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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

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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. Amyloidogenic processing of the Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein depends on lipid rafts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2003-01-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Formation of senile plaques containing the beta-amyloid peptide (A beta) derived from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) is an invariant feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Age-dependent cognitive decline in the APP23 model precedes amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2003-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Heterozygous APP23 mice, expressing human amyloid-precursor protein with the Swedish double mutation and control littermates, were subjected to behavioral and neuromotor tasks at the age of 6-8 weeks, 3 and 6 months.

  3. Studies of amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice suggest that immune responses to amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) may be instrumental in the removal of plaques from the brain, but the initial clinical trial of an Abeta vaccine in patients with Alzheimer s disease (AD) was halted as the result of serious neurological complications in some patients.

  4. Characterization of alpha 2,6-sialyltransferase cleavage by Alzheimer's beta -secretase (BACE1)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2002-12-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    BACE1 is a membrane-bound aspartic protease that cleaves the amyloid precursor protein (APP) at the beta-secretase site, a critical step in the Alzheimer disease pathogenesis.

  5. alpha- and beta-secretase: profound changes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2002-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The amyloid plaque, a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, is produced by the deposition of beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptide, which is cleaved from Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) by the enzyme beta-secretase.

  6. Long-term accumulation of amyloid-beta in axons following brain trauma without persistent upregulation of amyloid precursor protein genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Brain trauma has been shown to be a risk factor for developing Alzheimer disease (AD), and AD-like plaques containing amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides have been found in the brain shortly following trauma.

  7. Modulation of Alzheimer-like synaptic and cholinergic deficits in transgenic mice by human apolipoprotein E depends on isoform, aging, and overexpression of amyloid beta peptides but not on plaque formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002-12-01 Genetics

    The most frequent human apolipoprotein (apo) E isoforms, E3 and E4, differentially affect Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk (E4 > E3) and age of onset (E4 < E3).

  8. Serum insulin-like growth factor I regulates brain amyloid-beta levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature medicine 2002-11-04 Caregiving

    Levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), a neuroprotective hormone, decrease in serum during aging, whereas amyloid-beta (Abeta), which is involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease, accumulates in the brain.

  9. Abeta toxicity in Alzheimer's disease: globular oligomers (ADDLs) as new vaccine and drug targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2002-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Over the past several years, experiments with synthetic amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) and animal models have strongly suggested that pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves soluble assemblies of Abeta peptides (Trends Neurosci. 24 (2001) 219).

  10. Generation of antibodies specific for beta-amyloid by vaccination of patients with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature medicine 2002-10-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    To characterize antibodies produced in humans in response to Abeta42 vaccination, we carried out immunohistochemical examinations of the brains of both transgenic mice and human patients with beta-amyloid pathology.

  11. Alzheimer's disease and the basal forebrain cholinergic system: relations to beta-amyloid peptides, cognition, and treatment strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2002-10-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of degenerative dementia and is characterized by progressive impairment in cognitive function during mid- to late-adult life.

  12. Beta-secretase protein and activity are increased in the neocortex in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-09-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid plaques, a major pathological feature of Alzheimer disease (AD), are composed of an internal fragment of amyloid precursor protein (APP): the 4-kd amyloid-beta protein (Abeta).

  13. The association between the apoE epsilon4 allele and Alzheimer disease does not seem to be mediated by vascular factors.

  14. Differential distribution of laminins in Alzheimer disease and normal human brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2002-07-01 Biomarkers

    Immunocytochemistry, Western blotting, and RT-PCR were used to identify the isoforms of laminin expressed in the Alzheimer disease, but not in normal human brain tissue.

  15. Patients with Alzheimer disease have lower levels of serum anti-amyloid peptide antibodies than healthy elderly individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2002-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Active immunization with the human amyloid peptide (Abeta42) or passive immunization with anti-Abeta42 antibodies protects mice that express a mutant human amyloid precursor protein (APP) transgene from cerebral amyloid deposits.

  16. Profile of cholesterol-related sterols in aged amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of lipid research 2002-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Cholesterol is implicated to play a role in Alzheimer disease pathology.

  17. The aging brain. Changes in the neuronal insulin/insulin receptor signal transduction cascade trigger late-onset sporadic Alzheimer disease (SAD). A mini-review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2002-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Aging of the brain has been demonstrated to be the main risk factor for late-onset sporadic AD what is in contrast to early-onset familial AD in which mutations predominate the pathology.

  18. The apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele and decline in different cognitive systems during a 6-year period

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-07-01 Genetics

    The presence of epsilon 4 was associated with risk of developing AD on follow-up (relative risk, 1.92; 95% confidence interval, 1.27-2.89).

  19. Phases of Aβ-deposition in the human brain and its relevance for the development of AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2002-06-25 Brain tissue and pathology

    In the first of five phases in the evolution of beta-amyloidosis Abeta deposits are found exclusively in the neocortex.

  20. Amyloid beta-peptide and amyloid pathology are central to the oxidative stress and inflammatory cascades under which Alzheimer's disease brain exists

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2002-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain is characterized by excess deposition of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta), particularly the 42-amino acid peptide [Abeta(1-42)] and by extensive oxidative stress.

  21. Highly conserved and disease-specific patterns of carboxyterminally truncated Abeta peptides 1-37/38/39 in addition to 1-40/42 in Alzheimer's disease and in patients with chronic neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2002-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Human lumbar CSF patterns of Abeta peptides were analysed by urea-based beta-amyloid sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with western immunoblot (Abeta-SDS-PAGE/immunoblot).

  22. Association between apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer disease in African American subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-04-01 Genetics

    Compared with individuals with the APOEepsilon3/epsilon3, the odds of having AD were significantly increased among those with 1 or more copies of the epsilon4 allele; the odds ratio (OR) for the epsilon3/epsilon4 genotype was 2.6 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.8-3.7), and the OR for the epsilon4/epsilon4 genotype was 10.5 (95% CI, 5.1-21.8).

  23. Apolipoprotein E affects amyloid formation but not amyloid growth in vitro: mechanistic implications for apoE4 enhanced amyloid burden and risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis 2002-03 Genetics

    The transition from the partially folded soluble Abeta monomer to insoluble Abeta amyloidfibrils is seminal to the formation and growth of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and cardiovascular disease: a HuGE review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2002-03-01 Genetics

    This review examines the association between the apolipoprotein (apo) var epsilon gene polymorphism (or its protein product (apo E)), metabolic regulation of cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease.

  25. Intracellular amyloid-beta 1-42, but not extracellular soluble amyloid-beta peptides, induces neuronal apoptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2002-02-22 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer disease (AD), the most frequent cause of dementia, is characterized by an important neuronal loss.

  26. A novel epsilon-cleavage within the transmembrane domain of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein demonstrates homology with Notch processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Biochemistry 2002-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Proteolytic processing of the transmembrane domain of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a key component of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

  27. [alpha]-Secretase ADAM10 as well as [alpha]APPs is reduced in platelets and CSF of Alzheimer disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2002-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The present study addresses the following major questions: 1) Are the levels of an alpha-secretase candidate (i.e., ADAM10) reduced in accessible cells of Alzheimer Disease (AD) patients? 2) Are ADAM10 levels in the peripheral cells of AD patients related to a concomitant decrease in alpha APPs?

  28. Time course of the development of Alzheimer-like pathology in the doubly transgenic PS1+APP mouse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2002-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Doubly transgenic mice expressing both a mutated amyloid precursor protein and a mutated presenilin-1 protein accumulate A(beta) deposits as they age.

  29. Estrogen lowers Alzheimer beta-amyloid generation by stimulating trans-Golgi network vesicle biogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2002-01-31 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Estrogen reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease in post-menopausal women, beta-amyloid (Abeta) burden in animal models of Alzheimer's disease, and secretion of Abeta from neuronal cultures.

  30. Increased amyloid- levels in APPSWE transgenic mice treated chronically with a physiological high-fat high-cholesterol diet

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2002-01-01 Genetics

    Although plasma cholesterol levels are not generally associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) incidence, in vitro studies have found that increased cellular cholesterol levels are associated with increases in -amyloid (A ) production, with a concomitant decrease in sAPPa, the secreted non amyloidogenic fragment of the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  31. Plasma levels of Abeta42 and Abeta40 in Alzheimer patients during treatment with the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor tacrine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2002-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Deregulation of amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing with increased production of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is considered to be a key pathogenic event in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Repetitive mild brain trauma accelerates Abeta deposition, lipid peroxidation, and cognitive impairment in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease (AD), but it is not known how TBI contributes to the onset or progression of this common late life dementia.

  33. Brain metabolism and brain disease: is metabolic deficiency the proximate cause of Alzheimer dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2001-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The potential of impairments in oxidative/energy metabolism to cause diseases of the brain had been proposed even before the major pathways of oxidative/energy metabolism were described.

  34. Melatonin reverses the profibrillogenic activity of apolipoprotein E4 on the Alzheimer amyloid Abeta peptide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Biochemistry 2001-12-01 Genetics

    Inheritance of apoE4 is a strong risk factor for the development of late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. A subset of NSAIDs lower amyloidogenic Aβ42 independently of cyclooxygenase activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature 2001-11-01 Drug development

  36. Cotton wool plaques in non-familial late-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2001-11-01 Biomarkers

    Cotton wool plaques (CWP) are large, ball-like plaques lacking dense amyloid cores that displace adjacent structures.

  37. Ibuprofen effects on Alzheimer pathology and open field activity in APPsw transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We previously showed the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ibuprofen suppresses inflammation and amyloid in the APPsw (Tg2576) Tg2576 transgenic mouse.

  38. Relationship between beta amyloid peptide generating molecules and neprilysin in Alzheimer disease and normal brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain research 2001-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    beta-Amyloid peptide (Abeta) is generated by two cleavages of amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  39. The role of activated astrocytes and of the neurotrophic cytokine S100B in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Activated astrocytes, overexpressing the neurotrophic signaling molecule S100beta, are invariant components of the Abeta plaques of Alzheimer's disease.

  40. Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 and the pattern of regional brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2001-10-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Different patterns of regional brain atrophy were found among patients of different APOE genotypes.

  41. Reduced levels of amyloid beta-peptide antibody in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2001-09-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Immunization with preaggregated amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta(1-42)) and administration of antibodies against Abeta into amyloid precursor protein APP(V717F)- transgenic mice (an animal model of AD) have recently been reported to dramatically reduce amyloid plaque deposition, neuritic dystrophy, and astrogliosis, most likely by enhancing Abeta clearance from brain.

  42. The evolution of A beta peptide burden in the APP23 transgenic mice: implications for A beta deposition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2001-09-01 Genetics

    We suggest that the APP23 Tg mouse may develop an earlier blockage in A beta clearance than the Tg2576 mice, resulting in a more severe accumulation of A beta in the perivascular drainage pathways and in the brain.

  43. Cholesterol accumulates in senile plaques of Alzheimer disease patients and in transgenic APP(SW) mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2001-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mounting evidence suggests that cholesterol may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  44. Active glycation in neurofibrillary pathology of Alzheimer disease: N(epsilon)-(carboxymethyl) lysine and hexitol-lysine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2001-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Advanced glycation end products are a diverse class of posttranslational modifications, stemming from reactive aldehyde reactions, that have been implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of degenerative diseases.

  45. Association between apolipoprotein E epsilon4 and sleep-disordered breathing in adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA 2001-06-01 Genetics

    A significant portion of sleep-disordered breathing is associated with ApoE epsilon4 in the general population.

  46. Local cellular sources of apolipoprotein E in the human retina and retinal pigmented epithelium: implications for the process of drusen formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of ophthalmology 2001-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Apolipoprotein E protein is strategically located at the same anatomic locus where drusen are situated, and the retinal pigmented epithelium is the most likely local biosynthetic source of apolipoprotein E at that location.

  47. Novel amyloid precursor protein mutation in an Iowa family with dementia and severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2001-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Several mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene have been found to associate with pathologic deposition of the beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in neuritic plaques or in the walls of cerebral vessels.

  48. The Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein (APP) and FE65, an APP-binding protein, regulate cell movement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2001-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    FE65 binds to the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein (APP), but the function of this interaction has not been identified.

  49. Plasmalogen deficiency in early Alzheimer's disease subjects and in animal models: molecular characterization using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2001-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    To explore the hypothesis that alterations in ethanolamine plasmalogen may be directly related to the severity of dementia in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we performed a systematic examination of plasmalogen content in cellular membranes of gray and white matter from different regions of human subjects with a spectrum of AD clinical dementia ratings (CDR) using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI/MS).

  50. Vitamin B(12) and folate in relation to the development of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2001-05-01 Prevention and risk

    A population-based longitudinal study in Sweden, the Kungsholmen Project A random sample of 370 nondemented persons, aged 75 years and older and not treated with B(12) and folate, was followed for 3 years to detect incident AD cases.

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