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  1. Evidence for Reduced Somatic T-Cell Receptor Sequence Diversity Profiles Among Midwestern Amish in an Aging Cohort Study 2026-10-18
  2. Gantenerumab reduces brain amyloid-β proteoforms: Biochemical evaluation in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease 2026-09-29
  3. Genetic Insights Into Protective Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Stroke and Alzheimer Disease Across Ancestries 2026-09-25

Studies

1,365 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 92
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 68
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 47
  • Archives of neurology 43
  • JAMA neurology 36

375 journals in all.

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  1. Modulation of apolipoprotein E structure by domain interaction: differences in lipid-bound and lipid-free forms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-08-01 Genetics

    Interaction of the amino- and carboxyl-terminal domains in apolipoprotein (apo) E, referred to as domain interaction, is predicted to be more pronounced in apoE4 than in apoE3 and to underlie the association of apoE4 with Alzheimer and cardiovascular diseases.

  2. BRI2 interacts with amyloid precursor protein (APP) and regulates amyloid beta (Abeta) production

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-07-18 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Transmembrane proteins BRI2 and amyloid precursor protein (APP) co-localize with amyloid beta (Abeta) lesions in sporadic Alzheimer disease and mutations in both precursor proteins are linked to early-onset familial cases of cerebral amyloidosis associated with dementia and/or cerebral hemorrhage.

  3. Regulation of NMDA receptor trafficking by amyloid-beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2005-07-17 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid-beta peptide is elevated in the brains of patients with Alzheimer disease and is believed to be causative in the disease process.

  4. Beta-amyloid-induced dynamin 1 depletion in hippocampal neurons. A potential mechanism for early cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-07-07 Disease mechanisms

    Synaptic dysfunction is one of the earliest events in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  5. Increased levels of 4-hydroxynonenal and acrolein, neurotoxic markers of lipid peroxidation, in the brain in Mild Cognitive Impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Previous studies show increased levels of lipid peroxidation and neurotoxic by-products of lipid peroxidation including 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) and acrolein in vulnerable regions of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  6. The familial dementia BRI2 gene binds the Alzheimer gene amyloid-beta precursor protein and inhibits amyloid-beta production

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-06-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common senile dementia, is characterized by amyloid plaques, vascular amyloid, neurofibrillary tangles, and progressive neurodegeneration.

  7. Oxidative modification and down-regulation of Pin1 in Alzheimer's disease hippocampus: A redox proteomics analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-06-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized neuropathologically by intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and of extracellular senile plaques (SP), the central core of which is amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) derived from amyloid precursor protein (APP), a transmembrane protein.

  8. Correlations between apolipoprotein E epsilon4 gene dose and brain-imaging measurements of regional hypometabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-06-02 Brain tissue and pathology

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have abnormally low positron emission tomography (PET) measurements of the cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (CMRgl) in regions of the precuneus and the posterior cingulate, parietotemporal, and frontal cortex.

  9. Basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease--interrelationship with beta-amyloid, inflammation and neurotrophin signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2005-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease, the most common neurodegenerative disorder of senile dementia, is characterized by two major morpho-pathological hallmarks.

  10. Predictive utility of apolipoprotein E genotype for Alzheimer disease in outpatients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-06-01 Genetics

    APOE epsilon4 carrier status was associated with conversion to AD in older outpatients after controlling for known demographic and clinical risk factors, and APOE epsilon4 homozygosity was associated with increased risk of conversion to AD.

  11. APOE genotype, cholesterol level, lipid-lowering treatment, and dementia: the Three-City Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2005-05-01 Genetics

    This observational study provides further evidence that lipid-lowering agents are associated with decreased risk of dementia, whereas hyperlipidemia is associated with increased odds for non-Alzheimer-disease-type dementia.

  12. Environmental enrichment mitigates cognitive deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-05-01 Caregiving

    Epidemiological studies suggest that individuals with greater education or more cognitively demanding occupations have diminished risk of developing dementia.

  13. Overexpression of monocyte chemotactic protein-1/CCL2 in beta-amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice show accelerated diffuse beta-amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2005-05-01 Biomarkers

    Microglia accumulation at the site of amyloid plaques is a strong indication that microglia play a major role in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

  14. The genetic causes of basal ganglia calcification, dementia, and bone cysts: DAP12 and TREM2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2005-05-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL), or Nasu-Hakola disease, is a presenile dementia associated with loss of myelin, basal ganglia calcification, and bone cysts.

  15. Glial heme oxygenase-1 expression in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-04-15 Biomarkers

    We determined whether oxidative stress is an early event in the pathogenesis of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD), and correlated oxidative stress with neuropsychological functions and neurofibrillary pathology in AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  16. Episodic-like memory deficits in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: relationships to beta-amyloid deposition and neurotransmitter abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2005-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Transgenic mice made by crossing animals expressing mutant amyloid precursor protein (APPswe) to mutant presenilin 1 (PS1dE9) allow for incremental increases in Abeta42 production and provide a model of Alzheimer-type amyloidosis.

  17. Proteins in human brain cortex are modified by oxidation, glycoxidation, and lipoxidation. Effects of Alzheimer disease and identification of lipoxidation targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-03-29 Disease mechanisms

    Diverse oxidative pathways, such as direct oxidation of amino acids, glycoxidation, and lipoxidation could contribute to Alzheimer disease pathogenesis.

  18. The apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele increases the odds of chronic cerebral infarction [corrected] detected at autopsy in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Stroke 2005-03-17 Genetics

    Subjects included 96 males and 118 females with a mean age at death of 86 years (SD, 7).

  19. A diet enriched with the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid reduces amyloid burden in an aged Alzheimer mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-03-01 Genetics

    Epidemiological studies suggest that increased intake of the omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. Bone-marrow-derived cells contribute to the recruitment of microglial cells in response to beta-amyloid deposition in APP/PS1 double transgenic Alzheimer mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2005-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The role of microglia recruited from bone marrow (BM) into the CNS during the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is poorly understood.

  21. fMRI evidence of compensatory mechanisms in older adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2005-02-01 Genetics

    The results suggest that brain response differences are not due to poorer general memory abilities, differential atrophy, or brain response during control conditions, but instead appear to be directly influenced by APOE genotype.

  22. Modulation of statin-activated shedding of Alzheimer APP ectodomain by ROCK

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2005-01-11 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent evidence suggests that statin use may be associated with a decreased risk for Alzheimer disease, although the mechanisms underlying this apparent risk reduction are poorly understood.

  23. Cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with AD and different APOE genotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2005-01-01 Genetics

    A generally similar pattern of cerebral hypometabolism was detected in APOE epsilon4-positive and -negative patients with Alzheimer disease.

  24. Cholinergic-serotonergic imbalance contributes to cognitive and behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2005-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are not simply a consequence of neurodegeneration, but probably result from differential neurotransmitter alterations, which some patients are more at risk of than others.

  25. Human-like rodent amyloid-beta-peptide determines Alzheimer pathology in aged wild-type Octodon degu

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-12-10 Risk genes beyond APOE

    It is generally accepted that human Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology markers are completely absent in rodent brains.

  26. MCI conversion to dementia and the APOE genotype: a prediction study with FDG-PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2004-12-01 Genetics

    After 1 year, 8 of 37 patients with MCI converted to AD (22%).

  27. Caloric restriction attenuates Abeta-deposition in Alzheimer transgenic models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-11-25 Biomarkers

    Dietary influences on Alzheimer disease (AD) are gaining recognition.

  28. Aging-related increase in oxidative stress correlates with developmental pattern of beta-secretase activity and beta-amyloid plaque formation in transgenic Tg2576 mice with Alzheimer-like pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience 2004-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The molecular mechanisms of beta-amyloidogenesis in sporadic Alzheimer's disease are still poorly understood.

  29. Amyloid beta-peptide(1-42) contributes to the oxidative stress and neurodegeneration found in Alzheimer disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2004-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Oxidative stress is extensive in Alzheimer disease (AD) brain.

  30. Inhaled anesthetic enhancement of amyloid-beta oligomerization and cytotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2004-09-01 Risk factors

    Inhaled anesthetics enhance oligomerization and cytotoxicity of Alzheimer disease-associated peptides.

  31. Reduced beta-amyloid production and increased inflammatory responses in presenilin conditional knock-out mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004-09-01 Biomarkers

    Mutations in presenilins (PS) 1 and 2 are the major cause of familial Alzheimer's disease.

  32. Neuronal expression of myeloperoxidase is increased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2004-08-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Myeloperoxidase, a heme protein expressed by professional phagocytic cells, generates an array of oxidants which are proposed to contribute to tissue damage during inflammation.

  33. Presenilin mutations in familial Alzheimer disease and transgenic mouse models accelerate neuronal lysosomal pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2004-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The neuronal lysosomal system is a major degradative pathway, induced by cell stress and closely linked to Alzheimer disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases.

  34. Analysis of European mitochondrial haplogroups with Alzheimer disease risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2004-07-01 Genetics

    We examined the association of mtDNA variation with Alzheimer disease (AD) risk in Caucasians (989 cases and 328 controls) testing the effect of individual haplogroups and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

  35. Transgenic mice overexpressing amyloid beta protein are an incomplete model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2004-07-01 Genetics

    We compared lesions in elderly transgenic (tg) mice carrying the Swedish double mutation KM670/671NL with lesions in Alzheimer disease (AD) by histochemical and immunohistochemical techniques.

  36. Apolipoprotein E promotes astrocyte colocalization and degradation of deposited amyloid-beta peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature medicine 2004-06-13 Genetics

    We have previously shown that apolipoprotein E (Apoe) promotes the formation of amyloid in brain and that astrocyte-specific expression of APOE markedly affects the deposition of amyloid-beta peptides (Abeta) in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease.

  37. Neuropathological changes generated by human amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) fibrils and Abeta-acetylcholinesterase (Abeta-AChE) complexes were compared in rat hippocampus in vivo.

  38. APOE-[epsilon]2 allele associated with higher prevalence of sporadic Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2004-06-01 Genetics

    Unlike Alzheimer disease, for which the APOE-epsilon4 allele increases the prevalence and the APOE-epsilon2 allele is protective, the authors' analysis shows the APOE-epsilon2 allele, but not the APOE-epsilon4 allele, to be positively associated with sporadic Parkinson disease.

  39. APOE epsilon4 allele is associated with reduced cerebrospinal fluid levels of Abeta42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2004-06-01 Genetics

    The epsilon4 allele of APOE is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  40. Apolipoprotein E controls the risk and age at onset of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2004-06-01 Genetics

    The APOE-4 allele increases risk and decreases age at onset of PD, an association that may not be dependent upon cognitive impairment.

  41. Impact of APOE genotype on neuropathologic and neurochemical markers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2004-06-01 Genetics

    The epsilon4 allele does not predict cholinergic decline in AD.

  42. Longitudinal changes in cognition and behavior in asymptomatic carriers of the APOE e4 allele

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2004-06-01 Genetics

    Memory declined in APOE e4 carriers before the symptomatic presentation of MCI in a cohort whose mean age was 60 years over a median period of 33 months.

  43. Biological inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry of neurodegeneration based on prion and Alzheimer diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 2004-05-11 Risk genes beyond APOE

    A change of the prion protein conformation results in a class of neurodegenerative diseases called the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (like mad cow and Creutzfeld-Jakob diseases).

  44. A novel presenilin 1 mutation associated with Pick's disease but not beta-amyloid plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2004-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Familial forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with tauopathy are mostly caused by mutations in the gene encoding the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT).

  45. Amyloid-beta deposition is associated with decreased hippocampal glucose metabolism and spatial memory impairment in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2004-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    In Alzheimer disease (AD) patients, early memory dysfunction is associated with glucose hypometabolism and neuronal loss in the hippocampus.

  46. Amyloid beta-peptide interactions with neuronal and glial cell plasma membrane: binding sites and implications for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society 2004-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The extracellular accumulation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) in neuritic plaques is one of the characteristic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive dementing neurodegenerative disorder of the elderly.

  47. Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 count affects age at onset of Alzheimer disease, but not lifetime susceptibility: The Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2004-05-01 Genetics

    The APOE epsilon4 allele acts as a potent risk factor for AD by accelerating onset.

  48. Contribution of glial cells to the development of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-05-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid plaques appear early during Alzheimer's disease (AD), and their development is intimately linked to activated astrocytes and microglia.

  49. Dendrite and dendritic spine alterations in Alzheimer models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurocytology 2004-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Synaptic damage and loss are factors that affect the degree of dementia experienced in Alzheimer disease (AD) patients.

  50. The microglial phagocytic role with specific plaque types in the Alzheimer disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer disease (AD) involves glial inflammation associated with amyloid plaques.

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