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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. Oxidative damage linked to neurodegeneration by selective alpha-synuclein nitration in synucleinopathy lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2000-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Aggregated alpha-synuclein proteins form brain lesions that are hallmarks of neurodegenerative synucleinopathies, and oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of some of these disorders.

  2. Effects of age on gene expression during estrogen-induced synaptic sprouting in the female rat

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2000-09-01 Biomarkers

    Age and estrogen treatment influenced fiber outgrowth and compensatory neuronal sprouting after unilateral entorhinal cortex lesions (ECL) which model Alzheimer disease-like deafferentation in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.

  3. Neurofibrillary tangles, amyotrophy and progressive motor disturbance in mice expressing mutant (P301L) tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature genetics 2000-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) composed of the microtubule-associated protein tau are prominent in Alzheimer disease (AD), Pick disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD).

  4. The A53T alpha-synuclein mutation increases iron-dependent aggregation and toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2000-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common motor disorder affecting the elderly.

  5. Loss-of-function mutations in TYROBP (DAP12) result in a presenile dementia with bone cysts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature genetics 2000-07-01 How common it is

    Polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL; MIM 221770), also known as Nasu-Hakola disease, is a recessively inherited disease characterized by a combination of psychotic symptoms rapidly progressing to presenile dementia and bone cysts restricted to wrists and ankles.

  6. High-Level Neuronal Expression of Aβ1–42in Wild-Type Human Amyloid Protein Precursor Transgenic Mice: Synaptotoxicity without Plaque Formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2000-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid plaques are a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their relationship to neurodegeneration and dementia remains controversial.

  7. A study on long-term astrocytic responses (from 1 day to 20 months after lesioning in 4-month-old rats, and from 1 day to 6 months in 20-month-old rats) to diverse unilateral damage of the nucleus basalis (nbM) by injection of 40 nmol of ibotenic acid, or 50 or 100 nmols of quisqualic acid was performed using a histochemical method (immunoreactivity against the glial fibrillary acidic protein GFAP).

  8. Copper inhibits beta-amyloid production and stimulates the non-amyloidogenic pathway of amyloid-precursor-protein secretion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Biochemical journal 1999-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Previous studies have demonstrated that amyloid precursor protein (APP) can bind and reduce Cu(II) to Cu(I), leading to oxidative modification of APP.

  9. Microglial and astrocyte chemokines regulate monocyte migration through the blood-brain barrier in human immunodeficiency virus-1 encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 1999-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The numbers of immune-activated brain mononuclear phagocytes (MPs) affect the progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-associated dementia (HAD).

  10. Glial HO-1 expression, iron deposition and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Neurotoxicity research 1999-09-01 Biomarkers

    The mechanisms responsible for the pathological deposition of brain iron in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other human neurodegenerative disorders remain poorly understood.

  11. HIV-1 Tat induces monocyte chemoattractant protein-1-mediated monocyte transmigration across a model of the human blood-brain barrier and up-regulates CCR5 expression on human monocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 1999-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    AIDS dementia is characterized by neuronal loss in association with synaptic damage.

  12. Chemokines and activated macrophages in HIV gp120-induced neuronal apoptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    HIV-1 glycoprotein gp120 induces injury and apoptosis in rodent and human neurons in vitro and in vivo and is therefore thought to contribute to HIV-associated dementia.

  13. Acetylcholine in mind: a neurotransmitter correlate of consciousness?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 1999-06-01 Risk factors

    The cholinergic system is one of the most important modulatory neurotransmitter systems in the brain and controls activities that depend on selective attention, which are an essential component of conscious awareness.

  14. Two transmembrane aspartates in presenilin-1 required for presenilin endoproteolysis and γ-secretase activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature 1999-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

  15. Activation of receptor for advanced glycation end products: a mechanism for chronic vascular dysfunction in diabetic vasculopathy and atherosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Circulation research 1999-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily of cell surface molecules and engages diverse ligands relevant to distinct pathological processes.

  16. A central role for astrocytes in the inflammatory response to beta-amyloid; chemokines, cytokines and reactive oxygen species are produced

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroimmunology 1999-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the commonest form of adult onset dementia and is characterised neuropathologically by the accumulation of plaques containing beta-amyloid (A beta) fibrils, reactive astrocytes, activated microglia, and leukocytes.

  17. Microglia express CCR5, CXCR4, and CCR3, but of these, CCR5 is the principal coreceptor for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 dementia isolates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of virology 1999-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia are the main human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reservoir in the central nervous system and most likely play a major role in the development of HIV dementia (HIVD).

  18. Extracellular neurofibrillary tangles are immunopositive for the 40 carboxy-terminal sequence of beta-amyloid protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1998-12-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) form in a number of neurodegenerative disorders.

  19. Binding of alpha-synuclein to brain vesicles is abolished by familial Parkinson's disease mutation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1998-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    The presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease.

  20. Intracerebroventricular administration of quinolinic acid induces a selective decrease of inositol(1,4,5)-trisphosphate receptor in rat brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 1998-08-01 Biomarkers

    [3H]inositol(1,4,5)-trisphosphate (IP3) binding studies have shown decreased [3H]IP3 binding to brain tissue in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.

  21. The presenilin 1 protein is a component of a high molecular weight intracellular complex that contains beta-catenin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1998-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The presenilin (PS) genes associated with Alzheimer disease encode polytopic transmembrane proteins which undergo physiologic endoproteolytic cleavage to generate stable NH2- and COOH-terminal fragments (NTF or CTF) which co-localize in intracellular membranes, but are tightly regulated in their stoichiometry and abundance.

  22. Cholesterol depletion inhibits the generation of β-amyloid in hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1998-05-26 Disease mechanisms

    The amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

  23. Diffusible, nonfibrillar ligands derived from Aβ 1–42 are potent central nervous system neurotoxins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1998-05-26 Disease mechanisms

    Abeta1-42 is a self-associating peptide whose neurotoxic derivatives are thought to play a role in Alzheimer's pathogenesis.

  24. Enhanced GFAP expression in astrocytes of transgenic mice expressing the human brain-specific trypsinogen IV

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Glia 1998-04-01 Biomarkers

    We recently identified a cDNA encoding a human brain specific trypsinogen (trypsinogen IV).

  25. Enlarged and phagocytic, but not primed, interleukin-1 alpha-immunoreactive microglia increase with age in normal human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1998-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia-mediated inflammatory responses have been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease.

  26. The WW domain of neural protein FE65 interacts with proline-rich motifs in Mena, the mammalian homolog of Drosophila enabled

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1997-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The neural protein FE65 contains two types of protein-protein interaction modules: one WW binding domain and two phosphotyrosine binding domains.

  27. CXCR-4 (Fusin), a co-receptor for the type 1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), is expressed in the human brain in a variety of cell types, including microglia and neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 1997-10-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Entry of the type 1 human immunodeficiency virus into most cells requires the presence of the CD4 protein in combination with one of several recently described co-receptors.

  28. Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 associated with chronic traumatic brain injury in boxing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JAMA 1997-07-01 Genetics

    Among the 30 boxers, 11 were found to be normal (CBI score=0), 12 showed mild deficits (CBI score=1-2), 4 were moderately impaired (CBI score=3-4), and 3 showed signs of severe impairment (CBI score > 4).

  29. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, microglia and astrocytes in AIDS dementia complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1997-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The pathogenesis of HIV-associated cognitive changes is poorly understood.

  30. Amyloid fibrils activate tyrosine kinase-dependent signaling and superoxide production in microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1997-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurological disorder characterized by loss of cognitive skills and progressive dementia.

  31. CCR3 and CCR5 are co-receptors for HIV-1 infection of microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature 1997-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Several members of the chemokine receptor family are used together with CD4 for HIV-1 entry into target cells.

  32. Age-dependent neuronal and synaptic degeneration in mice transgenic for the C terminus of the amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1996-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The molecular basis for the degeneration of neurons and the deposition of amyloid in plaques and in the cerebrovasculature in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is incompletely understood.

  33. Notch3 mutations in CADASIL, a hereditary adult-onset condition causing stroke and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature 1996-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Stroke is the third leading cause of death, and vascular dementia the second cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease.

  34. Human immunodeficiency virus encephalitis in SCID mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 1996-09-01 Biomarkers

    The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is neuroinvasive and commonly causes cognitive and motor deficits during the later stages of viral infection.

  35. The 14-3-3 brain protein in cerebrospinal fluid as a marker for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 1996-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In patients with dementia, a positive immunoassay for the 14-3-3 brain protein in cerebrospinal fluid strongly supports a diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

  36. Cellular reservoirs of HIV-1 in the central nervous system of infected individuals: identification by the combination of in situ polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 1996-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The majority of HIV-1-infected individuals manifest a plethora of central nervous system (CNS) diseases unrelated to opportunistic infections, including AIDS dementia complex, encephalitis, and various other disorders of the CNS.

  37. Tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibits glutamate uptake by primary human astrocytes. Implications for pathogenesis of HIV-1 dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1996-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is commonly associated with neurological disease that occurs in the apparent absence of extensive infection of brain cells by HIV, suggesting that indirect mechanisms account for neuropathogenesis in the CNS, perhaps including changes in the normal neuroprotective functions of astrocytes.

  38. Induction of apolipoprotein E mRNA in the hippocampus of the gerbil after transient global ischemia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Brain research. Molecular brain research 1996-05-01 Biomarkers

    B/A4 is the major component of brain amyloid plaque, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  39. Expression of the very low-density lipoprotein receptor (VLDL-r), an apolipoprotein-E receptor, in the central nervous system and in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1996-04-01 Genetics

    The very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDL-r) is a cell-surface molecule specialized for the internalization of multiple diverse ligands, including apolipoprotein E (apoE)-containing lipoprotein particles, via clathrin-coated pits.

  40. Transgenic mice carrying a human mutant superoxide dismutase transgene develop neuronal cytoskeletal pathology resembling human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1996-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Mutations in the human Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1) are found in 20% of kindreds with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  41. Neurodegenerative changes including altered tau phosphorylation and neurofilament immunoreactivity in mice transgenic for the serine/threonine kinase Mos

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1996-03-01 Biomarkers

    Transgenic mice expressing the oncogenic protein-serine/threonine kinase Mos at high levels in the brain display progressive neuronal degeneration and gliosis.

  42. Transfer of beta-amyloid precursor protein gene using adenovirus vector causes mitochondrial abnormalities in cultured normal human muscle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1996-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    As in Alzheimer-disease (AD) brain, vacuolated muscle fibers of inclusion-body myositis (IBM) contain abnormally accumulated beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP), including its beta-amyloid protein epitope, and increased beta APP-751 mRNA.

  43. Possible roles of the complement (C) system in the normal and injured brain were explored with inbred mice that carried a frameshift mutation in the C5 gene.

  44. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection alters chemokine beta peptide expression in human monocytes: implications for recruitment of leukocytes into brain and lymph nodes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1996-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Two chemokine (chemoattractant cytokines) beta peptides, macrophage inflammatory proteins 1 alpha and 1 beta (MIP-1 alpha and MIP-1 beta), were induced in human monocyte cultures following infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).

  45. Chronic elevation of S100 beta protein does not alter APP mRNA expression or promote beta-amyloid deposition in the brains of aging transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Brain research 1995-12-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    S100 beta protein, a member of a Ca(2+)-binding protein family present primarily in the nervous system, affects the survival and differentiation of both neurons and glia cells.

  46. Amyloid beta peptide potentiates cytokine secretion by interleukin-1 beta-activated human astrocytoma cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1995-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Neurodegenerative processes in Alzheimer disease (AD) are thought to be driven in part by the deposition of amyloid beta (A beta), a 39- to 43-amino acid peptide product resulting from an alternative cleavage of amyloid precursor protein.

  47. Low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein mediates apolipoprotein E-dependent neurite outgrowth in a central nervous system-derived neuronal cell line

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1995-10-01 Genetics

    The epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a major risk factor for Alzheimer disease, suggesting that apoE may directly influence neurons in the aging brain.

  48. Abundant expression of HIV Nef and Rev proteins in brain astrocytes in vivo is associated with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 1995-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Formalin-fixed postmortem brain tissue from 14 HIV-infected adult patients, with previous repeated neurological and neuroradiological examinations, was studied by immunohistochemical and molecular biological methods.

  49. Amyloid precursor protein processing is stimulated by metabotropic glutamate receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1995-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Stimulation of muscarinic m1 or m3 receptors can, by generating diacylglycerol and activating protein kinase C, accelerate the breakdown of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) to form soluble, nonamyloidogenic derivatives (APPs), as previously shown.

  50. Senile plaques stimulate microglia to release a neurotoxin found in Alzheimer brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 1995-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Senile plaques found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are surrounded by clusters of reactive microglia.

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