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  1. Reward motivation and cognitive flexibility in tau null-mutation mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-12-23 Drug development

    The reduction of tau or hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) has been proposed as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  2. Disrupted ubiquitin proteasome system underlying tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    Accumulation of phosphorylated tau (p-tau) has long been an underappreciated hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

  3. New therapeutics beyond amyloid-β and tau for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta pharmacologica Sinica 2020-12-02 Treatments

    As the population ages, Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disease in elderly people, will impose social and economic burdens to the world.

  4. KALRN: A central regulator of synaptic function and synaptopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Gene 2020-11-13 Disease mechanisms

    The synaptic regulator, kalirin, plays a key role in synaptic plasticity and formation of dendritic arbors and spines.

  5. PINK1/PARKIN signalling in neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2020-11-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Mutations in the PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) and Parkin RBR E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase (PARKIN) genes are associated with familial forms of Parkinson's disease (PD).

  6. Emerging potential of cannabidiol in reversing proteinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2020-11-09 Disease mechanisms

    The aberrant accumulation of disease-specific protein aggregates accompanying cognitive decline is a pathological hallmark of age-associated neurological disorders, also termed as proteinopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis.

  7. Neuronal Protein Farnesylation Regulates Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2020-10-24 Disease mechanisms

    Protein prenylation is a post-translational lipid modification that governs a variety of important cellular signaling pathways, including those regulating synaptic functions and cognition in the nervous system.

  8. Phosphorylated tau interactome in the human Alzheimer's disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-09-01 Genetics

    Accumulation of phosphorylated tau is a key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease.

  9. Senolytic drugs: from discovery to translation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2020-08-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Senolytics are a class of drugs that selectively clear senescent cells (SC).

  10. Does hearing loss lead to dementia? A review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Hearing research 2020-07-30 Risk factors

    Recent studies have revealed a correlation between aging-related hearing loss and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer Disease.

  11. Cathepsin D regulates cerebral Aβ42/40 ratios via differential degradation of Aβ42 and Aβ40

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-07-06 Biomarkers

    Our findings identify CatD as the principal intracellular Aβ-degrading protease identified to date, one that regulates Aβ42/40 ratios via differential degradation of Aβ42 vs. Aβ40.

  12. GABAergic Inhibitory Interneuron Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2020-06-30 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized clinically by severe cognitive deficits and pathologically by amyloid plaques, neuronal loss, and neurofibrillary tangles.

  13. Human iPSC-Derived Hippocampal Spheroids: An Innovative Tool for Stratifying Alzheimer Disease Patient-Specific Cellular Phenotypes and Developing Therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stem cell reports 2020-06-25 Biomarkers

    The hippocampus is important for memory formation and is severely affected in the brain with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  14. Mitochondria dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease: recent advances

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2020-05-29 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by impaired cognitive function due to progressive loss of neurons in the brain.

  15. The behavioural and neuropathologic sexual dimorphism and absence of MIP-3α in tau P301S mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2020-02-24 Biomarkers

    Our findings highlight sexual dimorphism in the behavior, neuropathology, and plasma proteins in tau P301S transgenic AD mice, indicating that the use of male P301S transgenic mice may be more suitable for assessing anti-phosphorylated tau therapeutic strategies for AD and related tauopathies, and the MIP-3α may be a new potential plasma biomarker.

  16. Alzheimer's disease: targeting the glutamatergic system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biogerontology 2020-02-11 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that causes a progressive decline in memory, language and problem solving.

  17. Cellular Senescence in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2020-02-11 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Cellular senescence is a homeostatic biological process characterized by a permanent state of cell cycle arrest that can contribute to the decline of the regenerative potential and function of tissues.

  18. Pre-clinical characterisation of E2814, a high-affinity antibody targeting the microtubule-binding repeat domain of tau for passive immunotherapy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2020-02-04 Drug development

    Tau deposition in the brain is a pathological hallmark of many neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Parkinson's disease: proteinopathy or lipidopathy?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2020-01-03 Genetics

    Lipids play a more significant role in Parkinson's disease and its related brain disorders than is currently recognized, supporting a "lipid cascade".

  20. Modified Glutamatergic Postsynapse in Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience 2019-12-27 Disease mechanisms

    The postsynaptic density (PSD) is a complex subcellular domain important for postsynaptic signaling, function, and plasticity.

  21. Peptide-Based Molecular Strategies To Interfere with Protein Misfolding, Aggregation, and Cell Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 2019-11-28 Treatments

    Protein misfolding into amyloid fibrils is linked to more than 40 as yet incurable cell- and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and type 2 diabetes.

  22. Familial Alzheimer's disease presenilin-2 mutants affect Ca2+ homeostasis and brain network excitability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2019-10-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent cause of dementia in the elderly.

  23. Cell-type-specific profiling of brain mitochondria reveals functional and molecular diversity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-09-09 Genetics

    Mitochondria vary in morphology and function in different tissues; however, little is known about their molecular diversity among cell types.

  24. Structural Insights into Curli CsgA Cross-β Fibril Architecture Inspire Repurposing of Anti-amyloid Compounds as Anti-biofilm Agents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PLoS pathogens 2019-08-30 Treatments

    Curli amyloid fibrils secreted by Enterobacteriaceae mediate host cell adhesion and contribute to biofilm formation, thereby promoting bacterial resistance to environmental stressors.

  25. Protein-Capped Metal Nanoparticles Inhibit Tau Aggregation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS omega 2019-07-29 Drug development

    The Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapeutic research is yielding a large number of potent molecules.

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