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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. Direct and indirect role of non-coding RNAs in company with amyloid and tau protein in promoting neuroinflammation in post-ischemic brain neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 2025-10-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Post-ischemic brain neurodegeneration with subsequent neuroinflammation is a major cause of mortality, permanent disability, and the development of Alzheimer’s disease type dementia in the absence of appropriate treatment.

  2. TDP-43-dependent mis-splicing of KCNQ2 triggers intrinsic neuronal hyperexcitability in ALS/FTD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature Neuroscience 2025-10-31 Brain tissue and pathology

    Motor neuron hyperexcitability is a broadly observed yet poorly understood feature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  3. Characterization of endothelin-converting enzyme 1 as a key enzyme in the multienzyme Aβ degradation pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025-10-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Altered β-amyloid (Aβ) homeostasis is a critical event triggering the shift from healthy aging to Alzheimer disease (AD) through the overproduction and impaired clearance of Aβ peptides.

  4. Delta-opioid receptor ameliorates microglia-induced synapse loss by regulating C1q in Alzheimer disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain Behavior and Immunity 2025-10-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    While previous studies have well established δ-opioid receptor (DOR)-mediated neuroprotection against Alzheimer's pathology, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood.

  5. Quantifying subpercent nuclear TDP ‐43 loss in cells and ALS cortex using junction‐specific cryptic exon RT ‐ qPCR

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. FEBS Letters 2025-10-22 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are progressive neurodegenerative diseases characterised by nuclear TDP-43 loss.

  6. TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature Neuroscience 2025-10-21 Brain tissue and pathology

    Nuclear depletion and cytoplasmic aggregation of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 are cellular hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  7. TDP-43 nuclear loss in FTD/ALS causes widespread alternative polyadenylation changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature Neuroscience 2025-10-21 Brain tissue and pathology

    In frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 is depleted from the nucleus of neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

  8. Effect of obicetrapib, a potent cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor, on p-tau217 levels in patients with cardiovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-10-17 Biomarkers

    Obicetrapib significantly slowed AD biomarker progression over 12 months in participants with ASCVD, with the greatest effects in ApoE4 carriers.

  9. Single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals GABAergic vulnerability and reactive gliosis driven by loss of TDP-43

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. iScience 2025-10-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    mice, compared with that of 5xFAD mice, a well-established AD mouse model with β-amyloid plaque pathology.

  10. Interaction of sortilin with apolipoprotein E3 enables neurons to use long-chain fatty acids as alternative metabolic fuel

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Nature Metabolism 2025-10-16 Genetics

    Sortilin (SORT1) is a lipoprotein receptor that shows genome-wide association with hypercholesterolaemia, explained by its ability to control hepatic output of lipoproteins.

  11. Silodosin as a Novel Inhibitor of Acetylcholinesterase, Butyrylcholinesterase, and BETA-Secretase 1: In Vitro and In Silico Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. ACS Omega 2025-10-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of cognitive decline in older adults.

  12. Compositional Control of Aging Kinetics in TDP-43 Condensates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. PRX Life 2025-10-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    The spontaneous self-assembly of proteins and nucleic acids into biomolecular condensates has been shown to ubiquitously contribute to the functional compartmentalization of the cell.

  13. Glymphatic activity is linked to the synaptic vesicle cycle pathway in frontotemporal dementia: A metabolomics study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of Disease 2025-10-07 Lewy body dementia

    Emerging evidence implicating glymphatic dysfunction contributes to the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  14. SORL1 as a Putative Candidate Gene for a Novel Recessive Form of Complicated Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia: Insights from a Deep Functional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. Clinical and Translational Neuroscience 2025-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Sequencing revealed a biallelic SORL1 splice donor variant (c.1211 + 1G > A).

  15. Benzene-1,3-disulfonic acid exhibited strong binding to the Arg136-containing pocket with a top docking score of -5.93 kcal/mol and an estimated inhibition constant (Ki) of 44.6 µmol.

  16. Microglia/macrophage-specific deletion of TLR-4 protects against neural effects of diet-induced obesity in a sexually dimorphic manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2025-09-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    Obesity is associated with numerous adverse neural effects, including reduced neurogenesis, cognitive impairment, and increased risks for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia.

  17. Synaptic vesicle endocytosis deficits underlie cognitive dysfunction in mouse models of GBA-linked Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-09-26 Lewy body dementia

    GBA is the major risk gene for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), two common α-synucleinopathies with cognitive deficits.

  18. CD103-CD8+ T cells promote neurotoxic inflammation in Alzheimer's disease via granzyme K-PAR-1 signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-09-24 Laboratory science

    Immune mechanisms contribute to the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) but the role of adaptive immune cells is unclear.

  19. P2RX7 modulates the function of human microglia-like cells and mediates the association of IL18 with Alzheimer's disease traits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurobiology of Disease 2025-09-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    The immune system plays a dynamic role in neurodegenerative diseases, and purinergic receptors allow immune cells to recognize neuronal signaling, cell injury, or stress.

  20. Splenomegaly, Spleen Amyloidosis and Neutrophil Infiltration are Present in 3xTg-AD, but not Tg-SwDI Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. NeuroMolecular Medicine 2025-09-04 Risk genes beyond APOE

    It is now widely accepted that the development of neurodegenerative diseases depends on and affects many pathological processes, both in the brain and the periphery.

  21. TDP-43 dysregulation impairs cholesterol metabolism linked with myelination defects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2025-09-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    We found higher lipid droplet accumulation in primary fibroblasts derived from these mice, as well as in the brain of the mutant mice.

  22. Tipping the PARylation scale: Dysregulation of PAR signaling in Huntington and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Journal of Huntington s Disease 2025-09-04 Genetics

    Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation (PARylation), a crucial post-translational modification, is catalyzed by ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs) and has significant implications in various cellular processes, including DNA damage response, cell signaling, and immune processes.

  23. Innate immune sensing of Z-nucleic acids by ZBP1-RIPK1 axis drives neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Immunity 2025-09-02 Laboratory science

    Neuroinflammation drives Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  24. TDP ‐43 proteinopathies and neurodegeneration: insights from Caenorhabditis elegans models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. FEBS Journal 2025-09-02 Brain tissue and pathology

    TDP-linked proteinopathies, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), are characterised by pathogenic deposits containing transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) in the brain and spinal cord of patients.

  25. C9orf72 Repeat Expansion Induces Metabolic Dysfunction in Human iPSC ‐Derived Microglia and Modulates Glial‐Neuronal Crosstalk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Glia 2025-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion mutation is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia, but its cell type-specific effects on energy metabolism and immune pathways remain poorly understood.

  26. Targeting the miR‐96‐5p/Cathepsin B Pathway to Alleviate Neuron‐Derived Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. MedComm 2025-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the leading causes of dementia in the elderly, and no effective treatment is currently available.

  27. NRF2 deficiency is associated with synaptic alterations and ether-linked phospholipid imbalance in the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Redox Biology 2025-08-30 Disease mechanisms

    Synaptic loss is a key factor in the cognitive decline observed during aging and in neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, where synaptopathy plays a central role in hippocampal dysfunction.

  28. Causal effect of infectious mononucleosis on neurodegenerative diseases: A Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Medicine 2025-08-29 Genetics

    Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are common chronic diseases with unknown etiology, and the association between virus and its pathogenesis is not clear.

  29. Higher plasma carotenoid concentrations were associated with slower cognitive decline in APOE ε4 carriers, potentially mitigating genetic risk.

  30. ALS/FTD-linked TBK1 deficiency in microglia induces an aged-like microglial signature and drives social recognition deficits in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-08-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    TANK-Binding Kinase 1 (TBK1) is involved in autophagy and immune signaling.

  31. Differential role of C-terminal truncations on alpha-synuclein pathology and Lewy body formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-08-26 Lewy body dementia

    Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) post-translational modifications (PTM), especially phosphorylation at serine 129 and C-terminal truncations, are highly enriched in Lewy bodies (LB), Lewy neurites, and other pathological aggregates in Parkinson's disease and synucleinopathies.

  32. 2′-Fucosyllactose mitigates cognitive deficits in Alzheimer models: targeting amyloid pathology, oxidative stress, and synaptic plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Frontiers in Pharmacology 2025-08-21 Disease mechanisms

    2′-FL improved cognitive performance in 5xFAD mice, reduced Aβ plaque deposition and pro-inflammatory cytokine levels in vivo , and mitigated oxidative stress and synaptic dysfunction in cellular models.

  33. Single-nucleus transcriptomics reveals a distinct microglial state and increased MSR1-mediated phagocytosis as common features across dementia subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Genome Medicine 2025-08-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    SnRNA-seq analysis revealed elevated microglial proportions across all dementia subtypes compared to NCI.

  34. TDP-43 pathology is associated with divergent protein profiles in ALS brain and spinal cord

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-08-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    This study examined the proteome associated with TDP-43 inclusions in ALS, using mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis of spinal cord and cerebral cortex from donors with phosphoTDP-43 positive ALS (n = 16), alpha-synuclein positive Parkinson's disease (PD, n = 8), phosphotau and beta-amyloid positive Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 8) and age matched non-neurological controls (n = 8), comparing ALS with non-ALS conditions, spinal cord with cerebral cortex samples, and detergent-soluble with -insoluble fractions.

  35. Disrupted Calcium Dynamics in Reactive Astrocytes Occur with End Feet–Arteriole Decoupling in an Amyloid Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2025-08-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    While cerebrovascular dysfunction and reactive astrocytosis are extensively characterized hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias, the dynamic relationship between reactive astrocytes and cerebral vessels remains poorly understood.

  36. Cardiac damage and neurodegeneration simultaneously evolve in children and young adults, exposed to environmental oxidative, magnetic, motion capable, ultrafine particulate matter (UFPM) and industrial nanoparticles (NPs).

  37. Reducing Neuroinflammation and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease by Reducing Dietary Lipopolysaccharides, Arachidonic Acid, and Advanced Glycation End Products

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Journal of dementia and Alzheimer's disease 2025-08-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    Triggered by LPS and AGEs in food, inflammatory cytokines can enter the brain and stimulate microglial activation, inflammation, and oxidative damage.

  38. Divergent and convergent TMEM106B pathology in murine models of neurodegeneration and human disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-08-09 Disease mechanisms

    TMEM106B is a lysosome/late endosome protein that is a potent genetic modifier of multiple neurodegenerative diseases as well as general aging.

  39. Bezafibrate treatment rescues neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative defects in 3D cortical organoid model of MAPT frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Tau mutant cortical organoids showed altered mitochondrial function and gene expression related to neuronal development, with synaptic markers and neuronal activity reduction.

  40. GLP-1 receptor agonists in delirium and encephalopathies: a neuroprotective scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Discover Medicine 2025-07-31 Clinical safety

    GLP-1 RAs may offer neuroprotective benefits in patients with postoperative delirium and encephalopathies..

  41. Neuroinflammation is a key feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and stem cell therapies have emerged as promising candidates due to their immunomodulatory properties.

  42. Co-Expression of Mutant Tau and α-Synuclein in Neurons Promotes Tau Phosphorylation, Neuronal Loss, and Neuroinflammation in Mouse Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Molecular Neurobiology 2025-07-25 Inflammation and the immune system

    Intracellular aggregation and accumulation of protein is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases.

  43. Intermittent fasting reprograms the brain proteome to prevent synaptic degeneration and cognitive impairment in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Theranostics 2025-07-25 Lewy body dementia

    These findings establish IF as a potent modulator of synaptic resilience in VaD, acting through coordinated preservation of synaptic structure, inhibition of inflammatory synapse loss, and metabolic reprogramming.

  44. Proteomics of the temporal cortex in semantic dementia reveals brain-region specific molecular pathology and regulation of the TDP-43-ANXA11 interactome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-07-25 Brain tissue and pathology

    Semantic dementia (SD) is a clinical subtype of frontotemporal dementia characterized by impaired word comprehension and semantic memory, and occurs nearly always sporadically.

  45. Ginsenoside Rc mitigates hippocampal neuronal damage and cognitive impairment in vascular dementia rats via the pY705-Stat3/Foxo3a and pS727-Stat3/GRIM-19 pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Ginseng Research 2025-07-24 Disease mechanisms

    GRc exerted neuroprotective effects in VaD by targeting Stat3 and driving its dual-phosphorylation.

  46. Accumulation of TDP-43 causes karyopherin-α4 pathology that characterises amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025-07-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cytoplasmic mislocalisation and nuclear depletion of TDP-43 are pathological hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), including mutations in the C9ORF72 gene that characterise the most common genetic form of ALS (C9ALS).

  47. High-fidelity and differential nonsense suppression in live cells and a frontotemporal dementia allele with human transfer RNAs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Nucleic Acids Research 2025-07-19 Lewy body dementia

    Nonsense mutations generate premature termination codons (PTCs) that are responsible for 11% of genetic disease alleles.

  48. High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) form a continuous spectrum of aggressive neurodegenerative diseases affecting primarily motoneurons (MNs) and cortical frontotemporal neurons.

  49. Parenchymal and Dyshoric Fibrillar Amyloid Pathology in the rTg-D Rat Model of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Type-2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. American Journal Of Pathology 2025-07-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a common age-related disorder, a prominent comorbidity of Alzheimer disease (AD), and causes vascular cognitive impairment and dementia.

  50. As the term limbic-predominant age-related transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) encephalopathy (LATE) was coined in 2019, more than 200 articles addressing the subject were published.

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