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  1. Nogo-A Drives Alzheimer's Disease Progression by Inducing Tauopathy Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging and disease 2024-04-23 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies, a group of neurodegenerative disorders, are characterized by disrupted homeostasis of the microtubule binding protein tau.

  2. α-Synuclein triggers cofilin pathology and dendritic spine impairment via a PrPC-CCR5 dependent pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2024-04-13 Disease mechanisms

    Cognitive dysfunction and dementia are critical symptoms of Lewy Body dementias (LBD).

  3. Role of autophagy and proteostasis in neurodegenerative diseases: Exploring the therapeutic interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Chemical biology & drug design 2024-04 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegenerative disorders are devastating disorders characterized by gradual loss of neurons and cognition or mobility impairment.

  4. P-tau217 correlates with neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, and targeting p-tau217 with immunotherapy ameliorates murine tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2024-03-20 Biomarkers

    Neuronal loss is the central issue in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet no treatment developed so far can halt AD-associated neurodegeneration.

  5. Transient sleep apnea results in long-lasting increase in β-amyloid generation and tau hyperphosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroscience research 2024-03-19 Risk factors

    Sleep apnea is regarded as an important risk factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  6. Disease-Modifying Treatments and Their Future in Alzheimer's Disease Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cureus 2024-03-13 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory impairment, a loss of cholinergic neurons, and cognitive decline that insidiously progresses to dementia.

  7. Anti-alpha synuclein and anti-tau immunotherapies: Can a cocktail approach work?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2024-03-08 Drug development

    The hypothesis that neurodegenerative diseases are proteinopathies due to toxic effect of different underlying proteins, such as amyloid-beta and 3+4R-tau in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease (PD), while still controversial is supported by several studies in the literature.

  8. Loss and microglia phagocytosis of synaptic proteins in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 proteinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2024-03-05 Disease mechanisms

    Cortical synaptic loss has emerged as an early abnormality in Alzheimer's disease (AD) with a strong relationship to cognitive performance.

  9. ASOs are an effective treatment for disease-associated oligodendrocyte signatures in premanifest and symptomatic SCA3 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2024-02-29 Drug development

    Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is the most common dominantly inherited ataxia.

  10. Intersectin - many facets of a scaffold protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biochemical Society transactions 2024-02-28 Prevention trials

    Intersectin (ITSN) is a multi-domain scaffold protein with a diverse array of functions including regulation of endocytosis, vesicle transport, and activation of various signal transduction pathways.

  11. In vitro evaluation of [3H]PI-2620 and structural derivatives in non-Alzheimer's tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nuclear medicine and biology 2024-02-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and non-AD tauopathies such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are characterized by the abnormal aggregation of three-repeat (3R) and/or four-repeat (4R) tau isoforms.

  12. Metformin ameliorates mitochondrial damage induced by C9orf72 poly(GR) via upregulating AKT phosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of cellular biochemistry 2024-01-17 Drug development

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases with no effective cure.

  13. Modulation of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease by Dietary Bioactive Compounds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-01-09 Drug development

    Tau is a microtubule-associated protein essential for microtubule assembly and stability in neurons.

  14. Alzheimer's Disease: The Past, Present, and Future of a Globally Progressive Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cureus 2024-01-05 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a significant 21st-century public health challenge.

  15. Anti-amyloid-β Antibodies and Anti-tau Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease: Recent Advances and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin 2024 Treatments

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles containing phosphorylated tau protein are major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Assays for the Screening and Characterization of Tau Aggregation Inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Drug development

    Aggregation of tau protein is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative tauopathies.

  17. The autophagy of stress granules

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. FEBS letters 2023-12-21 Disease mechanisms

    Our understanding of stress granule (SG) biology has deepened considerably in recent years, and with this, increased understanding of links has been made between SGs and numerous neurodegenerative diseases.

  18. Amelioration of Tau and ApoE4-linked glial lipid accumulation and neurodegeneration with an LXR agonist

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2023-11-22 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a strong genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  19. Multidimensional autophagy nano-regulator boosts Alzheimer's disease treatment by improving both extra/intraneuronal homeostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B 2023-10-21 Disease mechanisms

    Intraneuronal dysproteostasis and extraneuronal microenvironmental abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD) collectively culminate in neuronal deterioration.

  20. LATE-NC in Alzheimer's disease: Molecular aspects and synergies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2023-10-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is classically characterized by senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).

  21. The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-10-01 Treatments

    However, while Aβ may contribute to disease, genetic, clinical, imaging and biochemical data suggest a more complex aetiology.

  22. Induction of proteasomal activity in mammalian cells by lifespan-extending tRNA synthetase inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. GeroScience 2023-09-25 Disease mechanisms

    We have recently shown that multiple tRNA synthetase inhibitors can greatly increase lifespan in multiple models by acting through the conserved transcription factor ATF4.

  23. Current and future therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease: an overview of drug development bottlenecks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-08-03 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common chronic neurodegenerative disease worldwide.

  24. Novel aspects of the phosphorylation and structure of pathological tau: implications for tauopathy biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. FEBS open bio 2023-07-08 Biomarkers

    The deposition of highly phosphorylated and aggregated tau is a characteristic of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease.

  25. β 2 -Microglobulin coaggregates with Aβ and contributes to amyloid pathology and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease model mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2023-06-01 Drug development

    Extensive studies indicate that β-amyloid (Aβ) aggregation is pivotal for Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression; however, cumulative evidence suggests that Aβ itself is not sufficient to trigger AD-associated degeneration, and whether other additional pathological factors drive AD pathogenesis remains unclear.

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