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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. Loss-of-function presenilin mutations in Alzheimer disease. Talking Point on the role of presenilin mutations in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. EMBO reports 2007-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Presenilin mutations are the main cause of familial Alzheimer disease.

  2. Soluble protein oligomers in neurodegeneration: lessons from the Alzheimer's amyloid β-peptide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2007-01-24 Disease mechanisms

    This article discusses how distinct protein aggregates found in various neurodegenerative disorders appear to cause these conditions.

  3. Intraneuronal Abeta immunoreactivity is not a predictor of brain amyloidosis-beta or neurofibrillary degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2007-01-20 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Amyloid beta (Abeta) immunoreactivity in neurons was examined in brains of 32 control subjects, 31 people with Down syndrome, and 36 patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease to determine if intraneuronal Abeta immunoreactivity is an early manifestation of Alzheimer-type pathology leading to fibrillar plaque formation and/or neurofibrillary degeneration.

  4. The neuronal sortilin-related receptor SORL1 is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature genetics 2007-01-14 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The recycling of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) from the cell surface via the endocytic pathways plays a key role in the generation of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) in Alzheimer disease.

  5. Role of the toll-like receptor 4 in neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cellular physiology and biochemistry : international journal of experimental cellular physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology 2007-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglial activation is a key feature in Alzheimer's disease and is considered to contribute to progressive neuronal injury by release of neurotoxic products.

  6. Amyloid-beta-induced pathological behaviors are suppressed by Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 and ginkgolides in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid-beta (Abeta) toxicity has been postulated to initiate synaptic loss and subsequent neuronal degeneration seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Orally available compound prevents deficits in memory caused by the Alzheimer amyloid-beta oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    A small, orally available natural product penetrates into the brain in vivo to rescue the memory impairment produced by soluble Abeta oligomers through a mechanism that restores hippocampal synaptic plasticity.

  8. Sex- and APOE isoform-dependent effects of radiation on cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Radiation research 2006-12 Genetics

    Clinical irradiation of the brain induces hippocampus-dependent cognitive impairments in some but not all individuals, suggesting the involvement of genetic risk factors.

  9. The microglial NADPH oxidase complex as a source of oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2006-11-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, and manifests as progressive cognitive decline and profound neuronal loss.

  10. Modulation of gene expression and cytoskeletal dynamics by the amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain (AICD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Molecular biology of the cell 2006-11-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloidogenic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) results in the generation of beta-amyloid, the main constituent of Alzheimer plaques, and the APP intracellular domain (AICD).

  11. Protein oxidation and lipid peroxidation in brain of subjects with Alzheimer's disease: insights into mechanism of neurodegeneration from redox proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Antioxidants & redox signaling 2006-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, involves regionalized neuronal death, synaptic loss, and an accumulation of intraneuronal, neurofibrillary tangles and extracellular senile plaques.

  12. Characterization of amyloid deposition in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2006-10-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Transgenic mice carrying disease-linked forms of genes associated with Alzheimer disease often demonstrate deposition of the beta-amyloid as senile plaques and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

  13. Mutations in the genes for amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilins (PS1, PS2) increase production of beta-amyloid 42 (Abeta42) and cause familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD).

  14. Metallothionein-I and -III expression in animal models of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience 2006-10-04 Biomarkers

    Previous studies have described altered expression of metallothioneins (MTs) in neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Decreased expression and activity of neprilysin in Alzheimer disease are associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006-10-01 Genetics

    Neprilysin (NEP) degrades amyloid-beta (Abeta) and is thought to contribute to its clearance from the brain.

  16. Selection and characterization of Affibody ligands binding to Alzheimer amyloid beta peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of biotechnology 2006-09-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Affibody (Affibody) ligands specific for human amyloid beta (Abeta) peptides (40 or 42 amino acid residues in size), involved in the progress of Alzheimer's disease, were selected by phage display technology from a combinatorial protein library based on the 58-amino acid residue staphylococcal protein A-derived Z domain.

  17. Fruit and vegetable juices and Alzheimer's disease: the Kame Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The American journal of medicine 2006-09-01 Prevention and risk

    These results may lead to a new avenue of inquiry in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease.

  18. LR11/SorLA expression is reduced in sporadic Alzheimer disease but not in familial Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006-09-01 Genetics

    LR11 is an ApoE receptor that is enriched in the brain.

  19. APP duplication is sufficient to cause early onset Alzheimer's dementia with cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-08-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    We assessed the impact of amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene locus duplications in early onset Alzheimer's disease in a Dutch population-based sample.

  20. Shorter telomeres are associated with mortality in those with APOE epsilon4 and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-08-01 Disparities

    We hypothesized that telomere length might thus relate to increased risk for dementia and mortality.

  21. Apolipoprotein E structure: insights into function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in biochemical sciences 2006-07-03 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a member of the family of soluble apolipoproteins.

  22. Age and apolipoprotein E*4 allele effects on cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid 42 in adults with normal cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-07-01 Genetics

    These CSF A beta 42 findings are consistent with acceleration by the APOE*4 allele of pathogenic A beta 42 brain deposition starting in later middle age in persons with normal cognition.

  23. Mean age-of-onset of familial alzheimer disease caused by presenilin mutations correlates with both increased Abeta42 and decreased Abeta40

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Human mutation 2006-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The varied ways in which mutations in presenilins (PSEN1 and PSEN2) affect amyloid b precursor protein (APP) processing in causing early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (FAD) are complex and not yet properly understood.

  24. Increased proliferation reflects glial and vascular-associated changes, but not neurogenesis in the presenile Alzheimer hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2006-06-30 Biomarkers

    Adult proliferation and hippocampal neurogenesis are stimulated by injury.

  25. Human amyloid-beta synthesis and clearance rates as measured in cerebrospinal fluid in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 2006-06-25 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Certain disease states are characterized by disturbances in production, accumulation or clearance of protein.

  26. Do axonal defects in tau and amyloid precursor protein transgenic animals model axonopathy in Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2006-06-19 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The subcellular localization of organelles, mRNAs and proteins is particularly challenging in neurons.

  27. Neuronal SIRT1 activation as a novel mechanism underlying the prevention of Alzheimer disease amyloid neuropathology by calorie restriction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2006-06-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)+-dependent sirtuins have been identified to be key regulators in the lifespan extending effects of calorie restriction (CR) in a number of species.

  28. High levels of Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) in children with severely autistic behavior and aggression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of child neurology 2006-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Autism is characterized by restricted, repetitive behaviors and impairment in socialization and communication.

  29. Decreased RNA, and increased RNA oxidation, in ribosomes from early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2006-05-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    All cells rely on efficient protein synthesis in order to maintain cellular homeostasis.

  30. Coronary artery disease is associated with Alzheimer disease neuropathology in APOE4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2006-05-01 Genetics

    The degree of coronary artery disease is independently associated with the cardinal neuropathological lesions of Alzheimer disease.

  31. The influence of Alzheimer disease family history and apolipoprotein E epsilon4 on mesial temporal lobe activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-05-01 Genetics

    First-degree family history of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) and the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 (APOE4) are risk factors for developing AD.

  32. Degradation of the Alzheimer disease amyloid beta-peptide by metal-dependent up-regulation of metalloprotease activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2006-04-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Biometals play an important role in Alzheimer disease, and recent reports have described the development of potential therapeutic agents based on modulation of metal bioavailability.

  33. Reversal of Alzheimer's-like pathology and behavior in human APP transgenic mice by mutation of Asp664

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-04-25 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are believed to result, at least in part, from the neurotoxic effects of beta-amyloid peptides, a set of 39-43 amino acid fragments derived proteolytically from beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  34. Promoter mutations that increase amyloid precursor-protein expression are associated with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2006-04-10 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Genetic variations in promoter sequences that alter gene expression play a prominent role in increasing susceptibility to complex diseases.

  35. Altered brain white matter integrity in healthy carriers of the APOE epsilon4 allele: a risk for AD?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2006-04-01 Genetics

    Although the mechanism underlying vulnerability of white matter tracts in APOE epsilon4 carriers is still unknown, these findings suggest that increased genetic risk for developing Alzheimer disease is associated with changes in microscopic white matter integrity well before the onset of dementia.

  36. Mechanisms behind the neuroprotective actions of cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2006-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Inhibitors of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) are presently used as long-term symptomatic treatments for patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), as they enhance central levels of synaptic acetylcholine.

  37. Apolipoprotein E4: a causative factor and therapeutic target in neuropathology, including Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-03-27 Genetics

    The premise of this review is that apolipoprotein (apo) E4 is much more than a contributing factor to neurodegeneration.

  38. Interleukin-1 mediates Alzheimer and Lewy body pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2006-03-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Clinical and neuropathological overlap between Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) is now well recognized.

  39. Structural and functional variations in human apolipoprotein E3 and E4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2006-03-14 Genetics

    There are three major apolipoprotein E (apoE) isoforms.

  40. Poor sleep is associated with higher plasma proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 and procoagulant marker fibrin D-dimer in older caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2006-03-01 Prevention and risk

    These effects were most pronounced in caregivers of subjects with Alzheimer's disease.

  41. Redox proteomics identification of oxidatively modified hippocampal proteins in mild cognitive impairment: insights into the development of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2006-02-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is generally referred to the transitional zone between normal cognitive function and early dementia or clinically probable Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Alzheimer precursor protein interaction with the Nogo-66 receptor reduces amyloid-beta plaque deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Pathophysiologic hypotheses for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are centered on the role of the amyloid plaque Abeta peptide and the mechanism of its derivation from the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  43. Bone Marrow-Derived Microglia Play a Critical Role in Restricting Senile Plaque Formation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neuron 2006-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

  44. Locus ceruleus degeneration promotes Alzheimer pathogenesis in amyloid precursor protein 23 transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Locus ceruleus (LC) degeneration and loss of cortical noradrenergic innervation occur early in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. The neuropeptide PACAP promotes the alpha-secretase pathway for processing the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2006-01-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The neuropeptide pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) has neurotrophic as well as anti-apoptotic properties and is involved in learning and memory processes.

  46. Amyloidogenic processing of beta-amyloid precursor protein in intracellular compartments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2006-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Trafficking and proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) have been the focus of numerous investigations in the past two decades, since the identification of Abeta as the principal component of brain senile plaques and the cloning of APP cDNA.

  47. Apolipoprotein E genotype and age-related myelin breakdown in healthy individuals: implications for cognitive decline and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2006-01-01 Genetics

    In later-myelinating regions, the severity and rate of myelin breakdown in healthy older individuals are associated with APOE status and support the hypothesis that this process may contribute to age at onset of AD.

  48. Cholesterol, APOE genotype, and Alzheimer disease: an epidemiologic study of Nigerian Yoruba

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2006-01-01 Genetics

    There was a significant interaction between cholesterol, APOE-epsilon4, and the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) in the Yoruba, a population that has lower cholesterol levels and lower incidence rates of AD compared to African Americans.

  49. Plasma beta-amyloid and white matter lesions in AD, MCI, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2006-01-01 Genetics

    If confirmed in longitudinal studies, these data would suggest circulating beta-amyloid peptide as a novel biomarker or risk factor for microvascular damage in these common diseases of the elderly.

  50. The cerebral beta-amyloid angiopathies: hereditary and sporadic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2006-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We review the clinical, radiologic, and neuropathologic features of the hereditary and sporadic forms of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) associated with vascular deposition of the beta-amyloid peptide.

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