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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. Human gut microbiota: the links with dementia development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Protein & cell 2016-11-19 Disease mechanisms

    Dementia is a comprehensive category of brain diseases that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.

  2. Neuroprotective effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in rodent and primate models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2009-02-08 Disease mechanisms

    Profound neuronal dysfunction in the entorhinal cortex contributes to early loss of short-term memory in Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Effects of intranasal insulin on cognition in memory-impaired older adults: modulation by APOE genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-06-16 Genetics

    Raising insulin acutely in the periphery and in brain improves verbal memory.

  4. Environmental enrichment inhibits spontaneous apoptosis, prevents seizures and is neuroprotective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 1999-04-01 Risk factors

    The mammalian brain has a high degree of plasticity, with dentate granule cell neurogenesis and glial proliferation stimulated by an enriched environment combining both complex inanimate and social stimulation.

  5. Taste and smell losses in normal aging and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JAMA 1997-10-01 Risk factors

    Losses of taste and smell are common in the elderly and result from normal aging, certain disease states (especially Alzheimer disease), medications, surgical interventions, and environmental exposure.

  6. Hippocampal synaptic transmission enhanced by low concentrations of nicotine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 1996-10-01 Prevention and risk

    Nicotine obtained from tobacco can improve learning and memory on various tasks and has been linked to arousal, attention, rapid information processing, working memory, and long-term memories that can cause craving years after someone has stopped smoking.

  7. VIP neurons in the human SCN in relation to sex, age, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1995-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    The brains of 46 control subjects and 21 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients were studied to determine whether there are age-related or AD-related changes in the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) neuron population of the human suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).

  8. Pancreatic islet cell toxicity of amylin associated with type-2 diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 1994-04-01 Risk factors

    The 37-amino-acid polypeptide amylin is the principal constituent of the amyloid deposits that form in the islets of Langerhans in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus, but its role in the pathogenesis of this disease is unresolved.

  9. Mitochondrial genetics: a paradigm for aging and degenerative diseases?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1992-05-01 Risk factors

    Studies of diseases caused by mitochondrial DNA mutations suggest that a variety of degenerative processes may be associated with defects in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS).

  10. Elevated concentrations of CSF corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoreactivity in depressed patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1984-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    The possibility that hypersecretion of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) contributes to the hyperactivity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis observed in patients with major depression was investigated by measuring the concentration of this peptide in cerebrospinal fluid of normal healthy volunteers and in drug-free patients with DSM-III diagnoses of major depression, schizophrenia, or dementia.

  11. Semaglutide ameliorates cognition and glucose metabolism dysfunction in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease via the GLP-1R/SIRT1/GLUT4 pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2023-09-18 Drug development

    In this study, we found that SIRT1 is closely related to expression of GLP-1R in hippocampus of 3xTg mice.

  12. GLP-1 receptor agonists effect on cognitive function in patients with and without type 2 diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Diabetes & metabolism 2023-08-30 Drug development

    Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a hormone of the incretin family, secreted in response to nutrient ingestion, and plays a role in metabolic homeostasis.

  13. Molecular mechanisms of ferroptosis and their involvement in brain diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Pharmacology & therapeutics 2023-03-08 Drug development

    Ferroptosis is a type of regulated cell death characterized by intracellular accumulation of iron and reactive oxygen species, inhibition of system Xc-, glutathione depletion, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidation and lipid peroxidation.

  14. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and neuroinflammation: Implications for neurodegenerative disease treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2022-11-11 Drug development

    Chronic, excessive neuroinflammation is a key feature of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  15. The intestinal barrier in disorders of the central nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology 2022-11-02 Disease mechanisms

    The intestinal barrier, which primarily consists of a mucus layer, an epithelial barrier, and a gut vascular barrier, has a crucial role in health and disease by facilitating nutrient absorption and preventing the entry of pathogens.

  16. Microbiota-derived metabolite Indoles induced aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation and inhibited neuroinflammation in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2022-08-10 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota alterations might affect the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) through microbiota-derived metabolites.

  17. Gut microbiota regulate Alzheimer's disease pathologies and cognitive disorders via PUFA-associated neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Gut 2022-01-11 Disease mechanisms

    These findings support that a complex gut microbiome is required for behavioural defects, microglia activation and AD pathologies, the gut microbiome contributes to pathologies in an AD mouse model and that dysbiosis of the human microbiome might be a risk factor for AD.

  18. A Comprehensive Review on the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Human Neurological Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical microbiology reviews 2022-01-05 Disease mechanisms

    The human body is full of an extensive number of commensal microbes, consisting of bacteria, viruses, and fungi, collectively termed the human microbiome.

  19. Inflammation in obesity, diabetes, and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Immunity 2022-01-01 Risk factors

    Obesity leads to chronic, systemic inflammation and can lead to insulin resistance (IR), β-cell dysfunction, and ultimately type 2 diabetes (T2D).

  20. Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogs mitigate neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease by suppressing NLRP2 activation in astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular and cellular endocrinology 2021-12-11 Drug development

    Neuroinflammation is closely linked to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Specifically, periodontal disease has been associated with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, eating disorders, liver disease, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer disease, rheumatoid arthritis, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and cancer.

  22. Oral Administration of Resveratrol-Selenium-Peptide Nanocomposites Alleviates Alzheimer’s Disease-like Pathogenesis by Inhibiting Aβ Aggregation and Regulating Gut Microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021-09-27 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, leading to neurotoxicity (oxidative stress and neuroinflammation) and gut microbiota imbalance.

  23. Gut dysbiosis, defective autophagy and altered immune responses in neurodegenerative diseases: Tales of a vicious cycle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Pharmacology & therapeutics 2021-09-16 Disease mechanisms

    The human microbiota comprises trillions of symbiotic microorganisms and is involved in regulating gastrointestinal (GI), immune, nervous system and metabolic homeostasis.

  24. Transplantation of gut microbiota derived from Alzheimer's disease mouse model impairs memory function and neurogenesis in C57BL/6 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2021-09-06 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes memory and cognitive decline.

  25. The Mediterranean diet and health: a comprehensive overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2021-08-23 Risk factors

    The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), one of the most studied and well-known dietary patterns worldwide, has been associated with a wide range of benefits for health.

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