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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. Gain and loss of function of ALS-related mutations of TARDBP (TDP-43) cause motor deficits in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2009-12-03 Lewy body dementia

    TDP-43 has been found in inclusion bodies of multiple neurological disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

  2. Valosin-containing protein (VCP) is required for autophagy and is disrupted in VCP disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2009-12-01 Lewy body dementia

    Mutations in valosin-containing protein (VCP) cause inclusion body myopathy (IBM), Paget's disease of the bone, and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD).

  3. Knockdown of transactive response DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) downregulates histone deacetylase 6

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2009-11-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    TDP-43 is an RNA/DNA-binding protein implicated in transcriptional repression and mRNA processing.

  4. NSAIDs prevent, but do not reverse, neuronal cell cycle reentry in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2009-11-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Ectopic cell cycle events (CCEs) mark vulnerable neuronal populations in human Alzheimer disease (AD) and are observed early in disease progression.

  5. Exogenous alpha-synuclein fibrils seed the formation of Lewy body-like intracellular inclusions in cultured cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-11-05 Lewy body dementia

    Cytoplasmic inclusions containing alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn) fibrils, referred to as Lewy bodies (LBs), are the signature neuropathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD).

  6. Preclinical properties of 18F-AV-45: a PET agent for Abeta plaques in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2009-10-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Unlabelled beta-amyloid plaques (Abeta plaques) in the brain, containing predominantly fibrillary Abeta peptide aggregates, represent a defining pathologic feature of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  7. TDP-43 mutant transgenic mice develop features 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 2009-10-15 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are neurodegenerative diseases that show considerable clinical and pathologic overlap, with no effective treatments available.

  8. Activated actin-depolymerizing factor/cofilin sequesters phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein during the assembly of alzheimer-like neuritic cytoskeletal striations

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

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), rod-like cofilin aggregates (cofilin-actin rods) and thread-like inclusions containing phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein (pMAP) tau form in the brain (neuropil threads), and the extent of their presence correlates with cognitive decline and disease progression.

  9. Beclin 1 gene transfer activates autophagy and ameliorates the neurodegenerative pathology in alpha-synuclein models of Parkinson's and Lewy body diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Accumulation of the synaptic protein alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Lewy body disease (LBD), a heterogeneous group of disorders with dementia and parkinsonism, where Alzheimer's disease and PD interact.

  10. TDP-43 is recruited to stress granules in conditions of oxidative insult

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2009-09-16 Lewy body dementia

    Transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) forms abnormal ubiquitinated and phosphorylated inclusions in brain tissues from patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  11. Reelin signaling antagonizes beta-amyloid at the synapse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-09-02 Genetics

    Abnormal processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaque accumulation are defining features of Alzheimer disease (AD), a genetically complex neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by progressive synapse loss and neuronal cell death.

  12. Caloric restriction attenuates amyloid deposition in middle-aged dtg APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2009-08-20 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Caloric restriction (CR) mitigates neurological damage arising from aging and a variety of other sources, including neuropathology in young adult mice that express single and double transgenic (tg) mutations associated with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  13. Inclusion formation and neuronal cell death through neuron-to-neuron transmission of alpha-synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-07-27 Lewy body dementia

    Neuronal accumulation of alpha-synuclein and Lewy body formation are characteristic to many neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease (PD).

  14. Neural stem cells improve cognition via BDNF in a transgenic model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-07-24 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation represents an unexplored approach for treating neurodegenerative disorders associated with cognitive decline such as Alzheimer disease (AD).

  15. Astrocytes produce the antiinflammatory and neuroprotective agent hydrogen sulfide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2009-07-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is an essential physiological product in brain.

  16. TDP-43 is intrinsically aggregation-prone, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked mutations accelerate aggregation and increase toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-05-22 Lewy body dementia

    Non-amyloid, ubiquitinated cytoplasmic inclusions containing TDP-43 and its C-terminal fragments are pathological hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal motor neuron disorder, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U).

  17. A peptidyl-prolyl isomerase, FKBP12, accumulates in Alzheimer neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2009-05-03 Biomarkers

    We investigated a possible role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) for FKBP12, a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase known to be important in protein assembly, folding and transportation by using Western blotting and microscopic analyses in postmortem brain tissues from elderly controls and the patients with AD.

  18. Amyloid beta interaction with receptor for advanced glycation end products up-regulates brain endothelial CCR5 expression and promotes T cells crossing the blood-brain barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2009-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    How circulating T cells infiltrate into the brain in Alzheimer disease (AD) remains unclear.

  19. Differential gene expression in LPS/IFNgamma activated microglia and macrophages: in vitro versus in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2009-05-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Two different macrophage populations contribute to CNS neuroinflammation: CNS-resident microglia and CNS-infiltrating peripheral macrophages.

  20. The common inhalational anesthetic sevoflurane induces apoptosis and increases beta-amyloid protein levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Subjects Naive mice, H4 human neuroglioma cells, and H4 human neuroglioma cells stably transfected to express full-length amyloid precursor protein.

  21. Insulin receptor dysfunction impairs cellular clearance of neurotoxic oligomeric a{beta}

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-04-30 Disease mechanisms

    Accumulation of amyloid beta (Abeta) oligomers in the brain is toxic to synapses and may play an important role in memory loss in Alzheimer disease.

  22. CCR5 deficiency induces astrocyte activation, Abeta deposit and impaired memory function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurobiology of learning and memory 2009-04-24 Biomarkers

    Activation of astrocytes has been known to be associated with amyloid-beta (Abeta) deposit and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines that lead to neuronal cell death in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  23. Aberrant cleavage of TDP-43 enhances aggregation and cellular toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-04-21 Lewy body dementia

    Inclusions of TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43), a nuclear protein that regulates transcription and RNA splicing, are the defining histopathological feature of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-Us) and sporadic and familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  24. Cyclophilin D deficiency improves mitochondrial function and learning/memory in aging Alzheimer disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2009-04-11 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mitochondrial stress is one of the early features of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  25. Activation of microglia by amyloid {beta} requires P2X7 receptor expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2009-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Extracellular ATP is a mediator of intercellular communication and a danger signal.

  26. Variant BDNF Val66Met polymorphism affects extinction of conditioned aversive memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays important roles in activity-dependent plasticity processes, such as long-term potentiation, learning, and memory.

  27. Albumin nanoparticles targeted with Apo E enter the CNS by transcytosis and are delivered to neurones

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society 2009-03-11 Genetics

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) represents a considerable obstacle to brain entry of the majority of drugs and thus severely restricts the therapy of many serious CNS diseases including brain tumours, brain HIV, Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative diseases.

  28. Hyperhomocysteinemia increases beta-amyloid by enhancing expression of gamma-secretase and phosphorylation of amyloid precursor protein in rat brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2009-03-05 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Hyperhomocysteinemia and beta-amyloid (Abeta) overproduction are critical etiological and pathological factors in Alzheimer disease, respectively; however, the intrinsic link between them is still missing.

  29. Mitochondrial ATP-synthase in the entorhinal cortex is a target of oxidative stress at stages I/II of Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2009-02-27 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  30. Mutations in FUS, an RNA Processing Protein, Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 6

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Science 2009-02-26 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that is familial in 10% of cases.

  31. {beta}-Amyloid impairs AMPA receptor trafficking and function by reducing Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II synaptic distribution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-02-24 Risk genes beyond APOE

    A fundamental feature of Alzheimer disease (AD) is the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Abeta), a peptide generated from the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  32. Alpha-synuclein is part of a diverse and highly conserved interaction network that includes PARK9 and manganese toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature genetics 2009-02-01 Risk factors

    Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy, collectively referred to as synucleinopathies, are associated with a diverse group of genetic and environmental susceptibilities.

  33. Synchronous hyperactivity and intercellular calcium waves in astrocytes in Alzheimer mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2009-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Although senile plaques focally disrupt neuronal health, the functional response of astrocytes to Alzheimer's disease pathology is unknown.

  34. Expression of TDP-43 C-terminal Fragments in Vitro Recapitulates Pathological Features of TDP-43 Proteinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-01-21 Lewy body dementia

    The disease protein in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was identified recently as the TDP-43 (TAR DNA-binding protein 43), thereby providing a molecular link between these two disorders.

  35. Netrin-1 interacts with amyloid precursor protein and regulates amyloid-beta production

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Cell death and differentiation 2009-01-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is an orphan transmembrane receptor whose physiological role is largely unknown.

  36. Stimulation of neurogenesis and synaptogenesis by bilobalide and quercetin via common final pathway in hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2009-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Loss of synapses has been correlated with dementia in Alzheimer's disease (AD) as an early event during the disease progression.

  37. Antiamnesic and neuroprotective effects of the aminotetrahydrofuran derivative ANAVEX1-41 against amyloid beta(25-35)-induced toxicity in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2008-12-03 Biomarkers

    The antiamnesic and neuroprotective activities of the new aminotetrahydrofuran derivative tetrahydro-N,N-dimethyl-5,5-diphenyl-3-furanmethanamine hydrochloride (ANAVEX1-41), a nonselective muscarinic receptor ligand and sigma1 protein activator, were examined in mice injected intracerebroventricularly with amyloid beta(25-35) (Abeta(25-35)) peptide (9 nmol).

  38. Colocalization of transactivation-responsive DNA-binding protein 43 and huntingtin in inclusions of Huntington disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2008-12-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Transactivation-responsive DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a component of pathological inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and several forms of sporadic and familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  39. Two endoplasmic reticulum (ER)/ER Golgi intermediate compartment-based lysine acetyltransferases post-translationally regulate BACE1 levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-11-14 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We have recently identified a novel form of post-translational regulation of BACE1 (beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1), a membrane protein that acts as the rate-limiting enzyme in the generation of the Alzheimer disease amyloid beta-peptide.

  40. Structural determinants of the cellular localization and shuttling of TDP-43

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of cell science 2008-10-28 Lewy body dementia

    TDP-43 (also known as TARDBP) regulates different processes of gene expression, including transcription and splicing, through RNA and DNA binding.

  41. Receptor for advanced glycation end products is subjected to protein ectodomain shedding by metalloproteinases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-10-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a 55-kDa type I membrane glycoprotein of the immunoglobulin superfamily.

  42. TDP-43 accumulation in inclusion body myopathy muscle suggests a common pathogenic mechanism with frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2008-10-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) is found in ubiquitinated inclusions (UBIs) in some frontotemporal dementias (FTD-U).

  43. Glutaminyl cyclase inhibition attenuates pyroglutamate Abeta and Alzheimer's disease-like pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature medicine 2008-09-28 Caregiving

    Because of their abundance, resistance to proteolysis, rapid aggregation and neurotoxicity, N-terminally truncated and, in particular, pyroglutamate (pE)-modified Abeta peptides have been suggested as being important in the initiation of pathological cascades resulting in the development of Alzheimer's disease.

  44. Amyloid-beta peptide decreases glutamate uptake in cultured astrocytes: involvement of oxidative stress and mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neuroscience 2008-08-22 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily characterized by excessive deposition of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides in the brain.

  45. Common variation in the miR-659 binding-site of GRN is a major risk factor for TDP43-positive frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2008-08-21 Risk factors

    Loss-of-function mutations in progranulin (GRN) cause ubiquitin- and TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43)-positive frontotemporal dementia (FTLD-U), a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 10% of early-onset dementia patients.

  46. PCSK9 is required for the disposal of non-acetylated intermediates of the nascent membrane protein BACE1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EMBO reports 2008-07-25 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We have recently identified a new form of post-translational regulation of BACE1 (beta-site amyloid precursor protein (APP)-cleaving enzyme 1), a membrane protein that acts as the rate-limiting enzyme in the generation of the Alzheimer disease amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta).

  47. Prenatal activation of microglia induces delayed impairment of glutamatergic synaptic function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2008-07-09 Disease mechanisms

    Our results demonstrate that prenatal inflammation is sufficient to induce synaptic alterations with delay.

  48. Etazolate, a neuroprotective drug linking GABA(A) receptor pharmacology to amyloid precursor protein processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2008-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Pharmacological modulation of the GABA(A) receptor has gained increasing attention as a potential treatment for central processes affected in Alzheimer disease (AD), including neuronal survival and cognition.

  49. High cholesterol-induced neuroinflammation and amyloid precursor protein processing correlate with loss of working memory in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2008-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Recent findings suggest that hypercholesterolemia may contribute to the onset of Alzheimer's disease-like dementia but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown.

  50. Phosphorylated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    These results suggest that phosphorylated TDP-43 is a major component of the inclusions, and that abnormal phosphorylation of TDP-43 is a critical step in the pathogenesis of FTLD-U and ALS.

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