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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. Sex-Specific Cross Tissue Meta-Analysis Identifies Immune Dysregulation in Women With Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-09-30 Digital health tools

    Strikingly gene-expression, network-based analysis and cell type deconvolution approaches revealed a consistent immune signature in the brain and blood of female AD patients that was absent in males.

  2. Spontaneous ARIA-like Events in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation: A Multicenter Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-16 Genetics

    These results from the largest longitudinal cohort registry of patients with CAA-ri support the transient and potentially relapsing inflammatory nature of the clinical-radiologic acute manifestations of the disease and the effectiveness of slow oral tapering off after IV corticosteroid pulse therapy in preventing recurrences.

  3. Adult-onset CNS myelin sulfatide deficiency is sufficient to cause Alzheimer's disease-like neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-09-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Human genetic association studies point to immune response and lipid metabolism, in addition to amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau, as major pathways in Alzheimer's disease (AD) etiology.

  4. A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-09-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts for 50-70% of dementia cases.

  5. Integrative brain transcriptome analysis links complement component 4 and HSPA2 to the APOE ε2 protective effect in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-09-03 Tau biomarkers

    Mechanisms underlying the protective effect of apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε2 against Alzheimer disease (AD) are not well understood.

  6. Hippocampal glucose uptake as a surrogate of metabolic change of microglia in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2021-08-31 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Here, we found a close association of the metabolic reconfiguration of microglia with increased hippocampal glucose uptake on [ 18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET.

  7. Association of Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor Use and Amyloid Burden in Patients With Diabetes and AD-Related Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2021-08-11 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that DPP-4i use is associated with low amyloid burden and favorable long-term cognitive outcome in diabetic patients with ADCI.

  8. Insomnia symptom severity and cognitive performance: Moderating role of APOE genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-07-26 Long-term cohort studies

    We evaluated whether insomnia symptom severity was associated with cognitive function, and whether this relationship was modified by biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease risk.

  9. Plaque-associated human microglia accumulate lipid droplets in a chimeric model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-07-23 Genetics

    These results indicate lipid droplet accumulation occurs in human DAM xMGs in AD, but is reduced in TREM2-R47H DAM xMGs, as it occurs secondary to TREM2-mediated changes in plaque proximity and reactivity.

  10. Knock-in models related to Alzheimer's disease: synaptic transmission, plaques and the role of microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-07-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are active modulators of Alzheimer's disease but their role in relation to amyloid plaques and synaptic changes due to rising amyloid beta is unclear.

  11. Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-07-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid PET and sleep duration information was acquired on 4425 cognitively unimpaired participants (mean [SD] age, 71.3 [4.7] years; 2628 [59.4%] female; 1509 [34.1%] tested Aβ positive).

  12. Phospholipids of APOE lipoproteins activate microglia in an isoform-specific manner in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    APOE and Trem2 are major genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how they affect microglia response to Aβ remains unclear.

  13. Association of APOE ε4 genotype and lifestyle with cognitive function among Chinese adults aged 80 years and older: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2021-06-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 is the single most important genetic risk factor for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease (AD), while lifestyle factors such as smoking, drinking, diet, and physical activity also have impact on cognition.

  14. Glitter in the Darkness? Nonfibrillar β-Amyloid Plaque Components Significantly Impact the β-Amyloid PET Signal in Mouse Models of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2021-05-20 Biomarkers

    Neither fibrillar nor nonfibrillar Aβ content alone sufficed to explain the Aβ PET findings in either AD model.

  15. Large-scale plasma proteomic analysis identifies proteins and pathways associated with dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature aging 2021-05-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    The plasma proteomic changes that precede the onset of dementia could yield insights into disease biology and highlight new biomarkers and avenues for intervention.

  16. Multi-tissue neocortical transcriptome-wide association study implicates 8 genes across 6 genomic loci in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Genome medicine 2021-05-04 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease currently affecting 1.75% of the US population, with projected growth to 3.46% by 2050.

  17. Whole-genome sequencing reveals new Alzheimer's disease-associated rare variants in loci related to synaptic function and neuronal development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-04-03 Risk factors

    Genome-wide association studies have led to numerous genetic loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Spreading of Beta-Amyloid in Organotypic Mouse Brain Slices and Microglial Elimination and Effects on Cholinergic Neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomolecules 2021-03-15 Biomarkers

    The extracellular deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) is one of the major characteristics in Alzheimer´s disease (AD).

  19. Cholesterol alters mitophagy by impairing optineurin recruitment and lysosomal clearance in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-03-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Emerging evidence indicates that impaired mitophagy-mediated clearance of defective mitochondria is a critical event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  20. Human neural stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles mitigate hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-06 Disease mechanisms

    These data demonstrate the neuroprotective effects of systemic administration of stem cell-derived EVs for remediation of behavioral and molecular AD neuropathologies.

  21. Differentially expressed genes in Alzheimer's disease highlighting the roles of microglia genes including OLR1 and astrocyte gene CDK2AP1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain, behavior, & immunity - health 2021-02-24 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with abnormal tau and amyloid-β accumulation in the brain, leading to neurofibrillary tangles, neuropil threads and extracellular amyloid-β plaques.

  22. Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder leading to dementia in the elderly.

  23. Crosstalk between Gut and Brain in Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Gut Microbiota Modulation Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-02-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    The gut microbiota (GM) represents a diverse and dynamic population of microorganisms and about 100 trillion symbiotic microbial cells that dwell in the gastrointestinal tract.

  24. Iron loading is a prominent feature of activated microglia in Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2021-02-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    Brain iron accumulation has been found to accelerate disease progression in amyloid-β(Aβ) positive Alzheimer patients, though the mechanism is still unknown.

  25. Differential associations of APOE-ε2 and APOE-ε4 alleles with PET-measured amyloid-β and tau deposition in older individuals without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2021-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    We analyzed data from 462 ADNI participants without dementia who underwent Aβ ([ 18 F]florbetapir or [ 18 F]florbetaben) and tau ([ 18 F]flortaucipir) PET, structural MRI, and cognitive testing.

  26. Increased APOE ε4 expression is associated with the difference in Alzheimer's disease risk from diverse ancestral backgrounds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-02-01 Genetics

    AD patients with ELA expressed significantly greater levels of APOE than ALA APOE ε4 carriers.

  27. Natural genetic variation determines microglia heterogeneity in wild-derived mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cell reports 2021-02-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Genetic and genome-wide association studies suggest a central role for microglia in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  28. In vivo demonstration of Congo Red labeled amyloid plaques via perfusion in the Alzheimer disease rat model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience methods 2021-01-25 Biomarkers

    Congo Red (CR) has been used for its binding affinity to amyloid fibrils for the better part of a century.

  29. The Correlations Between Plasma Fibrinogen With Amyloid-Beta and Tau Levels in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-01-21 Biomarkers

    Recent studies show that fibrinogen plays a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which may be crucial to neurovascular damage and cognitive impairment.

  30. rs1990622 variant associates with Alzheimer's disease and regulates TMEM106B expression in human brain tissues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC medicine 2021-01-19 Long-term cohort studies

    It has been well established that the TMEM106B gene rs1990622 variant was a frontotemporal dementia (FTD) risk factor.

  31. Altered Gut Microbial Metabolites in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease: Signals in Host-Microbe Interplay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-01-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Intimate metabolic host-microbiome crosstalk regulates immune, metabolic, and neuronal response in health and disease, yet remains untapped for biomarkers or intervention for disease.

  32. Hippocampal Degeneration and Behavioral Impairment During Alzheimer-Like Pathogenesis Involves Glutamate Excitotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 2021-01-08 Biomarkers

    The hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology include senile plaques accumulation and neurofibrillary tangles, which is thought to underlie synaptic failure.

  33. N6-methyladenosine dynamics in neurodevelopment and aging, and its potential role in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Genome biology 2021-01-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    We show that m 6 A modification displays temporal and spatial dynamics during neurodevelopment and aging.

  34. Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel: A Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-01-01 Genetics

    In addition, several loci associated with rare variants, including a genome-wide significant intergenic locus near IGF1R at 15q26 (P = 1.7 × 10-9) and 6 additional loci with suggestive significance (P ≤ 5 × 10-7) such as API5 at 11p12 (P = 8.8 × 10-8) and RBFOX1 at 16p13 (P = 5.4 × 10-7) were identified.

  35. Retinal Imaging Findings in Carriers With PSEN1-Associated Early-Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease Before Onset of Cognitive Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JAMA ophthalmology 2021-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    These findings suggest that OCT can detect functional and morphologic changes in the retina of carriers of familial Alzheimer disease who are cognitively unimpaired several years before clinical onset, suggesting that OCT findings and retinal vascular parameters may be biomarkers prior to the onset of cognitive decline.

  36. The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and Alzheimer's Disease: Neuroinflammation Is to Blame?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nutrients 2020-12-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    For years, it has been reported that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia.

  37. Association of APOE4 and Clinical Variability in Alzheimer Disease With the Pattern of Tau- and Amyloid-PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2020-12-01 Biomarkers

    Clinical phenotypes are associated with differential patterns of tau but not amyloid pathology.

  38. Multi-omic comparison of Alzheimer's variants in human ESC-derived microglia reveals convergence at APOE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2020-12-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Variations in many genes linked to sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) show abundant expression in microglia, but relationships among these genes remain largely elusive.

  39. Integrative Brain Transcriptome Analysis Links Complement Component 4 andHSPA2to theAPOEε2 Protective Effect in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-11-24 Tau biomarkers

    Mechanisms underlying the protective effect of apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) ε2 against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are not well understood.

  40. Acute targeting of pre-amyloid seeds in transgenic mice reduces Alzheimer-like pathology later in life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2020-11-16 Drug development

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) deposits are a relatively late consequence of Aβ aggregation in Alzheimer's disease.

  41. Whole-genome sequencing reveals new Alzheimer's disease-associated rare variants in loci related to synaptic function and neuronal development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-11-12 Risk factors

    Genome-wide association studies have led to numerous genetic loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Apolipoprotein E: Structural Insights and Links to Alzheimer Disease Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neuron 2020-11-10 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is of great interest due to its role as a cholesterol/lipid transporter in the central nervous system (CNS) and as the most influential genetic risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  43. APOE4 exacerbates synapse loss and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease patient iPSC-derived cerebral organoids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-11-02 Risk factors

    APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  44. Role of gut-brain axis, gut microbial composition, and probiotic intervention in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Life sciences 2020-10-22 Inflammation and the immune system

    Gut microbiota represents a diverse and dynamic population of microorganisms harboring the gastrointestinal tract, which influences the host health and disease.

  45. APOE2 is associated with longevity independent of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. eLife 2020-10-19 Genetics

    Combining human cohort data (over 24,000 people) with mouse models, this study found that carrying the APOE2 gene variant is linked to a longer lifespan, and that this benefit holds even when accounting for Alzheimer's diagnosis and brain pathology.

  46. Association Between Common Variants in RBFOX1, an RNA-Binding Protein, and Brain Amyloidosis in Early and Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-10-01 Biomarkers

    The largest cohort, the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer Disease Study (n = 3154), was the PET screening cohort used for a secondary prevention trial designed to slow cognitive decline associated with brain amyloidosis.

  47. Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020-10-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Dementia is a rapidly rising global health crisis that silently disables families and ends lives and livelihoods around the world.

  48. Prevalence and Clinical Phenotype of Quadruple Misfolded Proteins in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-10-01 Genetics

    However, the clinical presentation, associated factors, frequency in community-based cohorts, genetic characteristics, and cognitive trajectories associated with the quadruple misfolded proteins phenotype are not well understood.

  49. The Role of Microglia and the Nlrp3 Inflammasome in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2020-09-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of late-onset dementia.

  50. The Alzheimer's disease-associated protective Plcγ2-P522R variant promotes immune functions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2020-09-11 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia-specific genetic variants are enriched in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), implicating a central role for alterations of the innate immune system in the disease etiology.

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