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  1. Intermittent hypoxia training enhances Aβ endocytosis by plaque associated microglia via VPS35-dependent TREM2 recycling in murine Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-06-03 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Our results showed that IHT ameliorated cognitive function and Aβ pathology.

  2. Characterizing dysregulations via cell-cell communications in Alzheimer's brains using single-cell transcriptomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC neuroscience 2024-05-13 Genetics

    Specifically, we first performed broad communication pattern analyses to highlight that biologically related cell types in normal brains rely on largely overlapping signaling networks and that the AD brain exhibits the irregular inter-mixing of cell types and signaling pathways.

  3. Regulation of human microglial gene expression and function via RNAase-H active antisense oligonucleotides in vivo in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2024-04-24 TREM2 and immune genetics

    We proved their efficacy in human iPSC microglia in vitro, as well as their pharmacological activity in vivo in a xenografted microglia model.

  4. Osteopontin drives neuroinflammation and cell loss in MAPT-N279K frontotemporal dementia patient neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell stem cell 2024-04-15 Genetics

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an incurable group of early-onset dementias that can be caused by the deposition of hyperphosphorylated tau in patient brains.

  5. SHIP inhibition mediates select TREM2-induced microglial functions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular immunology 2024-04-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia play a pivotal role in the pathology of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), with the Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) central to their neuroprotective functions.

  6. Mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic neuroinflammatory diseases (Review)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular medicine 2024-04-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    Chronic neuroinflammation serves a key role in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative disorders.

  7. Proteomic analysis of P. gingivalis-Lipopolysaccharide induced neuroinflammation in SH-SY5Y and HMC3 cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. GeroScience 2024-03-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Chronic periodontitis and its keystone pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis, have increasingly been linked with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Blood-based biomarkers of cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2024-02-27 Biomarkers

    Age-associated cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) represents a clinically heterogenous condition, arising from diverse microvascular mechanisms.

  9. Functional BRI2-TREM2 interactions in microglia: implications for Alzheimer's and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. EMBO reports 2024-02-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    ITM2B/BRI2 mutations cause Alzheimer's Disease (AD)-related dementias.

  10. ApoE Isoforms Inhibit Amyloid Aggregation of Proinflammatory Protein S100A9

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-02-09 Genetics

    Increasing evidence suggests that the calcium-binding and proinflammatory protein S100A9 is an important player in neuroinflammation-mediated Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease: Structure, function, therapeutic prospects, and activation challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular and cellular neurosciences 2024-01-19 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a membrane glycoprotein that plays a crucial role in the regulation of microglial survival, activation, phagocytosis, as well as in the maintenance of brain homeostasis and the inflammatory response to injury or neurodegeneration.

  12. Aducanumab anti-amyloid immunotherapy induces sustained microglial and immune alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2024-01-16 Treatments

    Aducanumab, an anti-amyloid immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease, efficiently reduces Aβ, though its plaque clearance mechanisms, long-term effects, and effects of discontinuation are not fully understood.

  13. The glymphatic system and cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2024-01-09 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease and glymphatic dysfunction are anatomically connected and significant risk factors are shared between the two.

  14. Different Splice Isoforms of Peripheral Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 mRNA Expressions are Associated With Cognitive Decline in Mild Dementia Due to Alzheimer's Disease and Reflect Central Neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2024 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is upregulated in activated microglia and may be related to cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Microglial TLR4/NLRP3 Inflammasome Signaling in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease is a pervasive neurodegenerative disease that is estimated to represent approximately 70% of dementia cases worldwide, and the molecular complexity that has been highlighted remains poorly understood.

  16. Amyloid Beta-Mediated Neurovascular Toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Vascular contributions

    The brain vascular system receives one-fifth of the total oxygen from the cardiac output, and this transport system is highly dependent on blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity.

  17. Amyloid beta (Aβ) deposition within the brain vasculature is an early hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which triggers loss of brain vascular smooth muscle cells (BVSMCs) in cerebral arteries, via poorly understood mechanisms, altering cerebral blood flow, brain waste clearance, and promoting cognitive impairment.

  18. PCSK9 ablation attenuates Aβ pathology, neuroinflammation and cognitive dysfunctions in 5XFAD mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2023-11-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    In vitro, PCSK9 significantly increased IL6, IL1B and TNFΑ mRNA levels in Aβ fibrils-treated U373 cells, without influencing inflammasome gene expression, except for an increase in NLRC4 mRNA levels.

  19. The cell biology of APOE in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Trends in cell biology 2023-10-05 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) traffics lipids in the central nervous system.

  20. Blood-brain barrier pathology in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2023-09-22 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease is a neurological disease that affects the brain microvasculature and which is commonly observed among the elderly.

  21. Early Alzheimer's disease pathology in human cortex involves transient cell states

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell 2023-09-01 Genetics

    Cellular perturbations underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are primarily studied in human postmortem samples and model organisms.

  22. Our study establishes a connection between Aβ antibodies engaged at CAA deposits, the activation of perivascular macrophages, and the upregulation of genes involved in vascular permeability.

  23. Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Signal transduction and targeted therapy 2023-07-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Studies in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and so on, have suggested that inflammation is not only a result of neurodegeneration but also a crucial player in this process.

  24. NLRP3-directed antisense oligonucleotides reduce microglial immunoactivities in vitro

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2023-03-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with the cerebral deposition of Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide, which leads to NLRP3 inflammasome activation and subsequent release of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and interleukin-18 (IL-18).

  25. New insight into neurological degeneration: Inflammatory cytokines and blood-brain barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2022-10-24 Costs and economics

    Neurological degeneration after neuroinflammation, such as that resulting from Alzheimer's disease (AD), stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS), and post-traumatic brain injury (TBI), is typically associated with high mortality and morbidity and with permanent cognitive dysfunction, which places a heavy economic burden on families and society.

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