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  1. Exenatide promotes cognitive enhancement and positive brain metabolic changes in PS1-KI mice but has no effects in 3xTg-AD animals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2013-05-02 Drug development

    Recent studies have shown that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a risk factor for cognitive dysfunction or dementia.

  2. Neuroprotective effects of D-Ala(2)GIP on Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in an APP/PS1 mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-04-19 Drug development

    The results demonstrate that D-Ala(2)GIP has neuroprotective properties on key hallmarks found in AD.

  3. Chronic treatment with the GLP1 analogue liraglutide increases cell proliferation and differentiation into neurons in an AD mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2013-03-11 Drug development

    Neurogenesis is a life long process, but the rate of cell proliferation and differentiation decreases with age.

  4. Dysregulation of cholesterol balance in the brain: contribution to neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Disease models & mechanisms 2012-10-12 Drug development

    Dysregulation of cholesterol homeostasis in the brain is increasingly being linked to chronic neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Huntington's disease (HD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease and Smith-Lemli Opitz syndrome (SLOS).

  5. Exendin-4 protected against cognitive dysfunction in hyperglycemic mice receiving an intrahippocampal lipopolysaccharide injection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2012-07-23 Drug development

    These findings reveal that both hyperglycemia and intrahippocampal LPS injection induced cognitive dysfunction via activation of NF-κB-related inflammatory responses.

  6. Contribution of genetic and dietary insulin resistance to Alzheimer phenotype in APP/PS1 transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 2012-06-01 Biomarkers

    According to epidemiological studies, type-2 diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  7. The ketogenic diet as a treatment paradigm for diverse neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2012-04-09 Risk factors

    Dietary and metabolic therapies have been attempted in a wide variety of neurological diseases, including epilepsy, headache, neurotrauma, Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, sleep disorders, brain cancer, autism, pain, and multiple sclerosis.

  8. Health implications of high dietary omega-6 polyunsaturated Fatty acids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of nutrition and metabolism 2012-04-05 Risk factors

    Omega-6 (n-6) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (e.g., arachidonic acid (AA)) and omega-3 (n-3) PUFA (e.g., eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)) are precursors to potent lipid mediator signalling molecules, termed "eicosanoids," which have important roles in the regulation of inflammation.

  9. Drugs developed to treat diabetes, liraglutide and lixisenatide, cross the blood brain barrier and enhance neurogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC neuroscience 2012-03-23 Drug development

    Our results suggest that these novel incretin analogues cross the BBB and show physiological activity and neurogenesis in the brain, which may be of use as a treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

  10. Exendin-4 ameliorates motor neuron degeneration in cellular and animal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2012-02-23 Drug development

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive loss of lower motor neurons in the spinal cord.

  11. Neuroprotective potential of phytochemicals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy review 2012-01-01 Risk factors

    Cognitive dysfunction is a major health problem in the 21st century, and many neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative disorders, such as schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer's Disease dementia, cerebrovascular impairment, seizure disorders, head injury and Parkinsonism, can be severly functionally debilitating in nature.

  12. Flavonoids and Isoflavonoids: From Plant Biology to Agriculture and Neuroscience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2010-10-01 Prevention and risk

    For example, the early advances in floral genetics were primarily the result of the ease of screening for mutations impacting flavonoid-derived flower colors, and the first demonstration of epigenetic gene silencing in plants was likewise associated with flavonoid biosynthesis (Jorgensen, 1995).

  13. Cachexia as a major underestimated and unmet medical need: facts and numbers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2010-09-01 Prevention and risk

    Cachexia is a serious, however underestimated and underrecognised medical consequence of malignant cancer, chronic heart failure (CHF), chronic kidney disease (CKD), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, infectious diseases, and many other chronic illnesses.

  14. The hippocampus in major depression: evidence for the convergence of the bench and bedside in psychiatric research?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2010-07-27 Risk factors

    Major depressive disorder (MDD) has until recently been conceptualized as an episodic disorder associated with 'chemical imbalances' but no permanent brain changes.

  15. Why pleiotropic interventions are needed for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2010-05-02 Treatments

    This approach would not only focus on blocking early events in pathogenesis, but also adequately correct for loss of synapses, substrates for neuroprotective pathways (e.g., docosahexaenoic acid), defects in energy metabolism, and adverse consequences of inappropriate compensatory responses (aberrant sprouting).

  16. Role of carnitine in disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nutrition & metabolism 2010-04-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Carnitine is a conditionally essential nutrient that plays a vital role in energy production and fatty acid metabolism.

  17. Selective neuronal vulnerability to oxidative stress in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2010-03-30 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress (OS), caused by the imbalance between the generation and detoxification of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS), plays an important role in brain aging, neurodegenerative diseases, and other related adverse conditions, such as ischemia.

  18. Diabetes-accelerated memory dysfunction via cerebrovascular inflammation and Aβ deposition in an Alzheimer mouse model with diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2010-03-15 Vascular contributions

    Recent epidemiological studies suggest that diabetes mellitus is a strong risk factor for Alzheimer disease.

  19. AMP-activated Protein Kinase Signaling Activation by Resveratrol Modulates Amyloid-β Peptide Metabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2010-01-15 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer disease is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide deposition into cerebral amyloid plaques.

  20. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive deterioration of cognitive abilities, accumulation of the amyloid-beta-peptide (Abeta) and synaptic alterations.

  21. Oxidative stress and neurodegenerative diseases: a review of upstream and downstream antioxidant therapeutic options

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current neuropharmacology 2009-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Free radicals are common outcome of normal aerobic cellular metabolism.

  22. Kynurenine pathway metabolites in humans: disease and healthy States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR 2009-01-08 Tau biomarkers

    Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that can be metabolised through different pathways, a major route being the kynurenine pathway.

  23. Intranasal delivery bypasses the blood-brain barrier to target therapeutic agents to the central nervous system and treat neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC neuroscience 2008-12-10 Vascular contributions

    Intranasal delivery provides a practical, non-invasive method of bypassing the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to deliver therapeutic agents to the brain and spinal cord.

  24. Unlike the proposed "polypill", EFAs are endogenous molecules present in almost all tissues, have no significant or few side effects, can be taken orally for long periods of time even by pregnant women, lactating mothers, and infants, children, and adults; and have been known to reduce the incidence cardiovascular diseases including stroke.

  25. Neuro-inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide causes cognitive impairment through enhancement of beta-amyloid generation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2008-08-29 Risk genes beyond APOE

    This study suggests that neuro-inflammatory reaction could contribute to AD pathology, and anti-inflammatory agent could be useful for the prevention of AD.

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