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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. Biomagnification of cyanobacterial neurotoxins and neurodegenerative disease among the Chamorro people of Guam

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-11-01 How common it is

    We here report biomagnification (the increasing accumulation of bioactive, often deleterious molecules through higher trophic levels of a food chain) of the neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) in the Guam ecosystem.

  2. Astrocyte infection by HIV-1: mechanisms of restricted virus replication, and role in the pathogenesis of HIV-1-associated dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current HIV research 2003-10-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Astrocytes are the most numerous cell type in the brain, and their physiological roles are essential for normal brain function.

  3. Tissue-specific expression patterns of the RAGE receptor and its soluble forms--a result of regulated alternative splicing?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2003-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is known to be causally involved in a variety of pathophysiological processes, e.g. immune/inflammatory disorders, Alzheimer disease, tumors, and abnormalities associated with diabetes as arteriosclerosis or disordered wound healing.

  4. Synaptic transport of human immunodeficiency virus-Tat protein causes neurotoxicity and gliosis in rat brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegeneration, synaptic alterations, and gliosis are prominent features of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) encephalitis, but HIV encephalitis is distinct from other viral encephalitides because neurodegeneration occurs in uninfected neurons at anatomical sites that are often distant from the site of viral replication.

  5. The intracellular domain of the low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein modulates transactivation mediated by amyloid precursor protein and Fe65

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2003-07-29 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Low density lipoprotein-related protein (LRP) is a transmembrane receptor, localized mainly in hepatocytes, fibroblasts, and neurons.

  6. RAGE mediates amyloid-beta peptide transport across the blood-brain barrier and accumulation in brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2003-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) interacts with the vasculature to influence Abeta levels in the brain and cerebral blood flow, providing a means of amplifying the Abeta-induced cellular stress underlying neuronal dysfunction and dementia.

  7. The amyloid precursor protein and its regulatory protein, FE65, in growth cones and synapses in vitro and in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although the Alzheimer amyloid protein precursor (APP) has been studied intensely for more than a decade, its function in neurons is unresolved.

  8. Translational control of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression by arginine can explain the arginine paradox

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-03-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    L-Arginine is the only endogenous nitrogen-containing substrate of NO synthase (NOS), and it thus governs the production of NO during nervous system development as well as in disease states such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and HIV dementia.

  9. Insulin-degrading enzyme regulates the levels of insulin, amyloid β-protein, and the β-amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2003-03-12 Disease mechanisms

    Two substrates of insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE), amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) and insulin, are critically important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), respectively.

  10. Adult mouse astrocytes degrade amyloid-β in vitro and in situ

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2003-03-03 Disease mechanisms

  11. Interleukin-1 mediates pathological effects of microglia on tau phosphorylation and on synaptophysin synthesis in cortical neurons through a p38-MAPK pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The presence of tangles of abnormally phosphorylated tau is a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the loss of synapses correlates with the degree of dementia.

  12. Quinolinic acid upregulates chemokine production and chemokine receptor expression in astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Glia 2003-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Within the brain, quinolinic acid (QUIN) is an important neurotoxin, especially in AIDS dementia complex (ADC).

  13. Insights into glutamate transport regulation in human astrocytes: cloning of the promoter for excitatory amino acid transporter 2 (EAAT2)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-02-10 Vascular contributions

    Glutamate transport is central to neurotransmitter functions in the brain.

  14. Intracellular human immunodeficiency virus Tat expression in astrocytes promotes astrocyte survival but induces potent neurotoxicity at distant sites via axonal transport

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2003-01-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-Tat protein has been implicated in the neuropathogenesis of HIV infection.

  15. Neuregulin-1 and erbB4 immunoreactivity is associated with neuritic plaques in Alzheimer disease brain and in a transgenic model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2003-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) regulates developmental neuronal survival and synaptogenesis, astrocytic differentiation, and microglial activation.

  16. The neurodegeneration mutant löchrig interferes with cholesterol homeostasis and Appl processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2002-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The novel Drosophila mutant löchrig (loe) shows progressive neurodegeneration and neuronal cell death, in addition to a low level of cholesterol ester. loe affects a specific isoform of the gamma-subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a negative regulator of hydroxymethylglutaryl (HMG)-CoA reductase and cholesterol synthesis in vertebrates.

  17. Neuroanatomical distribution of CXCR4 in adult rat brain and its localization in cholinergic and dopaminergic neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2002-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Accumulating evidence supports a role of chemokines and their receptors in brain function.

  18. Human brain parenchymal microglia express CD14 and CD45 and are productively infected by HIV-1 in HIV-1 encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2002-10-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia are endogenous brain macrophages that show distinct phenotypes such as expression of myeloid antigens, ramified morphology, and presence within the neural parenchyma.

  19. Impairment of cholinergic neurotransmission in adult and aged transgenic Tg2576 mouse brain expressing the Swedish mutation of human beta-amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain research 2002-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    To address the question of whether beta-amyloid peptides also affect cholinergic neurotransmission in vivo, brain tissue from transgenic Tg2576 mice with Alzheimer plaque pathology at ages ranging from 7 to 24 months were examined by immuno- and histochemical staining for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and acetycholinesterase (AChE), by assaying cholinergic enzyme activities and high-affinity choline uptake as well muscarinic and nicotinic cholinergic receptor binding levels by quantitative autoradiography.

  20. The role of macrophage/microglia and astrocytes in the pathogenesis of three neurologic disorders: HIV-associated dementia, Alzheimer disease, and multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2002-10-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Macrophage/microglia (M phi) are the principal immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) concomitant with inflammatory brain disease and play a significant role in the host defense against invading microorganisms.

  21. Imaging Abeta plaques in living transgenic mice with multiphoton microscopy and methoxy-X04, a systemically administered Congo red derivative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The identification of amyloid deposits in living Alzheimer disease (AD) patients is important for both early diagnosis and for monitoring the efficacy of newly developed anti-amyloid therapies.

  22. Reelin and ApoE receptors cooperate to enhance hippocampal synaptic plasticity and learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2002-08-07 Genetics

    Two apolipoprotein E (apoE) receptors, the very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) receptor and apoE receptor 2 (apoER2), are also receptors for Reelin, a signaling protein that regulates neuronal migration during brain development.

  23. Involvement of cyclic GMP and protein kinase G in the regulation of apoptosis and survival in neural cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuro-Signals 2002-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Our current understanding of nitric oxide (NO), cyclic GMP (cGMP) and protein kinase G (PKG) signaling pathways in the nervous systems has its origins in the early studies conducted on vascular tissues during the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. The pioneering research into the NO/cGMP/PKG pathway in blood vessels conducted by the laboratories of Drs.

  24. Differential neuropathological alterations in transgenic mice expressing alpha-synuclein from the platelet-derived growth factor and Thy-1 promoters

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2002-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    Accumulation of alpha-synuclein has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Lewy body disease and multiple system atrophy.

  25. The DSCR1 (Adapt78) isoform 1 protein calcipressin 1 inhibits calcineurin and protects against acute calcium-mediated stress damage, including transient oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2002-06-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Although DSCR1 (Adapt78) has been associated with successful adaptation to oxidative stress and calcium stress and with devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Down syndrome, no rationale for these apparently contradictory findings has been tested.

  26. Neurodegeneration and dementia are common complications of AIDS caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection of the central nervous system.

  27. Role of nitric oxide in inflammation-mediated neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2002-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Increasing evidence has suggested that inflammation in the brain is closely associated with the pathogenesis of several degenerative neurologic disorders, including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's diseases, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and AIDS dementia.

  28. Naturally secreted oligomers of amyloid β protein potently inhibit hippocampal long-term potentiation in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature 2002-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    This study examined how natural oligomers of human amyloid beta protein are formed, secreted, and affect synaptic function.

  29. Microglial activation and beta -amyloid deposit reduction caused by a nitric oxide-releasing nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in amyloid precursor protein plus presenilin-1 transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    3-4-(2-Fluoro-alpha-methyl-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4-acetyloxy)-3-methoxyphenyl]-2-propenoic acid 4-nitrooxy butyl ester (NCX-2216), a nitric oxide (NO)-releasing derivative of the cyclooxygenase-1-preferring nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) flurbiprofen, dramatically reduced both beta-amyloid (Abeta) loads and Congo red staining in doubly transgenic (Tg) amyloid precursor protein plus presenilin-1 mice when administered at 375 ppm in diet between 7 and 12 months of age.

  30. Substance P receptor antagonist and clomipramine prevent stress-induced alterations in cerebral metabolites, cytogenesis in the dentate gyrus and hippocampal volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2002-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The neuropeptide substance P and its receptor, the neurokinin 1 receptor (NK(1)R) have been proposed as possible targets for new antidepressant therapies.

  31. CNS invasion by CD14+/CD16+ peripheral blood-derived monocytes in HIV dementia: perivascular accumulation and reservoir of HIV infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 2001-12-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Increases in circulating CD14+/CD16+ monocytes have been associated with HIV dementia; trafficking of these cells into the CNS has been proposed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of HIV-induced neurological disorders.

  32. Molecular basis of neuroprotective activities of rasagiline and the anti-Alzheimer drug TV3326 [(N-propargyl-(3R)aminoindan-5-YL)-ethyl methyl carbamate]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2001-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Rasagiline (N-propargyl-1-(R)-aminoindan) is a selective, irreversible monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) inhibitor which has been developed as an anti-Parkinson drug.

  33. Macrophage tropism of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates from brain and lymphoid tissues predicts neurotropism independent of coreceptor specificity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of virology 2001-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The viral determinants that underlie human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) neurotropism are unknown, due in part to limited studies on viruses isolated from brain.

  34. The curry spice curcumin reduces oxidative damage and amyloid pathology in an Alzheimer transgenic mouse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2001-11-01 Biomarkers

    Inflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients is characterized by increased cytokines and activated microglia.

  35. A DAP12-mediated pathway regulates expression of CC chemokine receptor 7 and maturation of human dendritic cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2001-10-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Gene targeting of the adaptor molecule DAP12 in mice caused abnormal distribution and impaired antigen presentation capacity of dendritic cells (DCs).

  36. Familial frontotemporal dementia with ubiquitin-positive inclusions is linked to chromosome 17q21-22

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2001-10-01 Digital health tools

    Hereditary frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that is associated with mutations in the tau gene and with the pathological accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein in affected brain cells in about a quarter of cases.

  37. Parkin ubiquitinates the alpha-synuclein-interacting protein, synphilin-1: implications for Lewy-body formation in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature medicine 2001-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Parkinson disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons and the presence of intracytoplasmic-ubiquitinated inclusions (Lewy bodies).

  38. beta-amyloid peptides enhance alpha-synuclein accumulation and neuronal deficits in a transgenic mouse model linking Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001-09-25 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are associated with the cerebral accumulation of beta-amyloid and alpha-synuclein, respectively.

  39. Neuronal and glial coexpression of argininosuccinate synthetase and inducible nitric oxide synthase in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2001-09-01 Biomarkers

    The enzyme argininosuccinate synthetase (ASS) is the rate limiting enzyme in the metabolic pathway leading from L-citrulline to L-arginine, the physiological substrate of all isoforms of nitric oxide synthases (NOS).

  40. Formation of Neurofibrillary Tangles in P301L Tau Transgenic Mice Induced by Aβ42 Fibrils

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Science 2001-08-24 Disease mechanisms

    beta-Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are the defining neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, but their pathophysiological relation is unclear.

  41. For the purpose of studying the potential neurobehavioral effects of different human apolipoprotein E (apoE) isoforms produced within the brain, transgenic (TG) mice were generated in which human apoE3 or apoE4 isoforms were under control of an astrocyte-specific, glial fibrillary acidic protein promoter and these TG mice were bred back to apoE knockout (KO) mice.

  42. Kynurenine pathway metabolism in human astrocytes: a paradox for neuronal protection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2001-08-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    There is good evidence that the kynurenine pathway (KP) and one of its products, quinolinic acid (QUIN), play a role in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases, in particular AIDS dementia complex.

  43. Vesicle permeabilization by protofibrillar alpha-synuclein: implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Biochemistry 2001-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Fibrillar alpha-synuclein is a component of the Lewy body, the characteristic neuronal inclusion of the Parkinson's disease (PD) brain.

  44. Brain t-complex polypeptide 1 (TCP- 1) related to its natural substrate beta1 tubulin is decreased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Life sciences 2001-06-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The t-complex polypeptide 1 is a selective molecular chaperone in tubulin biogenesis, by that nascent tubulin subunits are bound to t-complex polypeptide 1 and released in assembly competent forms.

  45. Deafferentation of the septo-hippocampal pathway in rats as a model of the metabolic events in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience 2001-06-01 Biomarkers

    Changes in the metabolic activity within the brain of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) were investigated and compared with biochemical alterations in the hippocampus induced by fimbria/fornix transection in the rat.

  46. TGF-beta1 promotes microglial amyloid-beta clearance and reduces plaque burden in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature medicine 2001-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Abnormal accumulation of the amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) in the brain appears crucial to pathogenesis in all forms of Alzheimer disease (AD), but the underlying mechanisms in the sporadic forms of AD remain unknown.

  47. Synergistic neurotoxicity of opioids and human immunodeficiency virus-1 Tat protein in striatal neurons in vitro

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2001-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection selectively targets the striatum, a region rich in opioid receptor-expressing neural cells, resulting in gliosis and neuronal losses.

  48. Neurotoxicity of advanced glycation end-products for cultured cortical neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2000-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    The Maillard reaction that leads to the formation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of angiopathy in diabetic patients and in aging.

  49. Loss of nucleus basalis neurons containing trkA immunoreactivity in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of comparative neurology 2000-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Recent studies indicate that there is a marked reduction in trkA-containing nucleus basalis neurons in end-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. Mutant WD-repeat protein in triple-A syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature genetics 2000-11-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Triple-A syndrome (MIM 231550; also known as Allgrove syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH)-resistant adrenal insufficiency, achalasia of the oesophageal cardia and alacrima.

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