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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 integrity is altered by hepatic APOE ε4 in humanized-liver mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-04-13 Genetics

    Liver-generated plasma apolipoprotein E (apoE) does not enter the brain but nonetheless correlates with Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk and AD biomarker levels.

  2. Are apolipoprotein E fragments a promising new therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in chronic disease 2022-03-17 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is a 299-amino acid secreted glycoprotein that binds cholesterol and phospholipids.

  3. Association of APOE ɛ4 and Plasma p-tau181 with Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease and Longitudinal Change in Hippocampus Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2022-02-01 Biomarkers

    Increased p-tau181 was observed for both ɛ4 carriers and non-carriers close to AD onset, but exclusively for ɛ4 carriers in the early preclinical groups (7- and 13-years pre-AD).

  4. Human apolipoprotein E isoforms are differentially sialylated and the sialic acid moiety in ApoE2 attenuates ApoE2-Aβ interaction and Aβ fibrillation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2022-01-15 Genetics

    The APOE genotype is the most prominent genetic risk factor for the development of late-onset Alzheimer''s disease (LOAD); however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.

  5. Isoform-Dependent Effects of Apolipoprotein E on Sphingolipid Metabolism in Neural Cells

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

    In the brains of Apoeshl mice, the levels of apoM were lower, while those of ceramides were higher.

  6. The protective gene dose effect of the APOE ε2 allele on gray matter volume in cognitively unimpaired individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12-08 Risk factors

    Carrying at least one ε2 allele was associated with larger GM volumes in brain areas typically affected by AD and also in areas associated with cognitive resilience.

  7. Experimental and real-world evidence supporting the computational repurposing of bumetanide for APOE4 -related Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature aging 2021-10-11 Digital health tools

    The evident genetic, pathological, and clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses challenges for traditional drug development.

  8. A Friend and a Foe: 50 Years of the Apolipoprotein E Research Trail

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ 2021-10 Genetics

    An arginine-rich apolipoprotein was discovered 50 years ago and became known as apolipoprotein E (ApoE) 10 years later.

  9. ApoE4 increases susceptibility to stress-induced age-dependent depression-like behavior and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2021-09-10 Genetics

    Though apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) is a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, its association with depression remains controversial.

  10. APOE4 Affects Basal and NMDAR-Mediated Protein Synthesis in Neurons by Perturbing Calcium Homeostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2021-09-02 Genetics

    Here, we report that the acute exposure of primary cortical neurons or synaptoneurosomes to APOE4 leads to a significant decrease in global protein synthesis.

  11. Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's Disease: Findings, Hypotheses, and Potential Mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annual review of pathology 2021-08-30 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder that involves dysregulation of many cellular and molecular processes.

  12. Apolipoprotein E regulates lipid metabolism and α-synuclein pathology in human iPSC-derived cerebral organoids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-08-28 Genetics

    APOE4 is a strong genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies; however, how its expression impacts pathogenic pathways in a human-relevant system is not clear.

  13. APOE4-carrying human astrocytes oversupply cholesterol to promote neuronal lipid raft expansion and Aβ generation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stem cell reports 2021-08-26 Genetics

    The ε4 allele of APOE-encoding apolipoprotein (ApoE) is one of the strongest genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. APOE Genotype and Alzheimer's Disease: The Influence of Lifestyle and Environmental Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2021-07-18 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder with obscure pathogenesis and no disease-modifying therapy to date.

  15. Interactions between Apolipoprotein E Metabolism and Retinal Inflammation in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-06-29 Genetics

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial retinal disorder that is a major global cause of severe visual impairment.

  16. Apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent effects on the processing of Alzheimer's amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids 2021-05-24 Genetics

    Since the identification of the apolipoprotein E (apoE) *ε4 allele as a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, significant efforts have been aimed at elucidating how apoE4 expression confers greater brain amyloid-β (Aβ) burden, earlier disease onset and worse clinical outcomes compared to apoE2 and apoE3.

  17. Multiomics integrative analysis identifies APOE allele-specific blood biomarkers associated to Alzheimer's disease etiopathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging 2021-04-12 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting 35 million people worldwide.

  18. APOE2 mitigates disease-related phenotypes in an isogenic hiPSC-based model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-04-09 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified polymorphism in the Apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) to be the most prominent risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and directly influences tauopathy and tau-mediated neurodegeneration.

  20. Expression and secretion of apoE isoforms in astrocytes and microglia during inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Glia 2021-02-08 Genetics

    Neuroinflammation is a common feature in neurodegenerative diseases, modulated by the Alzheimer's disease risk factor, apolipoprotein E (APOE).

  21. APOE immunotherapy reduces cerebral amyloid angiopathy and amyloid plaques while improving cerebrovascular function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2021-02-01 Treatments

    The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and greatly influences the development of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology.

  22. APOE and Alzheimer's disease: advances in genetics, pathophysiology, and therapeutic approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2021-01-01 Genetics

    The APOE ε4 allele remains the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease and the APOE ε2 allele the strongest genetic protective factor after multiple large scale genome-wide association studies and genome-wide association meta-analyses.

  23. APOE2: protective mechanism and therapeutic implications for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2020-11-04 Genetics

    Investigations of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, the major genetic risk modifier for Alzheimer's disease (AD), have yielded significant insights into the pathogenic mechanism.

  24. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 Status Moderates the Relationship Between Close-Range Blast Exposure and Cognitive Functioning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2020-11-03 Genetics

    As predicted, we observed a differential impact of CBE status on cognition as a function of APOE ε4 status, in which CBE ε4 carriers displayed significantly worse neuropsychological performance, specifically in the domain of memory.

  25. Clusterin as a Potential Biomarker of Obesity-Related Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomarker insights 2020-10-12 Risk factors

    Over 35% of the adult US population is obese.

  26. ApoE Lipidation as a Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-09-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major cholesterol carrier in the brain, affecting various normal cellular processes including neuronal growth, repair and remodeling of membranes, synaptogenesis, clearance and degradation of amyloid β (Aβ) and neuroinflammation.

  27. APP-Induced Patterned Neurodegeneration Is Exacerbated by APOE4 in Caenorhabditis elegans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 2020-08-05 Genetics

    Genetic and epidemiological studies have found that variations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the apoliopoprotein E (APOE) genes represent major modifiers of the progressive neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  28. Peripheral TREM2 mRNA levels in early and late-onset Alzheimer disease's patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular biology reports 2020-07-17 TREM2 and immune genetics

    'Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2' (TREM2) gene is involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and TREM2 mRNA expression is known to be increased in the peripheral blood cells of AD patients.

  29. Apolipoprotein E isoforms differentially regulate matrix metallopeptidase 9 function in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-07-03 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been shown to influence amyloid-β (Aβ) clearance from the brain in an isoform-specific manner.

  30. Leaky memories: Impact of APOE4 on blood-brain barrier and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2020-06-29 Vascular contributions

    A new study suggests that the leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4), is linked to blood-brain barrier breakdown and subsequent cognitive decline.

  31. APOE Alleles and Diet in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-06-10 Genetics

    The APOE gene alleles modify human aging and the response to the diet at many levels with diverse pleotropic effects from gut to brain.

  32. Increased apolipoprotein E and decreased TNF-α in the cerebrospinal fluid of nondemented APOE-ε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology reports 2020-05-19 Genetics

    CSF levels of apoE2, apoE3, and apoE4 were significantly higher (all nominal P < 10 × 10-5 , false discovery rate < 0.001) and those of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were significantly lower (nominal P = 1.39 × 10-6 , false discovery rate < 0.001) in APOE-ε4 carriers than in noncarriers.

  33. Molecular Insight into the Therapeutic Promise of Targeting APOE4 for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2020-05-15 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes chronic cognitive dysfunction.

  34. The Important Interface Between Apolipoprotein E and Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2020-04-30 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of neurodegenerative disease, currently affecting over 5 million Americans with projections expected to rise as the population ages.

  35. APOE4 leads to blood-brain barrier dysfunction predicting cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature 2020-04-29 Tau biomarkers

    Vascular contributions to dementia and Alzheimer's disease are increasingly recognized 1-6 .

  36. Apolipoprotein E regulates the maturation of injury-induced adult-born hippocampal neurons following traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. PloS one 2020-03-02 Genetics

    Various brain injuries lead to the activation of adult neural stem/progenitor cells in the mammalian hippocampus.

  37. Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in ApoE4-Driven Diabetic Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-02-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 gene allele and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are prime risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Validation of a novel and accurate ApoE4 assay for automated chemistry analyzers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-02-07 Genetics

    The allele ε4 of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE ε4) is the major genetic risk factor for non-dominantly inherited Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  39. Interaction between APOE genotype and diabetes in cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-02-06 Genetics

    A significant interaction between diabetes and APOE genotype exists, where diabetes affected cognitive decline in APOE3 carriers and APOE2 carriers, but not APOE4 carriers.

  40. Apolipoprotein E Interferes with IAPP Aggregation and Protects Pericytes from IAPP-Induced Toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomolecules 2020-01-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) has become a primary focus of research after the discovery of its strong linkage to Alzheimer's disease (AD), where the ApoE4 variant is the highest genetic risk factor for this disease.

  41. CCL23: A Chemokine Associated with Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Biomarkers

    CCL23 is a chemokine implicated in inflammation and host defense responses.

  42. Resistance to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in an APOE3 Christchurch homozygote: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature medicine 2019-11-04 Genetics

    We identified a PSEN1 (presenilin 1) mutation carrier from the world's largest autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease kindred, who did not develop mild cognitive impairment until her seventies, three decades after the expected age of clinical onset.

  43. When time's arrow doesn't bend: APOE-ε4 influences episodic memory before old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2019-08-29 Genetics

    Episodic memory impairment is the hallmark symptom of Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  44. Differential Signaling Mediated by ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE4 in Human Neurons Parallels Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2019-07-22 Genetics

    Ample evidence suggests that ApoE4 induces microglial dysregulation and impedes Aβ clearance in AD, but the direct neuronal effects of ApoE variants are poorly studied.

  45. Apolipoprotein E associated with reconstituted high-density lipoprotein-like particles is protected from aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. FEBS letters 2019-05-27 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype determines Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility, with the APOE ε4 allele being an established risk factor for late-onset AD.

  46. Differential default mode network trajectories in asymptomatic individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-05-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Widespread DMN FC changes were shown in frontal and posterior areas, as well as in the right hippocampus.

  47. Targeting Apolipoprotein E for Alzheimer's Disease: An Industry Perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-05-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE), a key lipid transport protein in the brain, is predominantly produced by astrocytes.

  48. The Genetic Variability of APOE in Different Human Populations and Its Implications for Longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Genes 2019-03-15 Genetics

    Human longevity is a complex phenotype resulting from the combinations of context-dependent gene-environment interactions that require analysis as a dynamic process in a cohesive ecological and evolutionary framework.

  49. A Quarter Century of APOE and Alzheimer's Disease: Progress to Date and the Path Forward

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuron 2019-03-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered a polygenic disorder.

  50. The role of astroglia in Alzheimer's disease: pathophysiology and clinical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-02-19 Genetics

    Emerging evidence suggests that these morphological changes reflect functional alterations that affect disease.

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