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Newest in this topic

  1. Serpin A3 is Increased in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and ARIA 2026-10-24
  2. Endothelial CD36 links arteriolar remodeling to metabolic and immune alterations in Alzheimer’s disease 2026-10-14
  3. Location-specific Longitudinal Patterns of Subcortical and Lobar Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease 2026-10-13

Studies

229 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 13
  • International journal of molecular sciences 11
  • bioRxiv 11
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 10
  • Molecular neurodegeneration 7

123 journals in all.

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  1. The Neurovascular Unit Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-02-18 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide.

  2. Longitudinal Accumulation of Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2021-01-25 Treatments

    Our study highlights factors associated with the development of CMHs in individuals with DIAD.

  3. Imaging of vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical imaging 2021-01-07 Vascular contributions

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is a major health challenge and represents the second most common cause of dementia.

  4. Cerebrovascular and Neurodegenerative Pathologies in Long-Term Stable Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease pathology (Aβ plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy) was significantly higher in the dMCI group than the sMCI group.

  5. Experimental Rodent Models of Vascular Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2021 Vascular contributions

    Vascular Dementia (VaD) occurs due to cerebrovascular insufficiency, which leads to decreased blood circulation to the brain, thereby resulting in mental disabilities.

  6. The pericyte: A critical cell in the pathogenesis of CADASIL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior 2021 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary small vessel disease presenting with migraine, mood and cognitive disorders, focal neurological deficits, recurrent ischemic attacks, lacunar infarcts and brain white matter changes.

  7. The Vagal Autonomic Pathway of COVID-19 at the Crossroad of Alzheimer's Disease and Aging: A Review of Knowledge

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2020-12-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-triggered mortality is significantly higher in older than in younger populations worldwide.

  8. Dysregulation of Endothelin-1: Implications for Health Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2020-10-28 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities.

  9. MRI phenotyping of underlying cerebral small vessel disease in mixed hemorrhage patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2020-10-09 Vascular contributions

    We included 110 patients with CAA (strictly lobar ICHs/CMBs), 33 with HA (strictly deep ICHs/CMBs) and 97 with mixed lobar/deep ICHs/CMBs.

  10. Cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease: Hopes and gaps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 2020-09-07 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is recognized as multifactorial and heterogeneous disease with multiple contributors to its pathophysiology, including vascular dysfunction.

  11. Cerebrovascular medin is associated with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-25 Vascular contributions

    Arteriole medin was higher in those with AD, VaD, or combined AD/VaD versus ND (P < .05), and correlated with tangle, plaque, and WML, but not CAA or CoW atherosclerosis.

  12. Androgens' effects on cerebrovascular function in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biology of sex differences 2020-06-30 Vascular contributions

    Androgens affect the cerebral vasculature and may contribute to sex differences in cerebrovascular diseases.

  13. Optical coherence tomography angiography as a potential screening tool for cerebral small vessel diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-06-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The SVCI group showed lower CD in the temporal quadrant of the RPC network compared to the CN group (mean (SD), 42.34 (6.29) vs 48.45 (7.08); p = 0.001).

  14. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy with focal presentation-about 3 cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuroradiology 2020-05-15 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a common cerebrovascular disease involved in ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, and its progression is correlated to cognitive decline.

  15. Understanding the Pathophysiology of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-05-13 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), one of the main types of cerebral small vessel disease, is a major cause of spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage and an important contributor to cognitive decline in elderly patients.

  16. Clinical Features and Experimental Models of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-05-05 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) refers to a group of disease conditions affecting the cerebral small vessels, which include the small arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and postcapillary venules in the brain.

  17. The blood-brain barrier in health and disease: Important unanswered questions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2020-04-01 Vascular contributions

    The blood vessels vascularizing the central nervous system exhibit a series of distinct properties that tightly control the movement of ions, molecules, and cells between the blood and the parenchyma.

  18. Potential Role of Venular Amyloid in Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-03-14 Vascular contributions

    Insurmountable evidence has demonstrated a strong association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), along with various other cerebrovascular diseases.

  19. Potential Therapeutic Approaches for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-03-14 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebrovascular disease directly implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis through amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, which may cause the development and progression of dementia.

  20. Discovering the Italian phenotype of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA): the SENECA project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2020-03-12 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is one of the major types of cerebral small vessel disease, and a leading cause of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage and cognitive decline in elderly patients.

  21. Developing robust biomarkers for vascular cognitive disorders: adding 'V' to the AT(N) research framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in psychiatry 2020-03 Brain scans and imaging

    The AT(N) research framework was introduced in 2018 to define Alzheimer's disease as a biological entity.

  22. Small Vessel Disease-Related Dementia: An Invalid Neurovascular Coupling?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-02-07 Vascular contributions

    The arteriosclerosis-dependent alteration of brain perfusion is one of the major determinants in small vessel disease, since small vessels have a pivotal role in the brain's autoregulation.

  23. Review of Alterations in Perlecan-Associated Vascular Risk Factors in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-01-20 Vascular contributions

    Perlecan is a heparan sulfate proteoglycan protein in the extracellular matrix that structurally and biochemically supports the cerebrovasculature by dynamically responding to changes in cerebral blood flow.

  24. Alzheimer's Disease: The Link Between Amyloid-β and Neurovascular Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Vascular contributions

    While prevailing evidence supports that the amyloid cascade hypothesis is a key component of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, many recent studies indicate that the vascular system is also a major contributor to disease progression.

  25. Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Cerebral Perfusion in Whites and African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    When risk factor p-values were FDR-adjusted, diastolic blood pressure was significantly associated with mean perfusion.

  26. Vasomotion as a Driving Force for Paravascular Clearance in the Awake Mouse Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuron 2019-12-03 Vascular contributions

    Paravascular drainage of solutes, including β-amyloid (Aβ), appears to be an important process in brain health and diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  27. Microvascular pericytes in brain-associated vascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2019-11-25 Vascular contributions

    Pericytes, as mural cells of microvessels, are important regulators of vascular structure formation and function maintenance in the process of cerebrovascular maturation, cerebrovascular homeostasis and disease.

  28. Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2019-09-24 Vascular contributions

    Small vessel disease (SVD) refers to conditions where damage to arterioles and capillaries is predominant, leading to reduced, or interrupted perfusion of the affected organ.

  29. Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: JACC Scientific Expert Panel

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2019-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cognitive impairment associated with aging has emerged as one of the major public health challenges of our time.

  30. Amyloid β oligomers constrict human capillaries in Alzheimer's disease via signaling to pericytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019-06-20 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral blood flow is reduced early in the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. Acquired cerebral amyloid angiopathy: An emerging concept

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Progress in molecular biology and translational science 2019-06-18 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is commonly found in older people and in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) accompanying cerebrovascular disorders and dementia.

  32. ADAMTS13 maintains cerebrovascular integrity to ameliorate Alzheimer-like pathology

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 12 out of 100. PLoS biology 2019-06-11 Vascular contributions

    Blood-brain barrier (BBB) defects and cerebrovascular dysfunction contribute to amyloid-β (Aβ) brain accumulation and drive Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology.

  33. HDL from an Alzheimer's disease perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in lipidology 2019-06 Vascular contributions

    RECENT FINDINGS: Many epidemiological studies have observed that circulating HDL levels associate with decreased Alzheimer's disease risk.

  34. Advances in cerebral amyloid angiopathy imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders 2019-05-03 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebral small vessel disease caused by β -amyloid (Aβ) deposition at the leptomeningeal vessel walls.

  35. Claudin-5: gatekeeper of neurological function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2019-01-29 Risk factors

    Tight junction proteins of the blood-brain barrier are vital for maintaining integrity of endothelial cells lining brain blood vessels.

  36. Blood-brain barrier breakdown is an early biomarker of human cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature medicine 2019-01-14 Tau biomarkers

    Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment are increasingly recognized 1-5 as shown by neuropathological 6,7 , neuroimaging 4,8-11 , and cerebrospinal fluid biomarker 4,12 studies.

  37. Blood-Brain Barrier: From Physiology to Disease and Back

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Physiological reviews 2019-01-01 Vascular contributions

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic plasma components, blood cells, and pathogens from entering the brain.

  38. Blood Flow Deficits and Cerebrovascular Changes in a Dietary Model of Hyperhomocysteinemia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. ASN neuro 2019 Vascular contributions

    Elevated homocysteine in the blood, or hyperhomocysteinemia, is a recognized risk factor for multiple causes of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease.

  39. Cerebral Microbleeds Are Associated with Cerebral Hypoperfusion in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Vascular contributions

    The number of microbleeds was significantly correlated with the severity of decrease in the occipital lobe (Spearman's r = 0.531, p < 0.001) and temporal lobe (r = 0.437, p < 0.001) but not in the frontal lobe (r = 0.201, p = 0.101) and parietal lobe (r = 0.178, p = 0.146).

  40. Endothelial Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia.

  41. Neurovascular Ageing and Age-Related Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Sub-cellular biochemistry 2019 Vascular contributions

    Proper functioning of the brain is dependent on integrity of the cerebral vasculature.

  42. Pericytes in Alzheimer's Disease: Novel Clues to Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019 Vascular contributions

    Pericytes in the central nervous system attract growing attention of neurobiologists because of obvious opportunities to use them as target cells in numerous brain diseases.

  43. Vascular dysfunction-The disregarded partner of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Increasing evidence recognizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a multifactorial and heterogeneous disease with multiple contributors to its pathophysiology, including vascular dysfunction.

  44. Contributions of sex to cerebrovascular function and pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain research 2018-12-20 Vascular contributions

    Sex differences exist in how cerebral blood vessels function under both physiological and pathological conditions, contributing to observed sex differences in risk and outcomes of cerebrovascular diseases (CBVDs), such as vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and stroke.

  45. The Meningeal Lymphatic System: A New Player in Neurophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuron 2018-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    The nature of fluid dynamics within the brain parenchyma is a focus of intensive research.

  46. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Review Focusing on Pathophysiology, Biomarkers, and Machine Learning Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of stroke 2018-09-30 Digital health tools

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) has a crucial role in lacunar stroke and brain hemorrhages and is a leading cause of cognitive decline and functional loss in elderly patients.

  47. The role of brain vasculature in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-09-24 Vascular contributions

    Adequate supply of blood and structural and functional integrity of blood vessels are key to normal brain functioning.

  48. Blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease using MR-guided focused ultrasound

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature communications 2018-07-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound in combination with intravenously injected microbubbles has been shown to transiently open the blood-brain barrier, and reduce beta-amyloid and tau pathology in animal models of Alzheimer's disease.

  49. Functional aspects of meningeal lymphatics in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature 2018-07-25 Tau biomarkers

    Ageing is a major risk factor for many neurological pathologies, but its mechanisms remain unclear.

  50. MicroRNA-Mediated Therapy Modulating Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Improves Vascular Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2018-04-12 Drug development

    We here provide the first evidence that the TNFα-miR-501-3p-ZO-1 axis plays an important role in the pathogenesis of cerebral hypoperfusion-induced working memory deficits and white matter lesions, as a result of blood-brain barrier breakdown via tight junction disruption.

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