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Studies

1,163 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • The Journal of biological chemistry 109
  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 42
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39
  • Neuron 28
  • Nature 23

365 journals in all.

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  1. ALS/FTD-Linked Mutation in FUS Suppresses Intra-axonal Protein Synthesis and Drives Disease Without Nuclear Loss-of-Function of FUS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2018-10-18 Disease mechanisms

    Through the generation of humanized FUS mice expressing full-length human FUS, we identify that when expressed at near endogenous murine FUS levels, both wild-type and ALS-causing and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)-causing mutations complement the essential function(s) of murine FUS.

  2. TYROBP/DAP12 forms complexes with ectodomains of immune receptors (TREM2, SIRPβ1, CR3) associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is a network hub and driver in the complement subnetwork identified by multi-scale gene network studies of postmortem human AD brain.

  3. Fluoride activates microglia, secretes inflammatory factors and influences synaptic neuron plasticity in the hippocampus of rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neurotoxicology 2018-09-28 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Epidemiological studies have reported that highly fluoridated drinking water may significantly decrease the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of exposed children.

  4. Caspase-1 inhibition alleviates cognitive impairment and neuropathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature communications 2018-09-25 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an intractable progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive decline and dementia.

  5. TBK1 Suppresses RIPK1-Driven Apoptosis and Inflammation during Development and in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cell 2018-08-23 Risk factors

    Aging is a major risk factor for both genetic and sporadic neurodegenerative disorders.

  6. Cerebrospinal fluid synaptosomal-associated protein 25 is a key player in synaptic degeneration in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-08-16 Long-term cohort studies

    There is accumulating evidence that synaptic loss precedes neuronal loss and correlates best with impaired memory formation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Immunotherapy targeting toll-like receptor 2 alleviates neurodegeneration in models of synucleinopathy by modulating α-synuclein transmission and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2018-08-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    This study proposes TLR2 immunotherapy as a novel therapeutic strategy for synucleinopathies of the aging population.

  8. Poly(ADP-Ribose) Prevents Pathological Phase Separation of TDP-43 by Promoting Liquid Demixing and Stress Granule Localization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular cell 2018-08-09 Lewy body dementia

    In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), cytoplasmic aggregates of hyperphosphorylated TDP-43 accumulate and colocalize with some stress granule components, but how pathological TDP-43 aggregation is nucleated remains unknown.

  9. Benfotiamine treatment activates the Nrf2/ARE pathway and is neuroprotective in a transgenic mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2018-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Impaired glucose metabolism, decreased levels of thiamine and its phosphate esters, and reduced activity of thiamine-dependent enzymes, such as pyruvate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase and transketolase occur in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Metabolic Syndrome Exacerbates the Recognition Memory Impairment and Oxidative-Inflammatory Response in Rats with an Intrahippocampal Injection of Amyloid Beta 1-42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2018-08-01 Biomarkers

    An important worldwide health problem as the result of current lifestyle is metabolic syndrome (MS).

  11. Pharmacologic Depletion of Microglia Increases Viral Load in the Brain and Enhances Mortality in Murine Models of Flavivirus-Induced Encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of virology 2018-07-31 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Flaviviruses account for most arthropod-borne cases of human encephalitis in the world.

  12. Age- and disease-dependent increase of the mitophagy marker phospho-ubiquitin in normal aging and Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Autophagy 2018-07-28 Digital health tools

    Although exact causes of Parkinson disease (PD) remain enigmatic, mitochondrial dysfunction is increasingly appreciated as a key determinant of dopaminergic neuron susceptibility in both familial and sporadic PD.

  13. Transplanted neural-like cells improve memory and Alzheimer-like pathology in a rat model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Cytotherapy 2018-07-17 Biomarkers

    It should be noted that by improving the neuronal connectivity in AM rat brains, the transplanted NLCs rescue Alzheimer's cognition.

  14. Deficiency in the transcription factor NRF2 worsens inflammatory parameters in a mouse model with combined tauopathy and amyloidopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Redox biology 2018-07-11 Biomarkers

    Chronic neuroinflammation is a hallmark of the onset and progression of brain proteinopathies such as Alzheimer disease (AD) and it is suspected to participate in the neurodegenerative process.

  15. Graphene quantum dots prevent α-synucleinopathy in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature nanotechnology 2018-07-09 Lewy body dementia

    Though emerging evidence indicates that the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease is strongly correlated to the accumulation 1,2 and transmission 3,4 of α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregates in the midbrain, no anti-aggregation agents have been successful at treating the disease in the clinic.

  16. Age-related shift in LTD is dependent on neuronal adenosine A2A receptors interplay with mGluR5 and NMDA receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2018-06-27 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Synaptic dysfunction plays a central role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), since it drives the cognitive decline.

  17. Proteomics and C9orf72 neuropathology identify ribosomes as poly-GR/PR interactors driving toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life science alliance 2018-05-16 Clinical safety

    Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with C9orf72 mutation show cytoplasmic poly-GR and poly-PR aggregates.

  18. Genome-wide association study identifies two loci influencing plasma neurofilament light levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. BMC medical genomics 2018-05-10 Biomarkers

    GWAS found the associations of two single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs7943454 and rs640476) with plasma NFL at suggestive levels.

  19. Cellular milieu imparts distinct pathological α-synuclein strains in α-synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature 2018-05-09 Lewy body dementia

    In Lewy body diseases-including Parkinson's disease, without or with dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Alzheimer's disease with Lewy body co-pathology 1 -α-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregates in neurons as Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites 2 .

  20. [Quercetin ameliorates inflammation in CA1 hippocampal region in aged triple transgenic Alzheimer´s disease mice model.]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud 2018-05-01 Biomarkers

    Our work suggests an anti-inflammatory effect of quercetin in the CA1 hippocampal region of aged triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease mice.

  21. Stress Granule Assembly Disrupts Nucleocytoplasmic Transport

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Cell 2018-04-05 Lewy body dementia

    Defects in nucleocytoplasmic transport have been identified as a key pathogenic event in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) mediated by a GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72, the most common genetic cause of ALS/FTD.

  22. FUS Phase Separation Is Modulated by a Molecular Chaperone and Methylation of Arginine Cation-π Interactions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Cell 2018-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Reversible phase separation underpins the role of FUS in ribonucleoprotein granules and other membrane-free organelles and is, in part, driven by the intrinsically disordered low-complexity (LC) domain of FUS.

  23. Phase Separation of FUS Is Suppressed by Its Nuclear Import Receptor and Arginine Methylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cell 2018-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Cytoplasmic FUS aggregates are a pathological hallmark in a subset of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  24. TDP-43 gains function due to perturbed autoregulation in a Tardbp knock-in mouse model of ALS-FTD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-03-19 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) constitutes a devastating disease spectrum characterized by 43-kDa TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) pathology.

  25. Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals the Transcriptional Landscape and Heterogeneity of Aortic Macrophages in Murine Atherosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Circulation research 2018-03-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    It is assumed that atherosclerotic arteries contain several macrophage subsets endowed with specific functions.

  26. Neuronal pentraxin 1: A synaptic-derived plasma biomarker in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2018-03-06 Biomarkers

    Synaptic neurodegeneration is thought to be an early event initiated by soluble β-amyloid (Aβ) aggregates that closely correlates with cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  27. TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) liquid-liquid phase separation is mediated by just a few aromatic residues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2018-03-06 Brain tissue and pathology

    Eukaryotic cells contain distinct organelles, but not all of these compartments are enclosed by membranes.

  28. Differential Phagocytic Properties of CD45low Microglia and CD45high Brain Mononuclear Phagocytes-Activation and Age-Related Effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2018-03-02 TREM2 and immune genetics

    In the central nervous system (CNS), microglia are innate immune mononuclear phagocytes (CNS MPs) that can phagocytose infectious particles, apoptotic cells, neurons, and pathological protein aggregates, such as Aβ in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Brain region-specific enhancement of remyelination and prevention of demyelination by the CSF1R kinase inhibitor BLZ945

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-02-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the central nervous system (CNS).

  30. Rapid and ultra-sensitive quantitation of disease-associated α-synuclein seeds in brain and cerebrospinal fluid by αSyn RT-QuIC

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-02-09 Getting a diagnosis

    The diagnosis and treatment of synucleinopathies such as Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies would be aided by the availability of assays for the pathogenic disease-associated forms of α-synuclein (αSyn D ) that are sufficiently sensitive, specific, and practical for analysis of accessible diagnostic specimens.

  31. Haploinsufficiency leads to neurodegeneration in C9ORF72 ALS/FTD human induced motor neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature medicine 2018-02-05 Lewy body dementia

    An intronic GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), but the pathogenic mechanism of this repeat remains unclear.

  32. In Situ Structure of Neuronal C9orf72 Poly-GA Aggregates Reveals Proteasome Recruitment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cell 2018-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    Protein aggregation and dysfunction of the ubiquitin-proteasome system are hallmarks of many neurodegenerative diseases.

  33. Minocycline reduces chronic microglial activation after brain trauma but increases neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Survivors of a traumatic brain injury can deteriorate years later, developing brain atrophy and dementia.

  34. Progranulin Gene Therapy Improves Lysosomal Dysfunction and Microglial Pathology Associated with Frontotemporal Dementia and Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-01-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    AAV-mediated progranulin delivery reduced lipofuscinosis in Grn -/- mice even after the onset of pathology.

  35. Mechanistic View of hnRNPA2 Low-Complexity Domain Structure, Interactions, and Phase Separation Altered by Mutation and Arginine Methylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular cell 2018-01-18 Lewy body dementia

    hnRNPA2, a component of RNA-processing membraneless organelles, forms inclusions when mutated in a syndrome characterized by the degeneration of neurons (bearing features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS] and frontotemporal dementia), muscle, and bone.

  36. TDP-43 pathology disrupts nuclear pore complexes and nucleocytoplasmic transport in ALS/FTD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-01-08 Lewy body dementia

    The cytoplasmic mislocalization and aggregation of TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43) is a common histopathological hallmark of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia disease spectrum (ALS/FTD).

  37. The mitochondrial ATP synthase is a shared drug target for aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2018-01-07 Clinical safety

    Aging is a major driving force underlying dementia, such as that caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Exosomes derived from hypoxia-preconditioned mesenchymal stromal cells ameliorate cognitive decline by rescuing synaptic dysfunction and regulating inflammatory responses in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2018-01-04 Inflammation and the immune system

    Administration of exosomes derived from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) could improve some neurologic conditions by transferring functional biomolecules to recipient cells.

  39. G-quadruplex-binding small molecules ameliorate C9orf72 FTD/ALS pathology in vitro and in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2018-01-01 Caregiving

    Intronic GGGGCC repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common known cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which are characterised by degeneration of cortical and motor neurons, respectively.

  40. Hypercapnic and Hypoxic Respiratory Response During Wakefulness and Sleep in a Streptozotocin Model of Alzheimer's Disease in Rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Besides the typical cognitive decline, patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) develop disorders of the respiratory system, such as sleep apnea, shortness of breath, and arrhythmias.

  41. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the precuneus enhances memory and neural activity in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. NeuroImage 2017-12-19 Treatments

    Memory loss is one of the first symptoms of typical Alzheimer's disease (AD), for which there are no effective therapies available.

  42. Chemogenetic locus coeruleus activation restores reversal learning in a rat model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    See Grinberg and Heinsen (doi:10.1093/brain/awx261) for a scientific commentary on this article.

  43. Dendritic spines provide cognitive resilience against Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-10-22 Digital health tools

    These observations provide cellular evidence to support the hypothesis that dendritic spine plasticity is a mechanism of cognitive resilience that protects older individuals with AD pathology from developing dementia.

  44. Neuroprotective effects of a triple GLP-1/GIP/glucagon receptor agonist in the APP/PS1 transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain research 2017-10-16 Disease mechanisms

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  45. α-synuclein interacts with PrPC to induce cognitive impairment through mGluR5 and NMDAR2B

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2017-09-25 Disease mechanisms

    Synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, are neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by the accumulation of α-synuclein (aSyn) in intracellular inclusions known as Lewy bodies.

  46. Neurogranin, a synaptic protein, is associated with memory independent of Alzheimer biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2017-09-22 Tau biomarkers

    We analyzed CSF concentrations of neurogranin, β-amyloid (Aβ42), phosphorylated tau (p-tau), and total tau (t-tau) among 132 neurologically normal older adults (mean 64.5, range 55-85), along with bilateral hippocampal volumes and a measure of episodic memory (Auditory Verbal Learning Test, delayed recall).

  47. Inhibition of p25/Cdk5 Attenuates Tauopathy in Mouse and iPSC Models of Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-09-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Increased p25, a proteolytic fragment of the regulatory subunit p35, is known to induce aberrant activity of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5), which is associated with neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Anti-inflammatory effects of flavonoids in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. European journal of medicinal chemistry 2017-09-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation is one of the main mechanisms involved in the progression of several neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson, Alzheimer, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and others.

  49. DHA-rich n-3 fatty acid supplementation decreases DNA methylation in blood leukocytes: the OmegAD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2017-08-30 Treatments

    At 6 mo, the n-3 FA group displayed marked increases in DHA and EPA plasma concentrations (2.6- and 3.5-fold), as well as decreased methylation in 2 out of 4 CpG sites ( P r = -0.25, P = 0.045; and r = -0.26, P = 0.041, respectively), but not to changes in plasma DHA concentration, and were not related to apolipoprotein E-4 allele frequency.

  50. Phosphorylation of the FUS low-complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2017-08-08 Lewy body dementia

    Neuronal inclusions of aggregated RNA-binding protein fused in sarcoma (FUS) are hallmarks of ALS and frontotemporal dementia subtypes.

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