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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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1982 to 2026

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  • 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. Brain capillary endothelial-like cells show altered barrier functionality and reduced transport of amyloid β in late-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2026-01-22 Brain tissue and pathology

    Control and LOAD hiPSCs exhibited comparable efficiency in forming brain capillary endothelial-like cells (BCECs).

  2. The Icelandic Mutation in the Murine APP Gene, mAPPA673T, on Amyloid-β Plaque Burden in the 5×FAD Alzheimer Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 2026-01-22 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We found a moderate yet significant reduction in Aβ plaque size in male 5×FAD × mAPPA673T compared with 5×FAD mice.

  3. Epigenomic aberrations of histone methylation in prefrontal cortex of humans with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-01-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    BackgroundEpigenetic mechanisms, particularly histone modifications at gene promoters, are crucial for controlling gene transcription.

  4. Genetic contributions to Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia in admixed Latin American populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. npj Dementia 2026-01-21 Lewy body dementia

    Latin America’s diverse genetic landscape provides a unique opportunity to study Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  5. Apoptosis, a programmed cell death process activated in Alzheimer disease (AD), is not limited to neurons but extends to all cell types within the central nervous system (CNS).

  6. Low baseline Aβ42/Aβ40 was significantly associated with increased amyloid accumulation (β = 0.257, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.177-0.336, P < 0.001), and with higher risk of conversion to Aβ-PET positivity (Hazard ratio (HR) = 2.84, 95% CI 1.14-7.04, P = 0.025) and to MCI due to AD (HR = 3.25, 95% CI 1.17-9.01, P = 0.024).

  7. Plasma lipid subspecies and Alzheimer’s disease: genetic evidence for risk and protection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. QJM 2026-01-03 Genetics

    MR analysis identified phosphatidylinositol (PI) (16:0_20:4), phosphatidylcholine (PC) (16:0_22:4) and sterol ester (SE) (27:1/15:0) as risk factors for AD.

  8. Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species in Relationships Between Viral Infections and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Antioxidants 2026-01-03 Disease mechanisms

    Emerging evidence suggests that viral infections may contribute to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia.

  9. Effects of Low‐Intensity Ultrasound on Amyloid‐ β Clearance in Early‐Stage Alzheimer′s Disease: A Potential Role of Glymphatic Activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 2026-01-01 Biomarkers

    LIUS was safe and demonstrated both cognitive improvement and reduced amyloid deposition in early‐stage AD.

  10. In silico structure-based multi-targeted molecular docking analysis of ginkgo biloba phytocompounds against Alzheimer’s disease associated proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. In Silico Research in Biomedicine 2026-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a multi-factorial neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), protein aggregation and progressive neuronal dysfunction.

  11. Mapping sex differences in brain and cognition in relation to APOE ε4 and amyloid burden: A longitudinal normative modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2026-01-01 Genetics

    These findings highlight normative modelling's utility in revealing the complex interplay among sex, age, and AD risk in shaping brain structure and cognition in later life.

  12. Inflammation as a mediator of air pollution's role in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-12-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Long-term PM exposure, particularly PM 10 , may contribute to increased AD/ADRD susceptibility, potentially through inflammation-related pathways.

  13. APOE Lipoprotein Particles: Pathophysiology, Therapy, and the Crosstalk in Alzheimer's Disease and Cardiovascular Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2025-12-23 Genetics

    The APOE4 variant was the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. APOE Genotype Modulates the Relationship of Stroke With Dementia Risk: Associations and Peripheral Clues for Biological Mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-12-17 Genetics

    Stroke interacts with APOE ε4 to influence dementia, with the association being more pronounced in APOE ε4 non‐carriers.

  15. Structural Analysis of Missense Mutations on the Stability of APOE3 and APOE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Genes 2025-12-16 Genetics

    Based on the folding energy (ΔΔG) calculations, mutations G165W and L155W were particularly destabilizing in APOE4.

  16. Human iPSC-derived APOE4/4 Alzheimer´s disease astrocytes exhibit a senescent and pro-inflammatory state that compromises neuronal support

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2025-12-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is dominated by a complex cellular pathology which involves most brain cell types with glial cells increasingly recognized as playing fundamental roles in neurodegeneration.

  17. The Role of GFAP as a Marker of Astrocyte Activation in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Dementia: A Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Health & Medical Sciences 2025-12-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    This study aims to comprehensively review the role of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) as a marker of astrocyte activation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. CRISPR editing of miR-33 restores ApoE lipidation and amyloid-β metabolism in ApoE4 sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2025-12-04 Genetics

    Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) is marked by dysregulated lipid metabolism, prominently involving apolipoprotein E (ApoE).

  19. Protective ApoE variants support neuronal function by effluxing oxidized phospholipids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuron 2025-12-02 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) mediates the bidirectional transport of lipids between cells.

  20. Alzheimer‐related neuropathology is improved by treatment with longevity‐enhancing treatments in aged male EFAD mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Both 17αE2 and FMD independently reduced AD neuropathology in the EFAD mice, in an APOE-dependent manner.

  21. APOE ɛ4 carriership determines a faster plasma p-tau217 progression in Aβ-positive individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Biomarkers

    In TRIAD, ALZpath p-tau217 (β = 0.45, p = 0.02) and p-tau217+Janssen (β = 0.67, p = 0.002), and in ADNI p-tau217 (β = 0.90, p = 0.002) increased faster in A+E4+.

  22. Higher total meat consumption (red meat: 51%, poultry: 20%, processed meat: 29%), was associated with a better cognitive trajectory only in the APOE34/44 stratum (β per 1 z-unit increase: 0.011; CI: 0.004 to 0.018 versus -0.003; CI: -0.008 to 0.003; P for interaction = 0.002).

  23. Cryo‐EM structures of amyloid β filaments from cotton wool plaques in Alzheimer disease caused by the PSEN1 V261I and A431E mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    CWPs consist predominantly of two novel arrangements of type I Aβ filaments, and we have designated them as type Ic and type Id Aβ filaments.

  24. Does Neighborhood Disadvantage Moderate the Relationship between Apolipoprotein E Status and Cognitive Functioning?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Environmental factors like neighborhood disadvantage are also associated with cognitive decline, however, few studies have integrated this with APOE research.

  25. Fine‐mapping of the TMEM106B locus reveals four haplotypes that are differentially associated with risk for neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Analysis of the genotyping data revealed that the TMEM106B locus consists of four major haplotypes: HA/Ha (covering the coding region), and HB/Hb (covering the upstream regulatory region).

  26. In the colocalization of cis-eQTL and GWAS signals for Hispanics, we observed a high posterior probability (posterior prob = 0.9947) for the upstream gene variant rs755980338 on chromosome 11, which locally regulates EHD1 gene (GWAS p-value = 0.009, cis-eQTL p-value = 0.0041).

  27. Genome‐Wide Analysis of Memory, Language, and Executive Function Reveals Domain‐Specific Genetic Architecture in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    We evaluated known AD-associated loci (Bellenguez et al. 2022) and 27 loci reached nominal significance (p < 0.05) in at least one cognitive domain.

  28. The AD PRS was associated with AD in the ADSP sample, with odds ratios per standard deviation ranging from 1.14 to 1.52 across ancestry groups and robust validation in independent cohorts (Figure 1).

  29. Investigating the effects of complement loci CFH and ARMS2/HTRA1 on Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Our preliminary results found no significant association between LOAD and the individual SNPs defining the CFH or ARMS2/HTRA1 loci.

  30. Investigation of the roles of microglia and astrocytes in cerebral amyloid angiopathy across diverse murine strains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We have shown that B6 and WSB genetic backgrounds are less susceptible to CAA compared to BXW, which develops robust CAA.

  31. Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y and Plasma Aβ42/p‐tau181 Ratio as Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease in the Midwestern Amish

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    We observed two promising biomarkers of AD, mLOY and APR, both contribute discriminating AD and CI but differently.

  32. Novel early‐onset Alzheimer‐associated genes influence risk through dysregulation of glutamate, immune activation, and intracell signaling pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer Disease (AD) is a highly polygenic dementia that presents with relatively earlier onset (≤65yo; EOAD) in about 5% of cases.

  33. Novel sex‐specific candidate loci associated with Alzheimer disease identified through sex‐aware multi‐ancestry genome‐wide meta‐analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Cross-ancestry sex-stratified analyses identified several loci with evidence of interaction (p 0.05).

  34. Significant association between SCN8A and Alzheimer disease in Puerto Ricans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    ) within the first intron of SCN8A on chromosome 12 (Figure 1), overlapping a significant region in the previous admixture mapping analysis. eHiCA revealed more and stronger interactions between rs4761988 and SLC4A8, SCN8A and FIGNL2 in EU compared to AF genome (Figure 2), consistent with the admixture mapping result.

  35. Transcriptomic analysis from 3D cultures of Presilinin‐1 G206A carriers reveals genetic expression differences associated with age‐of‐onset variability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We sequenced a total of 38,577 nuclei and detected an average of 2,700 genes per cell.

  36. Impact of learning APOE genotype on cognitively unimpaired adults: a pre-screening cohort study of the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative Generation Study 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2025-11-27 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the best established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease in later life, with the ε4 allele conferring higher risk.

  37. Unlocking the Sugar Code: Implications and Consequences of Glycosylation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Biomedicines 2025-11-26 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia, characterized by progressive cognitive decline, amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  38. Association Between Choroid Plexus Morphological Alterations, Alzheimer Pathologies, and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2025-11-24 Brain scans and imaging

    = 0.022). Our approach captured the complex morphological alterations of the ChP in AD.

  39. β-Amyloid PET Signal Reduction in Prior ARIA-E Regions after Antiamyloid Therapy for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-11-19 Biomarkers

    In 4 of 5 patients treated with lecanemab or donanemab and who had moderate or severe ARIA-E, Aβ PET signal decreased significantly more in regions that had been involved with ARIA-E. Greater regional Aβ PET signal reduction in areas involved by ARIA-E may reflect enhanced local Aβ clearance, reduced tracer binding site availability, impaired glymphatic flow from immune complex deposition, or other mechanisms.

  40. Engineered butyrate-producing yeasts mitigate Alzheimer-associated phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 2025-11-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease without effective treatments. 1 Extracellular amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, neuroinflammation, and neuronal loss are the characteristics of AD neuropathology.

  41. Polymer-Engineered Aβ-Degrading Proteases via Photo-ATRP for Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Eurasian journal of applied biotechnology 2025-11-14 Drug development

    BSA-polymer conjugates displayed enhanced resistance to proteolytic degradation.

  42. APOE-Targeted Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2025-11-12 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major lipid transport protein in the brain.

  43. APOE4 to APOE2 allelic switching in mice improves Alzheimer's disease-related metabolic signatures, neuropathology and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2025-11-11 Genetics

    Compared to individuals carrying two copies of the ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE), ε2 homozygotes have an approximate 99% reduction in late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk.

  44. Microglia modulate Aβ-dependent astrocyte reactivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Nature Neuroscience 2025-11-06 Laboratory science

    Experimental evidence suggests that activated microglia induce astrocyte reactivity in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. Iatrogenic cerebral proteinopathies—The dawn of transmissible neurodegeneration? The example of cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-11-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Several reports confirmed possible inadvertent iatrogenic intracranial transmission of Aβ pathology via medical and surgical procedures (1,2).A common molecular mechanism, described in prion diseases, is proposed to trigger the replication and spread of different misfolded proteins in the central nervous system (CNS), causing different neurodegenerative diseases associated with disease-specific proteins such as α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease, and amyloid-beta (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) (3).

  46. Association of Platelet Aggregation With Markers of Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Middle-Aged Participants of the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2025-11-04 Brain scans and imaging

    < 0.035), consistent with a neurodegenerative pattern.

  47. Brain delivery of a neurotrophic peptide derived from secreted amyloid precursor protein APPsα as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Controlled Release 2025-11-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Whereas neurotoxic Aβ is derived from amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β- and γ-secretase cleavage, APP processing along the non-amyloidogenic pathway results in the secretion of the large neurotrophic ectodomain APPsα.

  48. HIF‐1 Targeting Intervention Renders Protection From Alzheimer's‐Like Pathology in a Humanized Mice Model of HIV Infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 2025-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) affect 30%-50% of individuals living with HIV on combination antiretroviral therapy, with Alzheimer 's-like pathology as a potent comorbidity of HAND.

  49. T cell drives microglia specific metabolic plasticity and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease 4098

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. The Journal of Immunology 2025-11-01 Genetics

    Of note, using large-scale transcriptome and chromatin profiling, we show that T cell shape microglia-specific metabolic plasticity in both genetic and epigenetic resolution.

  50. Astrocytes and Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease: Friends, Foes, or Both?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Developmental Neurobiology 2025-10-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia, is neuropathologically defined by the accumulation of extracellular amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau.

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