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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. Pyroglutamate formation influences solubility and amyloidogenicity of amyloid peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemistry 2009-07-01 Clinical safety

    N-Terminally truncated and pyroglutamate (pGlu) modified amyloid beta (Abeta) peptides are major constituents of amyloid deposits in sporadic and inherited Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. β-Amyloid impairs axonal BDNF retrograde trafficking

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2009-06-21 Disease mechanisms

    The neurotrophin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), is essential for synaptic function, plasticity and neuronal survival.

  3. Soluble fibrillar oligomer levels are elevated in Alzheimer's disease brain and correlate with cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2009-06-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Recent evidence has suggested a role for soluble oligomeric Abeta species in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Apolipoprotein E-dependent accumulation of Alzheimer disease-related lesions begins in middle age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2009-06-01 Genetics

    The brain changes associated with AD may already begin developing early in middle age, especially among APOE epsilon 4 carriers.

  5. Proteomic identification of HNE-bound proteins in early Alzheimer disease: Insights into the role of lipid peroxidation in the progression of AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain research 2009-04-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Early Alzheimer's disease (EAD) is the intermediary stage between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and late-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. Fibrillar amyloid-β burden in cognitively normal people at 3 levels of genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009-04-03 Genetics

    Fibrillar amyloid-beta (Abeta) is found in the brains of many cognitively normal older people.

  7. Apolipoprotein E and its receptors in Alzheimer's disease: pathways, pathogenesis and therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2009-04-02 Genetics

  8. Effect of APOE genotype on amyloid plaque load and gray matter volume in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2009-04-01 Genetics

    These results indicate that the epsilon4-positive APOE genotype not only represents a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), but also results in higher levels of Abeta plaque deposition in epsilon4-positive patients with AD compared to age-matched epsilon4-negative patients with similar levels of cognitive impairment and brain atrophy.

  9. Genetic control of human brain transcript expression in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2009-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We recently surveyed the relationship between the human brain transcriptome and genome in a series of neuropathologically normal postmortem samples.

  10. Neuropathologic intermediate phenotypes enhance association to Alzheimer susceptibility alleles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2009-04-01 Genetics

    Discovery efforts for susceptibility loci for Alzheimer disease could benefit from the use of neuropathologic intermediate phenotypes as a complement to other approaches.

  11. Neuroprotective secreted amyloid precursor protein acts by disrupting amyloid precursor protein dimers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-03-31 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is implied both in cell growth and differentiation and in neurodegenerative processes in Alzheimer disease.

  12. Oxidatively modified proteins in Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment and animal models of AD: role of Abeta in pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2009-03-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Amyloid precursor protein processing and retinal pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie 2009-03-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Retinal ganglion cell loss is considered to be a cause of visual impairment in Alzheimer;s patients.

  14. APOE epsilon2 is associated with intact cognition but increased Alzheimer pathology in the oldest old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2009-03-01 Genetics

    In the oldest old, the presence of the APOE epsilon2 allele (APOE2) was associated with a somewhat reduced risk of dementia, but paradoxically was associated with increased Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology.

  15. PGC-1alpha expression decreases in the Alzheimer disease brain as a function of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-03-01 Genetics

    Therapeutic preservation of neuronal PGC-1alpha expression promotes the nonamyloidogenic processing of amyloid precursor protein precluding the generation of amyloidogenic Abeta peptides.

  16. Mutations in the FUS/TLS Gene on Chromosome 16 Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Science 2009-02-26 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal degenerative motor neuron disorder.

  17. Genetics and molecular pathogenesis of sporadic and hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2009-02-19 Brain tissue and pathology

    In cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), amyloid fibrils deposit in walls of arteries, arterioles and less frequently in veins and capillaries of the central nervous system, often resulting in secondary degenerative vascular changes.

  18. Genetic association study on in and around the APOE in late-onset Alzheimer disease in Japanese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Genomics 2009-02-03 Genetics

    The epsilon4 allele of APOE is a well-characterized genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD).

  19. The effects of amyloid precursor protein on postsynaptic composition and activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-01-21 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is cleaved to produce the Alzheimer disease-associated peptide Abeta, but the normal functions of uncleaved APP in the brain are unknown.

  20. Powerful beneficial effects of macrophage colony-stimulating factor on beta-amyloid deposition and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-01-17 Caregiving

    Alzheimer's disease is a major cause of dementia in humans.

  21. Upregulation of BACE1 and beta-amyloid protein mediated by chronic cerebral hypoperfusion contributes to cognitive impairment and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2009-01-04 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) increases the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) through several biologically plausible pathways, but the relationship between CCH and the development of AD remains uncertain.

  22. Genome-wide association study implicates a chromosome 12 risk locus for late-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2009-01-01 Genetics

    Only Apolipoprotein E polymorphisms have been consistently associated with the risk of late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD), but they represent only a minority of the underlying genetic effect.

  23. [(11)C]PIB-amyloid binding and levels of Abeta40 and Abeta42 in postmortem brain tissue from Alzheimer patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2008-12-30 Brain scans and imaging

    beta-Amyloid (Abeta) deposits are one of the major histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Apolipoprotein E: structure determines function, from atherosclerosis to Alzheimer's disease to AIDS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of lipid research 2008-12-22 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein (apo) E has roles beyond lipoprotein metabolism.

  25. DHA and cholesterol containing diets influence Alzheimer-like pathology, cognition and cerebral vasculature in APPswe/PS1dE9 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2008-12-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Cholesterol and docosahexenoic acid (DHA) may affect degenerative processes in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by influencing Abeta metabolism indirectly via the vasculature.

  26. Alzheimer disease Abeta production in the absence of S-palmitoylation-dependent targeting of BACE1 to lipid rafts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-12-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer disease beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides are generated via sequential proteolysis of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by BACE1 and gamma-secretase.

  27. Neprilysin gene expression requires binding of the amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain to its promoter: implications for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. EMBO reports 2008-12-05 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) accumulation leads to neurodegeneration and Alzheimer disease; however, amyloid metabolism is a dynamic process and enzymic mechanisms exist for Abeta removal.

  28. Amyloid-beta overproduction causes abnormal mitochondrial dynamics via differential modulation of mitochondrial fission/fusion proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008-12-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mitochondrial dysfunction is a prominent feature of Alzheimer disease but the underlying mechanism is unclear.

  29. Brain glucose hypometabolism and oxidative stress in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2008-12-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    One of the main features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the severe reduction of the cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (CMRglc).

  30. Episodic memory loss is related to hippocampal-mediated beta-amyloid deposition in elderly subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-11-28 How common it is

    Although beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques are a primary diagnostic criterion for Alzheimer's disease, this pathology is commonly observed in the brains of non-demented older individuals.

  31. apoE isoform-specific disruption of amyloid beta peptide clearance from mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2008-11-13 Genetics

    Neurotoxic amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) accumulates in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. MicroRNA-298 and microRNA-328 regulate expression of mouse beta-amyloid precursor protein-converting enzyme 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-11-05 Risk genes beyond APOE

    MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key regulatory RNAs known to repress mRNA translation through recognition of specific binding sites located mainly in their 3'-untranslated region (UTR).

  33. Alzheimer disease and cognitive reserve: variation of education effect with carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B uptake

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-11-01 Caregiving

    Uptake of carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B ([(11)C]PiB) was measured for participants assessed between August 15, 2003, and January 8, 2008, at the Washington University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and diagnosed either as nondemented (n = 161) or with dementia of the Alzheimer type (n = 37).

  34. Evidence for altered LRP/RAGE expression in Alzheimer lesion pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2008-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    There is significant evidence to suggest that a damaged or dysfunctional blood-brain barrier (BBB) may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.

  35. Thirty years of Alzheimer's disease genetics: the implications of systematic meta-analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2008-10-01 Genetics

    The genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain largely elusive despite early successes in identifying three genes that cause early-onset familial AD (those that encode amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the presenilins (PSEN1 and PSEN2)), and one genetic risk factor for late-onset AD (the gene that encodes apolipoprotein E (APOE)).

  36. Selective induction of calcineurin activity and signaling by oligomeric amyloid beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Aging cell 2008-09-08 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a terminal age-associated dementia characterized by early synaptic dysfunction and late neurodegeneration.

  37. Glucocorticoids trigger Alzheimer disease-like pathobiochemistry in rat neuronal cells expressing human tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2008-09-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid precursor protein (APP) mis-processing and aberrant tau hyperphosphorylation are causally related to the pathogenesis and neurodegenerative processes that characterize Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Cerebral small vessel disease-induced apolipoprotein E leakage is associated with Alzheimer disease and the accumulation of amyloid beta-protein in perivascular astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2008-09-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE) plays a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  39. Proteomic identification of nitrated brain proteins in early Alzheimer's disease inferior parietal lobule

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 2008-08-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive decline in multiple cognitive domains.

  40. Microglial Dysfunction and Defective β-Amyloid Clearance Pathways in Aging Alzheimer's Disease Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2008-08-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Early microglial accumulation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) delays disease progression by promoting clearance of beta-amyloid (Abeta) before formation of senile plaques.

  41. Elevated cerebrospinal fluid BACE1 activity in incipient Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We used a sensitive and specific beta-site amyloid precursor protein (APP)-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) assay to determine the relationship between BACE1 activity in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and markers of APP metabolism and axonal degeneration in early and late stages of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  42. Amyloid precursor protein trafficking, processing, and function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-07-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Intracellular trafficking and proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) have been the focus of numerous investigations over the past two decades.

  43. The role of amyloid precursor protein processing by BACE1, the beta-secretase, in Alzheimer disease pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-07-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid plaques, composed of the amyloid beta-protein (Abeta), are hallmark neuropathological lesions in Alzheimer disease (AD) brain.

  44. The amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain (AICD) as modulator of gene expression, apoptosis, and cytoskeletal dynamics-relevance for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2008-07-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Since the discovery of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in 1987, extensive research has been conducted analyzing the APP-derived beta-amyloid (Abeta) which is found in massive quantities in senile plaques of Alzheimer disease (AD) patients.

  45. Astrocyte phenotype in relation to Alzheimer-type pathology in the ageing brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-06-30 Biomarkers

    Astrocyte pathology occurs in association with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in brain ageing, but is poorly characterised.

  46. Amyloid-β protein dimers isolated directly from Alzheimer's brains impair synaptic plasticity and memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2008-06-22 Disease mechanisms

    Researchers extracted soluble amyloid-beta protein oligomers directly from the cerebral cortex of subjects with Alzheimer's disease to study their impact.

  47. Amyloid-beta deposits lead to retinal degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2008-06-19 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Retinas of transgenic mice harboring a mutant presenilin (PS1) and a mutant APP gene were processed for TUNEL and immunohistochemistry with antibodies against APP, amyloid-beta, monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-1, and F4/80.

  48. ApoE promotes the proteolytic degradation of Abeta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2008-06-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E is associated with age-related risk for Alzheimer's disease and plays critical roles in Abeta homeostasis.

  49. Blocking TGF-beta-Smad2/3 innate immune signaling mitigates Alzheimer-like pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature medicine 2008-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common dementia and is pathologically characterized by deposition of amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) into beta-amyloid plaques, neuronal injury and low-level, chronic activation of brain immunity.

  50. The autophagy-related protein beclin 1 shows reduced expression in early Alzheimer disease and regulates amyloid beta accumulation in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2008-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Autophagy is the principal cellular pathway for degradation of long-lived proteins and organelles and regulates cell fate in response to stress.

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