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  1. Pantethine and Neurodegeneration: A Coenzyme A-Centered Framework Linking Metabolism, Neuroinflammation, and Mitochondrial Dysfunction 2026-10-23
  2. BNIP3L/NIX-mediated mitophagy limits Alzheimer’s disease pathology and preserves neuronal function 2026-10-20
  3. Convergent Mitochondrial and Oxidative Stress Signatures in Spaceflight and Tauopathy: A Comparative Multi-Omics Reanalysis in Drosophila melanogaster 2026-10-19

Studies

275 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 9
  • Free radical biology & medicine 8
  • Redox biology 8
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 7
  • Biochimica et biophysica acta 6

168 journals in all.

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  1. 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.

  2. Mild hypoxia enhances proliferation and multipotency of human neural stem cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2010-01-05 Biomarkers

    These findings raise the possibility that reduced oxygen levels occurring in neuronal disorders like cerebral ischemia transiently lead to NSC remaining in a state of quiescence.

  3. Regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Essays in biochemistry 2010-01-01 Prevention trials

    Although it is well established that physical activity increases mitochondrial content in muscle, the molecular mechanisms underlying this process have only recently been elucidated.

  4. Mitochondrial dynamics--fusion, fission, movement, and mitophagy--in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2009-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurons are metabolically active cells with high energy demands at locations distant from the cell body.

  5. Mitochondrial bioenergetic deficit precedes Alzheimer's pathology in female mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-08-10 Prevention and risk

    Mitochondrial dysfunction has been proposed to play a pivotal role in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. Impaired balance of mitochondrial fission and fusion in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Mitochondrial dysfunction is a prominent feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neurons.

  7. Regulation of mitochondrial respiratory chain biogenesis by estrogens/estrogen receptors and physiological, pathological and pharmacological implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2009-06-23 Brain scans and imaging

    There has been increasing evidence pointing to the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) as a novel and important target for the actions of 17beta-estradiol (E(2)) and estrogen receptors (ER) in a number of cell types and tissues that have high demands for mitochondrial energy metabolism.

  8. S-nitrosylation of Drp1 mediates beta-amyloid-related mitochondrial fission and neuronal injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2009-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Mitochondria continuously undergo two opposing processes, fission and fusion.

  9. Glutathione dysregulation and the etiology and progression of human diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological chemistry 2009-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Glutathione (GSH) plays an important role in a multitude of cellular processes, including cell differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis, and as a result, disturbances in GSH homeostasis are implicated in the etiology and/or progression of a number of human diseases, including cancer, diseases of aging, cystic fibrosis, and cardiovascular, inflammatory, immune, metabolic, and neurodegenerative diseases.

  10. Oxidative stress and neurodegenerative diseases: a review of upstream and downstream antioxidant therapeutic options

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current neuropharmacology 2009-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Free radicals are common outcome of normal aerobic cellular metabolism.

  11. Mitochondrial dysfunction and glaucoma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of glaucoma 2009-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Glaucoma is increasingly recognized as a neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by the accelerated loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and their axons.

  12. Kynurenine pathway metabolites in humans: disease and healthy States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR 2009-01-08 Tau biomarkers

    Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that can be metabolised through different pathways, a major route being the kynurenine pathway.

  13. Impairing the mitochondrial fission and fusion balance: a new mechanism of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2008-12-01 Risk factors

    Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common characteristic of all neurodegenerative diseases.

  14. Mitochondria in neuroplasticity and neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2008-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Mitochondrial electron transport generates the ATP that is essential for the excitability and survival of neurons, and the protein phosphorylation reactions that mediate synaptic signaling and related long-term changes in neuronal structure and function.

  15. Environmental-induced oxidative stress in neurodegenerative disorders and aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mutation research 2008-10-05 Risk factors

    The aetiology of most neurodegenerative disorders is multifactorial and consists of an interaction between environmental factors and genetic predisposition.

  16. Cyclophilin D deficiency attenuates mitochondrial and neuronal perturbation and ameliorates learning and memory in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2008-09-21 Disease mechanisms

    Cyclophilin D (CypD, encoded by Ppif) is an integral part of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore, whose opening leads to cell death.

  17. Amyloid beta peptide and NMDA induce ROS from NADPH oxidase and AA release from cytosolic phospholipase A2 in cortical neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2008-07-01 Treatments

    Increase in oxidative stress has been postulated to play an important role in the pathogenesis of a number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease.

  18. A mathematical model of glutathione metabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Theoretical biology & medical modelling 2008-04-28 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    We show that the glutathione pools in hepatic cells and in the blood are quite insensitive to fluctuations in amino acid input and offer an explanation based on model predictions.

  19. Metals in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in chemical biology 2008-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    There has been steadily growing interest in the participation of metal ions (especially, zinc, copper, and iron) in neurobiological processes, such as the regulation of synaptic transmission.

  20. Alzheimer's disease is associated with reduced expression of energy metabolism genes in posterior cingulate neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008-03-10 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with regional reductions in fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) measurements of the cerebral metabolic rate for glucose, which may begin long before the onset of histopathological or clinical features, especially in carriers of a common AD susceptibility gene.

  21. Amyloid beta, mitochondrial dysfunction and synaptic damage: implications for cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2008-01-22 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent studies of postmortem brains from Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and transgenic mouse models of AD suggest that oxidative damage, induced by amyloid beta (Abeta), is associated with mitochondria early in AD progression.

  22. Targeting mitochondria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Accounts of chemical research 2008-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    ROS and RNS escape results in the activation of cytosolic stress pathways, DNA damage, and the upregulation of JNK, p38, and p53.

  23. Oxidative stress and neurotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Chemical research in toxicology 2007-12-04 Disease mechanisms

    There is increasing awareness of the ubiquitous role of oxidative stress in neurodegenerative disease states.

  24. Neuronal death and survival under oxidative stress in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2007-12-01 Risk factors

    Neuronal death is a common feature in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD).

  25. Roles of amyloid beta-peptide-associated oxidative stress and brain protein modifications in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2007-06-13 Genetics

    Oxidative stress has been implicated to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases, including neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, and ischemia, just to name a few.

  26. Proteomics Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Hippocampal Proteome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2007-05-08 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), extracellular senile plaques (SP), and synaptic loss.

  27. Calcium and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Aging cell 2007-02-28 Genetics

    When properly controlled, Ca2+ fluxes across the plasma membrane and between intracellular compartments play critical roles in fundamental functions of neurons, including the regulation of neurite outgrowth and synaptogenesis, synaptic transmission and plasticity, and cell survival.

  28. Abeta oligomers induce neuronal oxidative stress through an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-dependent mechanism that is blocked by the Alzheimer drug memantine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-02-16 Treatments

    Oxidative stress is a major aspect of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology.

  29. Current analytical methods for the detection of dityrosine, a biomarker of oxidative stress, in biological samples

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mass spectrometry reviews 2007-01-01 Risk factors

    Dityrosine is a fluorescent molecule formed as a result of normal posttranslational processing.

  30. Rare earth nanoparticles prevent retinal degeneration induced by intracellular peroxides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature nanotechnology 2006-10-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Photoreceptor cells are incessantly bombarded with photons of light, which, along with the cells' high rate of oxygen metabolism, continuously exposes them to elevated levels of toxic reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs).

  31. Alzheimer disease, the two-hit hypothesis: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2006-10-27 Drug development

    Given the relative modality of single-insult models to accurately reflect Alzheimer disease pathogenesis, based on studies on mitogenic and oxidative stress signaling pathways, we proposed a two-hit hypothesis 2 years ago stating that both oxidative stress and mitogenic dysregulation are necessary and sufficient to cause the disease and suggested that it may be a common mechanism for other neurodegenerative diseases as well (X. Zhu, A.K.

  32. Free radicals and antioxidants in normal physiological functions and human disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 2006-08-04 Risk factors

    Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS, e.g. nitric oxide, NO(*)) are well recognised for playing a dual role as both deleterious and beneficial species.

  33. Accumulation of amyloid precursor protein in the mitochondrial import channels of human Alzheimer's disease brain is associated with mitochondrial dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the major intracellular lesions of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  34. Oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease brain: new insights from redox proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2006-06-15 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease, an age-related neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized clinically by a progressive loss of memory and cognitive functions.

  35. Mitochondria are a direct site of A beta accumulation in Alzheimer's disease neurons: implications for free radical generation and oxidative damage in disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2006-03-21 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, neurodegenerative disease characterized by the impairment of cognitive function in elderly individuals.

  36. Identification of nitrated proteins in Alzheimer's disease brain using a redox proteomics approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2005-12-27 Genetics

    Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of a number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  37. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles, senile plaques and loss of synapses.

  38. Mitochondrial Abeta: a potential focal point for neuronal metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2005-10-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) is the neurotoxic species implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), mechanisms through which intracellular Abeta impairs cellular properties, resulting in neuronal dysfunction, remain to be clarified.

  39. Mitochondria take center stage in aging and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2005-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    A critical role of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative damage has been hypothesized in both aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

  40. Ribosome dysfunction is an early event in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-10-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and devastating disorder that is often preceded by mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  41. Copper, oxidative stress, and human health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Molecular aspects of medicine 2005-08-01 Risk factors

    Copper (Cu), a redox active metal, is an essential nutrient for all species studied to date.

  42. Oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular stress response in Friedreich's ataxia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2005-06-01 Prevention and risk

    There is significant evidence that the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, may involve the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and/or reactive nitrogen species (RNS) associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.

  43. Mitochondrial abnormalities in Alzheimer brain: Mechanistic implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2005-04-25 Disease mechanisms

    Reductions in cerebral metabolism sufficient to impair cognition in normal individuals also occur in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  44. 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.

  45. Metals, toxicity and oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current medicinal chemistry 2005-01-01 Risk factors

    Common mechanisms involving the Fenton reaction, generation of the superoxide radical and the hydroxyl radical appear to be involved for iron, copper, chromium, vanadium and cobalt primarily associated with mitochondria, microsomes and peroxisomes.

  46. Iron, brain ageing and neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2004-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    There is increasing evidence that iron is involved in the mechanisms that underlie many neurodegenerative diseases.

  47. Disruption of ceruloplasmin and hephaestin in mice causes retinal iron overload and retinal degeneration with features of age-related macular degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004-09-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Mechanisms of brain and retinal iron homeostasis have become subjects of increased interest after the discovery of elevated iron levels in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and retinas of patients with age-related macular degeneration.

  48. Antisense directed at the Abeta region of APP decreases brain oxidative markers in aged senescence accelerated mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2004-08-01 Drug development

    Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is known to induce free radical-mediated oxidative stress in the brain.

  49. The novel neuromodulator hydrogen sulfide: an endogenous peroxynitrite 'scavenger'?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2004-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a well-known cytotoxic gas.

  50. Axonal mitochondrial transport and potential are correlated

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Cell Science 2004-05-24 Disease mechanisms

    Disruption of axonal transport leads to a disorganized distribution of mitochondria and other organelles and is thought to be responsible for some types of neuronal disease.

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