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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. Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2013-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibits extensive oxidative stress throughout the body, being detected peripherally as well as associated with the vulnerable regions of the brain affected in disease.

  2. Glucagon-like peptide-1 protects hippocampal neurons against advanced glycation end product-induced tau hyperphosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2013-10-30 Drug development

    We have previously demonstrated that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist ameliorated neurodegenerative changes in rat models of diabetes-related Alzheimer's disease (AD), and protected neurons from glucose toxicity in vitro.

  3. Neuroprotective and anti-apoptotic effects of liraglutide on SH-SY5Y cells exposed to methylglyoxal stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2013-10-28 Drug development

    Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a growth factor that has demonstrated neuroprotective properties in a range of studies.

  4. Vildagliptin: an anti-diabetes agent ameliorates cognitive deficits and pathology observed in streptozotocin-induced Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of pharmacy and pharmacology 2013-10-10 Drug development

    These robust therapeutic effects of vildagliptin demonstrate a unique mechanism for Aβ and tau clearance and reverse the cognitive deficits and pathology observed in AD.

  5. Bridging animal and human models of exercise-induced brain plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2013-09-09 Prevention trials

    Significant progress has been made in understanding the neurobiological mechanisms through which exercise protects and restores the brain.

  6. Metabolic features of the cell danger response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mitochondrion 2013-08-24 Disease mechanisms

    When the CDR persists abnormally, whole body metabolism and the gut microbiome are disturbed, the collective performance of multiple organ systems is impaired, behavior is changed, and chronic disease results.

  7. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibitors: Rescuers of cognitive impairments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pharmacology & therapeutics 2013-07-31 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Impairment of cognitive processes is a devastating outcome of many diseases, injuries, and drugs affecting the central nervous system (CNS).

  8. Recent advances in the application of metabolomics to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2013-06-29 Treatments

    The pathophysiological changes associated with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) begin decades before the emergence of clinical symptoms.

  9. Saxagliptin: a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor ameliorates streptozotocin induced Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2013-04-17 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the major risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. The promise of N-acetylcysteine in neuropsychiatry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2013-01-29 Prevention and risk

    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) targets a diverse array of factors germane to the pathophysiology of multiple neuropsychiatric disorders including glutamatergic transmission, the antioxidant glutathione, neurotrophins, apoptosis, mitochondrial function, and inflammatory pathways.

  11. Crosstalk between diabetes and brain: glucagon-like peptide-1 mimetics as a promising therapy against neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2013-01-11 Drug development

    According to World Health Organization estimates, type 2 diabetes (T2D) is an epidemic (particularly in under development countries) and a socio-economic challenge.

  12. Subcutaneous administration of liraglutide ameliorates Alzheimer-associated tau hyperphosphorylation in rats with type 2 diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Drug development

    Our results indicated that subcutaneous administration of liraglutide restores both peripheral and brain insulin sensitivity and ameliorates tau hyperphosphorylation in rats with type 2 diabetes.

  13. The type 2 diabetes drug liraglutide reduces chronic inflammation induced by irradiation in the mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2012-12-28 Drug development

    Chronic inflammation in the brain is found in a range of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

  14. Excitotoxicity: bridge to various triggers in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2012-10-30 Risk factors

    Glutamate is one of the most prominent neurotransmitter in the body, present in over 50% of nervous tissue and plays an important role in neuronal excitation.

  15. The incretin analogue D-Ala2GIP reduces plaque load, astrogliosis and oxidative stress in an APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2012-10-26 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus has been identified as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Exendin-4, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist prevents mTBI-induced changes in hippocampus gene expression and memory deficits in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2012-10-08 Drug development

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global problem reaching near epidemic numbers that manifests clinically with cognitive problems that decades later may result in dementias like Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Lipid peroxidation triggers neurodegeneration: a redox proteomics view into the Alzheimer disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2012-10-05 Genetics

    Lipid peroxidation involves a cascade of reactions in which production of free radicals occurs selectively in the lipid components of cellular membranes.

  18. Potential role of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in neuroprotection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. CNS drugs 2012-10-01 Drug development

    The current understanding of neurodegenerative processes in sporadic diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) or multiple sclerosis is very limited.

  19. Glucagon-like peptide-1 cleavage product GLP-1(9-36) amide rescues synaptic plasticity and memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease model mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012-10-01 Drug development

    Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an endogenous intestinal peptide that enhances glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.

  20. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been shown to involve desensitised insulin receptor (IR) signalling.

  21. The neuroprotective effects of GLP-1: possible treatments for cognitive deficits in individuals with mood disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2012-09-20 Drug development

    Incretins are a group of gastrointestinal hormones detected both peripherally and in the central nervous system (CNS).

  22. Anthocyanin-enriched bilberry and blackcurrant extracts modulate amyloid precursor protein processing and alleviate behavioral abnormalities in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of nutritional biochemistry 2012-09-17 Biomarkers

    A growing body of epidemiological evidence suggests that fruit and vegetable juices containing various phenolic compounds can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Target-based selection of flavonoids for neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2012-09-12 Risk factors

    Habitual consumption of dietary flavonoids known to improve mitochondrial bioenergetics and inhibit various secondary sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS) reduces the risk for neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD), stroke, and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Tumor necrosis factor-induced cerebral insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease links numerous treatment rationales

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pharmacological reviews 2012-09-10 Drug development

    The evident limitations of the amyloid theory of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease are increasingly putting alternatives in the spotlight.

  25. Exendin-4 induced glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor activation reverses behavioral impairments of mild traumatic brain injury in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 2012-08-15 Drug development

    Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) represents a major and increasing public health concern and is both the most frequent cause of mortality and disability in young adults and a chief cause of morbidity in the elderly.

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