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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. Cholesterol metabolism in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current opinion in lipidology 2001-04-01 Genetics

    The central nervous system accounts for only 2% of the whole body mass but contains almost a quarter of the unesterified cholesterol present in the whole individual.

  2. Pathways to neuronal injury and apoptosis in HIV-associated dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature 2001-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) can induce dementia with alarming occurrence worldwide.

  3. Quantitation of apoE domains in Alzheimer disease brain suggests a role for apoE in Abeta aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2001-04-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE) and apoE-derived proteolytic fragments are present in amyloid deposits in Alzheimer disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  4. Amyloid precursor protein in platelets of patients with Alzheimer disease: effect of acetylcholinesterase inhibitor treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    All patients taking donepezil completed the 30 days of treatment without adverse effects.

  5. Beta-amyloid-induced glial expression of both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in cerebral cortex of aged transgenic Tg2576 mice with Alzheimer plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain research 2001-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    To elucidate the mechanisms involved in beta-amyloid-mediated inflammation in Alzheimer's disease, transgenic Tg2576 mice containing as transgene the Swedish double mutation of human amyloid precursor protein 695, were examined for the expression pattern of various cytokines using double immunocytochemistry and laser scanning microscopy.

  6. Apolipoprotein E genotype and cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Atherosclerosis 2001-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Apolipoprotein (apo) E is a constituent of lipoproteins with considerable variation due to cysteine-arginine exchanges.

  7. Codeposition of cystatin C with amyloid-beta protein in the brain of Alzheimer disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2001-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Immunohistochemical analysis of brains of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) revealed that the cysteine proteinase inhibitor cystatin C colocalizes with amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in parenchymal and vascular amyloid deposits.

  8. Tacrine and rate of progression in Alzheimer's disease--relation to ApoE allele genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2001 Genetics

    Today, cognitive impairment can be successfully treated with acetylcholine esterase inhibitors (AChE-I) in many, but not all, patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. The morphological phenotype of beta-amyloid plaques and associated neuritic changes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience 2001-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We have utilised laser confocal microscopy to categorise beta-amyloid plaque types that are associated with preclinical and end-stage Alzheimer's disease and to define the neurochemistry of dystrophic neurites associated with various forms of plaques.

  10. Association of a haplotype for tumor necrosis factor in siblings with late-onset Alzheimer disease: the NIMH Alzheimer Disease Genetics Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics 2000-12-01 Genetics

    Tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a proinflammatory cytokine, may be involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) based on observations that senile plaques have been found to upregulate proinflammatory cytokines.

  11. Memory performance and the apolipoprotein E polymorphism in a community sample of middle-aged adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics 2000-12-01 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E genotype (APOE) is an established risk factor for Alzheimer disease, with the age-at-onset occurring earlier in individuals having at least one APOE epsilon 4 allele, relative to the APOE epsilon 3 or APOE epsilon 2 isoforms.

  12. Genetic association of a cystatin C gene polymorphism with late-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-11-01 Genetics

    CST3 is a susceptibility gene for late-onset AD, especially in patients aged 75 years and older.

  13. Neuronal apoptosis by apolipoprotein E4 through low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein and heterotrimeric GTPases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2000-11-01 Drug development

    The epsilon4 genotype of apolipoprotein E (apoE4) is the most established predisposing factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, it remains unclear how apoE4 contributes to the pathophysiology.

  14. Decreased Prevalence of Alzheimer Disease Associated With 3-Hydroxy-3-Methyglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 2000-10-01 Risk factors

    There is a lower prevalence of diagnosed probable AD in patients taking 2 different 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors-lovastatin and pravastatin.

  15. Apolipoprotein E variation at the sequence haplotype level: implications for the origin and maintenance of a major human polymorphism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2000-09-13 Disparities

    Three common protein isoforms of apolipoprotein E (apoE), encoded by the epsilon2, epsilon3, and epsilon4 alleles of the APOE gene, differ in their association with cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease risk.

  16. Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer disease: an update on genetic and functional analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2000-09-01 Genetics

    Exceptional advances have been made in understanding the genetics of how common polymorphisms of the apolipoprotein E gene influence the risk and age of onset of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  17. Apolipoprotein E isoforms in Alzheimer's disease pathology and etiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Microscopy research and technique 2000-08-15 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E (apoE) epsilon4 allele increases risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), perhaps by accelerating plaque formation, or by impairing neuron repair.

  18. Peripherally administered antibodies against amyloid beta-peptide enter the central nervous system and reduce pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature medicine 2000-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    One hallmark of Alzheimer disease is the accumulation of amyloid beta-peptide in the brain and its deposition as plaques.

  19. Age-related amyloid beta deposition in transgenic mice overexpressing both Alzheimer mutant presenilin 1 and amyloid beta precursor protein Swedish mutant is not associated with global neuronal loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2000-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    To analyze the relationship between the deposition of amyloid beta peptides (Abeta) and neuronal loss in transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease (AD), we examined the frontal neocortex (Fc) and CA1 portion of hippocampus (CA1) in PSAPP mice doubly expressing AD-associated mutant presenilin 1 (PS1) and Swedish-type mutant beta amyloid precursor protein (APPsw) by morphometry of Abeta burden and neuronal counts.

  20. Gene-expression profile of the ageing brain in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature genetics 2000-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Ageing of the brain leads to impairments in cognitive and motor skills, and is the major risk factor for several common neurological disorders such as Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD).

  21. Induction of cytokines in glial cells surrounding cortical beta-amyloid plaques in transgenic Tg2576 mice with Alzheimer pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience 2000-07-01 Biomarkers

    beta-Amyloid plaque deposition observed in brains from Alzheimer patients, might function as immune stimulus for glial/macrophages activation, which is supported by observations of activated microglia expressing interleukin (IL)-1beta and elevated IL-6 immunoreactivity in close proximity to amyloid plaques.

  22. SNPing away at complex diseases: analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphisms around APOE in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2000-06-21 Genetics

    There has been great interest in the prospects of using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the search for complex disease genes, and several initiatives devoted to the identification and mapping of SNPs throughout the human genome are currently underway.

  23. Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and Alzheimer disease: The Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-06-01 Genetics

    The APOE*E4 allele of the gene for apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been reported as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) to varying degrees in different ethnic groups.

  24. Association between severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cerebrovascular lesions in Alzheimer disease is not a spurious one attributable to apolipoprotein E4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-06-01 Genetics

    Severe CAA confers a greater risk of VLs in AD, even within strata of APOE genotype.

  25. Proteolytic processing and cell biological functions of the amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of cell science 2000-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent research has identified some key players involved in the proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) to amyloid beta-peptide, the principal component of the amyloid plaques in Alzheimer patients.

  26. Cerebral metabolic and cognitive decline in persons at genetic risk for 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 2000-05-01 Genetics

    The major known genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), apolipoprotein E-4 (APOE-4), is associated with lowered parietal, temporal, and posterior cingulate cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with a clinical diagnosis of AD.

  27. Evidence for seeding of beta -amyloid by intracerebral infusion of Alzheimer brain extracts in beta -amyloid precursor protein-transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2000-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Many neurodegenerative diseases are associated with the abnormal sequestration of disease-specific proteins in the brain, but the events that initiate this process remain unclear.

  28. Role of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein in beta-amyloid metabolism and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-05-01 Genetics

    Deposition of beta-amyloid (A beta), a metabolite of approximately 4 kd of the amyloid precursor protein, is a critical pathological feature in Alzheimer disease.

  29. A decamer duplication in the 3' region of the BRI gene originates an amyloid peptide that is associated with dementia in a Danish kindred

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Familial Danish dementia (FDD), also known as heredopathia ophthalmo-oto-encephalica, is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by cataracts, deafness, progressive ataxia, and dementia.

  30. Fine mapping of the chromosome 12 late-onset Alzheimer disease locus: potential genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2000-03-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the only confirmed susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  31. Apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent amyloid deposition and neuritic degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000-02-29 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE) alleles determine the age-adjusted relative risk (epsilon4 > epsilon3) for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Endogenous estrogen levels and Alzheimer's disease among postmenopausal women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2000-02-01 Vascular contributions

    The results of this preliminary case-control study suggest that estradiol levels may decline significantly in women in whom AD develops.

  33. Lack of an association of estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms and transcriptional activity with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Long-term cognitive decline in postmenopausal women is associated with aging and Alzheimer disease (AD).

  34. Apolipoprotein E: far more than a lipid transport protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual review of genomics and human genetics 2000-01-01 Genetics

    First recognized as a major determinant in lipoprotein metabolism and cardiovascular disease, apolipoprotein (apo) E has emerged as an important molecule in several biological processes not directly related to its lipid transport function, including Alzheimer's disease and cognitive function, immunoregulation, and possibly even infectious diseases.

  35. Apolipoprotein E genetic polymorphism, serum lipoproteins, and breast cancer risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Molecular carcinogenesis 2000-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a polymorphic gene involved in lipid metabolism with three common variant alleles (epsilon2, epsilon3, and epsilon4).

  36. High prevalence of pathogenic mutations in patients with early-onset dementia detected by sequence analyses of four different genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2000-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Clinical differential diagnosis of early-onset dementia (EOD) includes familial Alzheimer disease (FAD) and hereditary prion disease.

  37. Human apolipoprotein E isoform-specific differences in neuronal sprouting in organotypic hippocampal culture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1999-12 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon4 allele is a major risk factor for neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease.

  38. Membrane-anchored aspartyl protease with Alzheimer's disease β-secretase activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature 1999-12-01 Disease mechanisms

  39. Purification and cloning of amyloid precursor protein β-secretase from human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature 1999-12-01 Disease mechanisms

  40. Soluble pool of A? amyloid as a determinant of severity of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 1999-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Genetic evidence strongly supports the view that Abeta amyloid production is central to the cause of Alzheimer's disease.

  41. Cyclooxygenase-1 in human Alzheimer and control brain: quantitative analysis of expression by microglia and CA3 hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1999-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Epidemiological and clinical studies suggest that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX) slow the progression and delay the onset of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  42. Encephalopathy with idiopathic hyperammonaemia and Alzheimer type II astrocytes in equidae

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Equine veterinary journal 1999-11-01 Biomarkers

    In 3 mature female horses of varying breeds, episodes of colic and depression for 14 days preceded an encephalopathic disorder with maniacal behaviour, anxiety, profuse sweating and, in one case, terminal opisthotonus.

  43. β-Secretase Cleavage of Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein by the Transmembrane Aspartic Protease BACE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Science 1999-10-22 Disease mechanisms

    Cerebral deposition of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) is an early and critical feature of Alzheimer's disease.

  44. Evidence for an interaction between apolipoprotein E genotype, gender, and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 1999-10-01 Genetics

    Carriers of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele show significantly higher risk of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  45. Accumulation of amyloid beta and tau and the formation of neurofilament inclusions following diffuse brain injury in the pig

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1999-09-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Brain trauma in humans increases the risk for developing Alzheimer disease (AD) and may induce the acute formation of AD-like plaques containing amyloid beta (A beta).

  46. Oxidative damage and protection by antioxidants in the frontal cortex of Alzheimer's disease is related to the apolipoprotein E genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 1999-09-01 Genetics

    A great number of epidemiological studies have demonstrated that the frequency of the epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) is markedly higher in sporadic and in familial late onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  47. Soluble Amyloid β Peptide Concentration as a Predictor of Synaptic Change in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. American Journal Of Pathology 1999-09-01 Disease mechanisms

  48. Activation of neuronal caspase-3 by intracellular accumulation of wild-type Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1999-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Forced overexpression of wild-type Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein (APP) causes postmitotic neurons to degenerate.

  49. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage. Interaction of APOE epsilon2 with putative clinical risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Stroke 1999-08-01 Digital health tools

    Our findings suggest that antiplatelet or anticoagulant medication, hypertension, or minor head trauma are most likely to precipitate cerebral hemorrhage in patients with CAA who are also epsilon2 carriers.

  50. APOE-epsilon4 count predicts age when prevalence of AD increases, then declines: the Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 1999-07-01 Risk factors

    In participants with no epsilon4 alleles, the age-specific prevalence of AD reached a maximum and then declined after age 95.

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