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Newest in this topic

  1. Molecular MRI of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease using a Folate-targeted Nanoprobe 2026-11-01
  2. Neuroinflammation is an early pathological process in a mouse model of prodromal Parkinsons disease 2026-10-30
  3. The TREM-receptor family interactome in the human brain 2026-10-29

Studies

384 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • bioRxiv 21
  • Journal of neuroinflammation 17
  • International journal of molecular sciences 13
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 10
  • Glia 10

169 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature immunology 2015-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the world's most common dementing illness, affecting over 150 million patients.

  2. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 is involved in prion-induced microglial activation but does not contribute to prion pathogenesis in mouse brains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-02-27 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Dysfunctional variants of the innate immune cell surface receptor TREM2 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2) were identified as major genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.

  3. Understanding the MIND phenotype: macrophage/microglia inflammation in neurocognitive disorders related to human immunodeficiency virus infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinical and Translational Medicine 2015-02-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    Tissue macrophages play important roles in maintaining homeostasis in most organs of the body including the brain where microglia represent the resident phagocytic cells of this compartment.

  4. Compromised MAPK signaling in human diseases: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of toxicology 2015-02-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in mammals include c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK), p38 MAPK, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK).

  5. Aging‐like changes in the transcriptome of irradiated microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Glia 2015-02-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    Whole brain irradiation remains important in the management of brain tumors.

  6. Effect of stress and peripheral immune activation on astrocyte activation in transgenic bioluminescent Gfap‐luc mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Glia 2015-02-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation and the accompanying activation of glial cells is an important feature of many neurodegenerative conditions.

  7. Neuroinflammation and Aβ Accumulation Linked To Systemic Inflammation Are Decreased By Genetic PKR Down-Regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2015-02-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, marked by senile plaques composed of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide, neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal loss and neuroinflammation.

  8. A small-molecule inhibitor of the NLRP3 inflammasome for the treatment of inflammatory diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2015-02-16 Risk factors

    The NOD-like receptor (NLR) family, pyrin domain-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome is a component of the inflammatory process, and its aberrant activation is pathogenic in inherited disorders such as cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) and complex diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and atherosclerosis.

  9. Prion Infection of Mouse Brain Reveals Multiple New Upregulated Genes Involved in Neuroinflammation or Signal Transduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Virology 2015-02-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    Comparison of inflammatory markers between mice infected with scrapie strains 22L and RML indicated that the inflammatory responses and gene expression profiles in the brains were strikingly similar, even though these scrapie strains infect different brain regions.

  10. The JAK/STAT3 Pathway Is a Common Inducer of Astrocyte Reactivity in Alzheimer's and Huntington's Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of Neuroscience 2015-02-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Astrocyte reactivity is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases (ND), but its effects on disease outcomes remain highly debated.

  11. DNA sensors are expressed in astrocytes and microglia in vitro and are upregulated during gliosis in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Glia 2015-01-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    The detection of nucleic acids by the innate immune system is an essential host response during viral infection.

  12. Apolipoprotein E promotes subretinal mononuclear phagocyte survival and chronic inflammation in age‐related macular degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. EMBO Molecular Medicine 2015-01-20 Genetics

    Physiologically, the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) expresses immunosuppressive signals such as FAS ligand (FASL), which prevents the accumulation of leukocytes in the subretinal space.

  13. Differential Roles of M1 and M2 Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2015-01-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    One of the most striking hallmarks shared by various neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is microglia-mediated neuroinflammation.

  14. Different mechanisms of apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent modulation of prostaglandin E2 production and triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) expression after innate immune activation of microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2015-01-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Several lines of evidence support immune response in brain as a mechanism of injury in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  15. HIV-1 and Morphine Regulation of Autophagy in Microglia: Limited Interactions in the Context of HIV-1 Infection and Opioid Abuse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Virology 2015-01-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    Infection of microglia with the HIV-1 SF162 macrophage-tropic strain resulted in increased Beclin1 expression, accompanied by an increase of LC3 protein levels and accumulation of LC3 reporter RFP + GFP + (yellow) puncta, suggesting that HIV-1 infection triggers autophagosome formation without promoting protein degradation by the lysosome.

  16. SIRT1 Deficiency in Microglia Contributes to Cognitive Decline in Aging and Neurodegeneration via Epigenetic Regulation of IL-1β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of Neuroscience 2015-01-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Aging is the predominant risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases.

  17. NFκB-activated astroglial release of complement C3 compromises neuronal morphology and function associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2014-12-18 Disease mechanisms

    Abnormal NFκB activation has been implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. The dual role of astrocyte activation and reactive gliosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2014-01-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocyte activation and reactive gliosis accompany most of the pathologies in the brain, spinal cord, and retina.

  19. Inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease: insights from immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain 2013-08-26 Treatments

    Genome-wide association studies have identified a number of risk variants for Alzheimer’s disease implicated in inflammatory responses (Bettens et al., 2013); exome sequencing has revealed polymorphisms in the microglial receptor TREM2 gene as a rare but significant risk for Alzheimer’s disease (Guerreiro et al., 2013; Jonsson et al., 2013); and recently, the CD33 risk allele has been shown to inhibit microglial clearance of amyloid-β (Bradshaw et al., 2013; Griciuc et al., 2013).

  20. A Neurodegeneration-Specific Gene-Expression Signature of Acutely Isolated Microglia from an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell Reports 2013-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia are resident immune cells of the CNS that are activated by infection, neuronal injury, and inflammation.

  21. CD36 coordinates NLRP3 inflammasome activation by facilitating intracellular nucleation of soluble ligands into particulate ligands in sterile inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature immunology 2013-06-30 Risk factors

    Particulate ligands, including cholesterol crystals and amyloid fibrils, induce production of interleukin 1β (IL-1β) dependent on the cytoplasmic sensor NLRP3 in atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.

  22. VIP and PACAP: neuropeptide modulators of CNS inflammation, injury, and repair

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2013-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Inflammatory processes play both regenerative and destructive roles in multiple sclerosis, stroke, CNS trauma, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and aging-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's. Endogenous defence mechanisms against these pathologies include those that are directly neuroprotective, and those that modulate the expression of inflammatory mediators in microglia, astrocytes, and invading inflammatory cells.

  23. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2: "TREM-ming" the inflammatory component associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2013-03-06 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive loss of memory and cognitive skills.

  24. Review: activation patterns of microglia and their identification in the human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2013-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia in the central nervous system are usually maintained in a quiescent state.

  25. Janus-faced microglia: beneficial and detrimental consequences of microglial phagocytosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2013-01-30 Disease mechanisms

    Microglia are the resident brain macrophages and they have been traditionally studied as orchestrators of the brain inflammatory response during infections and disease.

  26. An unconventional role for miRNA: let-7 activates Toll-like receptor 7 and causes neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2012-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Activation of innate immune receptors by host-derived factors exacerbates CNS damage, but the identity of these factors remains elusive.

  27. A review: inflammatory process in Alzheimer's disease, role of cytokines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. TheScientificWorldJournal 2012-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder to date.

  28. Prolonged oral cannabinoid administration prevents neuroinflammation, lowers β-amyloid levels and improves cognitive performance in Tg APP 2576 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2012-01-16 Biomarkers

    We have shown that chronically administered cannabinoid showed marked beneficial effects concomitant with inflammation reduction and increased Aβ clearance.

  29. Inflammation in Alzheimer disease-a brief review of the basic science and clinical literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2012-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Biochemical and neuropathological studies of brains from individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) provide clear evidence for an activation of inflammatory pathways, and long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs is linked with reduced risk to develop the disease.

  30. Complement in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Molecular immunology 2011-05-04 Digital health tools

    The brain is considered to be an immune privileged site, because the blood-brain barrier limits entry of blood borne cells and proteins into the central nervous system (CNS).

  31. Delivery of siRNA to the mouse brain by systemic injection of targeted exosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature biotechnology 2011-03-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    To realize the therapeutic potential of RNA drugs, efficient, tissue-specific and nonimmunogenic delivery technologies must be developed.

  32. A meta-analysis of cytokines in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2010-08-08 Tau biomarkers

    These results strengthen the clinical evidence that AD is accompanied by an inflammatory response, particularly higher peripheral concentrations of IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β, TGF-β, IL-12 and IL-18 and higher CSF concentrations of TGF-β.

  33. Mechanisms underlying inflammation in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell 2010-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Inflammation is associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple sclerosis.

  34. Inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Immunology 2010-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neurodegeneration, the slow and progressive dysfunction and loss of neurons and axons in the central nervous system, is the primary pathological feature of acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, neurotropic viral infections, stroke, paraneoplastic disorders, traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis.

  35. HMGB1 and RAGE in inflammation and cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual review of immunology 2010-01-01 Risk factors

    The immune system has evolved to respond not only to pathogens, but also to signals released from dying cells.

  36. Amyloid Deposition and Inflammation in APPswe/PS1dE9 Mouse Model of Alzheimers Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2009-12-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles associated with chronic inflammation.

  37. Effect of quinolinic acid on human astrocytes morphology and functions: implications in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2009-12-01 Biomarkers

    The excitotoxin quinolinic acid (QUIN) is synthesized through the kynurenine pathway (KP) by activated monocyte lineage cells.

  38. Does neuroinflammation fan the flame in neurodegenerative diseases?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2009-11-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    While peripheral immune access to the central nervous system (CNS) is restricted and tightly controlled, the CNS is capable of dynamic immune and inflammatory responses to a variety of insults.

  39. Neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease: its role in neuronal death and implications for therapeutic intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2009-11-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, after Alzheimer's disease.

  40. Sustained hippocampal IL-1beta overexpression impairs contextual and spatial memory in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2009-10-13 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Neuroinflammatory conditions such as traumatic brain injury, aging, Alzheimer's disease, and Down syndrome are often associated with cognitive dysfunction.

  41. Simvastatin inhibits the activation of p21ras and prevents the loss of dopaminergic neurons in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-10-01 Drug development

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is second only to Alzheimer's disease as the most common devastating human neurodegenerative disorder.

  42. CD14 and Toll-Like Receptors 2 and 4 Are Required for Fibrillar Aβ-Stimulated Microglial Activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2009-09-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia are the brain's tissue macrophages and are found in an activated state surrounding beta-amyloid plaques in the Alzheimer's disease brain.

  43. Systemic inflammation and disease progression in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2009-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Both acute and chronic systemic inflammation, associated with increases in serum tumor necrosis factor alpha, is associated with an increase in cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease.

  44. Neuroprotectin D1-mediated anti-inflammatory and survival signaling in stroke, retinal degenerations, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Lipid Research 2008-11-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the main omega-3 fatty acid, is concentrated and avidly retained in membrane phospholipids of the nervous system.

  45. Twelve months after infection, a time equivalent to middle to early elderly ages, mice had behavioral and neurological deficits, and brain MRIs showed mild to moderate ventricular dilatation.

  46. Evidence for a cytokine model of cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2008-10-18 Risk factors

    Aiming at a formulation of a cytokine model of cognitive function under immunologically unchallenged physiological conditions, this article reviews the cytokine biology in the central nervous system (CNS) and recent developments in normal cytokine functions within the CNS that subserve cognitive processes.

  47. TNF signaling inhibition in the CNS: implications for normal brain function and neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2008-10-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    The role of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) as an immune mediator has long been appreciated but its function in the brain is still unclear.

  48. An NF-kappaB-sensitive micro RNA-146a-mediated inflammatory circuit in Alzheimer disease and in stressed human brain cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-09-18 Drug development

    Human brains retain discrete populations of micro RNA (miRNA) species that support homeostatic brain gene expression functions; however, specific miRNA abundance is significantly altered in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer disease (AD) when compared with age-matched controls.

  49. 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.

  50. The NALP3 inflammasome is involved in the innate immune response to amyloid-beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature immunology 2008-07-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    The fibrillar peptide amyloid-beta (A beta) has a chief function in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

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