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  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

1,613 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 93
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 68
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 52
  • Archives of neurology 43
  • Neurobiology of aging 38

457 journals in all.

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  1. Bioenergetic mechanisms in astrocytes may contribute to amyloid plaque deposition and toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-03-26 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized neuropathologically by synaptic disruption, neuronal loss, and deposition of amyloid β (Aβ) protein in brain structures that are critical for memory and cognition.

  2. Clinicopathologic and 11C-Pittsburgh compound B implications of Thal amyloid phase across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-03-23 Getting a diagnosis

    Second, we examined the relevance of Thal amyloid phase in a prospectively-followed autopsied cohort who underwent ante-mortem (11)C-Pittsburgh compound B imaging; using the large autopsy cohort to broaden our perspective of (11)C-Pittsburgh compound B results.

  3. APOE ‐modulated Aβ‐induced neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: current landscape, novel data, and future perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 2015-03-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    Chronic glial activation and neuroinflammation induced by the amyloid‐β peptide (Aβ) contribute to Alzheimer's disease ( AD ) pathology.

  4. Amyloid-β, anxiety, and cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease: a multicenter, prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2015-03-01 Genetics

    Although the presence of abnormal levels of amyloid-β (Aβ) is associated with higher rates of progression to clinically classified mild cognitive impairment or dementia, little research has evaluated potentially modifiable moderators of Aβ-related cognitive decline, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms.

  5. Neuronal amyloid-β accumulation within cholinergic basal forebrain in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The mechanisms that contribute to selective vulnerability of the magnocellular basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, are not fully understood.

  6. The clinical symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD) include a gradual memory loss and subsequent dementia, and neuropathological deposition of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  7. Spatially distinct atrophy is linked to β-amyloid and tau in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2015-02-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Spatially distinct neurodegeneration is associated with Aβ and tau pathology in preclinical AD.

  8. Cholesterol metabolism and homeostasis in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Protein & cell 2015-02-15 Vascular contributions

    Cholesterol is an essential component for neuronal physiology not only during development stage but also in the adult life.

  9. Amyloid-β deposition in mild cognitive impairment is associated with increased hippocampal activity, atrophy and clinical progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-02-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cross-sectional functional magnetic resonance imaging studies using a memory task in patients with mild cognitive impairment have produced discordant results, with some studies reporting increased hippocampal activity--consistent with findings in genetic at-risk populations--and other studies reporting decreased hippocampal activity, relative to normal controls.

  10. Coding mutations in SORL1 and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Common single nucleotide polymorphisms in the SORL1 gene have been associated with late onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD), but causal variants have not been fully characterized nor has the mechanism been established.

  11. Downregulated miR-29c correlates with increased BACE1 expression in sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of clinical and experimental pathology 2015-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Beta-site Amyloid precursor protein Cleaving Enzyme 1 (BACE1) is conceived as a potential target for therapies against Alzheimer disease (AD) which is characterized by the accumulation of plaques formed of short β-amyloid (APPβ) peptides.

  12. Parkinson's disease iron deposition caused by nitric oxide-induced loss of β-amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Elevation of both neuronal iron and nitric oxide (NO) in the substantia nigra are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis.

  13. The ApoE Gene Is Related with Exceptional Longevity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Rejuvenation Research 2015-02 Genetics

    The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the association of the apolipoprotein E ( ApoE ) gene with exceptional longevity (EL) ( i.e ., reaching 100+ years) by identifying possible unequal distribution of alleles/genotypes in the common variants ε2, ε3, and ε4 among centenarians and younger population.

  14. Il10 deficiency rebalances innate immunity to mitigate Alzheimer-like pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuron 2015-01-22 Genetics

    The impact of inflammation suppressor pathways on Alzheimer's disease (AD) evolution remains poorly understood.

  15. Elevated Levels of LDL-C are Associated With ApoE4 but Not With the rs688 Polymorphism in the LDLR Gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis 2015-01-19 Genetics

    The TT genotype of rs688 in the LDLR gene was not found to be associated with elevated levels of total cholesterol or LDL-C.

  16. ApoE Type 4 Allele Affects Cognitive Function of Aged Population in Tianjin City, China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias® 2015-01-13 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E type 4 allele (ApoE∊4) is known as a risk gene for the late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and the relationship between ApoE∊4 and cognitive function of the elderly people has drawn the attention of the scientists.

  17. Plasma levels of apolipoprotein E and risk of dementia in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-01-13 Genetics

    Low plasma levels of apoE are associated with increased risk of future Alzheimer disease and all dementia in the general population, independent of ε2/ε3/ε4 APOE genotype.

  18. The Association Between Serum ApoE Genetic Polymorphism and Serum Lipid Level in Hemodialysis Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers 2015-01-07 Genetics

    Growing evidence indicates that apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is one of the most important candidate genes for influencing the development of hemodialysis (HD).

  19. Association of Alzheimer's disease GWAS loci with MRI markers of brain aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-01-06 Genetics

    Whether novel risk variants of Alzheimer's disease (AD) identified through genome-wide association studies also influence magnetic resonance imaging-based intermediate phenotypes of AD in the general population is unclear.

  20. Early etiology of Alzheimer's disease: tipping the balance toward autophagy or endosomal dysfunction?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-01-03 Disease mechanisms

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

  21. Association of Brain DNA methylation in SORL1, ABCA7, HLA-DRB5, SLC24A4, and BIN1 with pathological diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-01-01 Genetics

    Brain DNA methylation in multiple AD loci is associated with AD pathologies.

  22. The Relationship between Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Apolipoprotein E Genetic Variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Respiration 2015 Genetics

    The mean age was 51 ± 12 years. Forty-two of the patients had OSAS.

  23. Orexinergic system dysregulation, sleep impairment, and cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-12-01 Risk factors

    Patients with moderate to severe AD presented with higher mean (SD) orexin levels compared with controls (154.36 [28.16] vs 131.03 [26.55]; P Conclusions and relevance Our results demonstrate that, in AD, increased cerebrospinal fluid orexin levels are related to a parallel sleep deterioration, which appears to be associated with cognitive decline.

  24. Acute function of secreted amyloid precursor protein fragment APPsα in synaptic plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-11-29 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The key role of APP in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease is well established.

  25. APOE, MAPT, and SNCA genes and cognitive performance in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-11-01 Genetics

    Our data indicate that the APOE ε4 allele is an important predictor of cognitive function in PD across multiple domains.

  26. Effects of multiple genetic loci on age at onset in late-onset Alzheimer disease: a genome-wide association study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-11-01 Genetics

    Analysis confirmed the association of APOE with earlier AAO (P = 3.3 × 10(-96)), with associations in CR1 (rs6701713, P = 7.2 × 10(-4)), BIN1 (rs7561528, P = 4.8 × 10(-4)), and PICALM (rs561655, P = 2.2 × 10(-3)) reaching statistical significance (P Conclusions and relevance We confirmed an association of APOE (OMIM 107741) variants with AAO among affected participants with LOAD and observed novel associations of CR1 (OMIM 120620), BIN1 (OMIM 601248), and PICALM (OMIM 603025) with AAO.

  27. Fibrin deposited in the Alzheimer's disease brain promotes neuronal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-10-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and has no effective treatment.

  28. Dysfunctionally phosphorylated type 1 insulin receptor substrate in neural-derived blood exosomes of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2014-10-23 Getting a diagnosis

    Insulin resistance causes diminished glucose uptake in similar regions of the brain in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2).

  29. Human apolipoprotein E ɛ4 expression impairs cerebral vascularization and blood-brain barrier function in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2014-10-22 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (APOE) exists in three isoforms ɛ2, ɛ3, and ɛ4, of which APOE4 is the main genetic risk factor of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  30. The emerging link between O-GlcNAc and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-10-21 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Regional glucose hypometabolism is a defining feature of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  31. Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer disease protection by the A673T allele of amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-09-24 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Pathogenic mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene have been described as causing early onset familial Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. The Alzheimer disease protective mutation A2T modulates kinetic and thermodynamic properties of amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-09-24 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Missense mutations in alanine 673 of the amyloid precursor protein (APP), which corresponds to the second alanine of the amyloid β (Aβ) sequence, have dramatic impact on the risk for Alzheimer disease; A2V is causative, and A2T is protective.

  33. Although altered lipid metabolism has been extensively implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) through cell biological, epidemiological, and genetic studies, the molecular mechanisms linking cholesterol and AD pathology are still not well understood and contradictory results have been reported.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. APOE ε4: the most prevalent yet understudied risk factor for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-09-10 Genetics

    Brain pathology of Alzheimer's diseases (AD) and the genetics of autosomal dominant familial AD have been the "lamp posts" under which the AD field has been looking for therapeutic targets.

  37. 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.

  38. 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.

  39. Apolipoprotein E: structure and function in lipid metabolism, neurobiology, and Alzheimer's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2014-08-27 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein (apo) E is a multifunctional protein with central roles in lipid metabolism, neurobiology, and neurodegenerative diseases.

  40. 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.

  41. Haptoglobin interacts with apolipoprotein E and beta-amyloid and influences their crosstalk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2014-08-01 Genetics

    Beta-amyloid accumulation in brain is a driving force for Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

  42. 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.

  43. 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.

  44. 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.

  45. 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.

  46. How proteomic ApoE serotyping could impact Alzheimer's disease risk assessment: genetic testing by proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of proteomics 2014-07-04 Genetics

    Humans have three major apolipoprotein E (ApoE) alleles (APOE; ε2, ε3 and ε4) that produce three ApoE protein isoforms.

  47. 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.

  48. 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.

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

  50. 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.

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