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  1. Amyloid ion channels: a common structural link for protein-misfolding disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-07-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    Protein conformational diseases, including Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases, result from protein misfolding, giving a distinct fibrillar feature termed amyloid.

  2. Structural properties of Abeta protofibrils stabilized by a small molecule

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-05-09 Treatments

    Metastable oligomeric and protofibrillar forms of amyloidogenic proteins have been implicated as on-pathway assembly intermediates in amyloid formation and as the major toxic species in a number of amyloid diseases including Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by lithium correlates with reduced tauopathy and degeneration in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-05-02 Drug development

    Neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated, aggregated tau are a common pathological feature of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease.

  4. Age- and region-dependent alterations in Abeta-degrading enzymes: implications for Abeta-induced disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-05-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Accumulation of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) is a fundamental feature of certain human brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down syndrome and also of the skeletal muscle disorder inclusion body myositis (IBM).

  5. Abnormal accumulation of citrullinated proteins catalyzed by peptidylarginine deiminase in hippocampal extracts from patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2005-04-01 Biomarkers

    Citrullinated proteins are the products of a posttranslational process in which arginine residues undergo modification into citrulline residues when catalyzed by peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs) in a calcium ion-dependent manner.

  6. Voluntary exercise decreases amyloid load in a transgenic model 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 2005-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder for which there are few therapeutics that affect the underlying disease mechanism.

  7. Role of oxidative carbonylation in protein quality control and senescence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2005-03-03 Disease mechanisms

    Proteins can become modified by a large number of reactions involving reactive oxygen species.

  8. Endosome function and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-03-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Endocytosis is universally important in cell function.

  9. Extensive involvement of autophagy in Alzheimer disease: an immuno-electron microscopy study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2005-02-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The accumulation of lysosomes and their hydrolases within neurons is a well-established neuropathologic feature of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  10. Presenilin 2 familial Alzheimer's disease mutations result in partial loss of function and dramatic changes in Abeta 42/40 ratios

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2005-01-01 Biomarkers

    Gene knockout studies in mice suggest that presenilin 1 (PS1) is the major gamma-secretase and that it contributes disproportionately to amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide generation from beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP), whereas PS2 plays a more minor role.

  11. ER stress and the unfolded protein response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mutation research 2005-01-01 Risk factors

    Conformational diseases are caused by mutations altering the folding pathway or final conformation of a protein.

  12. The binding of thioflavin-T to amyloid fibrils: localisation and implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of structural biology 2005-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Amyloid fibrils are a polymeric form of protein, involving a continuous beta-sheet with the strands perpendicular to the long axis of the fibril.

  13. Curcumin inhibits formation of amyloid beta oligomers and fibrils, binds plaques, and reduces amyloid in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004-12-07 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves amyloid beta (Abeta) accumulation, oxidative damage, and inflammation, and risk is reduced with increased antioxidant and anti-inflammatory consumption.

  14. New therapeutic strategies and drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases: p53 and TNF-alpha inhibitors, and GLP-1 receptor agonists

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2004-12-01 Drug development

    Owing to improving preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic measures for cardiovascular disease and a variety of cancers, the average ages of North Americans and Europeans continue to rise.

  15. Induction of hyperphosphorylated tau in primary rat cortical neuron cultures mediated by oxidative stress and glycogen synthase kinase-3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2004-12-01 Drug development

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) containing paired helical filaments (PHF) composed of abnormally phosphorylated tau are one of the hallmark lesions of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  16. Cell biology of protein misfolding: the examples of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature cell biology 2004-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The salutary intersection of fundamental cell biology with the study of disease is well illustrated by the emerging elucidation of neurodegenerative disorders.

  17. Synaptic targeting by Alzheimer's-related amyloid beta oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    The cognitive hallmark of early Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an extraordinary inability to form new memories.

  18. A modified beta-amyloid hypothesis: intraneuronal accumulation of the beta-amyloid peptide--the first step of a fatal cascade

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2004-11-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Accumulating evidence points to an important role of intraneuronal A beta as a trigger of the pathological cascade of events leading to neurodegeneration and eventually to Alzheimer's disease (AD) with its typical clinical symptoms, like memory impairment and change in personality.

  19. Vaccine adjuvants: current state and future trends

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Immunology and cell biology 2004-10-01 How common it is

    The problem with pure recombinant or synthetic antigens used in modern day vaccines is that they are generally far less immunogenic than older style live or killed whole organism vaccines.

  20. Disruption of ceruloplasmin and hephaestin in mice causes retinal iron overload and retinal degeneration with features 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 2004-09-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Mechanisms of brain and retinal iron homeostasis have become subjects of increased interest after the discovery of elevated iron levels in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and retinas of patients with age-related macular degeneration.

  21. Strategies for disease modification in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2004-09-01 Treatments

    Treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the biggest unmet medical need in neurology.

  22. Techniques to study amyloid fibril formation in vitro

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Methods (San Diego, Calif.) 2004-09-01 Risk factors

    Amyloid fibrils are ordered aggregates of peptides or proteins that are fibrillar in structure and contribute to the complications of many diseases (e.g., type 2 diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease, and primary systemic amyloidosis).

  23. Deciphering the molecular basis of memory failure in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2004-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Acutely developing lesions of the brain have been highly instructive in elucidating the neural systems underlying memory in humans and animal models.

  24. Antisense directed at the Abeta region of APP decreases brain oxidative markers in aged senescence accelerated mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2004-08-01 Drug development

    Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is known to induce free radical-mediated oxidative stress in the brain.

  25. LRP/amyloid beta-peptide interaction mediates differential brain efflux of Abeta isoforms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2004-08-01 Vascular contributions

    LRP (low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein) is linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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