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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Multi-Target Directed Donepezil-Like Ligands for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2016-05-25 Treatments

    Although its etiology is not completely known, several factors including deficits of acetylcholine, β-amyloid deposits, τ-protein phosphorylation, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation are considered to play significant roles in the pathophysiology of this disease.

  2. Tau: From research to clinical development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-05-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's Association Research Roundtable Fall 2015-Tau: From research to clinical development.

  3. Epitope mapping and structural basis for the recognition of phosphorylated tau by the anti-tau antibody AT8

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proteins 2016-02-05 Drug development

    Microtubule-associated protein tau becomes abnormally phosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies and forms aggregates of paired helical filaments (PHF-tau).

  4. A Comprehensive Behavioral Test Battery to Assess Learning and Memory in 129S6/Tg2576 Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2016-01-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Transgenic Tg2576 mice overexpressing human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) are a widely used Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model to evaluate treatment effects on amyloid beta (Aβ) pathology and cognition.

  5. Rescue of long-range circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2015-10-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with defects of synaptic connectivity.

  6. Microglial internalization and degradation of pathological tau is enhanced by an anti-tau monoclonal antibody

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2015-06-09 Drug development

    Microglia have been shown to contribute to the clearance of brain amyloid β peptides (Aβ), the major component of amyloid plaques, in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. The case for rejecting the amyloid cascade hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2015-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a biologically complex neurodegenerative dementia.

  8. Preventive methylene blue treatment preserves cognition in mice expressing full-length pro-aggregant human Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2015-05-10 Drug development

    Our data support the use of Tau aggregation inhibitors as potential drugs for the treatment of AD and other tauopathies and highlights the need for preventive treatment before onset of cognitive impairments.

  9. Passive immunization with phospho-tau antibodies reduces tau pathology and functional deficits in two distinct mouse tauopathy models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-01 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), an extensive accumulation of extracellular amyloid plaques and intraneuronal tau tangles, along with neuronal loss, is evident in distinct brain regions.

  10. The aqueous phase of Alzheimer's disease brain contains assemblies built from ∼4 and ∼7 kDa Aβ species

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-04-04 Biomarkers

    Further analysis of brain-derived ∼7 kDa Aβ species, the mechanism by which they assemble and the structures they form should reveal therapeutic and diagnostic opportunities.

  11. Degradation of misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative diseases: therapeutic targets and strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Experimental & molecular medicine 2015-03-13 Disease mechanisms

    Mammalian cells remove misfolded proteins using various proteolytic systems, including the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system (UPS), chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA) and macroautophagy.

  12. Voluntary Running Attenuates Memory Loss, Decreases Neuropathological Changes and Induces Neurogenesis in a Mouse Model of A lzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain Pathology 2015-03-11 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of memory and cognitive abilities, and the appearance of amyloid plaques composed of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles formed of tau protein.

  13. The role of protein clearance mechanisms in organismal ageing and age-related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    The ability to maintain a functional proteome, or proteostasis, declines during the ageing process.

  14. Effect of potent γ-secretase modulator in human neurons derived from multiple presenilin 1-induced pluripotent stem cell mutant carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-12-01 Biomarkers

    This biomarker discrepancy is likely due to overexpression of amyloid precursor protein in the transformed cellular models.

  15. Models of β-amyloid induced Tau-pathology: the long and "folded" road to understand the mechanism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-11-18 Treatments

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis has been the prevailing hypothesis in Alzheimer's Disease research, although the final and most wanted proof i.e. fully successful anti-amyloid clinical trials in patients, is still lacking.

  16. Oligomeric Aβ-induced synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-11-14 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disease characterized by synaptic and neuronal loss in the elderly.

  17. Full-length TDP-43 forms toxic amyloid oligomers that are present in frontotemporal lobar dementia-TDP patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-09-12 Treatments

    Proteinaceous inclusions are common hallmarks of many neurodegenerative diseases.

  18. Dysregulation of protein trafficking in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-08-25 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Intracellular protein trafficking plays an important role in neuronal function and survival.

  19. Identification of structural determinants on tau protein essential for its pathological function: novel therapeutic target for tau immunotherapy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-08-01 Drug development

    We have discovered defined determinants on mis-disordered truncated tau protein which are responsible for tau oligomerisation leading to neurofibrillary degeneration.

  20. Neuronal uptake of tau/pS422 antibody and reduced progression of tau pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-07-31 Drug development

    The severity of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease brain correlates closely with disease progression.

  21. Single App knock-in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2014-04-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Experimental studies of Alzheimer's disease have largely depended on transgenic mice overexpressing amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  22. IVIg protects the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease from memory deficit and Aβ pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2014-03-22 Biomarkers

    The memory-enhancing effect of IVIg reported here suggests that Aβ oligomers, effector T cells and the fractalkine pathway are potential pharmacological targets of IVIg in AD.

  23. Transition-metal-substituted polyoxometalate derivatives as functional anti-amyloid agents for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-03-04 Treatments

    Inhibitions of amyloid β (Aβ) aggregation and Aβ-haem peroxidase-like activity have received much attention because these two symptoms can be the primary targets of therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Amyloid-ß-directed immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2014-03-01 Treatments

    Current treatment options for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are limited to medications that reduce dementia symptoms.

  25. Ageing and Parkinson's disease: why is advancing age the biggest risk factor?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2014-02-03 Disease mechanisms

    As the second most common age related neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, the health, social and economic impact resulting from Parkinson's disease will continue to increase alongside the longevity of the population.

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