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  1. Integrative systems biology identifies shared neuroimmune co-expression programmes across pulmonary tuberculosis and Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30
  2. Pregnancy History and Loss of Normal PSEN2 Function Impact Female Late-Life Cognitive Processing, Inhibitory Signaling, and Gliosis 2026-10-30
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Studies

274 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1997 to 2026

Top journals

  • bioRxiv 44
  • Research Square 16
  • Nature neuroscience 11
  • Nature communications 10
  • Neuron 10

98 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. Alteration of the microRNA network during the progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. EMBO Molecular Medicine 2013-09-09 Brain tissue and pathology

    An overview of miRNAs altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD) was established by profiling the hippocampus of a cohort of 41 late-onset AD (LOAD) patients and 23 controls, showing deregulation of 35 miRNAs.

  2. The unfolded protein response is activated in disease-affected brain regions in progressive supranuclear palsy and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2013-07-06 Genetics

    The UPR is activated in disease affected regions in PSP and the genetic evidence shows that this activation increases risk for PSP and is not a protective response.

  3. 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.

  4. Consistent decrease in global DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-04-09 Genetics

    Epigenetic dysregulation of gene expression is thought to be critically involved in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Aging effects on DNA methylation modules in human brain and blood tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Genome biology 2012-10-03 Genetics

    Overall, our analysis revealed a robustly defined age-related co-methylation module that is present in multiple human tissues, including blood and brain.

  6. The role of DNA methylation in aging, rejuvenation, and age-related disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2012-10-01 Genetics

    DNA methylation is a major control program that modulates gene expression in a plethora of organisms.

  7. Epigenetic modifications in frontal cortex from Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2012-07-03 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and bipolar disorder (BD) are progressive brain disorders.

  8. An epigenetic blockade of cognitive functions in the neurodegenerating brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2012-02-29 Disease mechanisms

    Cognitive decline is a debilitating feature of most neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer's disease.

  9. Mutations in the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) gene cause hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature genetics 2011-12-25 Risk factors

    Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) is an autosomal-dominant central nervous system white-matter disease with variable clinical presentations, including personality and behavioral changes, dementia, depression, parkinsonism, seizures and other phenotypes.

  10. Long non-coding RNAs in Huntington's disease neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2011-12-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Neurodegeneration in the brains of Huntington's disease patients is accompanied by widespread changes in gene regulatory networks.

  11. Mutations in DNMT1 cause hereditary sensory neuropathy with dementia and hearing loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature genetics 2011-05-01 Genetics

    DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) is crucial for maintenance of methylation, gene regulation and chromatin stability.

  12. Whole transcriptome sequencing reveals gene expression and splicing differences in brain regions affected by Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2011-01-21 Genetics

    Recent studies strongly indicate that aberrations in the control of gene expression might contribute to the initiation and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Epigenetic mechanisms in neurological diseases: genes, syndromes, and therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2009-11-01 Genetics

    Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation and modifications to histone proteins regulate high-order DNA structure and gene expression.

  14. Epigenetic changes in Alzheimer's disease: decrements in DNA methylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-12-30 Genetics

    DNA methylation is a vital component of the epigenetic machinery that orchestrates changes in multiple genes and helps regulate gene expression in all known vertebrates.

  15. Age-specific epigenetic drift in late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2008-07-16 Genetics

    Despite an enormous research effort, most cases of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) still remain unexplained and the current biomedical science is still a long way from the ultimate goal of revealing clear risk factors that can help in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the disease.

  16. Identification of miRNA changes in Alzheimer's disease brain and CSF yields putative biomarkers and insights into disease pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2008-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    MicroRNAs have essential functional roles in brain development and neuronal specification but their roles in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown.

  17. DNA methylation in the human cerebral cortex is dynamically regulated throughout the life span and involves differentiated neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2007-09-19 Genetics

    The role of DNA cytosine methylation, an epigenetic regulator of chromatin structure and function, during normal and pathological brain development and aging remains unclear.

  18. Discovering statistically significant pathways in expression profiling studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005-09-08 Risk factors

    Accurate and rapid identification of perturbed pathways through the analysis of genome-wide expression profiles facilitates the generation of biological hypotheses.

  19. Gene regulation and DNA damage in the ageing human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 2004-06-09 Disease mechanisms

    The ageing of the human brain is a cause of cognitive decline in the elderly and the major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

  20. Incipient Alzheimer's disease: microarray correlation analyses reveal major transcriptional and tumor suppressor responses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004-02-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The pathogenesis of incipient Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been resistant to analysis because of the complexity of AD and the overlap of its early-stage markers with normal aging.

  21. Systemic infection, interleukin 1beta, and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2003-05-16 Genetics

    Over the course of an individual’s lifetime, genomic alterations accumulate in somatic cells.

  22. Alterations in transcription, RNA editing, translation, protein processing, and clearance are a consistent feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  23. The SELDI-TOF MS approach to proteomics: protein profiling and biomarker identification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2002-04-01 Genetics

    The need for methods to identify disease biomarkers is underscored by the survival-rate of patients diagnosed at early stages of cancer progression.

  24. HOP-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans presenilin, appears to be functionally redundant with SEL-12 presenilin and to facilitate LIN-12 and GLP-1 signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1997-10-01 Drug development

    Mutant presenilins have been found to cause Alzheimer disease.

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