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  1. Molecular MRI of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease using a Folate-targeted Nanoprobe 2026-11-01
  2. Neuroinflammation is an early pathological process in a mouse model of prodromal Parkinsons disease 2026-10-30
  3. The TREM-receptor family interactome in the human brain 2026-10-29

Studies

385 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • bioRxiv 21
  • Journal of neuroinflammation 17
  • International journal of molecular sciences 13
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 10
  • Glia 10

169 journals in all.

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  1. Attenuated CSF-1R signalling drives cerebrovascular pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2020-12-22 Vascular contributions

    Cerebrovascular pathologies occur in up to 80% of cases of Alzheimer's disease; however, the underlying mechanisms that lead to perivascular pathology and accompanying blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption are still not fully understood.

  2. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is an immune receptor expressed on myeloid-derived cell types.

  3. Neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative disorders: the roles of microglia and astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2020-11-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation is associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  4. Locus Coeruleus Modulates Neuroinflammation in Parkinsonism and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-11-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Locus Coeruleus (LC) is the main noradrenergic nucleus of the central nervous system, and its neurons widely innervate the whole brain.

  5. The NLRP3 inflammasome triggers sterile neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in immunology 2020-11-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    To maintain homeostasis, an organism must detect and resolve sterile tissue damage.

  6. Alogliptin Attenuates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Neuroinflammation in Mice Through Modulation of TLR4/MYD88/NF-κB and miRNA-155/SOCS-1 Signaling Pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020-10-29 Drug development

    Alogliptin treatment alleviated LPS-induced cognitive impairment as assessed by Morris water maze and novel object recognition tests.

  7. Microglial Phagocytosis: A Disease-Associated Process Emerging from Alzheimer's Disease Genetics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2020-10-27 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating, chronic neurodegenerative disease.

  8. Interaction between genetic factors, Porphyromonas gingivalis and microglia to promote Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of oral microbiology 2020-09-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    In late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis, genes, infections and immunity could be significant factors.

  9. ROS Generation in Microglia: Understanding Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-08-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, are a global public health burden with poorly understood aetiology.

  10. Key Mechanisms and Potential Targets of the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2020-07-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neurodegenerative diseases are neuronal disorders characterized by the loss of a large number of neurons in the human brain.

  11. Neuroinflammation, microglial activation, and glucose metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International review of neurobiology 2020-07-24 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by aggregated amyloid beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  12. Neurovascular Inflammaging in Health and Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Cells 2020-07-04 Inflammation and the immune system

    Aging is characterized by a chronic low-grade sterile inflammation dubbed as inflammaging, which in part originates from accumulating cellular debris.

  13. Focus on the Role of NLRP3 Inflammasome in Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-06-13 Disease mechanisms

    Inflammation is a protective reaction activated in response to detrimental stimuli, such as dead cells, irritants or pathogens, by the evolutionarily conserved immune system and is regulated by the host.

  14. TREM2 Overexpression Attenuates Cognitive Deficits in Experimental Models of Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neural plasticity 2020-06-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Neuroinflammation plays a prominent role in the pathogenesis of vascular dementia (VD).

  15. Increasing evidence suggests that changes in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is closely correlated with the pathological development of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. TLR4 Cross-Talk With NLRP3 Inflammasome and Complement Signaling Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2020-04-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    Amyloid plaques, mainly composed of abnormally aggregated amyloid β-protein (Aβ) in the brain parenchyma, and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), consisting of hyperphosphorylated tau protein aggregates in neurons, are two pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Meprin β cleaves TREM2 and controls its phagocytic activity on macrophages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2020-04-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a multifunctional surface protein that affects survival, migration, and phagocytic capacity of myeloid cells.

  18. Microglia, Lifestyle Stress, and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Immunity 2020-01-07 Prevention trials

    Recent years have witnessed a revolution in our understanding of microglia biology, including their major role in the etiology and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.

  19. Early-Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease Variant PSEN2 N141I Heterozygosity is Associated with Altered Microglia Phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Microglial expression of PSEN2 N141I resulted in impaired γ-secretase activity as well as exaggerated inflammatory cytokine release, NFκB activity, and Aβ internalization.

  20. IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, and TNFα Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Human Influence the Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that persons carrying certain genotypes in IL10 (-1082G/A), IL1β (1473C/G), IL6 (-174C/G), and TNFIα (-308A/G) could be more vulnerable to development of neuroinflammation, and consequently of AD.

  21. Cross-Species Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Divergence of the Primate Microglia Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell 2019-12-01 Genetics

    Microglia, the brain-resident immune cells, are critically involved in many physiological and pathological brain processes, including neurodegeneration.

  22. Anti-inflammatory Effect of AZD6244 on Acrolein-Induced Neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2019-11-30 Inflammation and the immune system

    Clinically, high levels of acrolein (a highly reactive α, β-unsaturated aldehyde) and acrolein adducts are detected in the brain of patients with CNS neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and spinal cord injury.

  23. The Emerging Roles and Therapeutic Potential of Soluble TREM2 in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2019-11-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by the deposition of extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)-containing plaques, the formation of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles as well as neuroinflammatory changes.

  24. Brain-Immune Interactions and Neuroinflammation After Traumatic Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2019-11-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the principal cause of death and disability in children and young adults.

  25. Inflammasome-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2019-11-08 Inflammation and the immune system

    Historically neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease (AD) in particular, have been viewed to be primarily caused and driven by neuronal mechanisms.

  26. Microglia drive APOE-dependent neurodegeneration in a tauopathy mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2019-10-10 Genetics

    Chronic activation of brain innate immunity is a prominent feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and primary tauopathies.

  27. CSF1R inhibitor JNJ-40346527 attenuates microglial proliferation and neurodegeneration in P301S mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-10-01 Genetics

    Neuroinflammation and microglial activation are significant processes in Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  28. Is Alzheimer's disease an inflammasomopathy?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2019-09-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly and, despite the tremendous efforts researchers have put into AD research, there are no effective options for prevention and treatment of the disease.

  29. The role of TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease; evidence from transgenic mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-09-23 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a currently incurable neurodegenerative disorder.

  30. Neuroinflammation as a Common Feature of Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2019-09-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neurodegenerative diseases share the fact that they derive from altered proteins that undergo an unfolding process followed by formation of β-structures and a pathological tendency to self-aggregate in neuronal cells.

  31. Sustained microglial depletion with CSF1R inhibitor impairs parenchymal plaque development in an Alzheimer's disease model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2019-08-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Many risk genes for the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are exclusively or highly expressed in myeloid cells.

  32. The NLRP3 Inflammasome: An Overview of Mechanisms of Activation and Regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-07-06 Risk factors

    The NLRP3 inflammasome is a critical component of the innate immune system that mediates caspase-1 activation and the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β/IL-18 in response to microbial infection and cellular damage.

  33. A Breakdown in Metabolic Reprogramming Causes Microglia Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell metabolism 2019-06-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    Reactive microglia are a major pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  34. A Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease Focused on Immune-inflammatory Modulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia and neurocognitive disorders 2019-06-24 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, has emerged as a major global public health challenge.

  35. Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in cell & developmental biology 2019-05-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia, being the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, play an important role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and contributes towards brain development under normal conditions.

  36. Effects of Neurotrophic Factors in Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System: Expression and Properties in Neurodegeneration and Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in physiology 2019-04-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia are abundant cell types found in the central nervous system and have been shown to play crucial roles in regulating both normal and disease states.

  37. Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by impairments of cognitive function as a result of synaptic deficits and neuronal loss, is associated with inflammation.

  38. Senolytic therapy alleviates Aβ-associated oligodendrocyte progenitor cell senescence and cognitive deficits in an Alzheimer's disease model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuritic plaques, a pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, comprise extracellular aggregates of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and degenerating neurites that accumulate autolysosomes.

  39. The Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease: Age, Sex, and Genes Modulate the Microglia Response to Aβ Plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2019-04-01 Genetics

    Gene expression profiles of more than 10,000 individual microglial cells isolated from cortex and hippocampus of male and female App NL-G-F mice over time demonstrate that progressive amyloid-β accumulation accelerates two main activated microglia states that are also present during normal aging.

  40. Therapeutic Inhibition of the Complement System in Diseases of the Central Nervous System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2019-03-04 Biomarkers

    The complement system plays critical roles in development, homeostasis, and regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) throughout life; however, complement dysregulation in the CNS can lead to damage and disease.

  41. Iron accumulation in microglia triggers a cascade of events that leads to altered metabolism and compromised function in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2019-02-17 Genetics

    Among the changes that typify Alzheimer's disease (AD) are neuroinflammation and microglial activation, amyloid deposition perhaps resulting from compromised microglial function and iron accumulation.

  42. Recent advances in the mechanisms of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and its inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2019-02-12 Risk factors

    The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multimeric protein complex that initiates an inflammatory form of cell death and triggers the release of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18.

  43. Alzheimer’s disease phospholipase C-gamma-2 (PLCG2) protective variant is a functional hypermorph

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2019-02-02 Genetics

    PLCG2 expression is restricted primarily to microglia and granule cells of the dentate gyrus.

  44. Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease: Emerging Roles of Microglia in Disease Pathomechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019 Genetics

    The accumulation of aggregated amyloid β (Aβ) peptides in the brain is deeply involved in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  45. Stavudine Reduces NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and Modulates Amyloid-β Autophagy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Inflammation and the immune system

    IL-1β, IL-18, and caspase-1 were increased whereas Aβ phagocytosis and TREM2 were reduced in LPS+Aβ42-stimulated cells.

  46. The Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-2 (TREM-2) as Expression of the Relationship between Microglia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Novel Marker for a Promising Pathway to Explore

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of frailty & aging 2019 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder, strongly related with age.

  47. Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptotoxicity and Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-12-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, which is clinically associated with a global cognitive decline and progressive loss of memory and reasoning.

  48. Inhibitors of NF-κB and P2X7/NLRP3/Caspase 1 pathway in microglia: Novel therapeutic opportunities in neuroinflammation induced early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neuroimmunology 2018-11-20 Treatments

    Microglial activation is a distinguished attribute in many neurodegenerative diseases of aging.

  49. Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease: Risk Factors and Inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-11-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that originate from myeloid progenitor cells in the embryonic yolk sac and are maintained independently of circulating monocytes throughout life.

  50. The S100B story: from biomarker to active factor in neural injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2018-11-12 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    S100B is a Ca 2+ -binding protein mainly concentrated in astrocytes.

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