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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. Hypertension-Induced Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Leading to Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2018-03-05 Vascular contributions

    In recent years, studies have demonstrated that hypertension-related changes (e.g., small vascular lesions, inflammatory reactions, hypoperfusion, oxidative stress, damage to autoregulatory processes and the blood-brain barrier, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy) can occur over time in cerebral small vessels, potentially leading to lower cognitive function when blood pressure (BP) control is poor or lacking.

  2. White matter changes in Alzheimer's disease: a focus on myelin and oligodendrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-03-02 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is conceptualized as a progressive consequence of two hallmark pathological changes in grey matter: extracellular amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  3. Functional morphology of the blood-brain barrier in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-02-06 Inflammation and the immune system

    The adult quiescent blood-brain barrier (BBB), a structure organised by endothelial cells through interactions with pericytes, astrocytes, neurons and microglia in the neurovascular unit, is highly regulated but fragile at the same time.

  4. Current Strategies for Brain Drug Delivery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Theranostics 2018-02-05 Risk factors

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been a great hurdle for brain drug delivery.

  5. Update on Vascular Cognitive Impairment Associated with Subcortical Small-Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Subcortical small-vessel disease (SSVD) is a disorder well characterized from the clinical, imaging, and neuropathological viewpoints.

  6. Arterial stiffness, cognitive impairment and dementia: confounding factor or real risk?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2017-11-27 Risk factors

    Large artery stiffness is a frequent condition that arises with ageing, and is accelerated by the presence of co-morbidities like hypertension, obesity and diabetes.

  7. Clearance of beta-amyloid is facilitated by apolipoprotein E and circulating high-density lipoproteins in bioengineered human vessels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. eLife 2017-10-10 Genetics

    Amyloid plaques, consisting of deposited beta-amyloid (Aβ), are a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  8. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2017-09-13 Vascular contributions

    Brain capillary endothelial cells form the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which is covered with basement membranes and is also surrounded by pericytes and astrocyte end-feet in the neurovascular unit.

  9. The increasing impact of cerebral amyloid angiopathy: essential new insights for clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2017-08-26 Drug development

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) has never been more relevant.

  10. Emerging concepts in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a common, well-defined small vessel disease and a largely untreatable cause of intracerebral haemorrhage and contributor to age-related cognitive decline.

  11. Cerebral blood flow regulation and neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2017-05-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    Cerebral blood flow (CBF) regulation is essential for normal brain function.

  12. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in an Aged Squirrel Monkey with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in magnetic resonance imaging scans have emerged as indicators of potentially serious side effects in clinical trials of therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.

  13. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Microbleeds and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    The 88 patients with AD included 15 with microbleeds only in cortical/subcortical regions (cortical microbleeds) that could be CAA-related, 16 with microbleeds only in deep locations (deep microbleeds), 3 with microbleeds in both cortical and deep locations (mixed microbleeds), and 54 without microbleeds.

  14. Chronic Verubecestat Treatment Suppresses Amyloid Accumulation in Advanced Aged Tg2576-AβPPswe Mice Without Inducing Microhemorrhage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Treatments

    Verubecestat is a potent BACE1 enzyme inhibitor currently being investigated in Phase III trials for the treatment of mild-to-moderate and prodromal Alzheimer's disease.

  15. Glymphatic distribution of CSF-derived apoE into brain is isoform specific and suppressed during sleep deprivation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2016-12-08 Genetics

    We show that the glymphatic fluid transporting system contributes to the delivery of choroid plexus/CSF-derived human apoE to neurons.

  16. Astroglial NF-kB contributes to white matter damage and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2016-08-04 Biomarkers

    Vascular cognitive impairment is the second most common form of dementia.

  17. The blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2016-07-15 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the pathological accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides and neurofibrillary tangles containing hyperphosphorylated neuronal tau protein.

  18. Brain microbleeds: Epidemiology and clinical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurologia 2016-06-22 Vascular contributions

    The prevalence of BMB is highly variable (3%-27% in the general population, 6%-80% in patients with vascular risk factors or vascular disease, and 16%-45% in patients with cognitive impairment).

  19. Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer's disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature communications 2016-06-21 Tau biomarkers

    Multifactorial mechanisms underlying late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) are poorly characterized from an integrative perspective.

  20. Matrix metalloproteinases in the brain and blood-brain barrier: Versatile breakers and makers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2016-06-20 Vascular contributions

    Matrix metalloproteinases are versatile endopeptidases with many different functions in the body in health and disease.

  21. Blood-Brain Barrier Leakage in Patients with Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Radiology 2016-05-31 Vascular contributions

    The results of this study showed global BBB leakage in patients with early AD that is associated with cognitive decline.

  22. Suppression of glymphatic fluid transport in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2016-05-24 Tau biomarkers

    Glymphatic transport, defined as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) peri-arterial inflow into brain, and interstitial fluid (ISF) clearance, is reduced in the aging brain.

  23. Nanoparticle-mediated brain drug delivery: Overcoming blood-brain barrier to treat neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society 2016-05-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a vital boundary between neural tissue and circulating blood.

  24. Pericytes of the neurovascular unit: key functions and signaling pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2016-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Pericytes are vascular mural cells embedded in the basement membrane of blood microvessels.

  25. Lymphatic Clearance of the Brain: Perivascular, Paravascular and Significance for Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2016-03-18 Risk factors

    The lymphatic clearance pathways of the brain are different compared to the other organs of the body and have been the subject of heated debates.

  26. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation Biomarkers: Where are we Now?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Treatments

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy- related inflammation (CAA-ri) is an aggressive disease subtype of CAA with characteristic clinical and radiological findings.

  27. Hypertension enhances Aβ-induced neurovascular dysfunction, promotes β-secretase activity, and leads to amyloidogenic processing of APP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Hypertension (HTN) doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the mechanisms remain unclear.

  28. Ultra-fast magnetic resonance encephalography of physiological brain activity - Glymphatic pulsation mechanisms?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2015-12-21 Tau biomarkers

    The theory on the glymphatic convection mechanism of cerebrospinal fluid holds that cardiac pulsations in part pump cerebrospinal fluid from the peri-arterial spaces through the extracellular tissue into the peri-venous spaces facilitated by aquaporin water channels.

  29. Establishment and Dysfunction of the Blood-Brain Barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell 2015-11-01 Vascular contributions

    Structural and functional brain connectivity, synaptic activity, and information processing require highly coordinated signal transduction between different cell types within the neurovascular unit and intact blood-brain barrier (BBB) functions.

  30. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related atraumatic convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage: an ARIA before the tsunami

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2015-03-04 Treatments

    Atraumatic convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage (cSAH) in elderly patients is a rare entity that has been associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and intracerebral hematomas (ICH).

  31. Cerebral autoregulation, beta amyloid, and white matter hyperintensities are interrelated

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2015-03-04 Vascular contributions

    Emerging studies link vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular health to the prevalence and rates of progression in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. GLUT1 reductions exacerbate Alzheimer's disease vasculo-neuronal dysfunction and degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2015-03-02 Vascular contributions

    The glucose transporter GLUT1 at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) mediates glucose transport into the brain.

  33. [Inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2015-03 Treatments

    Inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) typically affects older patients who present with acute or subacute cognitive decline, headache, behavioral change, seizures, and focal neurological deficits.

  34. Cerebral small vessel disease and chronic kidney disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of stroke 2015-01-30 Vascular contributions

    Chronic kidney disease, defined by a decreased glomerular filtration rate or albuminuria, is recognized as a major global health burden, mainly because it is an established risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

  35. Blood-brain barrier breakdown in the aging human hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2015-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) limits entry of blood-derived products, pathogens, and cells into the brain that is essential for normal neuronal functioning and information processing.

  36. Matrix Metalloproteinases in Alzheimer's Disease and Concurrent Cerebral Microbleeds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015 Tau biomarkers

    Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes able to degrade components of the extracellular matrix, which is important for normal blood-brain barrier function.

  37. Three-dimensional brain-on-a-chip with an interstitial level of flow and its application as an in vitro model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Lab on a chip 2015-01-01 Digital health tools

    There has been a growing need for in vitro models of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease that would enable a better understanding of etiology and faster development of treatment strategies.

  38. Metabotropic P2Y1 receptor signalling mediates astrocytic hyperactivity in vivo in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-11-19 Genetics

    Astrocytic network alterations have been reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the underlying pathways have remained undefined.

  39. Aβ immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: effects on apoE and cerebral vasculopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-09-07 Treatments

    Aβ immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) results in the removal of Aβ plaques and increased cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  40. Vascular cognitive impairment in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Maturitas 2014-06-14 Vascular contributions

    Vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular disease are common causes of dementia.

  41. Microvascular network alterations in the retina of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with AD have altered microvascular network in the retina (narrower retinal venules and a sparser and more tortuous retinal vessels) compared with matched nondemented controls.

  42. Brain hemorrhages in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in thrombosis and hemostasis 2013-10-09 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is cerebrovascular amyloid deposition.

  43. Cerebrospinal fluid secretion by the choroid plexus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Physiological reviews 2013-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    The choroid plexus epithelium is a cuboidal cell monolayer, which produces the majority of the cerebrospinal fluid.

  44. The relationship between cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cortical microinfarcts in brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2013-08-01 Drug development

    The present data show that CAA plays a role in the development of microvascular lesions in the ageing brain, but cannot be considered as the most important factor in this vascular pathology, suggesting that other mechanisms also contribute importantly to the pathogenesis of microvascular changes.

  45. Vascular alterations in PDAPP mice after anti-Aβ immunotherapy: Implications for amyloid-related imaging abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-04-11 Treatments

    These data suggest that vascular leakage events, such as microhemorrhage, may be related to the removal of vascular Aβ.

  46. Brain-wide pathway for waste clearance captured by contrast-enhanced MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2013-02-22 Tau biomarkers

    The glymphatic system is a recently defined brain-wide paravascular pathway for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial fluid (ISF) exchange that facilitates efficient clearance of solutes and waste from the brain.

  47. Deficiency in mural vascular cells coincides with blood-brain barrier disruption in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2012-11-28 Vascular contributions

    Neurovascular dysfunction contributes to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The neuroradiology journal 2012-11-09 Vascular contributions

    The aim of this report was to describe the case of an elderly patient with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated dementia who presented with new onset symptomatology compatible with an acute cerebrovascular event.

  49. Tight junctions at the blood brain barrier: physiological architecture and disease-associated dysregulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2012-11-09 Vascular contributions

    The Blood-brain barrier (BBB), present at the level of the endothelium of cerebral blood vessels, selectively restricts the blood-to-brain paracellular diffusion of compounds; it is mandatory for cerebral homeostasis and proper neuronal function.

  50. Identification and proteomic profiling of exosomes in human cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of translational medicine 2012-01-05 Tau biomarkers

    Exosomes were identified in human CSF and their proteome is a potential new reservoir for biomarker discovery in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

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