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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

1,350 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 92
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 67
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 47
  • Archives of neurology 43
  • JAMA neurology 36

372 journals in all.

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  1. Influence of microglial activation on neuronal function in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-09-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the two common neurodegenerative diseases characterized by progressive neuronal dysfunction in the presence of pathological microglial activation.

  2. Amyloid-β pathology and APOE genotype modulate retinoid X receptor agonist activity in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-09-12 Genetics

    Previous data demonstrate that bexarotene (Bex), retinoid X receptor (RXR) agonist, reduces soluble and insoluble amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease (AD)-transgenic mice either by increasing the levels of mouse apolipoprotein E (apoE) or increasing ABCA1/ABCG1-induced apoE lipoprotein association/lipidation.

  3. Plasma amyloid-β and risk of Alzheimer's disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-09-10 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide levels have been examined as a low-cost accessible marker for risk of incident Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia, but results have varied between studies.

  4. Transcriptomics and mechanistic elucidation of Alzheimer's disease risk genes in the brain and in vitro models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-09-06 TREM2 and immune genetics

    In this study, we have assessed the expression and splicing status of genes involved in the pathogenesis or affecting the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the postmortem inferior temporal cortex samples obtained from 60 subjects with varying degree of AD-related neurofibrillary pathology.

  5. Identification of preclinical Alzheimer's disease by a profile of pathogenic proteins in neurally derived blood exosomes: A case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-08-15 Lewy body dementia

    Levels of P-S396-tau, P-T181-tau, and Aβ1-42 in extracts of neurally derived blood exosomes predict the development of AD up to 10 years before clinical onset.

  6. Intracellular amyloid and the neuronal origin of Alzheimer neuritic plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2014-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Genetic analysis of familial forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) causally links the proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and AD.

  7. PLXNA4 is associated with Alzheimer disease and modulates tau phosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-07-29 Long-term cohort studies

    Much of the genetic basis for Alzheimer disease (AD) is unexplained.

  8. Decreased amyloid-β pathologies by intracerebral loading of glycosphingolipid-enriched exosomes in Alzheimer model mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-07-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    Elevated levels of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) in the human brain are linked to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease.

  9. Copper subtype of Alzheimer's disease (AD): meta-analyses, genetic studies and predictive value of non-ceruloplasmim copper in mild cognitive impairment conversion to full AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) 2014-07-10 Disease mechanisms

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

  10. Clinical predictors of severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy and influence of APOE genotype in persons with pathologically verified Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-07-01 Genetics

    Persons with severe CAA compared with those without CAA were more likely to carry an APOE ε4 allele (64.9% vs 42.8%, respectively; P Conclusions and relevance Being Hispanic and having had a transient ischemic attack-like episode were predictors of CAA in persons with AD.

  11. Matrix metalloproteinases and their multiple roles in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BioMed research international 2014-06-24 Disease mechanisms

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

  12. A growing body of evidence supports an intriguing clinical/epidemiological connection between Alzheimer disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D).

  13. Hypocretin and brain β-amyloid peptide interactions in cognitive disorders and narcolepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2014-06-11 Tau biomarkers

    Sleep disturbances are frequent in AD.

  14. Ryanodine receptors: physiological function and deregulation in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-06-05 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Perturbed Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) calcium (Ca2+) homeostasis emerges as a central player in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  15. Homocysteine exacerbates β-amyloid pathology, tau pathology, and cognitive deficit in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease with plaques and tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-05-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    High level of homocysteine (Hcy) is a recognized risk factor for developing Alzheimer disease (AD).

  16. Crucial role of calbindin-D28k in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cell death and differentiation 2014-05-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Calbindin-D28k (CB), one of the major calcium-binding and buffering proteins, has a critical role in preventing a neuronal death as well as maintaining calcium homeostasis.

  17. The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 and amyloid-β clearance in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2014-05-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    Accumulation and aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides in the brain trigger the development of progressive neurodegeneration and dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. APOE genotype and neuroimaging markers of Alzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2014-05-16 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    APOE ɛ4 was associated with atrophic hippocampal volume in MRI markers, increased cerebral amyloid deposition and cerebral hypometabolism.

  19. IFN-γ and TNF-α are involved during Alzheimer disease progression and correlate with nitric oxide production: a study in Algerian patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research 2014-05-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease leading to a progressive and irreversible loss of mental functions.

  20. Association of hypometabolism and amyloid levels in aging, normal subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2014-05-02 Genetics

    Hypometabolism in PiB-positive, cognitively normal subjects in a population-based cohort occurs in AD-signature cortical regions and to a lesser extent in other cortical regions.

  21. ABCC9 gene polymorphism is associated with hippocampal sclerosis of aging pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-04-27 Long-term cohort studies

    Hippocampal sclerosis of aging (HS-Aging) is a high-morbidity brain disease in the elderly but risk factors are largely unknown.

  22. O-GlcNAc and neurodegeneration: biochemical mechanisms and potential roles in Alzheimer's disease and beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Chemical Society reviews 2014-04-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a growing problem for aging populations worldwide.

  23. Amyloid and APOE ε4 interact to influence short-term decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2014-04-18 Genetics

    High Aβ participants were more likely to be APOE ε4+ than low Aβ participants.

  24. Sex modifies the APOE-related risk of developing Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-04-14 Genetics

    APOE4 confers greater AD risk in women.

  25. Rates of β-amyloid accumulation are independent of hippocampal neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2014-04-04 Biomarkers

    We describe a 2-feature biomarker approach to classifying elderly CN subjects that is complementary to the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association preclinical staging criteria.

  26. Amyloid-β and tau: the trigger and bullet in Alzheimer disease pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The defining features of Alzheimer disease (AD) include conspicuous changes in both brain histology and behavior.

  27. Mutations in the Matrin 3 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2014-03-30 Lewy body dementia

    MATR3 is an RNA- and DNA-binding protein that interacts with TDP-43, a disease protein linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

  28. Atherosclerosis and Alzheimer--diseases with a common cause? Inflammation, oxysterols, vasculature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2014-03-21 Genetics

    Both ATH and AD involve inflammation, macrophage infiltration, and occlusion of the vasculature.

  29. Diabetes and elevated hemoglobin A1c levels are associated with brain hypometabolism but not amyloid accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2014-03-20 Biomarkers

    These factors should be investigated in longitudinal studies for their role in detecting onset of symptoms in AD.

  30. Association of brain amyloid-β with cerebral perfusion and structure in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-03-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease have reduced cerebral blood flow measured by arterial spin labelling magnetic resonance imaging, but it is unclear how this is related to amyloid-β pathology.

  31. Elevated serum pesticide levels and risk for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-03-01 Genetics

    Levels of DDE were 3.8-fold higher in the serum of those with AD (mean [SEM], 2.64 [0.35] ng/mg cholesterol) when compared with control participants (mean [SEM], 0.69 [0.1] ng/mg cholesterol; P Conclusions and relevance Elevated serum DDE levels are associated with an increased risk for AD and carriers of an APOE4 ε4 allele may be more susceptible to the effects of DDE.

  32. A novel presenilin 1 mutation (Ala275Val) as cause of early-onset familial Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2014-02-26 Tau biomarkers

    Mutations in the presenilin 1 (PS1) gene (PSEN1) are associated with familial Alzheimer disease (FAD).

  33. APOE ε4 and the risk for Alzheimer disease and cognitive decline in African Americans and Yoruba

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2014-02-24 Genetics

    The reasons for these differences remain unclear.

  34. A genome-wide association meta-analysis of plasma Aβ peptides concentrations in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2014-02-18 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides are the major components of senile plaques, one of the main pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  35. Amyloid beta: multiple mechanisms of toxicity and only some protective effects?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2014-02-05 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a peptide of 39-43 amino acids found in large amounts and forming deposits in the brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. APOE ε4 worsens hippocampal CA1 apical neuropil atrophy and episodic memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2014-01-22 Genetics

    The APOE ε4 allele segregated dose-dependently and selectively with CA1-SRLM thinning and worse episodic memory performance in a pool of older subjects across a cognitive spectrum.

  37. Cholesterol as a causative factor in Alzheimer's disease: a debatable hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2014-01-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    High serum/plasma cholesterol levels have been suggested as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Hippocampal sclerosis of aging is a key Alzheimer's disease mimic: clinical-pathologic correlations and comparisons with both alzheimer's disease and non-tauopathic frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Hippocampal sclerosis of aging (HS-Aging) neuropathology was observed in more than 15% of aged individuals in prior studies.

  39. Alzheimer disease (AD) results, in part, from the excess accumulation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide as neuritic plaques in the brain.

  40. Liposomes bi-functionalized with phosphatidic acid and an ApoE-derived peptide affect Aβ aggregation features and cross the blood-brain-barrier: implications for therapy of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine 2013-12-10 Genetics

    Targeting amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) within the brain is a strategy actively sought for therapy of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  41. Both Targeted Mass Spectrometry and Flow Sorting Analysis Methods Detected the Decreased Serum Apolipoprotein E Level in Alzheimer's Disease Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2013-12-08 Risk factors

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphism has been appreciated as a valuable predictor of Alzheimer disease (AD), and the associated ε4 allele has been recognized as an indicator of susceptibility to this disease.

  42. Modification of the relationship of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele to the risk of Alzheimer disease and neurofibrillary tangle density by sleep

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-12-01 Genetics

    Better sleep consolidation attenuates the effect of APOE genotype on incident AD and development of neurofibrillary tangle pathology.

  43. The role of protein glycosylation in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The FEBS journal 2013-11-26 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Glycosylation is one of the most common, and the most complex, forms of post-translational modification of proteins.

  44. Characterization of intermediate steps in amyloid beta (Aβ) production under near-native conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2013-11-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by γ-secretase results in generation of Aβ peptides of different lengths ranging from 51 to 30 residues.

  45. Why Alzheimer trials fail: removing soluble oligomeric beta amyloid is essential, inconsistent, and difficult

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-10-19 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Before amyloid formation, peptides cleaved from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) exist as soluble oligomers.

  46. miR128 up-regulation correlates with impaired amyloid β(1-42) degradation in monocytes from patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-09-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia in elderly individuals, is characterized by neurofibrillary tangles, extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neuroinflammation.

  47. The amyloid cascade-inflammatory hypothesis of Alzheimer disease: implications for therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2013-09-20 Brain scans and imaging

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis is widely accepted as the centerpiece of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  48. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex and RNA splicing alterations in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013-09-10 Lewy body dementia

    Deposition of insoluble protein aggregates is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases.

  49. Low cerebrospinal fluid concentration of mitochondrial DNA in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-09-04 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction techniques, we measured circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from study participants, selected from a cohort of 282 subjects, who were classified according to their concentrations of amyloid β1-42, total tau, and phosphorylated tau and by the presence or absence of dementia, into asymptomatic subjects at risk of AD, symptomatic patients diagnosed with sporadic AD, presymptomatic subjects carrying pathogenic PSEN1 mutations, and patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  50. Genetic susceptibility for Alzheimer disease neuritic plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-09-01 Genetics

    These findings enhance understanding of AD risk factors by relating validated susceptibility alleles to increased neuritic plaque pathology and implicate common genetic variation at the APP locus in the earliest, presymptomatic stages of AD.

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