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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. ROS Generation in Microglia: Understanding Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-08-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, are a global public health burden with poorly understood aetiology.

  2. Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Oxidative Stress, and Neuroinflammation: Intertwined Roads to Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-07-22 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Oxidative stress develops as a response to injury and reflects a breach in the cell's antioxidant capacity.

  3. Focus on the Role of NLRP3 Inflammasome in Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-06-13 Disease mechanisms

    Inflammation is a protective reaction activated in response to detrimental stimuli, such as dead cells, irritants or pathogens, by the evolutionarily conserved immune system and is regulated by the host.

  4. Alzheimer's Patient Microglia Exhibit Enhanced Aging and Unique Transcriptional Activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2020-06-01 Genetics

    Damage-associated microglia (DAM) profiles observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related mouse models reflect an activation state that could modulate AD risk or progression.

  5. The blood-brain barrier in health and disease: Important unanswered questions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2020-04-01 Vascular contributions

    The blood vessels vascularizing the central nervous system exhibit a series of distinct properties that tightly control the movement of ions, molecules, and cells between the blood and the parenchyma.

  6. MicroRNAs as biomarkers of diabetic retinopathy and disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2019-11-01 Risk factors

    Diabetes mellitus, together with its complications, has been increasing in prevalence worldwide.

  7. Microglia drive APOE-dependent neurodegeneration in a tauopathy mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2019-10-10 Genetics

    Chronic activation of brain innate immunity is a prominent feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and primary tauopathies.

  8. Neuroinflammation as a Common Feature of Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2019-09-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neurodegenerative diseases share the fact that they derive from altered proteins that undergo an unfolding process followed by formation of β-structures and a pathological tendency to self-aggregate in neuronal cells.

  9. Human Monocyte Subsets and Phenotypes in Major Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2019-08-30 Genetics

    Human monocytes are divided in three major populations; classical (CD14 + CD16 - ), non-classical (CD14 dim CD16 + ), and intermediate (CD14 + CD16 + ).

  10. The NLRP3 Inflammasome: An Overview of Mechanisms of Activation and Regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-07-06 Risk factors

    The NLRP3 inflammasome is a critical component of the innate immune system that mediates caspase-1 activation and the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β/IL-18 in response to microbial infection and cellular damage.

  11. Effects of Neurotrophic Factors in Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System: Expression and Properties in Neurodegeneration and Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in physiology 2019-04-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia are abundant cell types found in the central nervous system and have been shown to play crucial roles in regulating both normal and disease states.

  12. Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by impairments of cognitive function as a result of synaptic deficits and neuronal loss, is associated with inflammation.

  13. The Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease: Age, Sex, and Genes Modulate the Microglia Response to Aβ Plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2019-04-01 Genetics

    Gene expression profiles of more than 10,000 individual microglial cells isolated from cortex and hippocampus of male and female App NL-G-F mice over time demonstrate that progressive amyloid-β accumulation accelerates two main activated microglia states that are also present during normal aging.

  14. Senolytic therapy alleviates Aβ-associated oligodendrocyte progenitor cell senescence and cognitive deficits in an Alzheimer's disease model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuritic plaques, a pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, comprise extracellular aggregates of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and degenerating neurites that accumulate autolysosomes.

  15. Antibody-mediated clearance of tau in primary mouse microglial cultures requires Fcγ-receptor binding and functional lysosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-03-15 Drug development

    Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease are characterized by the progressive spreading and accumulation of hyper-phosphorylated tau protein in the brain.

  16. Therapeutic Inhibition of the Complement System in Diseases of the Central Nervous System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2019-03-04 Biomarkers

    The complement system plays critical roles in development, homeostasis, and regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) throughout life; however, complement dysregulation in the CNS can lead to damage and disease.

  17. Recent advances in the mechanisms of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and its inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2019-02-12 Risk factors

    The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multimeric protein complex that initiates an inflammatory form of cell death and triggers the release of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18.

  18. Alzheimer’s disease phospholipase C-gamma-2 (PLCG2) protective variant is a functional hypermorph

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2019-02-02 Genetics

    PLCG2 expression is restricted primarily to microglia and granule cells of the dentate gyrus.

  19. Claudin-5: gatekeeper of neurological function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2019-01-29 Risk factors

    Tight junction proteins of the blood-brain barrier are vital for maintaining integrity of endothelial cells lining brain blood vessels.

  20. Blood-brain barrier permeability and physical exercise

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2019-01-24 Prevention trials

    In this narrative review, a theoretical framework on the crosstalk between physical exercise and blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is presented.

  21. Astrocyte function from information processing to cognition and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-01-21 Risk factors

    Astrocytes serve important roles that affect recruitment and function of neurons at the local and network levels.

  22. NRF2 and NF-қB interplay in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disorders: Molecular mechanisms and possible therapeutic approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Redox biology 2018-11-28 Vascular contributions

    Electrophiles and reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a major role in modulating cellular defense mechanisms as well as physiological functions, and intracellular signaling.

  23. Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease: Risk Factors and Inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-11-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that originate from myeloid progenitor cells in the embryonic yolk sac and are maintained independently of circulating monocytes throughout life.

  24. The role of brain vasculature in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-09-24 Vascular contributions

    Adequate supply of blood and structural and functional integrity of blood vessels are key to normal brain functioning.

  25. Microglial translational profiling reveals a convergent APOE pathway from aging, amyloid, and tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2018-08-06 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloidosis, tauopathy, and activation of microglia, the brain resident innate immune cells.

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