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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. Distinct Therapeutic Mechanisms of Tau Antibodies: Promoting Microglial Clearance Versus Blocking Neuronal Uptake

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-06-30 Drug development

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by accumulation of Tau amyloids, and include Alzheimer disease and certain frontotemporal dementias.

  2. Accumulation of dipeptide repeat proteins predates that of TDP ‐43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration associated with hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9ORF72 gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2015-04-30 Lewy body dementia

    Three Newcastle patients bearing an expansion in C9ORF72 were identified.

  3. Tau immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2015-04-03 Drug development

    Targeting pathological tau protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies has shown great potential in animal models.

  4. The role of the tripartite glutamatergic synapse in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Aging and disease 2015-03-10 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in individuals over 65 years of age and is characterized by accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) and tau.

  5. Presenilin-1 knockin mice reveal loss-of-function mechanism for familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2015-03-01 Biomarkers

    Presenilins play essential roles in memory formation, synaptic function, and neuronal survival.

  6. Tau immunotherapy modulates both pathological tau and upstream amyloid pathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015-03-01 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the pathological accumulation of tau appears to be a downstream effect of amyloid β protein (Aβ).

  7. Enhanced glutathione PEGylated liposomal brain delivery of an anti-amyloid single domain antibody fragment in a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society 2015-02-07 Treatments

    Treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease is hampered by the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

  8. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2015-01-29 Lewy body dementia

    We found a significantly greater intensity of cytoplasmic immunostaining for HDAC4 and HDAC6 in granule cells of the dentate gyrus in cases of FTLD overall compared with controls, and specifically in cases of FTLD tau‐ P icks compared with FTLD tau‐ MAPT and controls.

  9. Pathological interface between oligomeric alpha-synuclein and tau in synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2015-01-09 Drug development

    In addition to the deposition of tau oligomers, our results also provide compelling evidence of co-occurrence of α-synuclein and tau into their most toxic forms, i.e., oligomers suggesting that these species interact and influence each other's aggregation via an interface in synucleinopathies.

  10. Targeting Hsp90/Hsp70-Based Protein Quality Control for Treatment of Adult Onset Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2015-01-06 Disease mechanisms

    Currently available therapies for adult onset neurodegenerative diseases provide symptomatic relief but do not modify disease progression.

  11. Pseudophosphorylation of Tau at distinct epitopes or the presence of the P301L mutation targets the microtubule-associated protein Tau to dendritic spines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2015-01-03 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) and Tau in the brain.

  12. Mechanisms of molecular mimicry involving the microbiota in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Genetics

    The concept of molecular mimicry was established to explain commonalities of structure which developed in response to evolutionary pressures.

  13. Disturbed mitochondrial dynamics and neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2014-12-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mitochondria form a highly interconnected tubular network throughout the cell via a dynamic process, with mitochondrial segments fusing and breaking apart continuously.

  14. 'The clocks that time us'--circadian rhythms in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2014-11-11 Risk factors

    Circadian rhythms are physiological and behavioural cycles generated by an endogenous biological clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

  15. Alzheimer presenilin-1 mutations dramatically reduce trimming of long amyloid β-peptides (Aβ) by γ-secretase to increase 42-to-40-residue Aβ

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-09-19 Biomarkers

    The presenilin-containing γ-secretase complex produces the amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) through intramembrane proteolysis, and >100 presenilin mutations are associated with familial early-onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  16. The role of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in the modulation of autophagy and the clearance of protein aggregates in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cellular signalling 2014-08-28 Disease mechanisms

    Disruption of autophagy plays an import role in neurodegenerative disorders, where deficient elimination of abnormal and toxic protein aggregates promotes cellular stress, failure and death.

  17. Tau-targeting passive immunization modulates aspects of pathology in tau transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2014-08-01 Drug development

    Immunization is increasingly recognized as a suitable therapeutic avenue for the treatment of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

  18. Enhancing astrocytic lysosome biogenesis facilitates Aβ clearance and attenuates amyloid plaque pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2014-07-01 Biomarkers

    In sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), impaired Aβ removal contributes to elevated extracellular Aβ levels that drive amyloid plaque pathogenesis.

  19. The amyloid state and its association with protein misfolding diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 2014-06-01 Risk factors

    The phenomenon of protein aggregation and amyloid formation has become the subject of rapidly increasing research activities across a wide range of scientific disciplines.

  20. The intersection of amyloid beta and tau at synapses in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2014-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    The collapse of neural networks important for memory and cognition, including death of neurons and degeneration of synapses, causes the debilitating dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Extrasynaptic NMDA receptor involvement in central nervous system disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2014-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-induced excitotoxicity is thought to contribute to the cell death associated with certain neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.

  22. Pathways to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2014-03-01 Treatments

    Recent trials of anti-amyloid agents have not produced convincing improvements in clinical outcome in Alzheimer's disease; however, the reason for these poor or inconclusive results remains unclear.

  23. Sleep deprivation impairs memory, tau metabolism, and synaptic integrity of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease with plaques and tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-02-15 Biomarkers

    Several studies have highlighted the frequency of sleep disturbances in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Specific targeting of tau oligomers in Htau mice prevents cognitive impairment and tau toxicity following injection with brain-derived tau oligomeric seeds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Drug development

    Neurodegenerative disease is one of the greatest health crises in the world and as life expectancy rises, the number of people affected will continue to increase.

  25. Increased brain penetration and potency of a therapeutic antibody using a monovalent molecular shuttle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2014-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Although biotherapeutics have vast potential for treating brain disorders, their use has been limited due to low exposure across the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

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