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  1. The amyloid cascade hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease: an appraisal for the development of therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2011-08-19 Clinical trials

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis, which posits that the deposition of the amyloid-β peptide in the brain is a central event in Alzheimer's disease pathology, has dominated research for the past twenty years.

  2. Anti-amyloid therapy protects against retinal pigmented epithelium damage and vision loss in a model of age-related macular degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011-06-20 Treatments

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of visual dysfunction worldwide.

  3. We here report on the synthesis, optimization, and biological characterization of leucettines, a family of kinase inhibitors derived from the marine sponge leucettamine B. Stepwise synthesis of analogues starting from the natural structure, guided by activity testing on eight purified kinases, led to highly potent inhibitors of CLKs and DYRKs, two families of kinases involved in alternative pre-mRNA splicing and Alzheimer's disease/Down syndrome.

  4. Redox modulation by S-nitrosylation contributes to protein misfolding, mitochondrial dynamics, and neuronal synaptic damage in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell death and differentiation 2011-05-20 Treatments

    The pathological processes of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases engender synaptic and neuronal cell damage.

  5. Boosting brain uptake of a therapeutic antibody by reducing its affinity for a transcytosis target

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2011-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Monoclonal antibodies have therapeutic potential for treating diseases of the central nervous system, but their accumulation in the brain is limited by the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

  6. Soluble Aβ oligomers inhibit long-term potentiation through a mechanism involving excessive activation of extrasynaptic NR2B-containing NMDA receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia severity correlates strongly with decreased synapse density in hippocampus and cortex.

  7. Amyloid beta-mediated cell death of cultured hippocampal neurons reveals extensive Tau fragmentation without increased full-length tau phosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2011-04-11 Drug development

    A variety of genetic and biochemical evidence suggests that amyloid β (Aβ) oligomers promote downstream errors in Tau action, in turn inducing neuronal dysfunction and cell death in Alzheimer and related dementias.

  8. The purpose of our study was to better understand the relationship between mitochondrial structural proteins, particularly dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) and amyloid beta (Aβ) in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Parallel findings in age-related macular degeneration and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in retinal and eye research 2011-03-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Age is a common risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

  10. Amyloid β peptide oligomers directly activate NMDA receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell calcium 2011-02-23 Treatments

    Amyloid beta (Aβ) oligomers accumulate in the brain tissue of Alzheimer disease patients and are related to disease pathogenesis.

  11. Oleuropein and derivatives from olives as Tau aggregation inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2011-02-17 Drug development

    Tau isoforms constitute a family of microtubule-associated proteins that are mainly expressed in neurons of the central nervous system.

  12. Alpha-synuclein sequesters Dnmt1 from the nucleus: a novel mechanism for epigenetic alterations in Lewy body diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2011-02-04 Genetics

    DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression.

  13. GLT-1 loss accelerates cognitive deficit onset in an Alzheimer's disease animal model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Biomarkers

    Glutamate transporters regulate normal synaptic network interactions and prevent neurotoxicity by rapidly clearing extracellular glutamate.

  14. Amyloid precursor protein processing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual review of neuroscience 2011-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia worldwide, is characterized by the accumulation of the β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) within the brain along with hyperphosphorylated and cleaved forms of the microtubule-associated protein tau.

  15. Amyloid-β/Fyn-induced synaptic, network, and cognitive impairments depend on tau levels in multiple mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder, is a growing public health problem and still lacks effective treatments.

  16. Abeta42 neurotoxicity is mediated by ongoing nucleated polymerization process rather than by discrete Abeta42 species

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-12-14 Treatments

    The identification of toxic Aβ species and/or the process of their formation is crucial for understanding the mechanism(s) of Aβ neurotoxicity in Alzheimer disease and also for the development of effective diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

  17. Tau mislocalization to dendritic spines mediates synaptic dysfunction independently of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2010-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    The microtubule-associated protein tau accumulates in Alzheimer's and other fatal dementias, which manifest when forebrain neurons die.

  18. Reimagining Alzheimer's disease--an age-based hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The historical roots of Alzheimer's disease provide a sound conceptual basis for linking the behavioral and neurological symptoms of the disease with the frequently associated pathology of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  19. Activation and intrinsic gamma-secretase activity of presenilin 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-11-29 Biomarkers

    A complex composed of presenilin (PS), nicastrin, PEN-2, and APH-1 is absolutely required for γ-secretase activity in vivo.

  20. Biguanide metformin acts on tau phosphorylation via mTOR/protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-11-22 Drug development

    Hyperphosphorylated tau plays an important role in the formation of neurofibrillary tangles in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies and is a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of these disorders.

  21. Aberrant subcellular neuronal calcium regulation in aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2010-10-13 Drug development

    In this mini-review/opinion article we describe evidence that multiple cellular and molecular alterations in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis involve perturbed cellular calcium regulation, and that alterations in synaptic calcium handling may be early and pivotal events in the disease process.

  22. Early deficits in synaptic mitochondria in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-10-11 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Synaptic dysfunction and the loss of synapses are early pathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Neurotoxicity of Alzheimer's disease Aβ peptides is induced by small changes in the Aβ42 to Aβ40 ratio

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2010-09-03 Treatments

    The amyloid peptides Aβ(40) and Aβ(42) of Alzheimer's disease are thought to contribute differentially to the disease process.

  24. Modulation of gamma-secretase reduces beta-amyloid deposition in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2010-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized pathologically by the abundance of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

  25. Abeta oligomers cause localized Ca(2+) elevation, missorting of endogenous Tau into dendrites, Tau phosphorylation, and destruction of microtubules and spines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) and Tau protein are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and according to the Abeta-cascade hypothesis, Abeta is considered toxic for neurons and Tau a downstream target of Abeta.

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