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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. Continuous c-fos expression precedes programmed cell death in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 1993-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The development of a multicellular organism involves a delicate balance among the processes of proliferation, differentiation and death.

  2. Autosomal dominant syndrome with strokelike episodes and leukoencephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stroke 1991-10-01 Risk factors

    There appears to be a new syndrome in this family that is characterized by recurrent subcortical strokelike episodes, leukoencephalopathy, immunologic anomalies, muscular lipidosis, and an autosomal dominant pattern of transmission.

  3. Protease nexin-II (amyloid beta-protein precursor): a platelet alpha-granule protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1990-05-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Protease nexin-II (PN-II) [amyloid beta-protein precursor (APP)] and the amyloid beta-protein are major constituents of neuritic plaques and cerebrovascular deposits in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome.

  4. Human microglial state dynamics in Alzheimer's disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2023-09-01 Genetics

    Altered microglial states affect neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and disease but remain poorly understood.

  5. Spatial proteomics in three-dimensional intact specimens

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2022-12-01 Digital health tools

    Spatial molecular profiling of complex tissues is essential to investigate cellular function in physiological and pathological states.

  6. The Dialogue Between Neuroinflammation and Adult Neurogenesis: Mechanisms Involved and Alterations in Neurological Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2022-11-16 Drug development

    Adult neurogenesis occurs mainly in the subgranular zone of the hippocampal dentate gyrus and the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricles.

  7. Interferon γ: a master cytokine in microglia-mediated neural network dysfunction and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2022-10-22 Digital health tools

    Traditionally, lymphocytic interferon γ (IFN-γ) was considered to be a simple 'booster' of proinflammatory responses by microglia (brain-resident macrophages) during bacterial or viral infection.

  8. Type-I-interferon signaling drives microglial dysfunction and senescence in human iPSC models of Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell stem cell 2022-07-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Microglia are critical in brain development and Alzheimer's disease (AD) etiology.

  9. Positive feedback regulation of microglial glucose metabolism by histone H4 lysine 12 lactylation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell metabolism 2022-03-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    The pro-inflammatory activation of microglia is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and this process involves a switch from oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) toward glycolysis.

  10. NLRP3 inflammasome activation and cell death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cellular & molecular immunology 2021-07-28 Risk factors

    The NLRP3 inflammasome is a cytosolic multiprotein complex composed of the innate immune receptor protein NLRP3, adapter protein ASC, and inflammatory protease caspase-1 that responds to microbial infection, endogenous danger signals, and environmental stimuli.

  11. The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and directly influences tauopathy and tau-mediated neurodegeneration.

  12. Microglial phagocytosis of neurons in neurodegeneration, and its regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2021-03-17 Genetics

    There is growing evidence that excessive microglial phagocytosis of neurons and synapses contributes to multiple brain pathologies.

  13. APOE immunotherapy reduces cerebral amyloid angiopathy and amyloid plaques while improving cerebrovascular function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2021-02-01 Treatments

    The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and greatly influences the development of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology.

  14. The NLRP3 inflammasome in pathogenic particle and fibre-associated lung inflammation and diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Particle and fibre toxicology 2016-09-20 Risk factors

    The concept of the inflammasome, a macromolecular complex sensing cell stress or danger signals and initiating inflammation, was first introduced approximately a decade ago.

  15. Astroglial NF-kB contributes to white matter damage and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2016-08-04 Biomarkers

    Vascular cognitive impairment is the second most common form of dementia.

  16. Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: Current evidence and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-05-11 Treatments

    Several attempts have been made to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) using anti-amyloid strategies with disappointing results.

  17. Pericytes of the neurovascular unit: key functions and signaling pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2016-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Pericytes are vascular mural cells embedded in the basement membrane of blood microvessels.

  18. Eliminating microglia in Alzheimer's mice prevents neuronal loss without modulating amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-02-26 Disease mechanisms

    In addition to amyloid-β plaque and tau neurofibrillary tangle deposition, neuroinflammation is considered a key feature of Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  19. Astrocyte-Microglia Cross Talk through Complement Activation Modulates Amyloid Pathology in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2016-01-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Increasing evidence supports a role of neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. Neuroinflammation and Depression: Microglia Activation, Extracellular Microvesicles and microRNA Dysregulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2015-12-17 Risk factors

    Patients with chronic inflammation are often associated with the emergence of depression symptoms, while diagnosed depressed patients show increased levels of circulating cytokines.

  21. Astrocytes: a central element in neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-12-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    The neurone-centred view of the past disregarded or downplayed the role of astroglia as a primary component in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases.

  22. Anti-Aβ Autoantibodies in Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA): Candidate Biomarker for Immunotherapy in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2015-09-25 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) represent the major severe side effect of amyloid-beta (Aβ) immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. A delicate balance: role of MMP-9 in brain development and pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2015-07-29 Digital health tools

    The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a critical regulator of neural network development and plasticity.

  24. Interrelation of oxidative stress and inflammation in neurodegenerative disease: role of TNF

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2015-03-05 Disease mechanisms

    Neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction are common features of chronic neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system.

  25. GLUT1 reductions exacerbate Alzheimer's disease vasculo-neuronal dysfunction and degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2015-03-02 Vascular contributions

    The glucose transporter GLUT1 at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) mediates glucose transport into the brain.

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