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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. Involvement of caspase-4 in endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis and Abeta-induced cell death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2004-05-03 Disease mechanisms

    Recent studies have suggested that neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease or ischemia could arise from dysfunction of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).

  2. Endogenous production of hydrogen sulfide in mammals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Amino acids 2004-04-08 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Hydrogen sulfide is one of three gases involved in biological functions and synthesized in vivo.

  3. ABAD directly links Abeta to mitochondrial toxicity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004-04-01 Prevention and risk

    Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of beta-amyloid (Abeta)-induced neuronal toxicity in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Glutathione metabolism and its implications for health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of nutrition 2004-03-01 Risk factors

    Glutathione (gamma-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine; GSH) is the most abundant low-molecular-weight thiol, and GSH/glutathione disulfide is the major redox couple in animal cells.

  5. Involvement of oxidative stress-induced abnormalities in ceramide and cholesterol metabolism in brain aging and 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 2004-02-15 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disorder characterized by deposition of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) and degeneration of neurons in brain regions such as the hippocampus, resulting in progressive cognitive dysfunction.

  6. β-Amyloid Peptides Induce Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Stress in Astrocytes and Death of Neurons through Activation of NADPH Oxidase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2004-01-14 Disease mechanisms

    Beta-amyloid (betaA) peptide is strongly implicated in the neurodegeneration underlying Alzheimer's disease, but the mechanisms of neurotoxicity remain controversial.

  7. Oxidative modifications and down-regulation of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 associated with idiopathic Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004-01-13 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative diseases that occur either in relatively rare, familial forms or in common, sporadic forms.

  8. Neurodegenerative diseases and oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2004-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Oxidative stress is now recognized as accountable for redox regulation involving reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS).

  9. Plasma antioxidants are similarly depleted in mild cognitive impairment and in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2003-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In order to assess peripheral levels and activities of a broad spectrum of non-enzymatic and enzymatic antioxidants in elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), plasma levels of water-soluble (Vitamin C and uric acid) and of lipophilic (Vitamin A, Vitamin E and carotenoids including lutein, zeaxanthin, beta-cryptoxanthin, lycopene, alpha- and beta-carotene) antioxidant micronutrients as well as activities of plasma and red blood cell (RBC) superoxide dismutase (SOD) and of plasma glutathione peroxidase (GPx) were measured in 25 patients with MCI, 63 AD patients and 53 controls.

  10. Amyloid-beta: a chameleon walking in two worlds: a review of the trophic and toxic properties of amyloid-beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research. Brain research reviews 2003-09-01 Treatments

    Although much maligned, the amyloid-beta (Abeta) protein has been shown to possess a number of trophic properties that emanate from the protein's ability to bind Cu, Fe and Zn.

  11. Proteomic identification of nitrated proteins in Alzheimer's disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2003-06-01 Genetics

    Nitration of tyrosine in biological conditions represents a pathological event that is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Mitochondrial targeting and a novel transmembrane arrest of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein impairs mitochondrial function in neuronal cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of Cell Biology 2003-04-14 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein 695 (APP) is a plasma membrane protein, which is known to be the source of the toxic amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide associated with the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. MAPKs: new targets for neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Expert opinion on therapeutic targets 2003-04-01 End-of-life care

    Neurodegenerative diseases remain a huge unmet pharmaceutical need.

  14. Protein carbonylation in human diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2003-04-01 Risk factors

    Oxidative modifications of enzymes and structural proteins play a significant role in the aetiology and/or progression of several human diseases.

  15. Aberrant expression of peroxiredoxin subtypes in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2003-03-01 Genetics

    An increasing body of evidence indicates that oxidative stress and damage play a role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases associated with neurodegeneration, including Down syndrome (DS), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Pick's disease (PD).

  16. Folate and homocysteine metabolism in neural plasticity and neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2003-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Folate is a cofactor in one-carbon metabolism, during which it promotes the remethylation of homocysteine -- a cytotoxic sulfur-containing amino acid that can induce DNA strand breakage, oxidative stress and apoptosis.

  17. Protein carbonyl groups as biomarkers of oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2003-03-01 Risk factors

    Oxidative stress, an imbalance toward the pro-oxidant side of the pro-oxidant/antioxidant homeostasis, occurs in several human diseases.

  18. Involvement of oxidative stress in the enhancement of acetylcholinesterase activity induced by amyloid beta-peptide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience research 2003-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity is increased within and around amyloid plaques, which are present in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient's brain.

  19. Amyloid beta-peptide (1-42)-induced oxidative stress and neurotoxicity: implications for neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease brain. A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Free radical research 2002-12-01 Genetics

    Brain membranes from human apoE4 mice have greater vulnerability to Abeta(1-42)-induced oxidative stress than brain membranes from apoE2 or E3, assessed by the same indices, consistent with the notion of a coupling of the oxidative environment in AD brain and increased risk of developing this disorder.

  20. Pathophysiology of hepatic encephalopathy: a new look at ammonia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Metabolic brain disease 2002-12-01 Biomarkers

    Damage to astrocytes characterized by cell swelling (acute liver failure) or Alzheimer Type II astrocytosis (chronic liver failure) can be readily reproduced by acute or chronic exposure of these cells in vitro to pathophysiologically relevant concentrations of ammonia.

  21. Metalloenzyme-like Activity of Alzheimer's Disease β-Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2002-10-01 Risk factors

    Beta-amyloid (Abeta) 1-42, implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, forms an oligomeric complex that binds copper at a CuZn superoxide dismutase-like binding site.

  22. Evidence that amyloid beta-peptide-induced lipid peroxidation and its sequelae in Alzheimer's disease brain contribute to neuronal death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2002-09-01 Genetics

    Abeta(1-42) addition to synaptosomes also results in HNE binding to Glt-1, thereby coupling increased Abeta(1-42) in AD brain to increased lipid peroxidation and its sequelae and possibly explaining the mechanism of glutamate transport inhibition known in AD brain.

  23. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which oxidative stress has been implicated as an important event in the progression of the pathology.

  24. Oxidative alterations of proteins by reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in the progression of aging and age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Increase of brain oxidative stress in mild cognitive impairment: a possible predictor of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    These results imply that individuals with MCI have increased brain oxidative damage before the onset of symptomatic dementia.

  26. Lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation in Alzheimer's disease brain: potential causes and consequences involving amyloid beta-peptide-associated free radical oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2002-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid beta-peptide (A(beta)) is heavily deposited in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and free radical oxidative stress, particularly of neuronal lipids and proteins, is extensive.

  27. Folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 and one carbon metabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2002-01-01 Disparities

    The vitamins folic acid, B12 and B6 and B2 are the source of coenzymes which participate in one carbon metabolism.

  28. Evidence of oxidative damage in Alzheimer's disease brain: central role for amyloid beta-peptide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2001-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is heavily deposited in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  29. Chronic overexpression of the calcineurin inhibitory gene DSCR1 (Adapt78) is associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2001-08-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The DSCR1 (Adapt78) gene was independently discovered as a resident of the "Down syndrome candidate region"and as an "adaptive response"shock or stress gene that is transiently induced during oxidative stress.

  30. The glial glutamate transporter, GLT‐1, is oxidatively modified by 4‐hydroxy‐2‐nonenal in the Alzheimer's disease brain: the role of Aβ1–42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 2001-07-15 Disease mechanisms

    Glutamate transporters are involved in the maintenance of synaptic glutamate concentrations.

  31. Increased lipid peroxidation precedes amyloid plaque formation in an animal model of Alzheimer amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2001-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress is a key feature in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain and manifests as lipid peroxidation (LPO).

  32. Mitochondrial abnormalities 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 2001-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    The finding that oxidative damage, including that to nucleic acids, in Alzheimer's disease is primarily limited to the cytoplasm of susceptible neuronal populations suggests that mitochondrial abnormalities might be part of the spectrum of chronic oxidative stress of Alzheimer's disease.

  33. The reduction of NADH ubiquinone oxidoreductase 24- and 75-kDa subunits in brains of patients with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Life sciences 2001-05-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I), one of the most complicated multi-protein enzyme complexes, is important for energy metabolism because it is the initial enzyme of the mitochondrial respiratory chain.

  34. Protein oxidation in the brain in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2001-01-01 Biomarkers

    In this study we used immunohistochemistry and two-dimensional fingerprinting of oxidatively modified proteins (two-dimensional Oxyblot) together to investigate protein carbonyl formation in the Alzheimer's disease brain.

  35. Role of free radicals in the neurodegenerative diseases: therapeutic implications for antioxidant treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drugs & aging 2001-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Indeed, it has been shown that proteasomal inhibition increases levels of oxidative damage not only to proteins but also to other biomolecules.

  36. Apoptosis in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 2000-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neuronal death underlies the symptoms of many human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, stroke, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  37. High-throughput profiling of the mitochondrial proteome using affinity fractionation and automation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Electrophoresis 2000-10-01 Genetics

    Recent studies have demonstrated the need for complementing cellular genomic information with specific information on expressed proteins, or proteomics, since the correlation between the two is poor.

  38. Homocysteine elicits a DNA damage response in neurons that promotes apoptosis and hypersensitivity to excitotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2000-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Elevated plasma levels of the sulfur-containing amino acid homocysteine increase the risk for atherosclerosis, stroke, and possibly Alzheimer's disease, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown.

  39. Oxidative stress and apoptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology 2000-09-01 Risk factors

    Apoptosis or programmed cell death, is essential for the normal functioning and survival of most multi-cellular organisms.

  40. alpha-synuclein promotes mitochondrial deficit and oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2000-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Abnormal accumulation of the presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein has recently been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

  41. Glutathione, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of biochemistry 2000-08-01 Vascular contributions

    There is significant evidence that the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Friedreich's ataxia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, may involve the generation of reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial dysfunction.

  42. Oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2000-07-01 Genetics

    Oxidative balance is emerging as an important issue in understanding the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

  43. Reactive oxygen species, cell signaling, and cell injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2000-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress has traditionally been viewed as a stochastic process of cell damage resulting from aerobic metabolism, and antioxidants have been viewed simply as free radical scavengers.

  44. Oxidative stress and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2000-02-01 Genetics

    Research in the field of molecular biology has helped to provide a better understanding of both the cascade of biochemical events that occurs with Alzheimer disease (AD) and the heterogeneous nature of the disease.

  45. Antioxidants, oxidative stress, and degenerative neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.) 1999-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    The results so far are encouraging but variable and thus confusing.

  46. Cu(II) potentiation of alzheimer abeta neurotoxicity. Correlation with cell-free hydrogen peroxide production and metal reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1999-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress markers as well as high concentrations of copper are found in the vicinity of Abeta amyloid deposits in Alzheimer's disease.

  47. The role of copper in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 1999-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Copper is an essential trace metal which plays a fundamental role in the biochemistry of the human nervous system.

  48. The A beta peptide of Alzheimer's disease directly produces hydrogen peroxide through metal ion reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemistry 1999-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Oxidative stress markers characterize the neuropathology both of Alzheimer's disease and of amyloid-bearing transgenic mice.

  49. Increased Peroxynitrite Activity in AIDS Dementia Complex: Implications for the Neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of Immunology 1999-04-01 Biomarkers

    Oxidative stress is suggested to be involved in several neurodegenerative diseases.

  50. RNA Oxidation Is a Prominent Feature of Vulnerable Neurons in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 1999-03-15 Disease mechanisms

    In this study we used an in situ approach to identify the oxidized nucleosides 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8OHdG) and 8-hydroxyguanosine (8OHG), markers of oxidative damage to DNA and RNA, respectively, in cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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