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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. Phenothiazine-mediated rescue of cognition in tau transgenic mice requires neuroprotection and reduced soluble tau burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2010-11-01 Caregiving

    Neuroprotection alone is not sufficient to rescue tau-induced memory loss in a transgenic mouse model.

  2. Sortilin-mediated endocytosis determines levels of the frontotemporal dementia protein, progranulin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neuron 2010-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Video abstract The most common inherited form of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) known stems from Progranulin (GRN) mutation and exhibits TDP-43 plus ubiquitin aggregates.

  3. Amyloid-beta protein oligomer at low nanomolar concentrations activates microglia and induces microglial neurotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-10-22 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation and associated neuronal dysfunction mediated by activated microglia play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  4. Galantamine-induced amyloid-{beta} clearance mediated via stimulation of microglial nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-10-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Reduction of brain amyloid-β (Aβ) has been proposed as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer disease (AD), and microglial Aβ phagocytosis is noted as an Aβ clearance system in brains.

  5. Tar DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) associates with stress granules: analysis of cultured cells and pathological brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2010-10-11 Lewy body dementia

    Tar DNA Binding Protein-43 (TDP-43) is a principle component of inclusions in many cases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  6. TDP-43 and FUS in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2010-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Abnormal intracellular protein aggregates comprise a key characteristic in most neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  7. Statins promote the degradation of extracellular amyloid {beta}-peptide by microglia via stimulation of exosome-associated insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) secretion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-09-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Epidemiological studies indicate that intake of statins decrease the risk of developing Alzheimer disease.

  8. We found reduced ¹²³I-FP-CIT binding in the striatum (p=0·045) in 17 (40%) of 43 participants compared with 18 controls, and substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in 14 (36%) of 39 participants with IRBD, compared with 16 (11%) of 149 controls (p=0·0002).

  9. Association between the oxytocin receptor gene and amygdalar volume in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2010-09-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The present results suggest that OXTR might be associated with the susceptibility to ASD, especially in its aspects of social interaction and communication mediated by a modulation of amygdala development, one of the most distributed brain regions with high density of OXTR.

  10. Astroglial connexin immunoreactivity is specifically altered at β-amyloid plaques in β-amyloid precursor protein/presenilin1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neuroscience 2010-09-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Activation of astrocytes surrounding amyloid plaques is a hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD) with consequences yet poorly understood.

  11. TDP-43 proteinopathy and motor neuron disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2010-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    Epidemiological evidence suggests that the incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is increased in association with head injury.

  12. The cholesterol transporter ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) moves lipids onto apolipoproteins including apolipoprotein E (apoE), which is the major cholesterol carrier in the brain and an established genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  13. Wild-type human TDP-43 expression causes TDP-43 phosphorylation, mitochondrial aggregation, motor deficits, and early mortality in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Transactivation response DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a principal component of ubiquitinated inclusions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions and in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  14. Behavioral deficits and progressive neuropathology in progranulin-deficient mice: a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2010-07-28 Inflammation and the immune system

    Progranulin haploinsufficiency causes frontotemporal dementia with tau-negative, ubiquitin-positive neuronal inclusion pathology.

  15. A high-fat diet impairs neurogenesis: involvement of lipid peroxidation and brain-derived neurotrophic factor

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2010-07-27 Risk factors

    Obesity is a growing global health problem that contributes to diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, and cancer.

  16. AGEs/RAGE complex upregulates BACE1 via NF-κB pathway activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-07-17 Disease mechanisms

    Although the pathogenesis of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) is not clearly understood, it is likely dependent on several age-related factors.

  17. ALS-associated fused in sarcoma (FUS) mutations disrupt Transportin-mediated nuclear import

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2010-07-06 Lewy body dementia

    Mutations in fused in sarcoma (FUS) are a cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (fALS).

  18. Alpha-synuclein stimulation of astrocytes: Potential role for neuroinflammation and neuroprotection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2010-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Selective loss of neurons, abnormal protein deposition and neuroinflammation are the common pathological features of neurodegenerative diseases, and these features are closely related to one another.

  19. Calpain activation promotes BACE1 expression, amyloid precursor protein processing, and amyloid plaque formation in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Abnormal activation of calpain is implicated in synaptic dysfunction and participates in neuronal death in Alzheimer disease (AD) and other neurological disorders.

  20. Microglial immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation and inhibition motif signaling in neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2010-06-22 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Elimination of extracellular aggregates and apoptotic neural membranes without inflammation is crucial for brain tissue homeostasis.

  21. Neurotoxic effects of TDP-43 overexpression in C. elegans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2010-06-08 Brain tissue and pathology

    RNA-binding protein TDP-43 has been associated with multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar dementia.

  22. Anesthetic sevoflurane causes neurotoxicity differently in neonatal naïve and Alzheimer disease transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2010-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent studies have suggested that children undergoing surgery under anesthesia could be at an increased risk for the development of learning disabilities, but whether anesthetics contribute to this learning disability is unclear.

  23. TDP-43 mediates degeneration in a novel Drosophila model of disease caused by mutations in VCP/p97

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget's disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD) is a dominantly inherited degenerative disorder caused by mutations in the valosin-containing protein (VCP7) gene.

  24. Phosphorylated TDP-43 pathology and hippocampal sclerosis in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-05-30 Disease mechanisms

    TDP-43 is characteristically accumulated in TDP-43 proteinopathies such as frontotemporal lobar degeneration and motor neurone disease, but is also present in some tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, argyrophilic grain disease, and corticobasal degeneration (CBD).

  25. Trehalose ameliorates dopaminergic and tau pathology in parkin deleted/tau overexpressing mice through autophagy activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2010-05-28 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases, sporadic or familial, mainly characterized by dementia and parkinsonism associated to atrophy of the frontotemporal cortex and the basal ganglia, with deposition of abnormal tau in brain.

  26. Homodimerization is essential for the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE)-mediated signal transduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-05-26 Disease mechanisms

    The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a pattern-recognition receptor that binds to diverse ligands and initiates a downstream proinflammatory signaling cascade.

  27. Ubiquitin regulates GGA3-mediated degradation of BACE1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-05-18 Risk genes beyond APOE

    BACE1 (beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1) is a membrane-tethered member of the aspartyl proteases, essential for the production of beta-amyloid, a toxic peptide that accumulates in the brain of subjects affected by Alzheimer disease.

  28. Epidemiological studies suggest that statins (hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitors) could reduce the risk of Alzheimer disease.

  29. Genome-wide analysis of miRNA expression reveals a potential role for miR-144 in brain aging and spinocerebellar ataxia pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-05-06 Genetics

    Neurodegenerative pathologies associated with aging exhibit clinical and morphological features that are relatively specific to humans.

  30. Genetic targeting aromatase in male amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice down-regulates beta-secretase (BACE1) and prevents Alzheimer-like pathology and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    As brain testosterone plays both androgenic and estrogenic actions due to its conversion into estrogen via aromatase naturally, it is unclear that the age-related reduction of testosterone increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in men is mediated through androgen alone or both androgen and estrogen mechanisms.

  31. Astrocytic expression of Parkinson's disease-related A53T alpha-synuclein causes neurodegeneration in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular brain 2010-04-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common movement disorder.

  32. MicroRNA-101 regulates amyloid precursor protein expression in hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-04-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The amyloid precursor protein (APP) and its proteolytic product amyloid beta (Abeta) are associated with both familial and sporadic forms of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  33. TDP-43 and FUS/TLS: emerging roles in RNA processing and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2010-04-15 Lewy body dementia

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are neurodegenerative diseases with clinical and pathological overlap.

  34. Caspase activation precedes and leads to tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature 2010-03-31 Lewy body dementia

    Studies of post-mortem tissue have shown that the location of fibrillar tau deposits, called neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), matches closely with regions of massive neuronal death, severe cytological abnormalities, and markers of caspase activation and apoptosis, leading to the idea that tangles cause neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and tau-related frontotemporal dementia.

  35. Altered glial-neuronal crosstalk: cornerstone in the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2010-03-27 Biomarkers

    Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neuropsychiatric complication of liver failure, characterized neuropathologically by astrocyte swelling, microglial activation and Alzheimer Type II astrocytosis.

  36. TAR DNA-binding protein 43 in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2010-03-16 Lewy body dementia

    In 2006, TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), a highly conserved nuclear protein, was identified as the major disease protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and in the most common variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), FTLD-U, which is characterized by cytoplasmic inclusions that stain positive for ubiquitin but negative for tau and alpha-synuclein.

  37. Depletion of GSH in glial cells induces neurotoxicity: relevance to aging and degenerative neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2010-03-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Oxidative stress induced by inhibition of glutathione (GSH) biosynthesis with D,L-buthionine-S,R-sulfoximine (BSO) causes human microglia, human astrocytes, THP-1 cells, and U373 cells to secrete materials toxic to human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells and stimulates them to release TNF-alpha, IL-6, and nitrite ions.

  38. The role of exercise-induced myokines in muscle homeostasis and the defense against chronic diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology 2010-03-09 Risk factors

    Chronic inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, neurodegeneration, and tumour growth.

  39. VCP/p97 is essential for maturation of ubiquitin-containing autophagosomes and this function is impaired by mutations that cause IBMPFD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Autophagy 2010-02-22 Lewy body dementia

    VCP (VCP/p97) is a ubiquitously expressed member of the AAA(+)-ATPase family of chaperone-like proteins that regulates numerous cellular processes including chromatin decondensation, homotypic membrane fusion and ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation by the proteasome.

  40. Selective molecular alterations in the autophagy pathway in patients with Lewy body disease and in models of alpha-synucleinopathy

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PloS one 2010-02-19 Lewy body dementia

    This study supports the notion that defects in the autophagy pathway and more specifically in mTor and Atg7 are associated with neurodegeneration in DLB cases and alpha-synuclein transgenic models and supports the possibility that modulators of the autophagy pathway might have potential therapeutic effects.

  41. Histone deacetylase inhibitor valproic acid inhibits cancer cell proliferation via down-regulation of the alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-02-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) represents a type I transmembrane glycoprotein that is ubiquitously expressed.

  42. TDP-43 transgenic mice develop spastic paralysis and neuronal inclusions characteristic of ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-02-03 Lewy body dementia

    Neuronal cytoplasmic and intranuclear aggregates of RNA-binding protein TDP-43 are a hallmark feature of neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  43. Global analysis of TDP-43 interacting proteins reveals strong association with RNA splicing and translation machinery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of proteome research 2010-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    TDP-43 is a highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed member of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) family of proteins.

  44. Overexpression of human S100B exacerbates cerebral amyloidosis and gliosis in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Glia 2010-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common progressive dementia and is pathologically characterized by brain deposition of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide as senile plaques.

  45. A Drosophila model for TDP-43 proteinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-01-26 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neuropathology involving TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) has been identified in a wide spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases collectively named as TDP-43 proteinopathy, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD).

  46. Cytoplasmic mislocalization of TDP-43 is toxic to neurons and enhanced by a mutation associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    Mutations in the gene encoding TDP-43-the major protein component of neuronal aggregates characteristic of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with ubiquitin-positive inclusion bodies-have been linked to familial forms of both disorders.

  47. Insulin-resistant brain state after intracerebroventricular streptozotocin injection exacerbates Alzheimer-like changes in Tg2576 AbetaPP-overexpressing mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    For studying rare hereditary Alzheimer's disease (AD), transgenic (Tg) animal models overexpressing amyloid-beta protein precursor (AbetaPP) followed by increased amyloid-beta (Abeta) formation are used.

  48. TDP-43 is a developmentally regulated protein essential for early embryonic development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-12-29 Lewy body dementia

    TDP-43 is a DNA/RNA-binding protein implicated in multiple steps of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

  49. Inhibition of calcineurin-mediated endocytosis and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors prevents amyloid beta oligomer-induced synaptic disruption

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-12-23 Disease mechanisms

    Synaptic degeneration, including impairment of synaptic plasticity and loss of synapses, is an important feature of Alzheimer disease pathogenesis.

  50. Exaggerated inflammation, impaired host defense, and neuropathology in progranulin-deficient mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2009-12-21 Lewy body dementia

    Progranulin (PGRN) is a widely expressed protein involved in diverse biological processes.

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