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  1. Phosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein tau by isoforms of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2004-07-01 Drug development

    Microtubule-associated protein tau in a hyperphosphorylated state is the major component of the filamentous lesions that define a number of neurodegenerative diseases commonly referred to as tauopathies.

  2. Lithium, a common drug for bipolar disorder treatment, regulates amyloid-beta precursor protein processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemistry 2004-06-01 Drug development

    Lithium is one of the most widely used mood-stabilizing agents for the treatment of bipolar disorder.

  3. The role of ADAM10 and ADAM17 in the ectodomain shedding of angiotensin converting enzyme and the amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of biochemistry 2004-06-01 Drug development

    Numerous transmembrane proteins, including the blood pressure regulating angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and the Alzheimer's disease amyloid precursor protein (APP), are proteolytically shed from the plasma membrane by metalloproteases.

  4. Glycogen synthase kinase 3: a drug target for CNS therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2004-06-01 Drug development

    Glycogen synthase kinase3 (GSK3) is emerging as a prominent drug target in the CNS.

  5. Increased MAP kinase activity in Alzheimer's and Down syndrome but not in schizophrenia human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2004-05-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Abnormal phosphorylation of tau is a feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which develops prematurely in Down syndrome (DS) patients.

  6. Loss of presenilin function causes impairments of memory and synaptic plasticity followed by age-dependent neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2004-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mutations in presenilins are the major cause of familial Alzheimer's disease, but the pathogenic mechanism by which presenilin mutations cause memory loss and neurodegeneration remains unclear.

  7. Neuron-specific apolipoprotein e4 proteolysis is associated with increased tau phosphorylation in brains of transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004-03-01 Biomarkers

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE) is found in amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, but its role in their pathogenesis is unclear.

  8. Taurine prevents the neurotoxicity of beta-amyloid and glutamate receptor agonists: activation of GABA receptors and possible implications for Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2004-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several other neurological disorders have been linked to the overactivation of glutamatergic transmission and excitotoxicity as a common pathway of neuronal injury.

  9. Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Secondary Structure in Natively Unfolded Proteins: α-Synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004-02-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    The application of Raman spectroscopy to characterize natively unfolded proteins has been underdeveloped, even though it has significant technical advantages.

  10. CHIP and Hsp70 regulate tau ubiquitination, degradation and aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human Molecular Genetics 2004-01-28 Brain tissue and pathology

    Molecular chaperones, ubiquitin ligases and proteasome impairment have been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, which are characterized by accumulation of abnormal protein aggregates (e.g. tau and alpha-synuclein respectively).

  11. Oxidative modifications and down-regulation of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 associated with idiopathic Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004-01-13 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative diseases that occur either in relatively rare, familial forms or in common, sporadic forms.

  12. Imaging beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the aging human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current pharmaceutical design 2004-01-01 Treatments

    The development of radioligands to image beta-amyloid (A beta) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in vivo in the aging human brain is an important and active area of radiopharmaceutical design.

  13. Prediction of proprotein convertase cleavage sites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS 2004-01-01 Digital health tools

    Many secretory proteins and peptides are synthesized as inactive precursors that in addition to signal peptide cleavage undergo post-translational processing to become biologically active polypeptides.

  14. Amyloid deposition precedes tangle formation in a triple transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2003-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid-beta (Abeta) containing plaques and tau-laden neurofibrillary tangles are the defining neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Mutant presenilins specifically elevate the levels of the 42 residue beta-amyloid peptide in vivo: evidence for augmentation of a 42-specific gamma secretase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2003-11-25 Biomarkers

    Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is endoproteolytically processed by BACE1 and gamma-secretase to release amyloid peptides (Abeta40 and 42) that aggregate to form senile plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. The ubiquitin proteasome system in neurodegenerative diseases: sometimes the chicken, sometimes the egg

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2003-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    The ubiquitin-proteasome system targets numerous cellular proteins for degradation.

  17. Amyloid-beta: a chameleon walking in two worlds: a review of the trophic and toxic properties of amyloid-beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research. Brain research reviews 2003-09-01 Treatments

    Although much maligned, the amyloid-beta (Abeta) protein has been shown to possess a number of trophic properties that emanate from the protein's ability to bind Cu, Fe and Zn.

  18. Nitration of tau protein is linked to neurodegeneration in tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2003-09-01 Drug development

    Oxidative and nitrative injury is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS), but no direct evidence links this type of injury to the formation of neurofibrillary tau lesions.

  19. Protein aggregation and aggregate toxicity: new insights into protein folding, misfolding diseases and biological evolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2003-08-27 Disease mechanisms

    The deposition of proteins in the form of amyloid fibrils and plaques is the characteristic feature of more than 20 degenerative conditions affecting either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues.

  20. Alzheimer's disease-affected brain: presence of oligomeric A beta ligands (ADDLs) suggests a molecular basis for reversible memory loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-08-18 Disease mechanisms

    A molecular basis for memory failure in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been recently hypothesized, in which a significant role is attributed to small, soluble oligomers of amyloid beta-peptide (A beta).

  21. App gene dosage modulates endosomal abnormalities of Alzheimer's disease in a segmental trisomy 16 mouse model of down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003-07-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Altered neuronal endocytosis is the earliest known pathology in sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS) brain and has been linked to increased Abeta production.

  22. Proteomic identification of nitrated proteins in Alzheimer's disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2003-06-01 Genetics

    Nitration of tyrosine in biological conditions represents a pathological event that is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Description of Parkinson's disease as a clinical syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2003-06-01 Risk factors

    Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome comprising combinations of motor problems-namely, bradykinesia, resting tremor, rigidity, flexed posture, "freezing," and loss of postural reflexes.

  24. Spherical aggregates of beta-amyloid (amylospheroid) show high neurotoxicity and activate tau protein kinase I/glycogen synthase kinase-3beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-05-15 Drug development

    beta-Amyloid (Abeta) acquires toxicity by self-aggregation.

  25. Amyloid-beta is found in drusen from some age-related macular degeneration retinas, but not in drusen from normal retinas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Molecular vision 2003-05-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Abeta was present in 4 of 9 AMD eyes.

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