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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. Novel early-onset Alzheimer-associated genes influence risk through dysregulation of glutamate, immune activation, and intracellular signaling pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-06 Genetics

    EOAD, although sharing genes with LOAD, harbors unique genes and pathways that could be used to create better prediction models or target identification.

  2. DNA methylation age from peripheral blood predicts progression to Alzheimer’s disease, white matter disease burden, and cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. npj Dementia 2025-05-27 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cross-sectional studies suggest a limited relationship between accelerated epigenetic aging derived from epigenetic clocks, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology or risk.

  3. Anti-amyloid antibody equilibrium binding to Aβ aggregates from human Alzheimer disease brain

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2025-05-21 Drug development

    Anti-amyloid immunotherapy is used to treat Alzheimer disease (AD) with moderate benefits and potentially serious side effects due to amyloid related imaging abnormality with effusions/edema (ARIA-E).

  4. Promotion of neuroinflammation in select hippocampal regions in a mouse model of perimenopausal Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 2025-05-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Our results show that genotype, AOF, and sex contributed to AD-like pathology.

  5. Air pollution and Alzheimer disease phenotype deplete esterified proresolving lipid mediator reserves in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. JCI Insight 2025-05-13 Disease mechanisms

    BACKGROUNDTraffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), where unresolved brain inflammation has been linked to deficits in the levels of free lipid mediators that enable the resolution of inflammation.

  6. Promising clinical tools for specific Alzheimer disease diagnosis from plasma pTau217 and ApoE genotype in a cognitive disorder unit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-05-10 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis relies on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers or amyloid PET.

  7. Mediation of the Association Between APOE ε4 Genotype, Cognition, and Dementia by Neuropathology Imaging Markers in the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurology 2025-05-09 Long-term cohort studies

    value = 0.04). ε4 on cognition is mediated by structural brain imaging markers, driven mainly by cerebral microbleeds.

  8. Role of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 in cognitive impairment after a stroke: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Aging 2025-05-08 Genetics

    Although apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 is a well-established risk factor for Alzheimer disease, its role in the development of post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) remains uncertain.

  9. Growing evidence highlights sex-related differences in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. ApoE4 requires lipidation enhancement to resolve cellular lipid and protein abnormalities following NPC1 inhibition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2025-04-29 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) variants are central to Alzheimer's disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC).

  11. Could a Mediterranean Diet Modulate Alzheimer’s Disease Progression? The Role of Gut Microbiota and Metabolite Signatures in Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Foods 2025-04-29 Prevention trials

    Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, represent a growing global health crisis, yet current treatment strategies remain primarily palliative.

  12. Functional Specificity of Astrocyte Subtypes in Alzheimer’s Disease: Decoding Disease Mechanisms Through Network-based Analysis of Integrated Single-Nuclei Multi-Omic Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Molecular Neurobiology 2025-04-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia.

  13. Monoallelic TYROBP deletion is a novel risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-04-28 Risk factors

    Biallelic loss-of-function variants in TYROBP and TREM2 cause autosomal recessive presenile dementia with bone cysts known as Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD, alternatively polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy, PLOSL).

  14. Interaction of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 and Its Analogues with Amyloid-β Peptide Affects Its Fibrillation and Cytotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2025-04-24 Drug development

    Clinical data, animal and cell studies show that some antidiabetic drugs, including glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), exert therapeutic effects in Alzheimer's disease (AD) via modulation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) metabolism.

  15. APOE4 impairs macrophage lipophagy and promotes demyelination of spiral ganglion neurons in mouse cochleae

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell death discovery 2025-04-21 Genetics

    The ApoE-ε4 gene is a well-established genetic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis, which are characterized by axonal demyelination in the central nervous system.

  16. APOE and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias risk among 12,221 Hispanics/Latinos

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-04-12 Genetics

    APOE shows a heterogeneous effect on ADRD risk in our Hispanics/Latinos sample, the largest to date.

  17. Poor glymphatic function is associated with mild cognitive impairment and its progression to Alzheimer's disease: A DTI-ALPS study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-04-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    • Low ALPS index was significantly associated with high risk of MCI, and the risk of MCI decreased linearly with a higher ALPS index • High ALPS index was dose-dependently associated with a decreased progression from MCI to AD • High ALPS index may delay the MCI onset approximately 3.8 years among CN participants and delay MCI progression to AD by approximately 3.5 years in MCI group • Aβ in choroid plexus, tau in part of the cortex and executive function were partially mediate ALPS-AD association We aimed to explore the association between ALPS index and both risks of MCI from cognitively normal (CN) and incident AD progressed from MCI, as well as potential mediating factors.

  18. Relapsing Remitting Rapidly Progressive Dementia Due to Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation (P11-3.012)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    This report highlights a case of relapsing remitting rapidly progressive dementia due to cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-ri), focusing on the diagnostic challenges and the dramatic response to corticosteroid treatment.

  19. APOE4 impairs autophagy and Aβ clearance by microglial cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] 2025-04-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a predominant form of dementia in elderly.

  20. Growth associated protein 43 (GAP-43) predicts brain amyloidosis in Alzheimer’s dementia continuum: an [18 F] AV-45 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC Neurology 2025-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Our findings revealed significantly elevated CSF GAP-43 levels in individuals with AD compared to CN and MCI groups.

  21. Molecular dynamics of amyloid-β transport in Alzheimer's disease: Exploring therapeutic plasma exchange with albumin replacement – Current insights and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurología (English Edition) 2025-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    The first search utilized the following MeSH terms and keywords: ‘Plasma Exchange’, ‘Plasmapheresis’, ‘Therapeutic plasma exchange’, ‘Apheresis’, ‘Aβ’, ‘p-tau’, ‘Total-tau’, ‘Alzheimer's disease’, ‘Cognitive dysfunction’, ‘neurodegenerative diseases’, ‘centrifugation’, ‘membranous’, and ‘filtration’ in the Title/Abstract, yielding 146 results.

  22. Decoding microglial immunometabolism: a new frontier in Alzheimer's disease research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-03-27 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves a dynamic interaction between neuroinflammation and metabolic dysregulation, where microglia play a central role.

  23. Alzheimer-typical temporo-parietal atrophy and hypoperfusion are associated with a more significant cholinergic impairment in amnestic neurodegenerative syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    BackgroundTo date, cholinomimetics remain central in the pharmacotherapy of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia.

  24. Mapping the impact of age and APOE risk factors for late onset Alzheimer's disease on long range brain connections through multiscale bundle analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2025-03-20 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease currently has no cure and is usually detected too late for interventions to be effective.

  25. APOE genotype determines cell-type-specific pathological landscape of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-03-19 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk modifier for Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the APOE4 allele increasing risk and APOE2 decreasing it compared with the common APOE3 allele.

  26. Local genetic covariance analysis with lipid traits identifies novel loci for early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. PLoS Genetics 2025-03-17 Genetics

    The genetic component of early-onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD), accounting for ~10% of all Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases, is largely unexplained.

  27. Do microglia metabolize fructose in Alzheimer’s disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2025-03-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disorder with a complex etiology.

  28. Influence of Ibuprofen on glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids in context of Alzheimer´s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 2025-03-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial disorder associated with neuroinflammation, elevated oxidative stress, lipid alterations as well as amyloid-deposits and the formation of neurofibrillary tangles.

  29. Insights From TgF344-AD, a Double Transgenic Rat Model in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Physiological Research 2025-03-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), a leading cause of dementia worldwide, is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amyloid-beta plaques, tauopathy, neuronal loss, neuro-inflammation, brain atrophy, and cognitive deficits.

  30. Microglial mechanisms drive amyloid-β clearance in immunized patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2025-03-06 Laboratory science

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapies utilizing amyloid-β (Aβ) immunization have shown potential in clinical trials.

  31. Sex Differences in Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer Disease Pathology Across Ancestries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-03-03 Tau biomarkers

    Age, sex, and apolipoprotein E (APOE) are the strongest risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. The CU- group had lower baseline GAP-43 than all Aβ+ groups, but not the other Aβ- groups.

  33. Apolipoprotein E abundance is elevated in the brains of individuals with Down syndrome-Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2025-02-25 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Trisomy of chromosome 21, the cause of Down syndrome (DS), is the most commonly occurring genetic cause of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  34. DNA methylation patterns contribute to changes of cellular differentiation pathways in leukocytes with LOY from patients with Alzheimer´s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 2025-02-25 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common and increasing societal problem due to the extending human lifespan.

  35. Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Amyloid Beta: Insights from Molecular Dynamics—Part A: Endogenous Compounds and Repurposed Drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Pharmaceuticals 2025-02-23 Disease mechanisms

    The amyloid hypothesis is the predominant model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, suggesting that amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide is the primary driver of neurotoxicity and a cascade of pathological events in the central nervous system.

  36. Investigating the Impact of NMDA Receptor Organization and Biological Sex in the APPswe/PS1dE9 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-02-18 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory loss and cognitive decline, with women being disproportionately affected in both prevalence and severity.

  37. Alzheimer-mutant γ-secretase complexes stall amyloid β-peptide production

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. eLife 2025-02-11 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Missense mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin-1 (PSEN1) cause early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD) and alter proteolytic production of secreted 38-to-43-residue amyloid β-peptides (Aβ) by the PSEN1-containing γ-secretase complex, ostensibly supporting the amyloid hypothesis of pathogenesis.

  38. Proteolytic therapeutic modalities for amyloidoses: Insights into immunotherapy, PROTAC, and photo-oxygenation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics 2025-02-11 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloidoses, which are characterized by abnormal accumulation of amyloid proteins leading to organ dysfunction, represent a major therapeutic challenge.

  39. Higher level of [3H]UCB-J binding in ApoE Ɛ4 allele carriers with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neuroscience Letters 2025-02-01 Genetics

    H]UCB-J was found to be reduced in frontal cortex from patients with AD.

  40. Sex-specific effects of apolipoprotein E ε4 genotype on longitudinal hippocampal atrophy in amnestic mild cognitive impairment over a 2-year evaluation period

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We identified that the APOE4 genotype affected ΔHV in females.

  41. Plasma proteomic evidence for increased β-amyloid pathology after SARS-CoV-2 infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature medicine 2025-01-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Previous studies have suggested that systemic viral infections may increase risks of dementia.

  42. Multi-functional role of apolipoprotein E in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-01-29 Disease mechanisms

    Genetic diversity in the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene has been identified as the major susceptibility genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (SAD).

  43. A de novo, mosaic and complex chromosome 21 rearrangement causes APP triplication and familial autosomal dominant early onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-01-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    Copy number variation (CNV) of the amyloid-β precursor protein gene (APP) is a known cause of autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD), but de novo genetic variants causing ADAD are rare.

  44. Intermittent Fasting Ameliorates β‐Amyloid Deposition and Cognitive Impairment Accompanied by Decreased Lipid Droplet Aggregation Within Microglia in an Alzheimer's Disease Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 2025-01-22 Inflammation and the immune system

    APP/PS1 mice at 6 months were randomly allocated to two dietary groups: one receiving ad libitum (AL) feeding and the other undergoing IF for 1 month.

  45. Longitudinally persisting KCNA2-autoantibodies in mild amnestic dementia with Alzheimer´s pathology - Report and literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2025-01-22 Tau biomarkers

    Neural autoantibodies are being increasingly detected in conjunction with neurodegenerative dementias such as Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD), yet their significance is not well clarified.

  46. Alterations of amino acids in older adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Amino Acids 2025-01-18 Risk factors

    Metabolomics provide a promising tool for understanding dementia pathogenesis and identifying novel biomarkers.

  47. The ER protein CANX (calnexin)-mediated autophagy protects against alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Autophagy 2025-01-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although the relationship between macroautophagy/autophagy and Alzheimer disease (AD) is widely studied, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood, especially the regulatory role of the initiation signaling of autophagy on AD.

  48. Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Science Signaling 2025-01-07 Disease mechanisms

    -heterozygous human brain tissue was reactivated in response to neuroinflammation caused by exposure to other pathogens.

  49. Gain-of-function ANXA11 mutation cause late-onset ALS with aberrant protein aggregation, neuroinflammation and autophagy impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-01-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Mutations in the ANXA11 gene, encoding an RNA-binding protein, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but the underlying in vivo mechanisms remain unclear.

  50. Retinal dysfunction in APOE4 knock-in mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-01-03 Genetics

    APOE4-KI mice showed impaired retinal structure, vasculature, function, vision, increased gliosis and neuroinflammation, and downregulation of synaptogenesis.

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