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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. A presenilin-1/gamma-secretase cleavage releases the E-cadherin intracellular domain and regulates disassembly of adherens junctions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2002-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    E-cadherin controls a wide array of cellular behaviors including cell-cell adhesion, differentiation and tissue development.

  2. Increased expression of intranuclear AChE involved in apoptosis of SK-N-SH cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience research 2002-04-01 Drug development

    Programmed cell death plays an integral role in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. alpha-Synuclein is phosphorylated in synucleinopathy lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature cell biology 2002-02-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The deposition of the abundant presynaptic brain protein alpha-synuclein as fibrillary aggregates in neurons or glial cells is a hallmark lesion in a subset of neurodegenerative disorders.

  4. Soluble oligomers of beta amyloid (1-42) inhibit long-term potentiation but not long-term depression in rat dentate gyrus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2002-01-01 Risk factors

    The dementia in Alzheimer disease (AD) is usually attributed to widespread neuronal loss in conjunction with the pathologic hallmarks of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles and extracellular plaques containing amyloid (A beta) in fibrillar form.

  5. The multifaceted roles of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta in cellular signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2001-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK3beta) is a fascinating enzyme with an astoundingly diverse number of actions in intracellular signaling systems.

  6. Identification and characterization of key kinetic intermediates in amyloid beta-protein fibrillogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of molecular biology 2001-10-01 Vascular contributions

    Amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) assembly into toxic oligomeric and fibrillar structures is a seminal event in Alzheimer's disease, therefore blocking this process could have significant therapeutic benefit.

  7. Immune hyporesponsiveness to amyloid beta-peptide in amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice: implications for the pathogenesis and treatment 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 2001-08-21 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Alzheimer's disease is a dementia that involves progressive deposition of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in brain regions important for memory and cognition, followed by secondary inflammation that contributes to the neuropathologic process.

  8. Nicastrin binds to membrane-tethered Notch

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature cell biology 2001-08-01 Drug development

    The presenilins and nicastrin, a type 1 transmembrane glycoprotein, form high molecular weight complexes that are involved in cleaving the beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) and Notch in their transmembrane domains.

  9. Chronic overexpression of the calcineurin inhibitory gene DSCR1 (Adapt78) is associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2001-08-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The DSCR1 (Adapt78) gene was independently discovered as a resident of the "Down syndrome candidate region"and as an "adaptive response"shock or stress gene that is transiently induced during oxidative stress.

  10. The glial glutamate transporter, GLT‐1, is oxidatively modified by 4‐hydroxy‐2‐nonenal in the Alzheimer's disease brain: the role of Aβ1–42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 2001-07-15 Disease mechanisms

    Glutamate transporters are involved in the maintenance of synaptic glutamate concentrations.

  11. Beta-amyloid activates the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade via hippocampal alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: In vitro and in vivo mechanisms related to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2001-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common of the senile dementias, the prevalence of which is increasing rapidly, with a projected 14 million affected worldwide by 2025.

  12. Early-onset amyloid deposition and cognitive deficits in transgenic mice expressing a double mutant form of amyloid precursor protein 695

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2001-03-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We have created early-onset transgenic (Tg) models by exploiting the synergistic effects of familial Alzheimer's disease mutations on amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) biogenesis.

  13. Proapoptotic effects of tau cleavage product generated by caspase-3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2001-02-01 Drug development

    Using an in vitro translation assay to screen a human brain cDNA library, we isolated the microtubule-associated protein Tau and determined it to be a caspase-3 substrate whose C-terminal cleavage occurred during neuronal apoptosis.

  14. Evidence for a partially folded intermediate in alpha-synuclein fibril formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2001-01-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    Intracellular proteinaceous aggregates (Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites) of alpha-synuclein are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple systemic atrophy.

  15. Protein oxidation in the brain in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2001-01-01 Biomarkers

    In this study we used immunohistochemistry and two-dimensional fingerprinting of oxidatively modified proteins (two-dimensional Oxyblot) together to investigate protein carbonyl formation in the Alzheimer's disease brain.

  16. Functional gamma-secretase inhibitors reduce beta-amyloid peptide levels in brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2001-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Converging lines of evidence implicate the beta-amyloid peptide (Ass) as causative in Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Decreased nuclear beta-catenin, tau hyperphosphorylation and neurodegeneration in GSK-3beta conditional transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2001-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK-3beta) has been postulated to mediate Alzheimer's disease tau hyperphosphorylation, beta-amyloid-induced neurotoxicity and presenilin-1 mutation pathogenic effects.

  18. Role of free radicals in the neurodegenerative diseases: therapeutic implications for antioxidant treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drugs & aging 2001-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Indeed, it has been shown that proteasomal inhibition increases levels of oxidative damage not only to proteins but also to other biomolecules.

  19. Glycogen synthase kinase-3beta phosphorylates protein tau and rescues the axonopathy in the central nervous system of human four-repeat tau transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2000-12-01 Drug development

    Protein tau filaments in brain of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and other tauopathies consist of protein tau that is hyperphosphorylated.

  20. beta amyloid protein (Abeta) is a 40-43 amino acid peptide derived from amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  21. Apoptosis in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 2000-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neuronal death underlies the symptoms of many human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, stroke, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  22. Mitotic activation: a convergent mechanism for a cohort of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2000-11-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Previous evidence from our lab and others has implicated the mitotic cdc2/cyclin B1 kinase in the neurofibrillary degeneration of Alzheimer's disease.

  23. High-throughput profiling of the mitochondrial proteome using affinity fractionation and automation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Electrophoresis 2000-10-01 Genetics

    Recent studies have demonstrated the need for complementing cellular genomic information with specific information on expressed proteins, or proteomics, since the correlation between the two is poor.

  24. Neuron-specific phosphorylation of Alzheimer's beta-amyloid precursor protein by cyclin-dependent kinase 5

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2000-09-01 Drug development

    The mature form of Alzheimer's beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is phosphorylated specifically at Thr(668) in neurons.

  25. alpha-synuclein promotes mitochondrial deficit and oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2000-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Abnormal accumulation of the presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein has recently been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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