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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. Expression of heme oxygenase-1 in the senescent and Alzheimer-diseased brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1995-06-01 Biomarkers

    Heme oxygenase-1 is a cellular stress protein expressed in brain and other tissues in response to oxidative challenge and other noxious stimuli.

  2. Early Binding of Anti-Amyloid Antibodies to CAA Drives Complement Activation, Inflammation and ARIA in Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2026-03-07 Treatments

    Anti-amyloid antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is linked to Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA), including vasogenic edema (ARIA-E) and microhemorrhages (ARIA-H), especially in ApoE ε4/4 carriers.

  3. Microglial APOE4: more is less and less is more

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-12-19 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the single greatest genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. VEGF controls microglial phagocytic response to amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2023-12-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglial cells are well known to be implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), due to the impaired clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) protein.

  5. Integrative multi-omic profiling of adult mouse brain endothelial cells and potential implications in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2023-11-04 Genetics

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is primarily manifested by a variety of physiological properties of brain endothelial cells (ECs), but the molecular foundation for these properties remains incompletely clear.

  6. Role of trigger receptor 2 expressed on myeloid cells in neuroinflammation-neglected multidimensional regulation of microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2023-11-03 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Neuroinflammation is an inflammatory cascade involved in various neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and other relevant diseases.

  7. The Pathogenesis in Alzheimer's Disease: TREM2 as a Potential Target

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2023-10-30 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is ranked as the third-most expensive illness and sixth leading cause of mortality.

  8. Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-10-03 Treatments

    The increase in blood flow evoked by whisker stimulation (functional hyperemia) or by endothelial and smooth muscle vasoactivity was markedly attenuated in WT → Tg2576 chimeras but was fully restored in CD36-/- → Tg2576 chimeras, in which BAM ROS production was suppressed.

  9. Role of NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated neuronal pyroptosis and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] 2023-09-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    The aim of this review is to explore the role of NLRP3 activation-mediated neuronal pyroptosis and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases.

  10. Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β, NLRP3 Inflammasome, and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current medical science 2023-09-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia worldwide.

  11. Crosstalk between NLRP3 inflammasome and calpain in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2023-08-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Amyloid plaques are considered to be the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Alzheimer risk-increasing TREM2 variant causes aberrant cortical synapse density and promotes network hyperexcitability in mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2023-08-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The R47H variant of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Trem2 Enhances Demyelination in the Csf1r+/- Mouse Model of Leukoencephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2023-07-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R)-related leukoencephalopathy (CRL) is a neurodegenerative disease that triggers early demyelination, leading to an adult-onset dementia.

  14. Recent Trends in Active and Passive Immunotherapies of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-06-19 Drug development

    In the elderly, a debilitating condition known as dementia, which is a major health concern, is caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Tetrahydroxy stilbene glycoside ameliorates neuroinflammation for Alzheimer's disease via cGAS-STING

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2023-06-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), also known as senile dementia, is the most common degenerative disease of the central nervous system.

  16. Genetic insights into immune mechanisms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2023-06-08 Genetics

    Microglia, the macrophages of the brain, are vital for brain homeostasis and have been implicated in a broad range of brain disorders.

  17. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2-apolipoprotein E signaling pathway in diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2023-06-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a membrane receptor on myeloid cells and plays an important role in the body's immune defense.

  18. Complement C3 Enhances LPS-Elicited Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Via the Mac1/NOX2 Pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2023-06-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    Recent studies showed increased expression of complements in various neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

  19. TREM2 Expression and Amyloid-Beta Phagocytosis in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-05-11 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia; its key pathological findings include the deposition of extracellular-neurotoxic-plaques composed of amyloid-beta (Ab).

  20. The involvement of NLRP3 inflammasome in CUMS-induced AD-like pathological changes and related cognitive decline in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2023-05-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    CUMS induced depressive-like behaviors and cognitive decline in mice, which could be reversed by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome.

  21. Reduced binding of apoE4 to complement factor H promotes amyloid-β oligomerization and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EMBO reports 2023-05-08 Genetics

    The APOE4 variant of apolipoprotein E (apoE) is the most prevalent genetic risk allele associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Ocular manifestations of central insulin resistance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2023-05 Brain scans and imaging

    While neither blood glucose nor serum insulin level was significantly altered in the experimental or control group, we found that injection of S961 but not buffer solution significantly increased intraocular pressure at 14 and 24 days after first injection, along with reduced porosity and aquaporin 4 expression in the trabecular meshwork, and increased tumor necrosis factor α and aquaporin 4 expression in the ciliary body.

  23. The TREM2 H157Y Variant Influences Microglial Phagocytosis, Polarization, and Inflammatory Cytokine Release

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2023-04-09 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Previously, we reported that H157Y, a rare coding variant on exon 3 of the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 gene (TREM2), was associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk in a Han Chinese population.

  24. Circadian Rhythms and Astrocytes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annual review of neuroscience 2023-03-28 Risk factors

    This review explores the interface between circadian timekeeping and the regulation of brain function by astrocytes.

  25. Astrocytic APOE4 removal confers cerebrovascular protection despite increased cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-03-16 Vascular contributions

    Reducing the levels of APOE4 in astrocytes shifted the deposition of fibrillar Aβ from the brain parenchyma to the cerebrovasculature.

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