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  1. Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptotoxicity and Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-12-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, which is clinically associated with a global cognitive decline and progressive loss of memory and reasoning.

  2. Inflammasome-derived cytokine IL18 suppresses amyloid-induced seizures in Alzheimer-prone mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018-08-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the progressive destruction and dysfunction of central neurons.

  3. miRNA-34c Overexpression Causes Dendritic Loss and Memory Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2018-08-08 Disease mechanisms

    Microribonucleic acids (miRNAs) play a pivotal role in numerous aspects of the nervous system and are increasingly recognized as key regulators in neurodegenerative diseases.

  4. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2): a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Expert opinion on therapeutic targets 2018-06-20 TREM2 and immune genetics

    There are currently no effective therapeutics for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  5. Neuroinflammatory responses in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2017-12-22 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammatory responses in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are complex and not fully understood.

  6. Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 Overexpression Inhibits Proinflammatory Cytokines in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Mediators of inflammation 2017-10-18 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia play an important role in mediating inflammatory processes in the central nervous system (CNS).

  7. Dendritic spine pathology and thrombospondin-1 deficits in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2017-09-28 Disease mechanisms

    Abnormal dendritic spine structure and function is one of the most prominent features associated with neurodevelopmental disorders including Down syndrome (DS).

  8. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2017-09-13 Vascular contributions

    Brain capillary endothelial cells form the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which is covered with basement membranes and is also surrounded by pericytes and astrocyte end-feet in the neurovascular unit.

  9. MicroRNAs as Important Regulators of Exercise Adaptation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2017-06-28 Prevention trials

    A significant body of evidence supports the protective role of exercise training (ET) in cardiovascular diseases, skeletal muscle dystrophies, several types of cancer, Alzheimer disease or even in the recovery of spinal cord injury.

  10. Astrocytes and synaptic plasticity in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Experimental brain research 2017-03-15 Disease mechanisms

    Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity phenomena such as long-term potentiation and long-term depression are candidate mechanisms for storing information in the brain.

  11. Inflammasome activation and innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2017-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    Activation of innate immunity and the assembly of microglial cells at sites of Alzheimer disease pathology has long been regarded as bystander phenomenon, which does not actively contribute to disease pathogenesis and progression.

  12. TREM2 and the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current neurovascular research 2017 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, which has been currently considered as a genetically complex disorder caused by a combination of environmental and genetic risk factors.

  13. Contributions of triggering-receptor-expressed-on-myeloid-cells-2 to neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The International journal of neuroscience 2016-12-06 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Recent laboratory and gene sequencing data suggest that variations in receptors called the "triggering-receptors-expressed-on-myeloid-cells" (TREMs) are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  14. Inflammasomes, hormesis, and antioxidants in neuroinflammation: Role of NRLP3 in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2016-11-08 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to cognitive decline, neuropsychiatric symptoms, disability, caregiver burden, and premature death.

  15. Intersectin scaffold proteins and their role in cell signaling and endocytosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research 2016-10-12 Prevention trials

    Intersectins (ITSNs) are a family of multi-domain proteins involved in regulation of diverse cellular pathways.

  16. TREM2 Overexpression has No Improvement on Neuropathology and Cognitive Impairment in Aging APPswe/PS1dE9 Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2016-01-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Previously, we showed that overexpression of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), a microglia-specific immune receptor, in the brain of a middle-aged (7 months old) APPswe/PS1dE9 mice could ameliorate Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related neuropathology by enhancement of microglial amyloid-β (Aβ) phagocytosis.

  17. TLR9 signalling in microglia attenuates seizure-induced aberrant neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nature Communications 2015-03-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    Pathological conditions such as epilepsy cause misregulation of adult neural stem/progenitor populations in the adult hippocampus in mice, and the resulting abnormal neurogenesis leads to impairment in learning and memory.

  18. Spatial Transcriptomics and In Situ Sequencing to Study Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell 2020-07-22 Genetics

    Although complex inflammatory-like alterations are observed around the amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about the molecular changes and cellular interactions that characterize this response.

  19. Microglia, Lifestyle Stress, and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Immunity 2020-01-07 Prevention trials

    Recent years have witnessed a revolution in our understanding of microglia biology, including their major role in the etiology and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.

  20. Neurobiology of COVID-19

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Risk factors

    Anosmia, stroke, paralysis, cranial nerve deficits, encephalopathy, delirium, meningitis, and seizures are some of the neurological complications in patients with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) which is caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov2).

  21. Vasomotion as a Driving Force for Paravascular Clearance in the Awake Mouse Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuron 2019-12-03 Vascular contributions

    Paravascular drainage of solutes, including β-amyloid (Aβ), appears to be an important process in brain health and diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  22. Cross-Species Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Divergence of the Primate Microglia Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell 2019-12-01 Genetics

    Microglia, the brain-resident immune cells, are critically involved in many physiological and pathological brain processes, including neurodegeneration.

  23. A Breakdown in Metabolic Reprogramming Causes Microglia Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell metabolism 2019-06-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    Reactive microglia are a major pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in cell & developmental biology 2019-05-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia, being the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, play an important role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and contributes towards brain development under normal conditions.

  25. Multi-sensory Gamma Stimulation Ameliorates Alzheimer's-Associated Pathology and Improves Cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell 2019-03-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    We previously reported that inducing gamma oscillations with a non-invasive light flicker (gamma entrainment using sensory stimulus or GENUS) impacted pathology in the visual cortex of Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

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