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Newest in this topic

  1. ApoE4 and Psychosis in Neurodegenerative and Non-Neurodegenerative Disease: A Scoping Review 2026-10-27
  2. Multimodal mediators connecting APOE4 to dementia 2026-10-21
  3. Reproductive Aging, FSH, and Apolipoprotein Biology in Alzheimer’s Disease 2026-10-19

Studies

266 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1993 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neuron 11
  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 9
  • International journal of molecular sciences 8
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 7
  • bioRxiv 6

168 journals in all.

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  1. Brain-targeting liposome-based APOE2 gene delivery exacerbates soluble amyloid-β accumulation in App NL-G-F mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Heliyon 2024-10-18 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of late-life dementia characterized by progressive neurodegeneration and brain deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau.

  2. iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier modeling reveals APOE isoform-dependent interactions with amyloid beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2024-10-11 Genetics

    Isogenic BMEC-like cells with different APOE genotypes had similar trans-endothelial electrical resistance, tight junction integrity and efflux transporter gene expression.

  3. Role of Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis, Prognosis and Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Discovery medicine 2024-10 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable and progressive neurodegenerative disease with increasing prevalence worldwide.

  4. The influences of ApoE isoforms on endothelial adherens junctions and actin cytoskeleton responding to mCRP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Angiogenesis 2024-09-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) plays an important role responding to monomeric C-reactive protein (mCRP) via binding to CD31 leading to cerebrovascular damage and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. APOE4-related differences in cortical thickness are modulated by sex in middle age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2024-08-28 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4, the strongest genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), confers greater risk in females than males.

  6. Impaired cellular copper regulation in the presence of ApoE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2024-08-12 Genetics

    The strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is allelic variation of the APOE gene, with the following risk structure: ε4 > ε3 > ε2.

  7. Human apolipoprotein E glycosylation and sialylation: from structure to function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2024-08-07 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (ApoE) was first identified as a polymorphic gene in the 1970s; however, the genetic association of ApoE genotypes with late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) was only discovered 20 years later.

  8. Exploring the effect of APOE ε4 on biomarkers of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2024-07-18 Biomarkers

    The study population consisted of 194 patients (123 AD and 71 non-AD).

  9. APOE4 Increases Energy Metabolism in APOE-Isogenic iPSC-Derived Neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cells 2024-07-17 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele represents the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Apolipoprotein E polymorphisms and female fertility in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-07-10 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a major cholesterol carrier responsible for lipid transport and injury repair in the brain.

  11. APOE2 protects against Aβ pathology by improving neuronal mitochondrial function through ERRα signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Cellular & molecular biology letters 2024-06-12 Genetics

    The pathway analysis of six major cell types revealed a strong association between APOE2 and cellular stress and energy metabolism, particularly in excitatory and inhibitory neurons, which was found to be more pronounced in the presence of beta-amyloid (Aβ).

  12. Three major effects of APOE ε4 on Aβ immunotherapy induced ARIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-05-02 Treatments

    The targeting of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques therapeutically as one of the primary causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia has been an ongoing effort spanning decades.

  13. Metabolomics profiling reveals distinct, sex-specific signatures in serum and brain metabolomes in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-27 Genetics

    We identified sex differences for several classes of metabolites, such as glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and amino acids.

  14. Effects of APOE4 on omega-3 brain metabolism across the lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM 2024-04-12 Prevention and risk

    Omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), have important roles in human nutrition and brain health by promoting neuronal functions, maintaining inflammatory homeostasis, and providing structural integrity.

  15. APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer's disease microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature 2024-03-13 Genetics

    Several genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease implicate genes involved in lipid metabolism and many of these lipid genes are highly expressed in glial cells 1 .

  16. ApoE Isoforms Inhibit Amyloid Aggregation of Proinflammatory Protein S100A9

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-02-09 Genetics

    Increasing evidence suggests that the calcium-binding and proinflammatory protein S100A9 is an important player in neuroinflammation-mediated Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Apolipoprotein E Gene in α-Synucleinopathies: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-02-01 Genetics

    In this narrative review, we delved into the intricate interplay between Apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles (typically associated with Alzheimer's disease-AD) and alpha-synucleinopathies (aS-pathies), involving Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple-system atrophy (MSA).

  18. Apolipoprotein E Polymorphisms in Andean Population of Jujuy, Argentina

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-01-18 Genetics

    The pleiotropic nature of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is associated with complex diseases in different populations.

  19. Deciphering ApoE Genotype-Driven Proteomic and Lipidomic Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease Across Distinct Brain Regions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of proteome research 2024-01-18 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease with a complex etiology influenced by confounding factors such as genetic polymorphisms, age, sex, and race.

  20. Effects of APOE2 and APOE4 on brain microstructure in older adults: modification by age, sex, and cognitive status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-01-11 Genetics

    Among CN, APOE4 carriers showed lower entorhinal cortex neurite density than non-carriers, whereas APOE2 carriers showed lower cingulum neurite density than non-carriers.

  21. Impact of apolipoprotein E isoforms on sporadic Alzheimer's disease: beyond the role of amyloid beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2024-01 Genetics

    The impact of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) isoforms on sporadic Alzheimer's disease has long been studied; however, the influences of apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) on healthy and pathological human brains are not fully understood.

  22. Microglial APOE4: more is less and less is more

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-12-19 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the single greatest genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Brain apolipoprotein E levels in mice challenged by a Western diet increase in an allele-dependent manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging brain 2023-11-27 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the greatest determinant of genetic risk for memory deficits and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Amelioration of Tau and ApoE4-linked glial lipid accumulation and neurodegeneration with an LXR agonist

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2023-11-22 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a strong genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  25. The cell biology of APOE in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Trends in cell biology 2023-10-05 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) traffics lipids in the central nervous system.

  26. Apolipoprotein E2 Stimulates Protein Synthesis and Promotes Melanoma Progression and Metastasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cancer research 2023-09-15 Genetics

    APOE germline variants impact melanoma progression through disparate mechanisms, such as the protein synthesis-promoting function of the APOE2 variant, indicating that germline genetic variants are causal contributors to metastatic outcomes.

  27. The roles of apolipoprotein E ε4 on neuropathology and neuroinflammation in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2023-09-12 Genetics

    β amyloid protein (Aβ)1-42 level from the APOE ε4 carrier group was significantly lower than that from the non-carrier group (p = 0.023), which was associated with worse cognitive function.

  28. ApoE4 exacerbates the senescence of hippocampal neurons and spatial cognitive impairment by downregulating acetyl-CoA level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2023-08-18 Genetics

    Although aging and apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele have been documented as two major risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), their interaction and potential underlying mechanisms remain unelucidated.

  29. APOE genotypes modify the obesity paradox in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2023-07-06 Genetics

    Obesity was associated with cognitive decline in early elderly cognitively normal individuals without APOE4, especially those with APOE2.

  30. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2-apolipoprotein E signaling pathway in diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2023-06-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a membrane receptor on myeloid cells and plays an important role in the body's immune defense.

  31. Roles of ApoE4 on the Pathogenesis in Alzheimer's Disease and the Potential Therapeutic Approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2023-05-25 Genetics

    The Apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE ε4) allele, encoding ApoE4, is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  32. APOEε4 and risk of Alzheimer's disease - time to move forward

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-05-19 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The inheritance of Apolipoprotein E4 (APOEε4) brings the highest genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), arguably the highest genetic risk in human pathology.

  33. Reduced binding of apoE4 to complement factor H promotes amyloid-β oligomerization and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EMBO reports 2023-05-08 Genetics

    The APOE4 variant of apolipoprotein E (apoE) is the most prevalent genetic risk allele associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  34. Apolipoprotein E Recognizes Alzheimer's Disease Associated 3-O Sulfation of Heparan Sulfate

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 2023-04-28 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE)'s ϵ4 alle is the most important genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  35. Amyloid β-Peptide Effects on Glucose Regulation Are Dependent on Apolipoprotein E Genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. eNeuro 2023-04-26 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) confers the greatest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), wherein the ε4 allele confers an elevated risk compared with the ε3 allele.

  36. Differential and substrate-specific inhibition of γ-secretase by the C-terminal region of ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2023-04-10 Genetics

    Aberrant low γ-secretase activity is associated with most of the presenilin mutations that underlie familial Alzheimer's disease (fAD).

  37. Vascular Risk Predicts Plasma Amyloid β 42/40 Through Cerebral Amyloid Burden in Apolipoprotein E ε4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 2023-04-06 Biomarkers

    Vascular risk significantly predicted cerebral amyloid burden in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative but not in the UCD-ADRC cohort.

  38. Apolipoprotein E4 has extensive conformational heterogeneity in lipid-free and lipid-bound forms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2023-02-07 Genetics

    The ε4-allele variant of apolipoprotein E (ApoE4) is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, although it only differs from its neutral counterpart ApoE3 by a single amino acid substitution.

  39. Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) is the most recognized genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), whereas ApoE2 reduces the risk for LOAD.

  40. APOE2 Exacerbates TDP-43 Related Toxicity in the Absence of Alzheimer Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-01-10 Genetics

    We found that TDP-43 overexpression induced motor function deficits, neuronal loss, and gliosis in the motor cortex, especially in APOE2 mice, with much milder or absent effects in APOE3, APOE4, or Apoe-KO mice.

  41. From degenerative disease to malignant tumors: Insight to the function of ApoE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2022-12-12 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is a multifunctional protein involved in lipid transport and lipoprotein metabolism, mediating lipid distribution/redistribution in tissues and cells.

  42. APOE4 impairs myelination via cholesterol dysregulation in oligodendrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2022-11-16 Genetics

    APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease 1-3 .

  43. APOE4 derived from astrocytes leads to blood-brain barrier impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-10-21 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is a multifaceted secreted molecule synthesized in the CNS by astrocytes and microglia, and in the periphery largely by the liver.

  44. APOE in the bullseye of neurodegenerative diseases: impact of the APOE genotype in Alzheimer's disease pathology and brain diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-09-24 Genetics

    ApoE is the major lipid and cholesterol carrier in the CNS.

  45. Common human genetic variants of APOE impact murine COVID-19 mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature 2022-09-21 Genetics

    Clinical outcomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are highly heterogeneous, ranging from asymptomatic infection to lethal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

  46. Apolipoprotein E in Cardiometabolic and Neurological Health and Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-08-31 Genetics

    A preponderance of evidence obtained from genetically modified mice and human population studies reveals the association of apolipoprotein E (apoE) deficiency and polymorphisms with pathogenesis of numerous chronic diseases, including atherosclerosis, obesity/diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease.

  47. APOE interacts with ACE2 inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 cellular entry and inflammation in COVID-19 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Signal transduction and targeted therapy 2022-08-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) plays a pivotal role in lipid including cholesterol metabolism.

  48. A multi-hit hypothesis for an APOE4-dependent pathophysiological state

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2022-06-06 Genetics

    The APOE gene encoding the Apolipoprotein E protein is the single most significant genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

  49. Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in astrocytes and microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2022-06-01 Genetics

    The impact of apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4), the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), on human brain cellular function remains unclear.

  50. Molecular recognition of the interaction between ApoE and the TREM2 protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neuroscience 2022-04-29 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia.

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