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  1. Inflammasome activation under high cholesterol load triggers a protective microglial phenotype while promoting neuronal pyroptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2023-03-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    In activated microglia, cholesterol enrichment promoted the release of encapsulated IL-1β accompanied by a switch to a more neuroprotective phenotype, with increased phagocytic capacity and release of neurotrophic factors.

  2. A brief overview of a mouse model of cerebral hypoperfusion by bilateral carotid artery stenosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2023-03-08 Vascular contributions

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) refers to all forms of cognitive disorder related to cerebrovascular diseases, including vascular mild cognitive impairment, post-stroke dementia, multi-infarct dementia, subcortical ischemic vascular dementia (SIVD), and mixed dementia.

  3. β2-Microglobulin exacerbates neuroinflammation, brain damage, and cognitive impairment after stroke in rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2023-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    β2-Microglobulin (β2M), a component of the major histocompatibility complex class I molecule, is associated with aging-related cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

  4. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Normal Aging and Neurodegeneration: Mechanisms, Impact, and Treatments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stroke 2023-02-27 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral endothelial cells and their linking tight junctions form a unique, dynamic and multi-functional interface, the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

  5. Negative regulation of TREM2-mediated C9orf72 poly-GA clearance by the NLRP3 inflammasome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2023-02-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Expansion of the hexanucleotide repeat GGGGCC in the C9orf72 gene is the most common genetic factor in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  6. Complement in the Brain: Contributions to Neuroprotection, Neuronal Plasticity, and Neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annual review of immunology 2023-02-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    The complement system is an ancient collection of proteolytic cascades with well-described roles in regulation of innate and adaptive immunity.

  7. Endothelial Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-02-02 Vascular contributions

    The cerebral vascular system stringently regulates cerebral blood flow (CBF).

  8. Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-01-31 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Consistent with previous in vitro findings, Trem2 H157Y increases TREM2 shedding with elevated soluble TREM2 levels in the brain and serum.

  9. Conjunctival microcirculation in ocular and systemic microvascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical & experimental optometry 2023-01-15 Brain scans and imaging

    The conjunctival microcirculation is an accessible complex network of micro vessels whose quantitative assessment can reveal microvascular haemodynamic properties.

  10. Pathological Roles of INPP5D in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2023 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Current hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) postulates that amyloid β (Aβ) deposition in the brain causes tau inclusion in neurons and leads to cognitive decline.

  11. Analysis of Cerebral Small Vessel Changes in AD Model Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-12-25 Vascular contributions

    Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide is deposited in the brains of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) due to impaired vessel-dependent clearance.

  12. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 deficiency exacerbates injury-induced inflammation in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2022-11-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) promotes several Alzheimer's disease-like pathological features, including microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) accumulation within neurons.

  13. TREM2 and Microglia Contribute to the Synaptic Plasticity: from Physiology to Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2022-11-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Synapses are bridges for information transmission in the central nervous system (CNS), and synaptic plasticity is fundamental for the normal function of synapses, contributing substantially to learning and memory.

  14. Dysfunctional microglia and tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Reviews in the neurosciences 2022-10-28 Inflammation and the immune system

    Extensive human studies and animal models show that chronic immune system stimulation involving microglia, inflammasome, complement activation, synthesis of cytokines, and reactive oxygen species exacerbates neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies.

  15. Microglia and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-10-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    There is a huge need for novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and neuroinflammation seems to be one of the most fascinating solutions.

  16. Beneficial effects of natural flavonoids on neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2022-10-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation is the fundamental immune response against multiple factors in the central nervous system and is characterized by the production of inflammatory mediators, activated microglia and astrocytes, and the recruitment of innate and adaptive immune cells to inflammatory sites, that contributes to the pathological process of related brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, and stroke.

  17. Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (sTREM2) positively regulates lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of CXC chemokine ligand 10 and 11 in mouse macrophages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2022-10-18 TREM2 and immune genetics

    TREM2 (Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2) is the causative gene for Nasu-Hakola disease, which is characterized by multiple bone cysts and leukoencephalopathy.

  18. Interaction between autophagy and the NLRP3 inflammasome in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-10-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    Autophagy degrades phagocytosed damaged organelles, misfolded proteins, and various pathogens through lysosomes as an essential way to maintain cellular homeostasis.

  19. Alzheimer's Disease and Inflammaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2022-09-13 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common age-related neurodegenerative disorders.

  20. Sustained Increase in Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein after First ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-09-07 Biomarkers

    Acute ischemic cardiac injury predisposes one to cognitive impairment, dementia, and depression.

  21. The therapeutic potential of TREM2 in cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in oncology 2022-09-02 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Cancer continues to be a substantial health concern and a leading cause of death in the United States and around the world.

  22. Cerebral small vessel disease: Pathological mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-08-12 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) represents a diverse cluster of cerebrovascular diseases primarily affecting small arteries, capillaries, arterioles and venules.

  23. Targeting NLRP3-Mediated Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-08-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the general population and, to date, constitutes a major therapeutic challenge.

  24. Outer membrane vesicles of Porphyromonas gingivalis trigger NLRP3 inflammasome and induce neuroinflammation, tau phosphorylation, and memory dysfunction in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2022-08-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    Pg OMVs impaired memory and learning ability of mice and decreased tight junction-related gene expression ZO-1, occludin, claudin-5, and occludin protein expression in the hippocampus.

  25. Supramolecular organizing centers at the interface of inflammation and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2022-08-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases involves the accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates.

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