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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. Metabolic Syndrome, Cognitive Impairment and the Role of Diet: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2022-01-13 Risk factors

    MetS and cognitive decline share common cardiometabolic pathways as MetS components can trigger cognitive impairment.

  2. Mechanistic insight into the role of metformin in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life sciences 2022-01-07 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), a type of dementia, is characterized by progressive memory decline and cognition impairment.

  3. Isoform-Dependent Effects of Apolipoprotein E on Sphingolipid Metabolism in Neural Cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    In the brains of Apoeshl mice, the levels of apoM were lower, while those of ceramides were higher.

  4. Periodontitis-related salivary microbiota aggravates Alzheimer's disease via gut-brain axis crosstalk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Gut microbes 2022 Disease mechanisms

    The oral cavity is the initial chamber of digestive tract; the saliva swallowed daily contains an estimated 1.5 × 1012 oral bacteria.

  5. The Gut Microbiome and Alzheimer's Disease: A Growing Relationship

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2022 Disease mechanisms

    Evidence that the gut microbiota plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is already unravelling.

  6. Diet Patterns, the Gut Microbiome, and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Disease mechanisms

    Given the complex bidirectional communication system that exists between the gut microbiome and the brain, there is growing interest in the gut microbiome as a novel and potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Gut Microbiota as a Hidden Player in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder, is accompanied by cognitive impairment and shows representative pathological features, including senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

  8. Effects of gut microbiota and probiotics on Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neuroscience 2021-12-27 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with high morbidity, disability, and fatality rate, significantly increasing the global burden of public health.

  9. Resistance-exercise training attenuates LPS-induced astrocyte remodeling and neuroinflammatory cytokine expression in female Wistar rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 2021-12-23 Prevention trials

    Neuroinflammation is an early detectable marker of mild cognitive impairment, the transition state between normal cognition and dementia.

  10. Brain Imaging of the GLP-1 Receptor in Obesity Using 68Ga-NODAGA-Exendin-4 PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-12-15 Drug development

    Stimulation of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptors increases the insulin release in the pancreas during high glucose levels, and also stimulates a feeling of satiety.

  11. Mitophagy in aging and longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. IUBMB life 2021-12-10 Disease mechanisms

    The clearance of damaged or unwanted mitochondria by autophagy (also known as mitophagy) is a mitochondrial quality control mechanism postulated to play an essential role in cellular homeostasis, metabolism, and development and confers protection against a wide range of diseases.

  12. Extra-virgin olive oil and the gut-brain axis: influence on gut microbiota, mucosal immunity, and cardiometabolic and cognitive health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrition reviews 2021-11-10 Disease mechanisms

    Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), a popular functional food and major source of fat in the Mediterranean diet, possesses a variety of healthful components, including monounsaturated fatty acids and bioactive phenolic compounds that, individually and collectively, exert beneficial effects on cardiometabolic markers of health and act as neuroprotective agents through their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities.

  13. Potential new therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease: Glucagon-like peptide-1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2021-11-07 Drug development

    Increasing evidence shows a close relationship between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

  14. Gut feelings: the microbiota-gut-brain axis on steroids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 2021-11-03 Disease mechanisms

    The intricate connection between central and enteric nervous systems is well established with emerging evidence linking gut microbiota function as a significant new contributor to gut-brain axis signaling.

  15. Oral frailty and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2021-11 Clinical trials

    Frailty is a critical intermediate status of the aging process with a multidimensional and multisystem nature and at higher risk for adverse health-related outcomes, including falls, disability, hospitalizations, institutionalization, mortality, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease.

  16. Gut-brain axis: Synergistic approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Industrial psychiatry journal 2021-10-22 Disease mechanisms

    Since decades, there is a change in concept of the gut-brain axis.

  17. Introduction to the Special Issue "The Brain-Gut Axis"

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2021-10-15 Disease mechanisms

    This special Issue presents comprehensive and state-of-the-art advances in supporting the crucial role of the bidirectional interactions between the Brain-Gut Axis in health and diseases with an emphasis on the microbiome-gut-brain axis and its implications in variety of neurological disorders.

  18. Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and Epilepsy: A Review on Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2021-10-11 Disease mechanisms

    The gut-brain axis refers to the bidirectional communication between the gut and brain, and regulates intestinal homeostasis and the central nervous system via neural networks and neuroendocrine, immune, and inflammatory pathways.

  19. Oat Extract Avenanthramide-C Reverses Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation Decline in Tg2576 Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-10-10 Disease mechanisms

    Memory deterioration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is thought to be underpinned by aberrant amyloid β (Aβ) accumulation, which contributes to synaptic plasticity impairment.

  20. Towards a Consensus on Alzheimer's Disease Comorbidity?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2021-09-24 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is often comorbid with other pathologies.

  21. Identification of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii strains for gut microbiome-based intervention in Alzheimer's-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports. Medicine 2021-09-14 Disease mechanisms

    Evidence linking the gut-brain axis to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is accumulating, but the characteristics of causally important microbes are poorly understood.

  22. Understanding insomnia as systemic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Yeungnam University journal of medicine 2021-09-13 Risk factors

    Sleep plays a critical role in homeostasis of the body and mind.

  23. GLP-1 and Underlying Beneficial Actions in Alzheimer's Disease, Hypertension, and NASH

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in endocrinology 2021-09-06 Drug development

    GLP-1 is derived from intestinal L cells, which takes effect through binding to GLP-1R and is inactivated by the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4).

  24. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Brain Vascular Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Heart, lung & circulation 2021-08-31 Drug development

    Prevention of cardiovascular events and regression of atherosclerotic changes are the primary aims of preventive cardiovascular medicine.

  25. Nutrition, Gut Microbiota, and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-08-05 Disease mechanisms

    Nutrition is known to play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

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