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  1. What Do Sugar, Gila Monsters, and the Therapeutic Dance Have in Common With GLP-1RA, Stroke, and Dementia? 2026-09-25
  2. Myo-inositol as a spectroscopic marker of neuroinflammation in frontotemporal lobar degeneration 2026-09-20
  3. Laromestrocel preserves brain volume and cognitive function in Alzheimers disease by inhibiting neuroinflammation 2026-09-17

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. Inhibition of glial inflammatory activation and neurotoxicity by tricyclic antidepressants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2008-06-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Glial activation and neuroinflammatory processes play an important role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and HIV dementia.

  2. Microbial translocation is associated with increased monocyte activation and dementia in AIDS patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2008-06-25 Clinical safety

    Elevated plasma lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an indicator of microbial translocation from the gut, is a likely cause of systemic immune activation in chronic HIV infection.

  3. Enrichment of C-terminal fragments in TAR DNA-binding protein-43 cytoplasmic inclusions in brain but not in spinal cord of frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2008-06-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) has been recently described as a major pathological protein in both frontotemporal dementia with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  4. Effects of docosahexaenoic acid-rich n-3 fatty acid supplementation on cytokine release from blood mononuclear leukocytes: the OmegAD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2008-06-01 Treatments

    AD patients treated with DHA-rich n-3 FAs supplementation increased their plasma concentrations of DHA (and EPA), which were associated with reduced release of IL-1beta, IL-6, and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor from PBMCs.

  5. Clearance and deposition of extracellular alpha-synuclein aggregates in microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2008-05-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    Abnormal deposition of alpha-synuclein in neurons and glia is implicated in many neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies.

  6. Enhanced oxidative stress is an early event during development of Alzheimer-like pathologies in presenilin conditional knock-out mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2008-05-18 Biomarkers

    Conditional double knock-out of presenilin-1 (PS1) and presenilin-2 (PS2) (PS cDKO) in forebrain of mice led to progressive memory dysfunction and forebrain degeneration.

  7. Notch signaling regulates platelet-derived growth factor receptor-beta expression in vascular smooth muscle cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Circulation research 2008-05-15 Vascular contributions

    Notch signaling is critically important for proper architecture of the vascular system, and mutations in NOTCH3 are associated with CADASIL, a stroke and dementia syndrome with vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) dysfunction.

  8. Hydrogen peroxide promotes Abeta production through JNK-dependent activation of gamma-secretase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-04-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Accumulation of senile plaques composed of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD), and Abeta is generated through the sequential cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by beta- and gamma-secretase.

  9. Abnormal TDP-43 immunoreactivity in AD modifies clinicopathologic and radiologic phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2008-04-09 Brain scans and imaging

    The presence of abnormal TDP-43 immunoreactivity is associated with a modified Alzheimer disease clinicopathologic and radiologic phenotype.

  10. Green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) reduces beta-amyloid mediated cognitive impairment and modulates tau pathology in Alzheimer transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain research 2008-04-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We previously reported that intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection (20 mg/kg) of (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the main polyphenolic constituent of green tea, decreased beta-amyloid (Abeta) levels and plaques via promotion of the non-amyloidogenic alpha-secretase proteolytic pathway in "Swedish" mutant amyloid precursor protein overexpressing (APPsw, Tg) mice.

  11. Progranulin functions as a neurotrophic factor to regulate neurite outgrowth and enhance neuronal survival

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2008-03-31 Lewy body dementia

    Recently, mutations in the progranulin (PGRN) gene were found to cause familial and apparently sporadic frontotemporal lobe dementia (FTLD).

  12. Mechanism of ceftriaxone induction of excitatory amino acid transporter-2 expression and glutamate uptake in primary human astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-03-07 Vascular contributions

    Glutamate is an essential neurotransmitter regulating brain functions.

  13. TDP-43 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Science 2008-02-28 Disease mechanisms

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal motor neuron disorder characterized pathologically by ubiquitinated TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43) inclusions.

  14. Disturbance of nuclear and cytoplasmic TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) induces disease-like redistribution, sequestration, and aggregate formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-02-27 Lewy body dementia

    TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is the disease protein in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  15. Expression of Osteoarthritis Marker YKL-39 is Stimulated by Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-beta) and IL-4 in Differentiating Macrophages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Biomarker insights 2008-02-14 Tau biomarkers

    YKL-39 is a Glyco_18 domain containing chitinase-like protein which is currently recognized as a biomarker for the activation of chondrocytes and the progress of the osteoarthritis in human.

  16. Adaptor protein sorting nexin 17 regulates amyloid precursor protein trafficking and processing in the early endosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-02-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Accumulation of extracellular amyloid beta peptide (Abeta), generated from amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing by beta- and gamma-secretases, is toxic to neurons and is central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease.

  17. NFkappaB-dependent control of BACE1 promoter transactivation by Abeta42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-02-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides that accumulate in Alzheimer disease are generated from the beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) by cleavages by beta-secretase BACE1 and by presenilin-dependent gamma-secretase activities.

  18. Suppressive effects of flavonoid fisetin on lipopolysaccharide-induced microglial activation and neurotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International immunopharmacology 2008-01-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia are innate immune cells in the central nervous system.

  19. Elucidation of Abeta-lowering agents that inhibit processing of the wild-type (WT) beta-secretase amyloid precursor protein (APP) site, present in most Alzheimer disease (AD) patients, is a logical approach for improving memory deficit in AD.

  20. Short-term exercise in aged Tg2576 mice alters neuroinflammation and improves cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2008-01-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    Exercise is a treatment paradigm that can ameliorate cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer disease (AD) and AD mouse models.

  21. Selective intracellular release of copper and zinc ions from bis(thiosemicarbazonato) complexes reduces levels of Alzheimer disease amyloid-beta peptide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-12-17 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Copper and zinc play important roles in Alzheimer disease pathology with recent reports describing potential therapeutics based on modulation of metal bioavailability.

  22. Axonal alpha-synuclein aggregates herald centripetal degeneration of cardiac sympathetic nerve in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-12-13 Lewy body dementia

    We previously demonstrated that degeneration of the distal axons of the cardiac sympathetic nerve precedes loss of their mother neurons in the paravertebral sympathetic ganglia, suggesting distal dominant degeneration of the cardiac sympathetic nerve in PD.

  23. Mature astrocytes in the adult human neocortex express the early neuronal marker doublecortin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-12-01 Biomarkers

    Doublecortin (DCX) is a microtubule-associated protein expressed by migrating neuroblasts and is considered to be a reliable marker of neurogenesis.

  24. The Classical Complement Cascade Mediates CNS Synapse Elimination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Cell 2007-12-01 Inflammation and the immune system

  25. An additional human chromosome 21 causes suppression of neural fate of pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells in a teratoma model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. BMC developmental biology 2007-11-29 Biomarkers

    We demonstrate that a supernumerary chromosome 21 causes Inhibition of Neuroectodermal DIfferentiation (INDI) of pluripotent ES cells.

  26. STAT1 signaling modulates HIV-1-induced inflammatory responses and leukocyte transmigration across the blood-brain barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Blood 2007-11-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    The relationship among neuroinflammation, blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction, and progressive HIV-1 infection as they affect the onset and development of neuroAIDS is incompletely understood.

  27. Functional multivesicular bodies are required for autophagic clearance of protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2007-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs) are required to sort integral membrane proteins into intralumenal vesicles of the multivesicular body (MVB).

  28. Corticostriatal synaptic function in mouse models of Huntington's disease: early effects of huntingtin repeat length and protein load

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of physiology 2007-10-18 Disease mechanisms

    Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, late onset, neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor deficits and dementia that is caused by expansion of a CAG repeat in the HD gene.

  29. Intake of sucrose-sweetened water induces insulin resistance and exacerbates memory deficits and amyloidosis in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-10-17 Genetics

    Compelling evidence indicates that excess consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages plays an important role in the epidemic of obesity, a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus.

  30. Paradoxical upregulation of glutamatergic presynaptic boutons during mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Synaptic integrity is now recognized as a central component of Alzheimer's disease.

  31. Adenosine A2A receptors and brain injury: broad spectrum of neuroprotection, multifaceted actions and "fine tuning" modulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2007-09-29 Vascular contributions

    This review summarizes recent developments that have contributed to understand how adenosine receptors, particularly A2A receptors, modulate brain injury in various animal models of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD), stroke, Huntington's disease (HD), multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and HIV-associated dementia.

  32. Repeated social defeat-induced depression-like behavioral and biological alterations in rats: involvement of cholecystokinin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2007-09-25 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cholecystokinin (CCK) involvement in depression-like disorders is poorly documented.

  33. SorLA/LR11 regulates processing of amyloid precursor protein via interaction with adaptors GGA and PACS-1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-09-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    SorLA has been recognized as a novel sorting receptor that regulates trafficking and processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and that represents a significant risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer disease.

  34. Progranulin mediates caspase-dependent cleavage of TAR DNA binding protein-43

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) is the pathologic substrate of neuronal and glial inclusions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTDL-U) and in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  35. ESCRT-III dysfunction causes autophagosome accumulation and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Current biology : CB 2007-08-02 Lewy body dementia

    Defects in the endosomal-lysosomal pathway have been implicated in a number of neurodegenerative disorders.

  36. Immunotherapy targeting pathological tau conformers in a tangle mouse model reduces brain pathology with associated functional improvements

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Immunotherapies for various neurodegenerative diseases have recently emerged as a promising approach for clearing pathological protein conformers in these disorders.

  37. Statins reduce amyloid-beta production through inhibition of protein isoprenylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-07-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Epidemiological evidence suggests that long term treatment with hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitors, or statins, decreases the risk for developing Alzheimer disease (AD).

  38. TDP-43 in familial and sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin inclusions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2007-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a major pathological protein of sporadic and familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions (FTLD-U) with or without motor neuron disease (MND).

  39. Higher frequency of regulatory T cells in the elderly and increased suppressive activity in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroimmunology 2007-06-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    The involvement of regulatory T cells (Treg) in autoimmune-disease development has been demonstrated.

  40. Irreversible motor impairment in young addicts--ephedrone, manganism or both?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2007-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Parkinsonian syndrome related to intravenous use of a "designer" psychostimulant, derived from pseudoephedrine using potassium permanganate as the oxidant, has been observed in drug addicts in Estonia.

  41. Sustained hippocampal IL-1 beta overexpression mediates chronic neuroinflammation and ameliorates Alzheimer plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2007-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation is a conspicuous feature of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology and is thought to contribute to the ultimate neurodegeneration that ensues.

  42. Characterisation and trophic functions of murine embryonic macrophages based upon the use of a Csf1r-EGFP transgene reporter

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Developmental biology 2007-05-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    All solid organs contain resident monocyte-derived cells that appear early in organogenesis and persist throughout life.

  43. TDP-43 immunoreactivity in hippocampal sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2007-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    These results suggest that as many as 20% of AD cases and more than 70% of HpScl cases have pathology similar to that found in FTLD-U. Whether this represents concomitant FTLD-U or is analogous to colocalization of alpha-synuclein and tau in AD, reflecting a propensity for codeposition of abnormal protein conformers, remains to be determined.

  44. Internalized antibodies to the Abeta domain of APP reduce neuronal Abeta and protect against synaptic alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-04-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Immunotherapy against beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) is a leading therapeutic direction for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  45. Dietary docosahexaenoic acid and docosapentaenoic acid ameliorate amyloid-beta and tau pathology via a mechanism involving presenilin 1 levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The underlying cause of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) is unknown, but a number of environmental and genetic factors are likely to be involved.

  46. Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide is associated with schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2007-03-27 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP, ADCYAP1: adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide 1), a neuropeptide with neurotransmission modulating activity, is a promising schizophrenia candidate gene.

  47. FMRP mediates mGluR5-dependent translation of amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. PLoS biology 2007-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid precursor protein (APP) facilitates synapse formation in the developing brain, while beta-amyloid (Abeta) accumulation, which is associated with Alzheimer disease, results in synaptic loss and impaired neurotransmission.

  48. Oligomeric amyloid decreases basal levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA via specific downregulation of BDNF transcripts IV and V in differentiated human neuroblastoma cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a senile dementia characterized by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and synaptic and cell loss.

  49. GSK189254, a novel H3 receptor antagonist that binds to histamine H3 receptors in Alzheimer's disease brain and improves cognitive performance in preclinical models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 2007-02-27 Brain tissue and pathology

    6-[(3-Cyclobutyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-3-benzazepin-7-yl)oxy]-N-methyl-3-pyridinecarboxamide hydrochloride (GSK189254) is a novel histamine H(3) receptor antagonist with high affinity for human (pK(i) = 9.59 -9.90) and rat (pK(i) = 8.51-9.17) H(3) receptors.

  50. Cytoskeleton proteins are modulators of mutant tau-induced neurodegeneration in Drosophila

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2007-02-19 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease and fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), are a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the presence of intraneuronal filamentous inclusions of aberrantly phosphorylated-tau.

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