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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. Curcumin as "Curecumin": from kitchen to clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemical pharmacology 2007-08-19 Risk factors

    Although turmeric (Curcuma longa; an Indian spice) has been described in Ayurveda, as a treatment for inflammatory diseases and is referred by different names in different cultures, the active principle called curcumin or diferuloylmethane, a yellow pigment present in turmeric (curry powder) has been shown to exhibit numerous activities.

  2. Geniposide, a novel agonist for GLP-1 receptor, prevents PC12 cells from oxidative damage via MAP kinase pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2007-05-06 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia.

  3. The stress system in depression and neurodegeneration: focus on the human hypothalamus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research reviews 2007-04-27 Risk factors

    Increased levels of circulating AVP are also associated with the risk for suicide.

  4. Omega-3 fatty acids, pro-inflammatory signaling and neuroprotection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care 2007-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent findings The docosahexaenoate-derived mediator neuroprotectin D1 is formed in retinal pigment epithelial cells when confronted with oxidative stress, in the brain during experimental stroke, and in the human brain from Alzheimer's disease patients as well as in human brain cells in culture.

  5. Neurotrophic and neuroprotective actions of estrogen: basic mechanisms and clinical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Steroids 2007-02-21 Disease mechanisms

    Estrogen is an important hormone signal that regulates multiple tissues and functions in the body.

  6. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibition is integral to long-term potentiation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2007-01-01 Drug development

    Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a serine/threonine kinase regulating diverse cellular functions including metabolism, transcription and cell survival.

  7. Curcumin: the Indian solid gold

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2007-01-01 Risk factors

    Turmeric, derived from the plant Curcuma longa, is a gold-colored spice commonly used in the Indian subcontinent, not only for health care but also for the preservation of food and as a yellow dye for textiles.

  8. Current analytical methods for the detection of dityrosine, a biomarker of oxidative stress, in biological samples

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mass spectrometry reviews 2007-01-01 Risk factors

    Dityrosine is a fluorescent molecule formed as a result of normal posttranslational processing.

  9. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) - the third gas of interest for pharmacologists

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pharmacological reports : PR 2007-01-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO) synthesized from L-arginine by NO synthase and from heme by heme oxygenase, respectively, are the well-known neurotransmitters and are also involved in the regulation of vascular tone.

  10. Gamma Linolenic Acid: An Antiinflammatory Omega-6 Fatty Acid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 2006-12-01 Prevention and risk

    Inflammation plays an important role in health and disease.

  11. Twenty years of research on cytokine-induced sickness behavior

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2006-11-07 Risk factors

    Cytokine-induced sickness behavior was recognized within a few years of the cloning and expression of interferon-alpha, IL-1 and IL-2, which occurred around the time that the first issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity was published in 1987.

  12. Sleep deprivation as a neurobiologic and physiologic stressor: Allostasis and allostatic load

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Metabolism: clinical and experimental 2006-10-01 Risk factors

    Sleep has important homeostatic functions, and sleep deprivation is a stressor that has consequences for the brain, as well as many body systems.

  13. Effects of nutrients (in food) on the structure and function of the nervous system: update on dietary requirements for brain. Part 1: micronutrients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2006-09-01 Drug development

    More specifically, the full genetic potential of the child for physical growth ad mental development may be compromised due to deficiency (even subclinical) of micronutrients.

  14. Enriched environments, experience-dependent plasticity and disorders of the nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2006-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Behavioural, cellular and molecular studies have revealed significant effects of enriched environments on rodents and other species, and provided new insights into mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity, including adult neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity.

  15. The ether lipid-deficient mouse: tracking down plasmalogen functions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2006-08-30 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Chemical and physico-chemical properties as well as physiological functions of major mammalian ether-linked glycerolipids, including plasmalogens were reviewed.

  16. Thematic review series: systems biology approaches to metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. Lipidomics: a global approach to lipid analysis in biological systems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of lipid research 2006-08-10 Genetics

    Lipids are water-insoluble molecules that have a wide variety of functions within cells, including: 1) maintenance of electrochemical gradients; 2) subcellular partitioning; 3) first- and second-messenger cell signaling; 4) energy storage; and 5) protein trafficking and membrane anchoring.

  17. Free radicals and antioxidants in normal physiological functions and human disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 2006-08-04 Risk factors

    Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS, e.g. nitric oxide, NO(*)) are well recognised for playing a dual role as both deleterious and beneficial species.

  18. Nutrition in brain development and aging: role of essential fatty acids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nutrition reviews 2006-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The essential fatty acids (EFAs), particularly the n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPs), are important for brain development during both the fetal and postnatal period.

  19. Intracerebral streptozotocin model of type 3 diabetes: relevance to sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2006-03-01 Biomarkers

    The cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neurodegeneration is associated with persistent oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired energy metabolism, and activation of pro-death signaling pathways.

  20. Neurotrophin signalling in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinical science (London, England : 1979) 2006-02-01 Risk factors

    Neurotrophins are a unique family of polypeptide growth factors that influence the proliferation, differentiation, survival and death of neuronal and non-neuronal cells.

  21. Identification of nitrated proteins in Alzheimer's disease brain using a redox proteomics approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2005-12-27 Genetics

    Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of a number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Insulin and insulin-like growth factor expression and function deteriorate with progression of Alzheimer's disease: link to brain reductions in acetylcholine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2005-12-01 Biomarkers

    Reduced glucose utilization and energy metabolism occur early in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and correlate with impaired cognition.

  23. Curcumin: getting back to the roots

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2005-11-01 Costs and economics

    The use of turmeric, derived from the root of the plant Curcuma longa, for treatment of different inflammatory diseases has been described in Ayurveda and in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years.

  24. Drug discovery from medicinal plants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Life sciences 2005-09-29 Treatments

    Current research in drug discovery from medicinal plants involves a multifaceted approach combining botanical, phytochemical, biological, and molecular techniques.

  25. Oral tolerance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Immunological reviews 2005-08-01 Clinical trials

    Multiple mechanisms of tolerance are induced by oral antigen.

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