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  1. Molecular MRI of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease using a Folate-targeted Nanoprobe 2026-11-01
  2. Neuroinflammation is an early pathological process in a mouse model of prodromal Parkinsons disease 2026-10-30
  3. The TREM-receptor family interactome in the human brain 2026-10-29

Studies

747 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Molecular neurodegeneration 31
  • Journal of neuroinflammation 26
  • bioRxiv 21
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 19
  • Neurobiology of aging 19

252 journals in all.

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  1. Lipid-Associated Macrophages Control Metabolic Homeostasis in a Trem2-Dependent Manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Cell 2019-06-27 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Immune cells residing in white adipose tissue have been highlighted as important factors contributing to the pathogenesis of metabolic diseases, but the molecular regulators that drive adipose tissue immune cell remodeling during obesity remain largely unknown.

  2. A Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease Focused on Immune-inflammatory Modulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia and neurocognitive disorders 2019-06-24 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, has emerged as a major global public health challenge.

  3. TREM2 function impedes tau seeding in neuritic plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-06-24 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) have been associated with increased risk for sporadic, late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

  4. Microglial Trem2 induces synaptic impairment at early stage and prevents amyloidosis at late stage in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2019-06-20 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed in myeloid cells (TREM)2 is a genetic high-risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is considered a potential target for AD diagnosis and therapy, although its role in the different stages of AD remains controversial.

  5. Opposite microglial activation stages upon loss of PGRN or TREM2 result in reduced cerebral glucose metabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2019-06-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia adopt numerous fates with homeostatic microglia (HM) and a microglial neurodegenerative phenotype (MGnD) representing two opposite ends.

  6. TREM2 Attenuates Aβ1-42-Mediated Neuroinflammation in BV-2 Cells by Downregulating TLR Signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2019-05-27 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The pathogenesis of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) mainly involves abnormal accumulation of extracellular β-amyloid (Aβ) and the consequent neurotoxic effects.

  7. Aminophospholipids are signal-transducing TREM2 ligands on apoptotic cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-05-17 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Variants of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are associated with an increased incidence of Alzheimer's disease, as well as other neurodegenerative disorders.

  8. Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in cell & developmental biology 2019-05-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia, being the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, play an important role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and contributes towards brain development under normal conditions.

  9. TREM2 brain transcript-specific studies in AD and TREM2 mutation carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-05-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Low frequency coding variants in TREM2 are associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) risk and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) TREM2 protein levels are different between AD cases and controls.

  10. Effects of Neurotrophic Factors in Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System: Expression and Properties in Neurodegeneration and Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in physiology 2019-04-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia are abundant cell types found in the central nervous system and have been shown to play crucial roles in regulating both normal and disease states.

  11. Galectin-3, a novel endogenous TREM2 ligand, detrimentally regulates inflammatory response in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2019-04-20 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in which the formation of extracellular aggregates of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide, fibrillary tangles of intraneuronal tau and microglial activation are major pathological hallmarks.

  12. Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by impairments of cognitive function as a result of synaptic deficits and neuronal loss, is associated with inflammation.

  13. Senolytic therapy alleviates Aβ-associated oligodendrocyte progenitor cell senescence and cognitive deficits in an Alzheimer's disease model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuritic plaques, a pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, comprise extracellular aggregates of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and degenerating neurites that accumulate autolysosomes.

  14. The Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease: Age, Sex, and Genes Modulate the Microglia Response to Aβ Plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2019-04-01 Genetics

    Gene expression profiles of more than 10,000 individual microglial cells isolated from cortex and hippocampus of male and female App NL-G-F mice over time demonstrate that progressive amyloid-β accumulation accelerates two main activated microglia states that are also present during normal aging.

  15. A Subset of TREM2+ Dermal Macrophages Secretes Oncostatin M to Maintain Hair Follicle Stem Cell Quiescence and Inhibit Hair Growth

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cell stem cell 2019-03-28 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Hair growth can be induced from resting mouse hair follicles by topical application of JAK inhibitors, suggesting that JAK-STAT signaling is required for maintaining hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) in a quiescent state.

  16. Soluble TREM2 ameliorates pathological phenotypes by modulating microglial functions in an Alzheimer's disease model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature communications 2019-03-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a microglial surface receptor genetically linked to the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Therapeutic Inhibition of the Complement System in Diseases of the Central Nervous System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2019-03-04 Biomarkers

    The complement system plays critical roles in development, homeostasis, and regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) throughout life; however, complement dysregulation in the CNS can lead to damage and disease.

  18. Iron accumulation in microglia triggers a cascade of events that leads to altered metabolism and compromised function in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2019-02-17 Genetics

    Among the changes that typify Alzheimer's disease (AD) are neuroinflammation and microglial activation, amyloid deposition perhaps resulting from compromised microglial function and iron accumulation.

  19. Imbalance of Microglial TLR4/TREM2 in LPS-Treated APP/PS1 Transgenic Mice: A Potential Link Between Alzheimer's Disease and Systemic Inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2019-02-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Clinically, superimposed systemic inflammation generally has significant deleterious effects on the Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression.

  20. Recent advances in the mechanisms of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and its inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2019-02-12 Risk factors

    The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multimeric protein complex that initiates an inflammatory form of cell death and triggers the release of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18.

  21. Alzheimer’s disease phospholipase C-gamma-2 (PLCG2) protective variant is a functional hypermorph

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2019-02-02 Genetics

    PLCG2 expression is restricted primarily to microglia and granule cells of the dentate gyrus.

  22. Transethnic meta-analysis of rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 supports their general contribution to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2019-01-31 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Rare coding variants in TREM2, PLCG2, and ABI3 were recently associated with the susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Caucasians.

  23. TREM2 acts as a tumor suppressor in hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting the PI3K/Akt/β-catenin pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Oncogenesis 2019-01-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is involved in nonmalignant pathological processes.

  24. Up-Regulation of Trem2 Inhibits Hippocampal Neuronal Apoptosis and Alleviates Oxidative Stress in Epilepsy via the PI3K/Akt Pathway in Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2019-01-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Epilepsy is a chronic and severe neurological disorder that has negative effects on the autonomous activities of patients.

  25. Early increase of CSF sTREM2 in Alzheimer's disease is associated with tau related-neurodegeneration but not with amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-01-10 TREM2 and immune genetics

    TREM2 is a transmembrane receptor that is predominantly expressed by microglia in the central nervous system.

  26. Loss of TREM2 function increases amyloid seeding but reduces plaque-associated ApoE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-01-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Coding variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  27. Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease: Emerging Roles of Microglia in Disease Pathomechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019 Genetics

    The accumulation of aggregated amyloid β (Aβ) peptides in the brain is deeply involved in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  28. Stavudine Reduces NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and Modulates Amyloid-β Autophagy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Inflammation and the immune system

    IL-1β, IL-18, and caspase-1 were increased whereas Aβ phagocytosis and TREM2 were reduced in LPS+Aβ42-stimulated cells.

  29. The Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-2 (TREM-2) as Expression of the Relationship between Microglia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Novel Marker for a Promising Pathway to Explore

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of frailty & aging 2019 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder, strongly related with age.

  30. TREM2 Variants and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    TREM2 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2) gene variants were reported to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and even other neurodegenerative diseases (frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)), but so far, no definite conclusion has been drawn.

  31. The Role of APOE and TREM2 in Alzheimer's Disease-Current Understanding and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2018-12-26 Genetics

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

  32. New insights into the role of TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2018-12-20 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia.

  33. Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptotoxicity and Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-12-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, which is clinically associated with a global cognitive decline and progressive loss of memory and reasoning.

  34. TREM2 triggers microglial density and age-related neuronal loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Glia 2018-12-11 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The microglial triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) signals via the activatory membrane adaptor molecule TYROBP.

  35. Interplay between innate immunity and Alzheimer disease: APOE and TREM2 in the spotlight

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature reviews. Immunology 2018-12-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease is more than a pure proteopathy.

  36. TREM2 in Alzheimer's Disease: Microglial Survival and Energy Metabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-11-23 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of age-related dementia among the elderly population.

  37. Inhibitors of NF-κB and P2X7/NLRP3/Caspase 1 pathway in microglia: Novel therapeutic opportunities in neuroinflammation induced early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neuroimmunology 2018-11-20 Treatments

    Microglial activation is a distinguished attribute in many neurodegenerative diseases of aging.

  38. Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease: Risk Factors and Inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-11-15 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that originate from myeloid progenitor cells in the embryonic yolk sac and are maintained independently of circulating monocytes throughout life.

  39. Human stem cell-derived monocytes and microglia-like cells reveal impaired amyloid plaque clearance upon heterozygous or homozygous loss of TREM2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-11-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Murine microglia expressing the Alzheimer's disease-linked TREM2 R47H mutation display variable decrease in phagocytosis, while impaired phagocytosis is reported following loss of TREM2.

  40. The S100B story: from biomarker to active factor in neural injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2018-11-12 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    S100B is a Ca 2+ -binding protein mainly concentrated in astrocytes.

  41. Strong evidence implicates the complement pathway as an important contributor to amyloid pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the role of complement in tau modulation remains unclear.

  42. CSF concentrations of soluble TREM2 as a marker of microglial activation in HIV-1 infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2018-11-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    CSF sTREM2 increased with systemic and CNS HIV-1 disease severity, with the highest levels found in patients with HIV-associated dementia (HAD).

  43. High-affinity interactions and signal transduction between Aβ oligomers and TREM2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2018-11-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Rare coding variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are associated with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how they confer this risk remains uncertain.

  44. TREM2 - a key player in microglial biology and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2018-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a debilitating dementia believed to result from the deposition of extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)-containing plaques followed by the formation of neurofibrillary tangles.

  45. CSF soluble TREM2 as a measure of immune response along the Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-10-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    TREM2 was suggested to be an important regulator of microglia during neurodegeneration, but previous studies report conflicting results in relation to soluble TREM2 (sTREM2) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) when using clinical criteria to classify Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  46. Differential effects of partial and complete loss of TREM2 on microglial injury response and tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018-09-19 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is characterized by the abnormal accumulation of amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates, as well as microgliosis.

  47. The Trem2 R47H Alzheimer's risk variant impairs splicing and reduces Trem2 mRNA and protein in mice but not in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2018-09-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The R47H variant of the Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) significantly increases the risk for late onset Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Soluble TREM2 changes during the clinical course of Alzheimer's disease: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2018-08-29 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (sTREM2) is a potential and novel biomarker of neuroinflammation implicated in the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  49. Inflammasome-derived cytokine IL18 suppresses amyloid-induced seizures in Alzheimer-prone mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018-08-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the progressive destruction and dysfunction of central neurons.

  50. Cerebrospinal fluid soluble TREM2 levels in frontotemporal dementia differ by genetic and pathological subgroup

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-08-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Reliable biomarkers of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are currently lacking.

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