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  1. Evidence that the perinatal maternal microbiome mediates metabolite signaling programs that drive sex-specific microglial metabolic alterations and Alzheimer’s disease susceptibility 2026-10-23
  2. Change in gut microbiome precedes symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease and is correlated with amyloid-beta accumulation in the brain 2026-10-19
  3. The microbial soy metabolite S-equol mitigates cadmium neurotoxicity in mice 2026-10-06

Studies

173 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1998 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 13
  • Scientific reports 8
  • Molecular neurobiology 5
  • bioRxiv 5
  • Aging 4

104 journals in all.

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  1. The Gut Microbiome as a Component of the Gut-Brain Axis in Cognitive Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biological research for nursing 2020-07-17 Disease mechanisms

    Common themes in the current literature include GMB components; interactions on cognitive development; effects of GMB-gut-brain interactions on cognition, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease; effects of GMB interactions with physiologic stress on cognition in critical care; and GMB modification for improved cognition.

  2. 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.

  3. Rapid improvement in Alzheimer's disease symptoms following fecal microbiota transplantation: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of international medical research 2020-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is a leading cause of death and a major cause of morbidity in older people.

  4. Therapeutic effect of GLP-1 engineered strain on mice model of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. AMB Express 2020-04-24 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) characterized by progressive degeneration of the central nervous system, and few medications are available to halt the progression of AD and PD.

  5. Protective effects of Akkermansia muciniphila on cognitive deficits and amyloid pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrition & diabetes 2020-04-22 Disease mechanisms

    Akk effectively improved glucose tolerance, intestine barrier dysfunction and dyslipidemia in AD model mice.

  6. 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.

  7. The Links Between the Gut Microbiome, Aging, Modern Lifestyle and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2020-03-18 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiome is a community of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract.

  8. New mechanism of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: The activation of NLRP3 inflammasome mediated by gut microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 2020-02-04 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a central degenerative disease characterized by cognitive impairment.

  9. CircNF1-419 improves the gut microbiome structure and function in AD-like mice

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 12 out of 100. Aging 2020-01-06 Disease mechanisms

    Our pre-experiments found that the brain circRNA sequence profiles and gut microbiota in AD-like mice were changed, as circNF1-419 could enhance autophagy to ameliorate senile dementia in AD-like mice, so we conclude that there might some connections between circRNA and gut microbiome.

  10. Clinical and Bacterial Markers of Periodontitis and Their Association with Incident All-Cause and Alzheimer's Disease Dementia in a Large National Survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Costs and economics

    Microbial agents including periodontal pathogens have recently appeared as important actors in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  11. Investigation of Potential Brain Microbiome in Alzheimer's Disease: Implications of Study Bias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Disease mechanisms

    In both cohorts, few differences between the control and AD groups were observed in terms of alpha and beta diversities, phyla and genera proportions.

  12. Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Lipopolysaccharide as Mediators Between Gut Dysbiosis and Amyloid Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We report a novel association between gut microbiota-related products and systemic inflammation with brain amyloidosis via endothelial dysfunction, suggesting that SCFAs and LPS represent candidate pathophysiologic links between the gut microbiota and AD pathology.

  13. Effect of Clostridium butyricum against Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease via Regulating Gut Microbiota and Metabolites Butyrate

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular nutrition & food research 2019-12-23 Disease mechanisms

    Scope Recent evidences demonstrate that abnormal gut microbiota (GM) might be involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. 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).

  15. Time to test antibacterial therapy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-10-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is associated with cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β peptide and hyperphosphorylated tau.

  16. Microbiome Influence in the Pathogenesis of Prion and Alzheimer's Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-09-23 Disease mechanisms

    Misfolded and abnormal β-sheets forms of wild-type proteins, such as cellular prion protein (PrPC) and amyloid beta (Aβ), are believed to be the vectors of neurodegenerative diseases, prion and Alzheimer's disease (AD), respectively.

  17. Regulation of Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Endotoxemia with Dietary Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2019-09-23 Disease mechanisms

    Metabolic endotoxemia is a condition in which blood lipopolysaccharide (LPS) levels are elevated, regardless of the presence of obvious infection.

  18. At baseline, subjects with normal vs. impaired cognition show no notable difference in microbiome diversity but several unique microbial signatures are detected in subjects with mild cognitive impairment.

  19. Transfer of a healthy microbiota reduces amyloid and tau pathology in an Alzheimer's disease animal model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Gut 2019-08-30 Disease mechanisms

    These results indicate that microbiota-mediated intestinal and systemic immune aberrations contribute to the pathogenesis of AD in ADLP APT mice, providing new insights into the relationship between the gut (colonic gene expression, gut permeability), blood (blood immune cell population) and brain (pathology) axis and AD (memory deficits).

  20. Suppression of gut dysbiosis by Bifidobacterium longum alleviates cognitive decline in 5XFAD transgenic and aged mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2019-08-14 Disease mechanisms

    To understand the role of commensal gut bacteria on the progression of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease via the microbiota-gut-brain axis, we isolated anti-inflammatory Bifidobacterium longum (NK46) from human gut microbiota, which potently inhibited gut microbiota endotoxin production and suppressed NF-κB activation in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated BV-2 cells, and examined whether NK46 could simultaneously alleviate gut dysbiosis and cognitive decline in male 5xFAD-transgenic (5XFAD-Tg, 6 months-old) and aged (18 months-old) mice.

  21. New treatment modalities in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. World journal of clinical cases 2019-07-26 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is still a major public health challenge without an effective treatment to prevent or stop it.

  22. Antibiotics, gut microbiota, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2019-05-22 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease whose various pathophysiological aspects are still being investigated.

  23. The role of gut microbiota in pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of applied microbiology 2019-04-15 Disease mechanisms

    This paper describes the effects of the gut microbiota on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's pathology by evaluating the current original key findings and identifying gaps in the knowledge required for validation.

  24. APOE genotype influences the gut microbiome structure and function in humans and mice: relevance for Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2019-04-08 Disease mechanisms

    Apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) genotype is the strongest prevalent genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Fructooligosaccharides Ameliorating Cognitive Deficits and Neurodegeneration in APP/PS1 Transgenic Mice through Modulating Gut Microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 2019-02-28 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is closely related to gut microbial alteration.

  26. Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science advances 2019-01-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    Porphyromonas gingivalis , the keystone pathogen in chronic periodontitis, was identified in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients.

  27. The intestinal microbiome and its relevance for functionality in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care 2019-01 Disease mechanisms

    Some observational studies have instead demonstrated that, in older individuals, frailty and Alzheimer-type dementia are associated with fecal microbiota dysbiosis, that is, reduced biodiversity and overexpression of pathobionts.

  28. The gut microbiota-derived metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide is elevated in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-12-22 Biomarkers

    These findings provide additional insight into gut microbial involvement in AD and add to the growing understanding of the gut-brain axis.

  29. Probiotic and selenium co-supplementation, and the effects on clinical, metabolic and genetic status in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2018-12-10 Clinical trials

    Overall, we found that probiotic and selenium co-supplementation for 12 weeks to patients with AD improved cognitive function and some metabolic profiles.

  30. Exercise and probiotics attenuate the development of Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice: Role of microbiome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2018-12-06 Prevention trials

    It has been suggested that exercise training and probiotic supplementation could decelerate the progress of functional and biochemical deterioration in APP/PS1 transgenic mice (APP/PS1 TG ).

  31. Gut Microbiota and Their Neuroinflammatory Implications in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-11-14 Disease mechanisms

    The bidirectional communication between the central nervous system (CNS) and the gut microbiota plays a pivotal role in human health.

  32. Altered bile acid profile associates with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease-An emerging role for gut microbiome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-15 Risk factors

    We report for the first time an association between altered BA profile, genetic variants implicated in AD, and cognitive changes in disease using a large multicenter study.

  33. Altered bile acid profile in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: Relationship to neuroimaging and CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-15 Biomarkers

    This is the first study to show serum-based BA metabolites are associated with "A/T/N" AD biomarkers, providing further support for a role of BA pathways in AD pathophysiology.

  34. The intestinal microbiome and Alzheimer's disease: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Animal models and experimental medicine 2018-09-25 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an increasingly common neurodegenerative disease.

  35. Gut microbiota, cognitive frailty and dementia in older individuals: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2018-08-29 Disease mechanisms

    Cognitive frailty, defined as the coexistence of mild cognitive impairment symptoms and physical frailty phenotype in older persons, is increasingly considered the main geriatric condition predisposing to dementia.

  36. Does Severity of Alzheimer's Disease Contribute to Its Responsiveness to Modifying Gut Microbiota? A Double Blind Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-08-15 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with cognitive dysfunction.

  37. The Gut Microbiome Alterations and Inflammation-Driven Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease-a Critical Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-06-23 Disease mechanisms

    One of the most important scientific discoveries of recent years was the disclosure that the intestinal microflora takes part in bidirectional communication between the gut and the brain.

  38. Abnormal gut microbiota composition contributes to cognitive dysfunction in SAMP8 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging 2018-06-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by cognitive dysfunction and aging is an important predisposing factor; however, the pathological and therapeutic mechanisms are not fully understood.

  39. Ketogenic diet enhances neurovascular function with altered gut microbiome in young healthy mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-04-27 Disease mechanisms

    Neurovascular integrity, including cerebral blood flow (CBF) and blood-brain barrier (BBB) function, plays a major role in determining cognitive capability.

  40. Neuroinflammation, Gut Microbiome, and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-03-09 Costs and economics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops insidiously and causes dementia finally.

  41. SLAB51 Probiotic Formulation Activates SIRT1 Pathway Promoting Antioxidant and Neuroprotective Effects in an AD Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-02-28 Disease mechanisms

    The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional communication network functionally linking the gut and the central nervous system (CNS).

  42. Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria ameliorate memory and learning deficits and oxidative stress in β-amyloid (1-42) injected rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme 2018-02-20 Disease mechanisms

    The gastrointestinal microbiota affects brain function, including memory and learning.

  43. Gut Microbiota is Altered in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Risk factors

    Previous studies suggest that gut microbiota is associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and depression.

  44. Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota modifications: The long way between preclinical studies and clinical evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2017-12-09 Disease mechanisms

    Recent studies have suggested the role of an infectious component in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. Prebiotic Effect of Fructooligosaccharides from Morinda officinalis on Alzheimer's Disease in Rodent Models by Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota influences the central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  46. Protective roles of intestinal microbiota derived short chain fatty acids in Alzheimer's disease-type beta-amyloid neuropathological mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2017-11-14 Disease mechanisms

    Our studies support the hypothesis that intestinal microbiota may help protect against AD, in part, by supporting the generation of select SCFAs, which interfere with the formation of toxic soluble Aβ aggregates.

  47. Therapeutic potential of Bifidobacterium breve strain A1 for preventing cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-10-18 Disease mechanisms

    It has previously been shown that the consumption of probiotics may have beneficial effects not only on peripheral tissues but also on the central nervous system and behavior via the microbiota-gut-brain axis, raising the possibility that treatment with probiotics could be an effective therapeutic strategy for managing neurodegenerative disorders.

  48. Gut microbiota changes in the extreme decades of human life: a focus on centenarians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS 2017-10-14 Disease mechanisms

    The gut microbiota (GM) is a complex, evolutionarily molded ecological system, which contributes to a variety of physiological functions.

  49. Recent evidence suggests the commensal microbiome regulates host immunity and influences brain function; findings that have ramifications for neurodegenerative diseases.

  50. Microbiome-Derived Lipopolysaccharide Enriched in the Perinuclear Region of Alzheimer’s Disease Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in Immunology 2017-09-04 Disease mechanisms

    Abundant clinical, epidemiological, imaging, genetic, molecular and pathophysiological data together indicate that there occur an unusual inflammatory reaction and a disruption of the innate-immune signaling system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain.

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