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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. The NALP3 inflammasome is involved in the innate immune response to amyloid-beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature immunology 2008-07-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    The fibrillar peptide amyloid-beta (A beta) has a chief function in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

  2. Microglial activation in brain lesions with tau deposits: comparison of human tauopathies and tau transgenic mice TgTauP301L

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2008-03-08 Drug development

    The aim of this study is to clarify the relationship of microglia to phosphorylated tau accumulation and the characteristics of microglial activation in brain lesions of human tauopathies in comparison to mutant tau transgenic (TG) mice.

  3. Solutes, but not cells, drain from the brain parenchyma along basement membranes of capillaries and arteries: significance for cerebral amyloid angiopathy and neuroimmunology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2008-01-16 Vascular contributions

    Elimination of interstitial fluid and solutes plays a role in homeostasis in the brain, but the pathways are unclear.

  4. The blood-brain barrier in health and chronic neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2008-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a highly specialized brain endothelial structure of the fully differentiated neurovascular system.

  5. Stem cells: a revolution in therapeutics-recent advances in stem cell biology and their therapeutic applications in regenerative medicine and cancer therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 2007-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Basic and clinical research accomplished during the last few years on embryonic, fetal, amniotic, umbilical cord blood, and adult stem cells has constituted a revolution in regenerative medicine and cancer therapies by providing the possibility of generating multiple therapeutically useful cell types.

  6. Cannabidiol in vivo blunts beta-amyloid induced neuroinflammation by suppressing IL-1beta and iNOS expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2007-06-25 Biomarkers

    The results of the present study confirm in vivo anti-inflammatory actions of CBD, emphasizing the importance of this compound as a novel promising pharmacological tool capable of attenuating Abeta evoked neuroinflammatory responses.

  7. Susac's syndrome: 1975-2005 microangiopathy/autoimmune endotheliopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2007-02-28 Risk factors

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

  8. Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 mediates retinal detachment-induced photoreceptor apoptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007-02-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Photoreceptor apoptosis is a major cause of visual loss in retinal detachment (RD) and several other visual disorders, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive.

  9. Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease: are microglia pathogenic in either disorder?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International review of neurobiology 2007-01-01 Risk factors

    Microglial activation similar to that which occurs in peripheral macrophages during inflammatory attack was first demonstrated in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain two decades ago.

  10. Anti-inflammatory drugs in the 21st century

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Sub-cellular biochemistry 2007-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    The discovery of the COX isoforms led to establishing their importance in many non-arthritic or non-pain states where there is an inflammatory component to pathogenesis, including cancer, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

  11. Mechanisms of Disease: astrocytes in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature clinical practice. Neurology 2006-12-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The term neurodegenerative disease refers to the principal pathology associated with disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease, and it is presumed that neurodegeneration results in the clinical findings seen in patients with these diseases.

  12. Hypoxia facilitates Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis by up-regulating BACE1 gene expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-11-22 Vascular contributions

    The molecular mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of the majority of cases of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown.

  13. CNS immune privilege: hiding in plain sight

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Immunological reviews 2006-10-01 Vascular contributions

    Central nervous system (CNS) immune privilege is an experimentally defined phenomenon.

  14. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3): inflammation, diseases, and therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2006-08-30 Risk factors

    Deciphering what governs inflammation and its effects on tissues is vital for understanding many pathologies.

  15. Blood-brain barrier: structural components and function under physiologic and pathologic conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology 2006-07-06 Inflammation and the immune system

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the specialized system of brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMVEC) that shields the brain from toxic substances in the blood, supplies brain tissues with nutrients, and filters harmful compounds from the brain back to the bloodstream.

  16. Roles for NF-kappaB in nerve cell survival, plasticity, and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell death and differentiation 2006-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Here we review evidence of roles for NF-kappaB in the regulation of developmental and synaptic plasticity, and cell survival in physiological and pathological settings.

  17. Perivascular nerves and the regulation of cerebrovascular tone

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 2006-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Brain perfusion is tightly coupled to neuronal activity, is commonly used to monitor normal or pathological brain function, and is a direct reflection of the interactions that occur between neuronal signals and blood vessels.

  18. Neurovascular coupling in the normal brain and in hypertension, stroke, and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 2006-01-01 Risk factors

    The brain is critically dependent on a continuous supply of blood to function.

  19. The role of inflammation in CNS injury and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2006-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    For many years, the central nervous system (CNS) was considered to be 'immune privileged', neither susceptible to nor contributing to inflammation.

  20. Clinical aspects of inflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) 2005-12-01 Treatments

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD) there is increasing evidence that neurotoxicity is mediated by CNS inflammatory processes.

  21. Lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation exacerbates tau pathology by a cyclin-dependent kinase 5-mediated pathway in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-09-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Inflammation is a critical component of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Involvement of P2 receptors in the growth and survival of neurons in the CNS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pharmacology & therapeutics 2005-08-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) has been recognized as a ubiquitous, unstable signalling molecule, acting as a fast neurotransmitter and modulator of transmitter release and neuronal excitability.

  23. Neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1): a DHA-derived mediator that protects brain and retina against cell injury-induced oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2005-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A time-dependent release of endogenous free DHA followed by NPD1 formation occurs, suggesting that a phospholipase A2 releases the mediator's precursor.

  24. Neurovascular mechanisms of Alzheimer's neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2005-04-01 Vascular contributions

    In contrast to traditional neuroncentric views of Alzheimer's disease (AD), recent findings indicate that neurovascular dysfunction contributes to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in AD.

  25. Beta-amyloid-stimulated microglia induce neuron death via synergistic stimulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha and NMDA receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-03-01 Treatments

    Although abundant reactive microglia are found associated with beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, their contribution to cell loss remains speculative.

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