blood flow (CBF).

  19. Analysis of Cerebral Small Vessel Changes in AD Model Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-12-25 Vascular contributions

    Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide is deposited in the brains of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) due to impaired vessel-dependent clearance.

  20. Vascular contributions to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine 2022-12-15 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and is characterized by progressive neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

  21. Parenchymal border macrophages regulate the flow dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2022-11-09 Genetics

    Macrophages are important players in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis 1 .

  22. Vascular Considerations for Amyloid Immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2022-10-21 Treatments

    Decades of research into anti-Aβ immunotherapies provide evidence for increased Aβ clearance from the brain; however, this is frequently accompanied by complicated vascular deficits.

  23. Sustained Increase in Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein after First ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-09-07 Biomarkers

    Acute ischemic cardiac injury predisposes one to cognitive impairment, dementia, and depression.

  24. Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular disease and dementia: lump, split or integrate?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-08-27 Vascular contributions

    This scientific commentary refers to ‘Cerebral amyloid angiopathy interacts with neuritic amyloid plaques to promote tau and cognitive decline’ by Rabin et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac178).

  25. Cerebral small vessel disease: Pathological mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-08-12 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) represents a diverse cluster of cerebrovascular diseases primarily affecting small arteries, capillaries, arterioles and venules.

  26. Effects of cerebral amyloid angiopathy on the brain vasculome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2022-07-18 Vascular contributions

    β-amyloid (Aβ) deposits in brain blood vessel walls underlie the vascular pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  27. Transcriptomic Profile of Blood-Brain Barrier Remodeling in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2022-06-22 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a small vessel disease characterized by amyloid β (Aβ) peptide deposition within the walls of medium to small-caliber blood vessels, cerebral microhemorrhage, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) leakage.

  28. Evidence of beta amyloid independent small vessel disease in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2022-06-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We studied small vessel disease (SVD) pathology in Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) subjects carrying the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) p.Glu280Ala mutation in comparison to those with sporadic Alzheimer's disease (SAD) as a positive control for Alzheimer's pathology and Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) bearing different NOTCH3 mutations, as positive controls for SVD pathology.

  29. Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Light, science & applications 2022-05-17 Digital health tools

    High-speed high-resolution imaging of the whole-brain hemodynamics is critically important to facilitating neurovascular research.

  30. Targeting endothelial ion signalling to rescue cerebral blood flow in cerebral disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Vascular pharmacology 2022-05-05 Vascular contributions

    The mechanism whereby an increase in neuronal activity (NA) leads to a local elevation in cerebral blood flow to supply the active neurons with oxygen and nutrients and remove the catabolic waste has been termed neurovascular coupling (NVC).

  31. Advanced MRI in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2022-04-20 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a major cause of stroke and dementia.

  32. Quantitative Water Permeability Mapping of Blood-Brain-Barrier Dysfunction in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-04-08 Vascular contributions

    Blood-brain-barrier (BBB) dysfunction is a hallmark of aging and aging-related disorders, including cerebral small vessel disease and Alzheimer's disease.

  33. Endothelial BACE1 Impairs Cerebral Small Vessels via Tight Junctions and eNOS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Circulation research 2022-04-06 Vascular contributions

    We observe a 3.71-fold increase in BACE1 expression in the cerebral microvessels from patients with hypertension.

  34. Small Vessel Disease: Ancient Description, Novel Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-03-23 Vascular contributions

    Small vessel disease (SVD) is one of the most frequent pathological conditions which lead to dementia.

  35. rTg-D: A novel transgenic rat model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy Type-2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior 2022-03-11 Vascular contributions

    rTg-D rats begin to accumulate Aβ in brain and develop varying levels of larger vessel CAA type-2, in the absence of capillary CAA type-1, starting around 18 months of age.

  36. A human brain vascular atlas reveals diverse mediators of Alzheimer's risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2022-02-14 Genetics

    The human brain vasculature is of great medical importance: its dysfunction causes disability and death 1 , and the specialized structure it forms-the blood-brain barrier-impedes the treatment of nearly all brain disorders 2,3 .

  37. The role of inflammasomes in vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-01-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    There is an increasing prevalence of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) worldwide, and several studies have suggested that Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion (CCH) plays a critical role in disease onset and progression.

  38. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Vascular contributions

    An accurate diagnosis of sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is critical for patient management and research (including clinical trials) for this common small vessel pathology of the brain.

  39. Perivascular space dilation is associated with vascular amyloid-β accumulation in the overlying cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-12-20 Digital health tools

    Perivascular spaces (PVS) are compartments surrounding cerebral blood vessels that become visible on MRI when enlarged.

  40. Dysfunction of the Blood-brain Barrier in Cerebral Microbleeds: from Bedside to Bench

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging and disease 2021-12-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are a disorder of cerebral microvessels that are characterized as small (<10 mm), hypointense, round or ovoid lesions seen on T2*-weighted gradient echo MRI.

  41. 4D flow MRI hemodynamic biomarkers for cerebrovascular diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2021-11-23 Vascular contributions

    Alterations in cerebral blood flow are common in several neurological diseases among the elderly including stroke, cerebral small vessel disease, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a relatively new technique to investigate cerebrovascular disease, and makes it possible to obtain time-resolved blood flow measurements of the entire cerebral arterial venous vasculature and can be used to derive a repertoire of hemodynamic biomarkers indicative of cerebrovascular health.

  42. Neurovascular Alterations in Vascular Dementia: Emphasis on Risk Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-09-10 Vascular contributions

    Vascular dementia (VaD) constitutes the second most prevalent cause of dementia in the world after Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Neurovascular dysfunction and vascular amyloid accumulation as early events in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Metabolic brain disease 2021-08-18 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is clinically characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive functions and short-term memory.

  44. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Blood-Brain Barrier permeability in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience 2021-08-13 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) are the two main causes of dementia with blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown being a common contributor.

  45. Hemostasis components in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021-05-27 Vascular contributions

    Increased cerebrovascular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition represents the main pathogenic mechanisms characterizing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  46. Cerebral microbleeds in vascular dementia from clinical aspects to host-microbial interaction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2021-05-25 Vascular contributions

    Vascular dementia is the second leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease in the elderly population worldwide.

  47. Retinal imaging demonstrates reduced capillary density in clinically unimpaired APOE ε4 gene carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Our analyses demonstrate lower retinal capillary densities in early disease, in cognitively normal APOE ε4 gene carriers.

  48. Haemodynamic impairment along the Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2021-04-23 Tau biomarkers

    The breath-holding index was reduced in the AD continuum and was inversely correlated to CSF amyloid β42 levels.

  49. Diagnostic and prognostic blood biomarkers in vascular dementia: From the viewpoint of ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2021-03-26 Biomarkers

    Reliable quantitative blood biomarkers are important in vascular dementia (VaD) because early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention are effective in preventing progression of dementia.

  50. Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Physiological reviews 2021-03-26 Prevention trials

    Brain function critically depends on a close matching between metabolic demands, appropriate delivery of oxygen and nutrients, and removal of cellular waste.

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