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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. Increased poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of nuclear proteins in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1999-02-01 Biomarkers

    Experimental studies indicate that overactivation of the DNA repair protein poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in response to oxidative damage to DNA can cause cell death due to depletion of NAD+.

  2. Lipid peroxidation products and antioxidants in human disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 1998-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Lipid peroxidation (LPO) is a free radical-related process that in biologic systems may occur under enzymatic control, e.g., for the generation of lipid-derived inflammatory mediators, or nonenzymatically.

  3. Energy Thresholds in Brain Mitochondria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Biological Chemistry 1998-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Decreases in mitochondrial respiratory chain complex activities have been implicated in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Alzheimer's disease.

  4. The Impact of Gender and Estrogen on Striatal Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1998-05-01 Biomarkers

    The reproductive properties of estrogen are well established, but it is now evident that this steroid hormone has substantial modulatory capabilities in nonreproductive systems.

  5. The transcription factor NF-kappaB is expressed in neurons wherein it is activated in response to a variety of stress- and injury-related stimuli including exposure to cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha), and excitotoxic and oxidative insults.

  6. Evidence that 4-hydroxynonenal mediates oxidative stress-induced neuronal apoptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1997-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress is believed to play important roles in neuronal cell death associated with many different neurodegenerative conditions (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and cerebral ischemia), and it is believed also that apoptosis is an important mode of cell death in these disorders.

  7. Deposits of amyloid beta-peptide (A beta), reduced glucose uptake into brain cells, oxidative damage to cellular proteins and lipids, and excitotoxic mechanisms have all been suggested to play roles in the neurodegenerative process in Alzheimer's disease.

  8. 4-Hydroxynonenal-derived advanced lipid peroxidation end products are increased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1997-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Recent studies have demonstrated oxidative damage is one of the salient features of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Widespread peroxynitrite-mediated damage 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 1997-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Increasing evidence suggests that oxidative damage to proteins and other macromolecules is a salient feature of the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

  10. Disruption of the metallothionein-III gene in mice: analysis of brain zinc, behavior, and neuron vulnerability to metals, aging, and seizures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1997-02-01 Biomarkers

    Metallothionein-III (MT-III), a brain-specific member of the metallothionein family of metal-binding proteins, is abundant in glutamatergic neurons that release zinc from their synaptic terminals, such as hippocampal pyramidal neurons and dentate granule cells.

  11. Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology 1996-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress refers to the cytopathologic consequences of a mismatch between the production of free radicals and the ability of the cell to defend against them.

  12. Brain regional correspondence between Alzheimer's disease histopathology and biomarkers of protein oxidation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1995-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Four biomarkers of neuronal protein oxidation [W/S ratio of MAL-6 spin-labeled synaptosomes, phenylhydrazine-reactive protein carbonyl content, glutamine synthetase (GS) activity, creatine kinase (CK) activity] in three brain regions [cerebellum, inferior parietal lobule (IPL), and hippocampus (HIP)] of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-demented and age-matched control subjects were assessed.

  13. Aging, energy, and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1995-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    The etiology of neurodegenerative diseases remains enigmatic; however, evidence for defects in energy metabolism, excitotoxicity, and for oxidative damage is increasingly compelling.

  14. 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.

  15. Oxidative damage to mitochondrial DNA is increased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1994-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative damage to DNA may play a role in both normal aging and in neurodegenerative diseases.

  16. Isolated Cerebral and Cerebellar Mitochondria Produce Free Radicals when Exposed to Elevated Ca2+ and Na+: Implications for Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 1994-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    The evidence is compelling that free radicals, plus increases in free cytosolic Ca2+ and Na+, figure prominently in neuronal death after exposure to glutamate and dicarboxylic excitotoxins such as NMDA and kainate.

  17. Electron transport chain defects in Alzheimer's disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1994-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Previous work suggested a deficiency in the terminal complex of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, cytochrome c oxidase (COX), in platelet mitochondria of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  18. Hydrogen peroxide mediates amyloid beta protein toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell 1994-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid beta protein (A beta) is a 40-43 amino acid peptide that is associated with plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is cytotoxic to cultured neurons.

  19. Free radicals in brain metabolism and pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. British medical bulletin 1993-07-01 Prevention and risk

    Reactive oxygen metabolites (ROM), namely superoxide and hydroxyl free radicals and hydrogen peroxide, are produced as a consequence of the physiological metabolic reactions and functioning of the central nervous system.

  20. Quinolinic acid and kynurenine pathway metabolism in inflammatory and non-inflammatory neurological disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1992-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    In contrast, no increases in CSF QUIN were found in chronic neurodegenerative disorders, depression or myoclonic seizure disorders, while CSF kynurenic acid concentrations were significantly lower in Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

  21. Mitochondrial genetics: a paradigm for aging and degenerative diseases?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1992-05-01 Risk factors

    Studies of diseases caused by mitochondrial DNA mutations suggest that a variety of degenerative processes may be associated with defects in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS).

  22. Does impairment of energy metabolism result in excitotoxic neuronal death in neurodegenerative illnesses?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1992-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    The etiology of nerve cell death in neuronal degenerative disease is unknown, but it has been hypothesized that excitotoxic mechanisms may play a role.

  23. Cytochrome oxidase deficiency in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1990-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    We assayed cytochrome oxidase and other electron transport chain activities in platelet mitochondria isolated from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. A new mitochondrial disease associated with mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 1990-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    A variable combination of developmental delay, retinitis pigmentosa, dementia, seizures, ataxia, proximal neurogenic muscle weakness, and sensory neuropathy occurred in four members of a family and was maternally transmitted.

  25. Superoxide dismutase activity in Alzheimer's disease: possible mechanism for paired helical filament formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain research 1989-01-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Activity of the free radical scavenging enzyme, superoxide dismutase (SOD-1), was determined in fibroblast cell lines derived from familial Alzheimer's patients, trisomy 21 patients and normal controls.

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