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  1. Microbiome Alterations and Alzheimer's Disease: Modeling Strategies with Transgenic Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2023-06-27 Disease mechanisms

    In the last decade, the role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis has been gaining momentum in the context of many neurodegenerative and metabolic disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and diabetes, respectively.

  2. Crosstalk between Alzheimer's disease and diabetes: a focus on anti-diabetic drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Metabolic brain disease 2023-06-19 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two of the most common age-related diseases.

  3. TFEB is a central regulator of the aging process and age-related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-06-14 Disease mechanisms

    Old age is associated with a greater burden of disease, including neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, as well as other chronic diseases.

  4. Dysbiosis and Alzheimer's disease: role of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 2023-06-07 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by dementia and the accumulation of amyloid beta in the brain.

  5. Amyloid β-Peptide Effects on Glucose Regulation Are Dependent on Apolipoprotein E Genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. eNeuro 2023-04-26 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) confers the greatest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), wherein the ε4 allele confers an elevated risk compared with the ε3 allele.

  6. Microbiota-gut-brain axis and related therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease: prospects for multitherapy and inflammation control

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Reviews in the neurosciences 2023-04-20 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in the elderly and causes neurodegeneration, leading to memory loss, behavioral disorder, and psychiatric impairment.

  7. Amygdala activity and amygdala-hippocampus connectivity: Metabolic diseases, dementia, and neuropsychiatric issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2023-04-01 Risk factors

    With rapid aging of the population worldwide, the number of people with dementia is dramatically increasing.

  8. Novel LC-MS/MS analysis of the GLP-1 analog semaglutide with its application to pharmacokinetics and brain distribution studies in rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences 2023-03-22 Drug development

    Semaglutide, one of the most potent glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 analogs, has widely been used to treat type II diabetes mellitus and obesity.

  9. Therapeutic targeting of mitochondria-proteostasis axis by antioxidant polysaccharides in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology 2023-03-21 Disease mechanisms

    Aging is a major risk factor for many age-associated disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases.

  10. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists to expand the healthy lifespan: Current and future potentials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2023-03-20 Drug development

    To help ensure an expanded healthy lifespan for as many people as possible worldwide, there is a need to prevent or manage a number of prevalent chronic diseases directly and indirectly closely related to aging, including diabetes and obesity.

  11. Gut Microbiota, an Additional Hallmark of Human Aging and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience 2023-03-08 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota represents a diverse and dynamic population of microorganisms harbouring the gastrointestinal tract, which influences host health and disease.

  12. The β-adrenergic hypothesis of synaptic and microglial impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2023-02-28 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease originating partly from amyloid β protein-induced synaptic failure.

  13. Single-nucleus transcriptional profiling uncovers the reprogrammed metabolism of astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2023-02-22 Genetics

    Astrocytes play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Metabolic Syndrome as a Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease: A Focus on Insulin Resistance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-02-22 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the main type of dementia and is a disease with a profound socioeconomic burden due to the lack of effective treatment.

  15. Circadian disruption and sleep disorders in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2023-02-13 Risk factors

    Disruptions of circadian rhythms and sleep cycles are common among neurodegenerative diseases and can occur at multiple levels.

  16. Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Therapy: From Discovery to Type 2 Diabetes and Beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) 2023-02-06 Drug development

    The therapeutic benefits of the incretin hormone, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1), for people with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, are now firmly established.

  17. The Crosstalk between Microbiome and Mitochondrial Homeostasis in Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cells 2023-01-28 Disease mechanisms

    Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that serve as the primary cellular energy-generating system.

  18. Vitamin D and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Heliyon 2023-01-12 Prevention and risk

    Neurodegenerative diseases, featured by progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, are considered incurable at present.

  19. Chemogenetic emulation of intraneuronal oxidative stress affects synaptic plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Redox biology 2023-01-10 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress, a state of disrupted redox signaling, reactive oxygen species (ROS) overproduction, and oxidative cell damage, accompanies numerous brain pathologies, including aging-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease, the most common neurodegenerative disorder of the elderly population.

  20. Gut-derived β-amyloid: Likely a centerpiece of the gut-brain axis contributing to Alzheimer's pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Gut microbes 2023 Disease mechanisms

    Peripheral β-amyloid (Aβ), including those contained in the gut, may contribute to the formation of Aβ plaques in the brain, and gut microbiota appears to exert an impact on Alzheimer's disease (AD) via the gut-brain axis, although detailed mechanisms are not clearly defined.

  21. ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MICROBIOTA-GUT-BRAIN AXIS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Arquivos de gastroenterologia 2023 Disease mechanisms

    The composition of the gut microbiota influences the CNS, resulting in changes in host behavior and may be related to the development of neurodegenerative diseases.

  22. Insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease: The genetics and metabolomics links

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2022-12-22 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease with significant socioeconomic burden worldwide.

  23. Alternative role of glucagon-like Peptide-1 receptor agonists in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2022-12-02 Drug development

    Aging is a crucial risk factor for common neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  24. Gut microbiota-derived metabolites and their importance in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular biology reports 2022-11-18 Disease mechanisms

    Microbial-derived metabolites are the intermediate or end products of bacterial digestion.

  25. Microbiome-gut-brain dysfunction in prodromal and symptomatic Lewy body diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2022-11-10 Disease mechanisms

    Lewy body diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, vary in their clinical phenotype but exhibit the same defining pathological feature, α-synuclein aggregation.

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