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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. Active immunotherapy options for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-01-30 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and a major contributor to disability and dependency among older people.

  2. Stem cell derived basal forebrain cholinergic neurons from Alzheimer's disease patients are more susceptible to cell death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-01-08 Biomarkers

    An early substantial loss of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs) is a constant feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is associated with deficits in spatial learning and memory.

  3. Open questions for Alzheimer's disease immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-01-07 Drug development

    Perhaps more definitively than any other class of novel Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapy, pre-clinical studies in mouse models of amyloid β (Aβ) deposition have established the disease-modifying potential of anti-Aβ immunotherapy.

  4. Clinicopathologic assessment and imaging of tauopathies in neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-01-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Microtubule-associated protein tau encoded by the MAPT gene binds to microtubules and is important for maintaining neuronal morphology and function.

  5. Familial Alzheimer's mutations within APPTM increase Aβ42 production by enhancing accessibility of ε-cleavage site

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-01-01 Biomarkers

    The high Aβ42/Aβ40 production ratio is a hallmark of familial Alzheimer's disease, which can be caused by mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  6. Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2013-11-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Drosophila melanogaster provides an important resource for in vivo modifier screens of neurodegenerative diseases.

  7. Oxidative stress and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2013-07-25 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease that causes dementia in the elderly.

  8. Formation and propagation of tau oligomeric seeds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2013-07-17 Drug development

    Tau misfolding and aggregation leads to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which have long been considered one of the main pathological hallmarks for numerous neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD).

  9. Melatonin in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2013-07-12 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), an age-related neurodegenerative disorder with progressive cognition deficit, is characterized by extracellular senile plaques (SP) of aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, mainly containing the hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau.

  10. Neurotoxic effects of amyloid β peptides are mediated through deregulation of intracellular Ca(2+) homeostasis and signaling, but relatively little is known about amyloid β modulation of Ca(2+) homeostasis and its pathological influence on glia.

  11. Alzheimer's disease mutations in APP but not γ-secretase modulators affect epsilon-cleavage-dependent AICD production

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2013-01-01 Biomarkers

    Pathological amino-acid substitutions in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and chemical γ-secretase modulators affect the processing of APP by the γ-secretase complex and the production of the amyloid-beta peptide Aβ42, the accumulation of which is considered causative of Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction in neurological disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2013-01-01 Risk factors

    Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) dysfunction might have an important part to play in a range of neurological disorders, including cerebral ischaemia, sleep apnoea, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the prion diseases, and familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies.

  13. Presenilin-1 adopts pathogenic conformation in normal aging and in sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2012-11-09 Biomarkers

    Accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, inflammation and synaptic and neuronal loss are some of the major neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Alzheimer brain-derived tau oligomers propagate pathology from endogenous tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2012-10-03 Disease mechanisms

    Intracerebral injection of brain extracts containing amyloid or tau aggregates in transgenic animals can induce cerebral amyloidosis and tau pathology.

  15. Engineering of blended nanoparticle platform for delivery of mitochondria-acting therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012-09-18 Disease mechanisms

    Mitochondrial dysfunctions cause numerous human disorders.

  16. Exosomal cell-to-cell transmission of alpha synuclein oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2012-08-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    Our data suggest that αsyn may be secreted via different secretory pathways.

  17. The endoplasmic reticulum stress response in aging and age-related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in physiology 2012-07-16 Risk factors

    The endoplasmic reticulum(ER) is a multifunctional organelle within which protein folding, lipid biosynthesis, and calcium storage occurs.

  18. Astrocytic cytoskeletal atrophy in the medial prefrontal cortex of a triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Anatomy 2012-06-27 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of cognitive functions, reflecting pathological damage to the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) as well as to the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex.

  19. Structure and pathology of tau protein in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2012-05-29 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia.

  20. Intracerebral inoculation of pathological α-synuclein initiates a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative α-synucleinopathy in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2012-04-16 Brain tissue and pathology

    The accumulation of misfolded proteins is a fundamental pathogenic process in neurodegenerative diseases.

  21. Curcumin loaded-PLGA nanoparticles conjugated with Tet-1 peptide for potential use in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2012-03-05 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is a growing concern in the modern world.

  22. PINK1- and Parkin-mediated mitophagy at a glance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Cell Science 2012-02-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recently, work in cultured cells has shown that Parkin can mediate autophagy of damaged mitochondria (termed mitophagy) (Narendra et al., 2008) downstream of PINK1 (Geisler et al., 2010a; Matsuda et al., 2010; Narendra et al., 2010b; Vives-Bauza et al., 2010).

  23. Early astrocytic atrophy in the entorhinal cortex of a triple transgenic animal model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ASN neuro 2011-12-19 Biomarkers

    The EC (entorhinal cortex) is fundamental for cognitive and mnesic functions.

  24. Mechanistic Studies of Antibody-Mediated Clearance of Tau Aggregates Using an ex vivo Brain Slice Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2011-10-21 Drug development

    Recent studies have shown that immunotherapy clears amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and reduces Aβ levels in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as in AD patients.

  25. Serotonin signaling is associated with lower amyloid-β levels and plaques in transgenic mice and humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011-08-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) as toxic oligomers and amyloid plaques within the brain appears to be the pathogenic event that initiates Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.

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