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  3. Laromestrocel preserves brain volume and cognitive function in Alzheimers disease by inhibiting neuroinflammation 2026-09-17

Studies

1,157 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

363 journals in all.

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  1. Microglia and C9orf72 in neuroinflammation and ALS and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2017-07-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disorder that is characterized by loss of motor neurons and shows clinical, pathological, and genetic overlap with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  2. FGF21 Attenuates High-Fat Diet-Induced Cognitive Impairment via Metabolic Regulation and Anti-inflammation of Obese Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2017-07-15 Prevention and risk

    Accumulating studies suggest that overnutrition-associated obesity may lead to development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndromes (MetS).

  3. Functional and dynamic polymerization of the ALS-linked protein TDP-43 antagonizes its pathologic aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2017-06-29 Lewy body dementia

    TDP-43 is a primarily nuclear RNA-binding protein, whose abnormal phosphorylation and cytoplasmic aggregation characterizes affected neurons in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia.

  4. Promoting Sleep Oscillations and Their Functional Coupling by Transcranial Stimulation Enhances Memory Consolidation in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-06-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) not only involves loss of memory functions, but also prominent deterioration of sleep physiology, which is already evident at the stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  5. CSF sAPPβ, YKL-40, and neurofilament light in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2017-06-07 Biomarkers

    The combination of sAPPβ with YKL-40 and with NfL in CSF could be useful to increase the certainty of the diagnosis of FTLD-related syndromes in clinical practice.

  6. Enhanced classical complement pathway activation and altered phagocytosis signaling molecules in human epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2017-06-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation is widely associated with seizures and epilepsy.

  7. Loss of function CHCHD10 mutations in cytoplasmic TDP-43 accumulation and synaptic integrity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2017-06-06 Disease mechanisms

    Although multiple CHCHD10 mutations are associated with the spectrum of familial and sporadic frontotemporal dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FTD-ALS) diseases, neither the normal function of endogenous CHCHD10 nor its role in the pathological milieu (that is, TDP-43 pathology) of FTD/ALS have been investigated.

  8. Astrocyte-derived lipocalin-2 mediates hippocampal damage and cognitive deficits in experimental models of vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Glia 2017-06-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    Lipocalin-2 (LCN2) has diverse functions in multiple pathophysiological conditions; however, its pathogenic role in vascular dementia (VaD) is unknown.

  9. Repurposed drugs targeting eIF2α-P-mediated translational repression prevent neurodegeneration in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-06-01 Caregiving

    See Mercado and Hetz (doi:10.1093/brain/awx107) for a scientific commentary on this article.

  10. Calcineurin/NFAT Signaling in Activated Astrocytes Drives Network Hyperexcitability in Aβ-Bearing Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-05-30 Clinical safety

    Hyperexcitable neuronal networks are mechanistically linked to the pathologic and clinical features of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Voluntary Exercise Promotes Glymphatic Clearance of Amyloid Beta and Reduces the Activation of Astrocytes and Microglia in Aged Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2017-05-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    Age is characterized by chronic inflammation, leading to synaptic dysfunction and dementia because the clearance of protein waste is reduced.

  12. Exosomes from NSC-34 Cells Transfected with hSOD1-G93A Are Enriched in miR-124 and Drive Alterations in Microglia Phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2017-05-17 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder affecting motor neurons (MNs).

  13. Microglia amplify inflammatory activation of astrocytes in manganese neurotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2017-05-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    As the primary immune response cell in the central nervous system, microglia constantly monitor the microenvironment and respond rapidly to stress, infection, and injury, making them important modulators of neuroinflammatory responses.

  14. Therapeutic reduction of ataxin-2 extends lifespan and reduces pathology in TDP-43 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature 2017-04-12 Lewy body dementia

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by motor neuron loss and that leads to paralysis and death 2-5 years after disease onset.

  15. FUS affects circular RNA expression in murine embryonic stem cell-derived motor neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature communications 2017-03-30 Lewy body dementia

    The RNA-binding protein FUS participates in several RNA biosynthetic processes and has been linked to the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

  16. A novel dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonist alleviates cognitive decline by re-sensitizing insulin signaling in the Alzheimer icv. STZ rat model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2017-03-23 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, accompanied by memory loss and cognitive impairments, and there is no effective treatment for it at present.

  17. Astrocytes and apolipoprotein E (apoE) play critical roles in cognitive function, not only under physiological conditions but also in some pathological situations, particularly in the pathological progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. SAMP8 mice as a neuropathological model of accelerated brain aging and dementia: Toshio Takeda's legacy and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology 2017-03-06 Inflammation and the immune system

    Senescence accelerated mice P8 (SAMP8) show significant age-related deteriorations in memory and learning ability in accordance with early onset and rapid advancement of senescence.

  19. The role of NLRP3-CASP1 in inflammasome-mediated neuroinflammation and autophagy dysfunction in manganese-induced, hippocampal-dependent impairment of learning and memory ability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Autophagy 2017-02-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    Central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and autophagy dysfunction are known to be involved in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases.

  20. Targeting the HDAC2/HNF-4A/miR-101b/AMPK Pathway Rescues Tauopathy and Dendritic Abnormalities in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2017-02-13 Disease mechanisms

    Histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) plays a major role in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression.

  21. Focal Solute Trapping and Global Glymphatic Pathway Impairment in a Murine Model of Multiple Microinfarcts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-02-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microinfarcts occur commonly in the aging brain as a consequence of diffuse embolic events and are associated with the development of vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

  22. α-synuclein toxicity in neurodegeneration: mechanism and therapeutic strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature medicine 2017-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alterations in α-synuclein dosage lead to familial Parkinson's disease (PD), and its accumulation results in synucleinopathies that include PD, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA).

  23. Opposing effects of progranulin deficiency on amyloid and tau pathologies via microglial TYROBP network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2017-01-09 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Progranulin (PGRN) is implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  24. AutoDock and AutoDockTools for Protein-Ligand Docking: Beta-Site Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleaving Enzyme 1(BACE1) as a Case Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2017-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Computational docking and scoring techniques have revolutionized structural bioinformatics by providing unprecedented insights on key aspects of ligand-receptor interaction.

  25. Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Nature 2017-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    This study investigated a subtype of reactive astrocytes called A1 and discovered that they are induced by classically activated neuroinflammatory microglia.

  26. TNF-α Differentially Regulates Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus and Spinal Cord by Microglia-Dependent Mechanisms after Peripheral Nerve Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Here, we show that the dendrite lengths and spine densities are reduced significantly in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons, but increased in spinal neurokinin-1-positive neurons in mice after SNI, indicating that the excitatory synaptic connectivity is reduced in hippocampus but enhanced in spinal dorsal horn in this neuropathic pain model.

  27. Chicoric acid supplementation prevents systemic inflammation-induced memory impairment and amyloidogenesis via inhibition of NF-κB

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2016-12-21 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Chicoric acid (CA), a natural phenolic acid extracted from chicory and the echinacea (purple coneflower) plant ( Echinacea purpurea ), has been regarded as a nutraceutical that has powerful antioxidant and antiobesity activities.

  28. Hippocampal T cell infiltration promotes neuroinflammation and cognitive decline in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-11-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the combined presence of amyloid plaques and tau pathology, the latter being correlated with the progression of clinical symptoms.

  29. Autophagy flux in CA1 neurons of Alzheimer hippocampus: Increased induction overburdens failing lysosomes to propel neuritic dystrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Autophagy 2016-11-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Defective autophagy contributes to Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis although evidence is conflicting on whether multiple stages are impaired.

  30. Chronic low-dose-rate ionising radiation affects the hippocampal phosphoproteome in the ApoE-/- Alzheimer's mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Oncotarget 2016-11-01 Biomarkers

    Accruing data indicate that radiation-induced consequences resemble pathologies of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer´s. The aim of this study was to elucidate the effect on hippocampus of chronic low-dose-rate radiation exposure (1 mGy/day or 20 mGy/day) given over 300 days with cumulative doses of 0.3 Gy and 6.0 Gy, respectively.

  31. REAC technology modifies pathological neuroinflammation and motor behaviour in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-10-24 Biomarkers

    The search for new therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer disease (AD) is a major goal in medicine and society, also due to the impressive economic and social costs of this disease.

  32. Calcium dysregulation contributes to neurodegeneration in FTLD patient iPSC-derived neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-10-10 Disease mechanisms

    Mutations in the gene MAPT encoding tau, a microtubules-associated protein, cause a subtype of familial neurodegenerative disorder, known as frontotemporal lobar degeneration tauopathy (FTLD-Tau), which presents with dementia and is characterized by atrophy in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.

  33. The pre-synaptic vesicle protein synaptotagmin is a novel biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-10-03 Disease mechanisms

    Cerebrospinal fluid synaptotagmin-1 is a promising biomarker to monitor synaptic dysfunction and degeneration in Alzheimer's disease that may be useful for clinical diagnosis, to monitor effect on synaptic integrity by novel drug candidates, and to explore pathophysiology directly in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  34. C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats Impair the Assembly, Dynamics, and Function of Membrane-Less Organelles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cell 2016-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Expansion of a hexanucleotide repeat GGGGCC (G 4 C 2 ) in C9ORF72 is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  35. Genetic Restoration of Plasma ApoE Improves Cognition and Partially Restores Synaptic Defects in ApoE-Deficient Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016-09-28 Disease mechanisms

    We found that these brain ApoE knock-out (bEKO) mice had synaptic loss and dysfunction similar to that of ApoE KO mice; however, the bEKO mice did not have the learning and memory impairment observed in ApoE KO mice.

  36. Exosome secretion is a key pathway for clearance of pathological TDP-43

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-09-27 Lewy body dementia

    Cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregation is a pathological hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  37. Decreased synaptic proteins in neuronal exosomes of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2016-09-06 Lewy body dementia

    Synaptic dysfunction occurs early in senile dementias, presumably as a result of decreased levels of functional synaptic proteins as found in autopsied brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  38. HMGB1 and thrombin mediate the blood-brain barrier dysfunction acting as biomarkers of neuroinflammation and progression to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2016-08-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our current studies indicate that thrombin and HMGB1 are causal proximate proinflammatory mediators of BBB dysfunction, while sTM levels may indicate BBB endothelial damage; HMGB1 and sRAGE might serve as clinical biomarkers for progression and/or therapeutic efficacy along the AD spectrum.

  39. Current Evidence for a Role of the Kynurenine Pathway of Tryptophan Metabolism in Multiple Sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2016-08-04 Clinical safety

    The kynurenine pathway (KP) is the major metabolic pathway of the essential amino acid tryptophan (TRP).

  40. Neurotrophic factor small-molecule mimetics mediated neuroregeneration and synaptic repair: emerging therapeutic modality for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2016-07-11 Disease mechanisms

    P021 is a small molecular weight, BBB permeable compound with suitable pharmacokinetics for oral administration, and without adverse effects associated with native CNTF or BDNF molecule.

  41. Noggin Along with a Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Containing Long Motif of Laminin Induces Tyrosine Hydroxylase Gene Expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2016-07-08 Biomarkers

    Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), a rate-limiting step in catecholamine synthesis in which its activity influences Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and IQ of schizophrenia patients, has been studied for a long time.

  42. Rho-associated protein kinase 1 (ROCK1) is increased in Alzheimer's disease and ROCK1 depletion reduces amyloid-β levels in brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2016-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and mitigating amyloid-β (Aβ) levels may serve as a rational therapeutic avenue to slow AD progression.

  43. Sphingosine-1-Phosphate (S1P) and S1P Signaling Pathway: Therapeutic Targets in Autoimmunity and Inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Drugs 2016-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and S1P receptors (S1PR) are ubiquitously expressed.

  44. The inhibition of TDP-43 mitochondrial localization blocks its neuronal toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 2016-06-27 Lewy body dementia

    Genetic mutations in TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TARDBP, also known as TDP-43) cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and an increase in the presence of TDP-43 (encoded by TARDBP) in the cytoplasm is a prominent histopathological feature of degenerating neurons in various neurodegenerative diseases.

  45. Increases of SET level and translocation are correlated with tau hyperphosphorylation at ser202/thr205 in CA1 of Ts65Dn mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2016-06-23 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    SET is a multifunctional protein, but when present in the cytoplasm, acts as a powerful inhibitor of phosphatase 2A. We previously observed that in CA1 of Down syndrome (DS) patients, the level of SET is increased, and SET is translocated to the cytoplasm and associated with the hyperphosphorylation of tau at ser202/thr205.

  46. The C9orf72 protein interacts with Rab1a and the ULK1 complex to regulate initiation of autophagy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2016-06-22 Lewy body dementia

    A GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (C9ALS/FTD).

  47. Physiological functions and pathobiology of TDP-43 and FUS/TLS proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2016-06-15 Lewy body dementia

    The multiple roles played by RNA binding proteins in neurodegeneration have become apparent following the discovery of TAR DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43) and fused in sarcoma/translocated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS) involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar dementia.

  48. Human TBK1: A Gatekeeper of Neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2016-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The importance of TANK binding kinase-1 (TBK1), a multimeric kinase that modulates inflammation and autophagy, in human health has been highlighted for the first time by the recent discoveries of mutations in TBK1 that underlie amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), normal tension glaucoma (NTG) or childhood herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE).

  49. Orexin-A is Associated with Increases in Cerebrospinal Fluid Phosphorylated-Tau in Cognitively Normal Elderly Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Sleep 2016-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Study objectives To evaluate the role of orexin-A with respect to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers, and explore its relationship to cognition and sleep characteristics in a group of cognitively normal elderly individuals.

  50. Longitudinal noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging of brain microhemorrhages in BACE inhibitor-treated APP transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2016-05-17 Drug development

    Currently, several immunotherapies and BACE (Beta Site APP Cleaving Enzyme) inhibitor approaches are being tested in the clinic for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

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