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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. Cellular and physiological mechanisms underlying blood flow regulation in the retina and choroid in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in retinal and eye research 2012-05-03 Brain scans and imaging

    We review the cellular and physiological mechanisms responsible for the regulation of blood flow in the retina and choroid in health and disease.

  2. Glial cells in (patho)physiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2012-02-02 Disease mechanisms

    Neuroglial cells define brain homeostasis and mount defense against pathological insults.

  3. BACE1 dependent neuregulin processing: review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2012-02-01 Treatments

    Biochemical studies have shown that the precursor proteins of NRG1 can be released from the membrane through limited proteolysis.

  4. Inflammation in Alzheimer disease-a brief review of the basic science and clinical literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2012-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Biochemical and neuropathological studies of brains from individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) provide clear evidence for an activation of inflammatory pathways, and long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs is linked with reduced risk to develop the disease.

  5. Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling and its role in disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in cell biology 2011-10-14 Risk factors

    The bioactive sphingolipid metabolite sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is now recognized as a critical regulator of many physiological and pathophysiological processes, including cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes and osteoporosis.

  6. Complement in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Molecular immunology 2011-05-04 Digital health tools

    The brain is considered to be an immune privileged site, because the blood-brain barrier limits entry of blood borne cells and proteins into the central nervous system (CNS).

  7. Inflammation induced by infection potentiates tau pathological features in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2011-04-30 Drug development

    Comorbidities that promote the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain to be uncovered and evaluated in animal models.

  8. Delivery of siRNA to the mouse brain by systemic injection of targeted exosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature biotechnology 2011-03-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    To realize the therapeutic potential of RNA drugs, efficient, tissue-specific and nonimmunogenic delivery technologies must be developed.

  9. Amyloid β-induced death in neurons involves glial and neuronal hemichannels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011-03-01 Biomarkers

    The mechanisms involved in Alzheimer's disease are not completely understood and how glial cells contribute to this neurodegenerative disease remains to be elucidated.

  10. Engaging neuroscience to advance translational research in brain barrier biology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2011-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    The delivery of many potentially therapeutic and diagnostic compounds to specific areas of the brain is restricted by brain barriers, of which the most well known are the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier.

  11. Susac's Syndrome--update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2010-09-19 Risk factors

    Susac's Syndrome (SS) consists of the clinical triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO), and hearing loss (HL).

  12. Mechanisms underlying inflammation in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell 2010-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Inflammation is associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple sclerosis.

  13. Inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Immunology 2010-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neurodegeneration, the slow and progressive dysfunction and loss of neurons and axons in the central nervous system, is the primary pathological feature of acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, neurotropic viral infections, stroke, paraneoplastic disorders, traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis.

  14. Pathological roles of MAPK signaling pathways in human diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2010-01-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    The mammalian family of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) includes extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), p38, and c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK), with each MAPK signaling pathway consisting of at least three components, a MAPK kinase kinase (MAP3K), a MAPK kinase (MAP2K), and a MAPK.

  15. Direct transfer of alpha-synuclein from neuron to astroglia causes inflammatory responses in synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-01-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Abnormal neuronal aggregation of alpha-synuclein is implicated in the development of many neurological disorders, including Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  16. HMGB1 and RAGE in inflammation and cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual review of immunology 2010-01-01 Risk factors

    The immune system has evolved to respond not only to pathogens, but also to signals released from dying cells.

  17. Amyloid Deposition and Inflammation in APPswe/PS1dE9 Mouse Model of Alzheimers Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2009-12-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles associated with chronic inflammation.

  18. Neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease: its role in neuronal death and implications for therapeutic intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2009-11-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, after Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Sustained hippocampal IL-1beta overexpression impairs contextual and spatial memory in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2009-10-13 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Neuroinflammatory conditions such as traumatic brain injury, aging, Alzheimer's disease, and Down syndrome are often associated with cognitive dysfunction.

  20. Simvastatin inhibits the activation of p21ras and prevents the loss of dopaminergic neurons in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-10-01 Drug development

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is second only to Alzheimer's disease as the most common devastating human neurodegenerative disorder.

  21. Vascular amyloid alters astrocytic water and potassium channels in mouse models and humans with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2009-01-19 Biomarkers

    The neurovascular unit (NVU) comprises cerebral blood vessels and surrounding astrocytes, neurons, perivascular microglia and pericytes.

  22. The blood-brain barrier in brain homeostasis and neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2008-11-11 Vascular contributions

    Brain endothelial cells are unique among endothelial cells in that they express apical junctional complexes, including tight junctions, which quite resemble epithelial tight junctions both structurally and functionally.

  23. Evidence for a cytokine model of cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2008-10-18 Risk factors

    Aiming at a formulation of a cytokine model of cognitive function under immunologically unchallenged physiological conditions, this article reviews the cytokine biology in the central nervous system (CNS) and recent developments in normal cytokine functions within the CNS that subserve cognitive processes.

  24. Diffusion in brain extracellular space

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Physiological reviews 2008-10-01 Vascular contributions

    Diffusion in the extracellular space (ECS) of the brain is constrained by the volume fraction and the tortuosity and a modified diffusion equation represents the transport behavior of many molecules in the brain.

  25. An NF-kappaB-sensitive micro RNA-146a-mediated inflammatory circuit in Alzheimer disease and in stressed human brain cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-09-18 Drug development

    Human brains retain discrete populations of micro RNA (miRNA) species that support homeostatic brain gene expression functions; however, specific miRNA abundance is significantly altered in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer disease (AD) when compared with age-matched controls.

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