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  1. Brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: native subtypes and their relevance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2006-07-31 Risk factors

    Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors comprise a heterogeneous class of cationic channels that is present throughout the nervous system.

  2. Alzheimer's disease beta-amyloid peptides are released in association with exosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-07-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although the exact etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a topic of debate, the consensus is that the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides in the senile plaques is one of the hallmarks of the progression of the disease.

  3. BACE2, as a novel APP theta-secretase, is not responsible for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2006-07-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Amyloid beta protein (Abeta), the major component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD), is derived from APP by sequential cleavages of beta- and gamma-secretases.

  4. The roles of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 and glycogen synthase kinase 3 in tau hyperphosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2006-06-27 Drug development

    Hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau is a characteristic feature of neurodegenerative tauopathies including Alzheimer disease.

  5. Cognitive and physical activity differently modulate disease progression in the amyloid precursor protein (APP)-23 model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2006-06-27 Prevention trials

    We conclude that structural and molecular prerequisites for activity-dependent plasticity are preserved in mutant mice with an AD-like pathology.

  6. Oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease brain: new insights from redox proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2006-06-15 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease, an age-related neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized clinically by a progressive loss of memory and cognitive functions.

  7. Tau protein binds to pericentromeric DNA: a putative role for nuclear tau in nucleolar organization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cell science 2006-04-25 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The microtubule-associated tau protein participates in the organization and integrity of the neuronal cytoskeleton.

  8. Soluble oligomers of amyloid-beta peptide induce neuronal apoptosis by activating a cPLA2-dependent sphingomyelinase-ceramide pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2006-04-19 Drug development

    Recent data have revealed that soluble oligomeric amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) may be the proximate effectors of neuronal injuries and death in Alzheimer's disease (AD) by unknown mechanisms.

  9. Apolipoprotein E4: a causative factor and therapeutic target in neuropathology, including Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-03-27 Genetics

    The premise of this review is that apolipoprotein (apo) E4 is much more than a contributing factor to neurodegeneration.

  10. Mitochondria are a direct site of A beta accumulation in Alzheimer's disease neurons: implications for free radical generation and oxidative damage in disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2006-03-21 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, neurodegenerative disease characterized by the impairment of cognitive function in elderly individuals.

  11. Early-onset behavioral and synaptic deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-03-20 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder for which numerous mouse models have been generated.

  12. Effects of secreted oligomers of amyloid beta-protein on hippocampal synaptic plasticity: a potent role for trimers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of physiology 2006-02-09 Disease mechanisms

    The accumulation of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in brain regions serving memory and cognition is a central pathogenic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Molecular structure of amyloid fibrils: insights from solid-state NMR

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 2006-02-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    References 46 Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements have made major contributions to our understanding of the molecular structures of amyloid fibrils, including fibrils formed by the β-amyloid peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease, by proteins associated with fungal prions, and by a variety of other polypeptides.

  14. Role of melatonin in Alzheimer-like neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Acta pharmacologica Sinica 2006-01-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer disease (AD), an age-related neurodegenerative disorder with progressive loss of memory and deterioration of comprehensive cognition, is characterized by extracellular senile plaques of aggregated beta-amyloid (Abeta), and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles that contain hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  15. Inhibition of amyloid fibril formation by polyphenols: structural similarity and aromatic interactions as a common inhibition mechanism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Chemical biology & drug design 2006-01-01 Risk factors

    The formation of well-ordered fibrillar protein deposits is common to a large group of amyloid-associated disorders.

  16. Experimental constraints on quaternary structure in Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemistry 2006-01-01 Clinical safety

    We describe solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on fibrils formed by the 40-residue beta-amyloid peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease (Abeta(1-40)) that place constraints on the identity and symmetry of contacts between in-register, parallel beta-sheets in the fibrils.

  17. BACE1, a major determinant of selective vulnerability of the brain to amyloid-beta amyloidogenesis, is essential for cognitive, emotional, and synaptic functions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    A transmembrane aspartyl protease termed beta-site APP cleavage enzyme 1 (BACE1) that cleaves the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), which is abundant in neurons, is required for the generation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles, senile plaques and loss of synapses.

  19. Binding of the positron emission tomography tracer Pittsburgh compound-B reflects the amount of amyloid-beta in Alzheimer's disease brain but not in transgenic mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    During the development of in vivo amyloid imaging agents, an effort was made to use micro-positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in the presenilin-1 (PS1)/amyloid precursor protein (APP) transgenic mouse model of CNS amyloid deposition to screen new compounds and further study Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB), a PET tracer that has been shown to be retained well in amyloid-containing areas of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  20. Mitochondrial Abeta: a potential focal point for neuronal metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2005-10-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) is the neurotoxic species implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), mechanisms through which intracellular Abeta impairs cellular properties, resulting in neuronal dysfunction, remain to be clarified.

  21. Ribosome dysfunction is an early event in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-10-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and devastating disorder that is often preceded by mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  22. Neuronal sorting protein-related receptor sorLA/LR11 regulates processing of the amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-09-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    sorLA (Sorting protein-related receptor) is a type-1 membrane protein of unknown function that is expressed in neurons.

  23. Globular amyloid beta-peptide oligomer - a homogenous and stable neuropathological protein in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2005-08-31 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta)(1-42) oligomers have recently been discussed as intermediate toxic species in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  24. Dendritic spine abnormalities in amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice demonstrated by gene transfer and intravital multiphoton microscopy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) into senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a hallmark neuropathological feature of the disorder, which likely contributes to alterations in neuronal structure and function.

  25. The senescence-accelerated mouse (SAM) is an accelerated aging model that was established through phenotypic selection from a common genetic pool of AKR/J strain of mice.

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