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  1. Omega-3 fatty acids increase OXPHOS energy for immune therapy of Alzheimer disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2020-07-02 Prevention and risk

    Sporadic late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) preceded by mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the most common type of dementia.

  2. Androgens' effects on cerebrovascular function in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biology of sex differences 2020-06-30 Vascular contributions

    Androgens affect the cerebral vasculature and may contribute to sex differences in cerebrovascular diseases.

  3. Gut Microbiota: Implications in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2020-06-29 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is a neurodegenerative disease that seriously threatens human health and life quality.

  4. Effects of Cardiovascular Risk Factor Variability on Health Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) 2020-06-24 Risk factors

    Innumerable studies have suggested "the lower, the better" for cardiovascular risk factors, such as body weight, lipid profile, blood pressure, and blood glucose, in terms of health outcomes.

  5. Opioid system influences gut-brain axis: Dysbiosis and related alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2020-06-03 Disease mechanisms

    Opioid drugs are widely used to treat chronic pain, but their misuse can lead to tolerance, dependence, and addiction and have created a significant public health problem.

  6. The role of GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2020-06 Drug development

    Different concentrations of OA were able to induce apoptosis of SH-SY5Y cells in a dose-dependent manner.

  7. The Role of Nutrition in Individualized Alzheimer's Risk Reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current nutrition reports 2020-06 Prevention and risk

    RECENT FINDINGS: Specific dietary patterns and varied nutrient combinations can have a protective effect on brain health, promote cognitive function, and mediate the comorbidity of chronic conditions associated with increased AD risk.

  8. Metabolic syndrome exacerbates amyloid pathology in a comorbid Alzheimer's mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease 2020-05-30 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) often coexists with other aging-associated diseases including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases.

  9. Recent trends in mental illness and omega-3 fatty acids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2020-05-25 Prevention and risk

    Although it is clear that nutrition affects physical and metabolic functions in humans, the importance of nutrition in mental illness has often been overlooked.

  10. Obesity and Age-Related Changes in the Brain of the Zucker Lepr fa/fa Rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nutrients 2020-05-09 Risk factors

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an association between obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, hypertension, and insulin resistance.

  11. Could metformin be therapeutically useful in Huntington's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Reviews in the neurosciences 2020-04-28 Drug development

    Emerging evidence suggest that dimethylbiguanide (metformin), a first-line drug for type 2 diabetes mellitus, could be neuroprotective in a range of brain pathologies, which include neurodegenerative diseases and brain injury.

  12. Recent advances in understanding the role of glucagon-like peptide 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. F1000Research 2020-04-06 Drug development

    The discovery that glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) mediates a significant proportion of the incretin effect during the postprandial period and the subsequent observation that GLP-1 bioactivity is retained in type 2 diabetes (T2D) led to new therapeutic strategies being developed for T2D treatment based on GLP-1 action.

  13. Gut microbiota and pro/prebiotics in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Aging 2020-03-19 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid and dysfunctional tau protein in the brain along with the final development of dementia.

  14. Sex differences in the response to oxidative and proteolytic stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Redox biology 2020-03-09 Disease mechanisms

    Sex differences in diseases involving oxidative and proteolytic stress are common, including greater ischemic heart disease, Parkinson disease and stroke in men, and greater Alzheimer disease in women.

  15. Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in ApoE4-Driven Diabetic Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-02-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 gene allele and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are prime risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Metformin and trimetazidine ameliorate diabetes-induced cognitive impediment in status epileptic rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2020-01-27 Drug development

    Patients with diabetes and epilepsy are more prone to cognitive impairment, dementia, and even Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Current Evidence in Support of Benefit from Sleep Apnea Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2020-01-21 Risk factors

    Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent disorder characterized by recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep resulting in intermittent hypoxemia and sleep fragmentation.

  18. Risk Reduction and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease: Biological Mechanisms of Diet

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2020 Prevention and risk

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) incidence is increasing and with no disease modifying agents available, preventative measures through lifestyle factors are being investigated.

  19. Healthy Gut, Healthy Brain: The Gut Microbiome in Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current topics in medicinal chemistry 2020 Disease mechanisms

    In the first part, we introduce the GBA and its relevance, followed by the changes occurring in the GBA during neurodegenerative disorders and then further discuss its role in the pathogenesis of these diseases.

  20. The microbiome-gut-brain axis in acute and chronic brain diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in neurobiology 2019-12-06 Disease mechanisms

    The gut microbiome - the largest reservoir of microorganisms of the human body - is emerging as an important player in neurodevelopment and ageing as well as in brain diseases including stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

  21. Modification of the gut microbiome to combat neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Reviews in the neurosciences 2019-11-26 Disease mechanisms

    The gut microbiome was extensively researched for its biological variety and its potential role in propagating diseases outside of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

  22. Impacts of exercise intervention on various diseases in rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of sport and health science 2019-10-28 Prevention trials

    The collected articles were categorized into studies related to 6 systems or disease types: motor system (17 articles), metabolic system (110 articles), cardiocerebral vascular system (171 articles), nervous system (71 articles), urinary system (2 articles), and cancer (21 articles).

  23. Microbiota-gut-brain axis and toll-like receptors in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Computational and structural biotechnology journal 2019-10-24 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease which involves both the periphery and central nervous system (CNS).

  24. Organokines in disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in clinical chemistry 2019-08-12 Risk factors

    Studies have linked obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and dementia.

  25. Genes and genetics in hyperhomocysteinemia and the "1-carbon metabolism": implications for retinal structure and eye functions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology 2019-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Homocysteine (Hcy), a sulfur-containing nonproteinogenic amino acid, is generated as a metabolic intermediate.

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