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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. The relationship between stress and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of stress 2018-02-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Stress is critically involved in the development and progression of disease.

  2. Application of Metabolomics in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-01-12 Genetics

    Progress toward the development of efficacious therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is halted by a lack of understanding early underlying pathological mechanisms.

  3. Alternations of Metabolic Profile and Kynurenine Metabolism in the Plasma of Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-01-02 Biomarkers

    The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains to be elucidated.

  4. The Role of Inflammation in Age-Related Sarcopenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in physiology 2017-12-12 Prevention trials

    Many physiological changes occur with aging.

  5. Prebiotic Effect of Fructooligosaccharides from Morinda officinalis on Alzheimer's Disease in Rodent Models by Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota influences the central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. The Role of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 (GLP1) in Type 3 Diabetes: GLP-1 Controls Insulin Resistance, Neuroinflammation and Neurogenesis in the Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2017-11-22 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by the aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) protein and neuroinflammation, is the most common neurodegenerative disease globally.

  7. Neurotrophic and Neuroregenerative Effects of GH/IGF1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2017-11-17 Costs and economics

    Although strong findings have shown the positive effects of GH/IGF-1 administration on neuroregeneration in animal models, a very limited number of clinical studies have been conducted in humans.

  8. Liraglutide restores chronic ER stress, autophagy impairments and apoptotic signalling in SH-SY5Y cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2017-11-17 Drug development

    Growing evidence suggests that agonists of glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor exert neuroprotective and neurorestorative effects across a range of experimental models of neuronal degeneration, and, recently, a pilot clinical trial of Liraglutide in Alzheimer’s disease patients showed improvements in cerebral glucose consumption that signifies disease progression.

  9. Therapeutic potential of Bifidobacterium breve strain A1 for preventing cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-10-18 Disease mechanisms

    It has previously been shown that the consumption of probiotics may have beneficial effects not only on peripheral tissues but also on the central nervous system and behavior via the microbiota-gut-brain axis, raising the possibility that treatment with probiotics could be an effective therapeutic strategy for managing neurodegenerative disorders.

  10. Microbiome-Derived Lipopolysaccharide Enriched in the Perinuclear Region of Alzheimer’s Disease Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in Immunology 2017-09-04 Disease mechanisms

    Abundant clinical, epidemiological, imaging, genetic, molecular and pathophysiological data together indicate that there occur an unusual inflammatory reaction and a disruption of the innate-immune signaling system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain.

  11. A New Treatment Strategy for Parkinson's Disease through the Gut-Brain Axis: The Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell transplantation 2017-09-01 Drug development

    Molecular communications in the gut-brain axis, between the central nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract, are critical for maintaining healthy brain function, particularly in aging.

  12. Neuroprotective Actions of Dietary Choline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2017-07-28 Genetics

    Choline is an essential nutrient for humans.

  13. Significance of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical and translational medicine 2017-07-27 Prevention and risk

    In the last decades, the development of new technologies applied to lipidomics has revitalized the analysis of lipid profile alterations and the understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms of lipid metabolism, together with their involvement in the occurrence of human disease.

  14. Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2017-07-12 Disease mechanisms

    Increasing numbers of individuals, particularly the elderly, suffer from neurodegenerative disorders.

  15. Secretory Products of the Human GI Tract Microbiome and Their Potential Impact on Alzheimer's Disease (AD): Detection of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in AD Hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2017-07-11 Disease mechanisms

    Although the potential contribution of the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiome to human health, aging, and disease is becoming increasingly acknowledged, the molecular mechanics and signaling pathways of just how this is accomplished is not well-understood.

  16. Metformin - a Future Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases : Theme: Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery in Alzheimer's Disease Guest Editor: Davide Brambilla

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmaceutical research 2017-06-06 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex, chronic and progressive metabolic disease, which is characterized by relative insulin deficiency, insulin resistance, and high glucose levels in blood.

  17. Neuroprotective and Anti-Aging Potentials of Essential Oils from Aromatic and Medicinal Plants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-05-30 Costs and economics

    The use of essential oils (EOs) and their components is known since long in traditional medicine and aromatherapy for the management of various diseases, and is further increased in the recent times.

  18. Microbiota modulation counteracts Alzheimer's disease progression influencing neuronal proteolysis and gut hormones plasma levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-05-25 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota has a proven role in regulating multiple neuro-chemical pathways through the highly interconnected gut-brain axis.

  19. Microbiota-gut-brain axis and the central nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Oncotarget 2017-05-10 Disease mechanisms

    The gut and brain form the gut-brain axis through bidirectional nervous, endocrine, and immune communications.

  20. Insulin resistance and exendin-4 treatment for multiple system atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-05-01 Drug development

    We here tested the hypothesis that multiple system atrophy is associated with brain insulin resistance and showed increased expression of the key downstream messenger insulin receptor substrate-1 phosphorylated at serine residue 312 in neurons and oligodendrocytes in the putamen of patients with multiple system atrophy.

  21. The gut microbiome in human neurological disease: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-03-20 Disease mechanisms

    Almost half the cells and 1% of the unique genes found in our bodies are human, the rest are from microbes, predominantly bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses.

  22. Reduction of Abeta amyloid pathology in APPPS1 transgenic mice in the absence of gut microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-02-08 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in the western world, however there is no cure available for this devastating neurodegenerative disorder.

  23. Gut microbiota: Implications in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2017-02-07 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota (GM) can influence various neurological outcomes, like cognition, learning, and memory.

  24. Ablation of ferroptosis regulator glutathione peroxidase 4 in forebrain neurons promotes cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Redox biology 2017-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Synaptic loss and neuron death are the underlying cause of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the modalities of cell death in those diseases remain unclear.

  25. Interactions between the microbiota, immune and nervous systems in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2017-01-16 Risk factors

    The diverse collection of microorganisms that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract, collectively called the gut microbiota, profoundly influences many aspects of host physiology, including nutrient metabolism, resistance to infection and immune system development.

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