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  1. Clinical development of passive tau-based immunotherapeutics for treating primary and secondary tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Expert opinion on investigational drugs 2023-07-10 Drug development

    Tauopathies are clinicopathological entities with increased and pathological deposition in glia and/or neurons of hyperphosphorylated aggregates of the microtubule-binding protein tau.

  2. ABC Transporter C1 Prevents Dimethyl Fumarate from Targeting Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biology 2023-06-29 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, is a growing health issue with very limited treatment options.

  3. Cryo-EM Structures of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Tau Filaments with PET Ligand Flortaucipir

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of molecular biology 2023-06-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging allows monitoring the progression of amyloid aggregation in the living brain. [18F]-Flortaucipir is the only approved PET tracer compound for the visualisation of tau aggregation.

  4. Total Chemical Synthesis of Glycosylated TREM2 Ectodomain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2023-05-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Mutations in a microglia-associated gene TREM2 increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  5. Cyclosporine A (CsA) prevents synaptic impairment caused by truncated tau by caspase-3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular and cellular neurosciences 2023-05-12 Disease mechanisms

    During Alzheimer's (AD), tau protein suffers from abnormal post-translational modifications, including cleaving by caspase-3.

  6. Presenilin-1 (PSEN1) Mutations: Clinical Phenotypes beyond Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-05-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Presenilin 1 (PSEN1) is a part of the gamma secretase complex with several interacting substrates, including amyloid precursor protein (APP), Notch, adhesion proteins and beta catenin.

  7. Big tau aggregation disrupts microtubule tyrosination and causes myocardial diastolic dysfunction: from discovery to therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European heart journal 2023-05-01 Drug development

    A mouse model of tauopathy and human myocardial and brain tissue from patients with HF, AD, and controls was employed in this study.

  8. Sleep and circadian rhythms in α-synucleinopathies-Perspectives for disease modification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) 2023-04-07 Risk factors

    The global north is facing an unprecedented rise in the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases.

  9. Neuronal identity defines α-synuclein and tau toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2023-03-21 Genetics

    Pathogenic α-synuclein and tau are critical drivers of neurodegeneration, and their mutations cause neuronal loss in patients.

  10. Disturb mitochondrial associated proteostasis: Neurodegeneration and imperfect ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology 2023-03-10 Disease mechanisms

    The disturbance in mitochondrial functions and homeostasis are the major features of neuron degenerative conditions, like Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease, along with protein misfolding.

  11. Aggregation of Disordered Proteins Associated with Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-02-08 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cellular deposition of protein aggregates, one of the hallmarks of neurodegeneration, disrupts cellular functions and leads to neuronal death.

  12. Presenilins regulate synaptic plasticity in the perforant pathways of the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular brain 2023-01-30 Disease mechanisms

    Mutations in the Presenilin genes (PSEN1 and PSEN2) are the major cause of familial Alzheimer's disease (AD), highlighting the importance of Presenilin (PS) in AD pathogenesis.

  13. Passive immunization inhibits tau phosphorylation and improves recognition learning and memory in 3xTg-AD mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2023-01-27 Drug development

    Tau pathology is essential in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies.

  14. Defective proteostasis in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-01-21 Disease mechanisms

    The homeostasis of cellular proteins, or proteostasis, is critical for neuronal function and for brain processes, including learning and memory.

  15. TTR (transthyretin) leads the autophagy disaster relief team against TARDBP/TDP-43 proteinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Autophagy 2023-01-18 Disease mechanisms

    TTR (transthyretin) strikes a neuroprotective function in the prevention of amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  16. Tau-aggregation inhibitors derived from Streptomyces tendae MCCC 1A01534 protect HT22 cells against okadaic acid-induced damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of biological macromolecules 2023-01-06 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease characterized by tau aggregating into neurofibrillary tangles.

  17. Jacob-induced transcriptional inactivation of CREB promotes Aβ-induced synapse loss in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2023-01-03 Disease mechanisms

    Synaptic dysfunction caused by soluble β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) is a hallmark of early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is tightly linked to cognitive decline.

  18. An Alternative View of Familial Alzheimer's Disease Genetics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Probabilistic and parsimony-based arguments regarding available genetics data are used to propose that Hardy and Higgin's amyloid cascade hypothesis is valid but is commonly interpreted too narrowly to support, incorrectly, the primacy of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) in driving Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

  19. Passive tau-based immunotherapy for tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Handbook of clinical neurology 2023 Drug development

    Tauopathies are heterogeneous clinicopathological entities characterized by abnormal neuronal and/or glial inclusions of the microtubule-binding protein tau.

  20. The Late Stage of Abnormal Aging: Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2023 Drug development

    With the growth of the aging population, more age-related diseases endanger the health of the elderly, and therefore more research attention has been put on Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

  21. miR-101a-3p Impairs Synaptic Plasticity and Contributes to Synucleinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2023 Disease mechanisms

    We found several deregulated biological processes linked to the synapse. miR-101a-3p was validated as a synaptic miRNA upregulated in aSyn Tg mice and in the cortex of dementia with Lewy bodies patients.

  22. Emerging therapeutics agents and recent advances in drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2022-12-16 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multivariate and diversified disease and affects the most sensitive areas of the brain, the cerebral cortex, and the hippocampus.

  23. SNCA genetic lowering reveals differential cognitive function of alpha-synuclein dependent on sex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2022-12-14 Drug development

    Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy for neurological disease has been successful in clinical settings and its potential has generated hope for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Amyloid β-Peptide Causes the Permanent Activation of CaMKIIα through Its Oxidation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-12-02 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterised by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques in the brain.

  25. Metformin Attenuates Tau Pathology in Tau-Seeded PS19 Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2022-11-23 Drug development

    Accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau is a histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies.

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