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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. Multi-Omics Analysis of Microglial Extracellular Vesicles From Human Alzheimer's Disease Brain Tissue Reveals Disease-Associated Signatures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2021-12-02 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, yet there is no cure or diagnostics available prior to the onset of clinical symptoms.

  2. Implications of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase-Akt (PI3K-Akt) Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2021-10-26 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the foremost type of dementia that afflicts considerable morbidity and mortality in aged population.

  3. Multi-tissue proteomics identifies molecular signatures for sporadic and genetically defined Alzheimer disease cases

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2021-10-21 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disease with many genes are associated with AD risk.

  4. Association of peripheral blood DNA methylation level with Alzheimer's disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Clinical epigenetics 2021-10-15 Long-term cohort studies

    Identifying biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression may enable patient enrichment and improve clinical trial designs.

  5. Experimental and real-world evidence supporting the computational repurposing of bumetanide for APOE4 -related Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature aging 2021-10-11 Digital health tools

    The evident genetic, pathological, and clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses challenges for traditional drug development.

  6. A Friend and a Foe: 50 Years of the Apolipoprotein E Research Trail

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ 2021-10 Genetics

    An arginine-rich apolipoprotein was discovered 50 years ago and became known as apolipoprotein E (ApoE) 10 years later.

  7. Sex-Specific Cross Tissue Meta-Analysis Identifies Immune Dysregulation in Women With Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-09-30 Digital health tools

    Strikingly gene-expression, network-based analysis and cell type deconvolution approaches revealed a consistent immune signature in the brain and blood of female AD patients that was absent in males.

  8. Spontaneous ARIA-like Events in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation: A Multicenter Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-16 Genetics

    These results from the largest longitudinal cohort registry of patients with CAA-ri support the transient and potentially relapsing inflammatory nature of the clinical-radiologic acute manifestations of the disease and the effectiveness of slow oral tapering off after IV corticosteroid pulse therapy in preventing recurrences.

  9. Adult-onset CNS myelin sulfatide deficiency is sufficient to cause Alzheimer's disease-like neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-09-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Human genetic association studies point to immune response and lipid metabolism, in addition to amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau, as major pathways in Alzheimer's disease (AD) etiology.

  10. ApoE4 increases susceptibility to stress-induced age-dependent depression-like behavior and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2021-09-10 Genetics

    Though apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) is a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, its association with depression remains controversial.

  11. A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-09-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts for 50-70% of dementia cases.

  12. Integrative brain transcriptome analysis links complement component 4 and HSPA2 to the APOE ε2 protective effect in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-09-03 Tau biomarkers

    Mechanisms underlying the protective effect of apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε2 against Alzheimer disease (AD) are not well understood.

  13. APOE4 Affects Basal and NMDAR-Mediated Protein Synthesis in Neurons by Perturbing Calcium Homeostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2021-09-02 Genetics

    Here, we report that the acute exposure of primary cortical neurons or synaptoneurosomes to APOE4 leads to a significant decrease in global protein synthesis.

  14. Hippocampal glucose uptake as a surrogate of metabolic change of microglia in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2021-08-31 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Here, we found a close association of the metabolic reconfiguration of microglia with increased hippocampal glucose uptake on [ 18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET.

  15. Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's Disease: Findings, Hypotheses, and Potential Mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annual review of pathology 2021-08-30 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder that involves dysregulation of many cellular and molecular processes.

  16. Apolipoprotein E regulates lipid metabolism and α-synuclein pathology in human iPSC-derived cerebral organoids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-08-28 Genetics

    APOE4 is a strong genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies; however, how its expression impacts pathogenic pathways in a human-relevant system is not clear.

  17. APOE4-carrying human astrocytes oversupply cholesterol to promote neuronal lipid raft expansion and Aβ generation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stem cell reports 2021-08-26 Genetics

    The ε4 allele of APOE-encoding apolipoprotein (ApoE) is one of the strongest genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Association of Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor Use and Amyloid Burden in Patients With Diabetes and AD-Related Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2021-08-11 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that DPP-4i use is associated with low amyloid burden and favorable long-term cognitive outcome in diabetic patients with ADCI.

  19. Insomnia symptom severity and cognitive performance: Moderating role of APOE genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-07-26 Long-term cohort studies

    We evaluated whether insomnia symptom severity was associated with cognitive function, and whether this relationship was modified by biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease risk.

  20. Plaque-associated human microglia accumulate lipid droplets in a chimeric model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-07-23 Genetics

    These results indicate lipid droplet accumulation occurs in human DAM xMGs in AD, but is reduced in TREM2-R47H DAM xMGs, as it occurs secondary to TREM2-mediated changes in plaque proximity and reactivity.

  21. APOE Genotype and Alzheimer's Disease: The Influence of Lifestyle and Environmental Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2021-07-18 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder with obscure pathogenesis and no disease-modifying therapy to date.

  22. Knock-in models related to Alzheimer's disease: synaptic transmission, plaques and the role of microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-07-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are active modulators of Alzheimer's disease but their role in relation to amyloid plaques and synaptic changes due to rising amyloid beta is unclear.

  23. Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-07-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid PET and sleep duration information was acquired on 4425 cognitively unimpaired participants (mean [SD] age, 71.3 [4.7] years; 2628 [59.4%] female; 1509 [34.1%] tested Aβ positive).

  24. Interactions between Apolipoprotein E Metabolism and Retinal Inflammation in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-06-29 Genetics

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial retinal disorder that is a major global cause of severe visual impairment.

  25. Phospholipids of APOE lipoproteins activate microglia in an isoform-specific manner in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    APOE and Trem2 are major genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how they affect microglia response to Aβ remains unclear.

  26. Association of APOE ε4 genotype and lifestyle with cognitive function among Chinese adults aged 80 years and older: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2021-06-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 is the single most important genetic risk factor for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease (AD), while lifestyle factors such as smoking, drinking, diet, and physical activity also have impact on cognition.

  27. Apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent effects on the processing of Alzheimer's amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids 2021-05-24 Genetics

    Since the identification of the apolipoprotein E (apoE) *ε4 allele as a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, significant efforts have been aimed at elucidating how apoE4 expression confers greater brain amyloid-β (Aβ) burden, earlier disease onset and worse clinical outcomes compared to apoE2 and apoE3.

  28. Glitter in the Darkness? Nonfibrillar β-Amyloid Plaque Components Significantly Impact the β-Amyloid PET Signal in Mouse Models of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2021-05-20 Biomarkers

    Neither fibrillar nor nonfibrillar Aβ content alone sufficed to explain the Aβ PET findings in either AD model.

  29. Large-scale plasma proteomic analysis identifies proteins and pathways associated with dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature aging 2021-05-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    The plasma proteomic changes that precede the onset of dementia could yield insights into disease biology and highlight new biomarkers and avenues for intervention.

  30. Multi-tissue neocortical transcriptome-wide association study implicates 8 genes across 6 genomic loci in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Genome medicine 2021-05-04 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease currently affecting 1.75% of the US population, with projected growth to 3.46% by 2050.

  31. Multiomics integrative analysis identifies APOE allele-specific blood biomarkers associated to Alzheimer's disease etiopathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging 2021-04-12 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting 35 million people worldwide.

  32. APOE2 mitigates disease-related phenotypes in an isogenic hiPSC-based model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-04-09 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified polymorphism in the Apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) to be the most prominent risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  33. The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and directly influences tauopathy and tau-mediated neurodegeneration.

  34. Whole-genome sequencing reveals new Alzheimer's disease-associated rare variants in loci related to synaptic function and neuronal development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-04-03 Risk factors

    Genome-wide association studies have led to numerous genetic loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Spreading of Beta-Amyloid in Organotypic Mouse Brain Slices and Microglial Elimination and Effects on Cholinergic Neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomolecules 2021-03-15 Biomarkers

    The extracellular deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) is one of the major characteristics in Alzheimer´s disease (AD).

  36. Cholesterol alters mitophagy by impairing optineurin recruitment and lysosomal clearance in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-03-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Emerging evidence indicates that impaired mitophagy-mediated clearance of defective mitochondria is a critical event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  37. Human neural stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles mitigate hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-06 Disease mechanisms

    These data demonstrate the neuroprotective effects of systemic administration of stem cell-derived EVs for remediation of behavioral and molecular AD neuropathologies.

  38. Differentially expressed genes in Alzheimer's disease highlighting the roles of microglia genes including OLR1 and astrocyte gene CDK2AP1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain, behavior, & immunity - health 2021-02-24 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with abnormal tau and amyloid-β accumulation in the brain, leading to neurofibrillary tangles, neuropil threads and extracellular amyloid-β plaques.

  39. Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder leading to dementia in the elderly.

  40. Crosstalk between Gut and Brain in Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Gut Microbiota Modulation Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-02-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    The gut microbiota (GM) represents a diverse and dynamic population of microorganisms and about 100 trillion symbiotic microbial cells that dwell in the gastrointestinal tract.

  41. Iron loading is a prominent feature of activated microglia in Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2021-02-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    Brain iron accumulation has been found to accelerate disease progression in amyloid-β(Aβ) positive Alzheimer patients, though the mechanism is still unknown.

  42. Expression and secretion of apoE isoforms in astrocytes and microglia during inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Glia 2021-02-08 Genetics

    Neuroinflammation is a common feature in neurodegenerative diseases, modulated by the Alzheimer's disease risk factor, apolipoprotein E (APOE).

  43. APOE immunotherapy reduces cerebral amyloid angiopathy and amyloid plaques while improving cerebrovascular function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2021-02-01 Treatments

    The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and greatly influences the development of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology.

  44. Differential associations of APOE-ε2 and APOE-ε4 alleles with PET-measured amyloid-β and tau deposition in older individuals without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2021-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    We analyzed data from 462 ADNI participants without dementia who underwent Aβ ([ 18 F]florbetapir or [ 18 F]florbetaben) and tau ([ 18 F]flortaucipir) PET, structural MRI, and cognitive testing.

  45. Increased APOE ε4 expression is associated with the difference in Alzheimer's disease risk from diverse ancestral backgrounds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-02-01 Genetics

    AD patients with ELA expressed significantly greater levels of APOE than ALA APOE ε4 carriers.

  46. Natural genetic variation determines microglia heterogeneity in wild-derived mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cell reports 2021-02-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Genetic and genome-wide association studies suggest a central role for microglia in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. In vivo demonstration of Congo Red labeled amyloid plaques via perfusion in the Alzheimer disease rat model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience methods 2021-01-25 Biomarkers

    Congo Red (CR) has been used for its binding affinity to amyloid fibrils for the better part of a century.

  48. rs1990622 variant associates with Alzheimer's disease and regulates TMEM106B expression in human brain tissues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC medicine 2021-01-19 Long-term cohort studies

    It has been well established that the TMEM106B gene rs1990622 variant was a frontotemporal dementia (FTD) risk factor.

  49. Altered Gut Microbial Metabolites in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease: Signals in Host-Microbe Interplay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-01-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Intimate metabolic host-microbiome crosstalk regulates immune, metabolic, and neuronal response in health and disease, yet remains untapped for biomarkers or intervention for disease.

  50. Hippocampal Degeneration and Behavioral Impairment During Alzheimer-Like Pathogenesis Involves Glutamate Excitotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 2021-01-08 Biomarkers

    The hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology include senile plaques accumulation and neurofibrillary tangles, which is thought to underlie synaptic failure.

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