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  1. Use of curcumin in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2018-04-01 Treatments

    This review summarizes and describes the use of curcumin in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

  2. Memantine loaded PLGA PEGylated nanoparticles for Alzheimer’s disease: in vitro and in vivo characterization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2018-03-27 Treatments

    The production parameters were optimized by design of experiments.

  3. Murine knockin model for progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia with nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018-03-06 Drug development

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in individuals under age 60 and has no treatment or cure.

  4. Differential α-synuclein expression contributes to selective vulnerability of hippocampal neuron subpopulations to fibril-induced toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-03-03 Drug development

    The accumulation of misfolded α-synuclein (aSyn) and neuron loss define several neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  5. Extracellular Monomeric and Aggregated Tau Efficiently Enter Human Neurons through Overlapping but Distinct Pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2018-03-01 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease, neurofibrillary tangle pathology appears to spread along neuronal connections, proposed to be mediated by the release and uptake of abnormal, disease-specific forms of microtubule-binding protein tau MAPT.

  6. Tau passive immunization blocks seeding and spread of Alzheimer hyperphosphorylated Tau-induced pathology in 3 × Tg-AD mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-01-31 Drug development

    These findings indicate that AD p-Tau-injected 3 × Tg-AD mice represent a practical model to study the seeding and spread of Tau pathology, their effect on Aβ pathology, and the effect of Tau immunotherapy on both Tau and Aβ pathologies.

  7. Memantine for the Treatment of Dementia: A Review on its Current and Future Applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence in the brain of extracellular amyloid-β protein (Aβ) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  8. The Amyloid-β Oligomer Hypothesis: Beginning of the Third Decade

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The amyloid-β oligomer (AβO) hypothesis was introduced in 1998.

  9. Mitochondria and Mitochondrial Cascades in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Decades of research indicate mitochondria from Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients differ from those of non-AD individuals.

  10. Pathways of cellular proteostasis in aging and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2017-11-10 Disease mechanisms

    Ensuring cellular protein homeostasis, or proteostasis, requires precise control of protein synthesis, folding, conformational maintenance, and degradation.

  11. CRISPR/Cas9-Correctable mutation-related molecular and physiological phenotypes in iPSC-derived Alzheimer's PSEN2 N141I neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2017-10-27 Biomarkers

    Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs) are believed to be one of the first cell types to be affected in all forms of AD, and their dysfunction is clinically correlated with impaired short-term memory formation and retrieval.

  12. Oxidative stress and the amyloid beta peptide in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Redox biology 2017-10-18 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress is known to play an important role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases.

  13. Anti-Amyloid-β Monoclonal Antibodies for Alzheimer's Disease: Pitfalls and Promise

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2017-08-24 Treatments

    The majority of putative disease-modifying treatments in development for Alzheimer's disease are directed against the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide.

  14. APP mouse models for Alzheimer's disease preclinical studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2017-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Animal models of human diseases that accurately recapitulate clinical pathology are indispensable for understanding molecular mechanisms and advancing preclinical studies.

  15. Advances in progressive supranuclear palsy: new diagnostic criteria, biomarkers, and therapeutic approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-06-13 Getting a diagnosis

    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), previously believed to be a common cause of atypical parkinsonism, is now recognised as a range of motor and behavioural syndromes that are associated with a characteristic 4-repeat tau neuropathology.

  16. YKL-40 (Chitinase 3-like I) is expressed in a subset of astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2017-06-09 Biomarkers

    We found that brain YKL-40 immunoreactivity was observed in a subset of astrocytes in all four diseases and in controls.

  17. Phosphorylation of tau at Y18, but not tau-fyn binding, is required for tau to modulate NMDA receptor-dependent excitotoxicity in primary neuronal culture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2017-05-19 Drug development

    Although tau has been implicated in diverse neurological diseases, its most pathogenic forms remain to be defined.

  18. Aberrant iPSC-derived human astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell Death and Disease 2017-03-23 Biomarkers

    The pathological potential of human astroglia in Alzheimer's disease (AD) was analysed in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.

  19. A Dual Pathogenic Mechanism Links Tau Acetylation to Sporadic Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-03-13 Drug development

    Tau acetylation has recently emerged as a dominant post-translational modification (PTM) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies.

  20. Parkinson's Disease: From Pathogenesis to Pharmacogenomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2017-03-04 Risk factors

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most important age-related neurodegenerative disorder in developed societies, after Alzheimer's disease, with a prevalence ranging from 41 per 100,000 in the fourth decade of life to over 1900 per 100,000 in people over 80 years of age.

  21. Tau PET imaging: present and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2017-02-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Abnormal aggregation of tau in the brain is a major contributing factor in various neurodegenerative diseases.

  22. Resveratrol and Grape Extract-loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2017-02-13 Disease mechanisms

    The aggregation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) has been linked to the formation of neuritic plaques, which are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Loss-of-function mutations in the ATP13A2/PARK9 gene cause complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG78)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-02-01 Genetics

    Molecular defects in this gene have been causally associated with Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (#606693), an autosomal recessive form of juvenile-onset parkinsonism, and neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (#606693), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the intracellular accumulation of autofluorescent lipopigments.

  24. Tau passive immunization inhibits not only tau but also Aβ pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-01-10 Drug development

    These findings suggest the potential of passive immunization targeting proximal N-terminal domain tau 6-18 as a disease-modifying approach to AD and related tauopathies.

  25. Calcium Hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease and brain aging: A framework for integrating new evidence into a comprehensive theory of pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-01-03 Brain scans and imaging

    This article updates the Calcium Hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease and brain aging on the basis of emerging evidence since 1994 (The present article, with the subtitle "New evidence for a central role of Ca 2+ in neurodegeneration," includes three appendices that provide context and further explanations for the rationale for the revisions in the updated hypothesis-the three appendices are as follows: Appendix I "Emerging concepts on potential pathogenic roles of [Ca 2+ ]," Appendix II "Future studies to validate the central role of dysregulated [Ca 2+ ] in neurodegeneration," and Appendix III "Epilogue: towards a comprehensive hypothesis.")

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