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  1. APH-1A and CDK5 Expression Correlates with Tau Hyperphosphorylation and Its Attenuation by Brahmi and Donep-M in STZ induced Alzheimer’s Disease Model 2026-10-31
  2. Opposing Regulation of Tau Condensation by Phosphorylation Levels and Molecular Chaperone Interactions 2026-10-30
  3. The Alzheimer's disease-associated rs28834970 variant in PTK2B impairs electrical activity and regulates Tau phosphorylation and APP processing in human neuronal cultures 2026-10-30

Studies

387 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1987 to 2026

Top journals

  • Acta neuropathologica 16
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 12
  • bioRxiv 12
  • Molecular neurodegeneration 10
  • Research Square 10

173 journals in all.

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  1. Tau-Centric Targets and Drugs in Clinical Development for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BioMed research international 2016-06-26 Drug development

    The failure of several Phase II/III clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease (AD) with drugs targeting β-amyloid accumulation in the brain fuelled an increasing interest in alternative treatments against tau pathology, including approaches targeting tau phosphatases/kinases, active and passive immunization, and anti-tau aggregation.

  2. Preclinical Characterization of 18F-MK-6240, a Promising PET Tracer for In Vivo Quantification of Human Neurofibrillary Tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-05-26 Brain scans and imaging

    A PET tracer is desired to help guide the discovery and development of disease-modifying therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases characterized by neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), the predominant tau pathology in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  3. Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) made up of aggregated tau protein have been identified as the pathologic hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease.

  4. Tau: From research to clinical development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-05-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's Association Research Roundtable Fall 2015-Tau: From research to clinical development.

  5. Characterization of tau positron emission tomography tracer [ 18 F]AV-1451 binding to postmortem tissue in Alzheimer's disease, primary tauopathies, and other dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-02-15 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]AV-1451 binds to tau in AD, and some other tauopathies.

  6. Epitope mapping and structural basis for the recognition of phosphorylated tau by the anti-tau antibody AT8

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proteins 2016-02-05 Drug development

    Microtubule-associated protein tau becomes abnormally phosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies and forms aggregates of paired helical filaments (PHF-tau).

  7. Tau-directed approaches for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: focus on leuco-methylthioninium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2016 Drug development

    Small molecular weight compounds able to inhibit formation of tau oligomers and fibrils have already been tested for Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment.

  8. In addition to a prominent role in glycemic control, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists exhibit neuroprotective properties.

  9. Tau Immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2015-11-10 Drug development

    In recent years, tau immunotherapy has advanced from proof-of-concept studies [Sigurdsson EM, NIH R01AG020197, 2001; Asuni AA, et al: J Neurosci 2007;27:9115-9129], which have now been confirmed and extended by us and others.

  10. Precortical Phase of Alzheimer's Disease (AD)-Related Tau Cytoskeletal Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2015-08-24 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the most frequent progressive neuropsychiatric disorder worldwide leading to dementia.

  11. Distinct Therapeutic Mechanisms of Tau Antibodies: Promoting Microglial Clearance Versus Blocking Neuronal Uptake

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-06-30 Drug development

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by accumulation of Tau amyloids, and include Alzheimer disease and certain frontotemporal dementias.

  12. Microglial internalization and degradation of pathological tau is enhanced by an anti-tau monoclonal antibody

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2015-06-09 Drug development

    Microglia have been shown to contribute to the clearance of brain amyloid β peptides (Aβ), the major component of amyloid plaques, in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Preventive methylene blue treatment preserves cognition in mice expressing full-length pro-aggregant human Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2015-05-10 Drug development

    Our data support the use of Tau aggregation inhibitors as potential drugs for the treatment of AD and other tauopathies and highlights the need for preventive treatment before onset of cognitive impairments.

  14. Passive immunization with phospho-tau antibodies reduces tau pathology and functional deficits in two distinct mouse tauopathy models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-01 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), an extensive accumulation of extracellular amyloid plaques and intraneuronal tau tangles, along with neuronal loss, is evident in distinct brain regions.

  15. Tau immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2015-04-03 Drug development

    Targeting pathological tau protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies has shown great potential in animal models.

  16. Tau immunotherapy modulates both pathological tau and upstream amyloid pathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015-03-01 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the pathological accumulation of tau appears to be a downstream effect of amyloid β protein (Aβ).

  17. Tau Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging: Past, Present, and Future

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of medicinal chemistry 2015-02-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia among the elderly population.

  18. Pathological interface between oligomeric alpha-synuclein and tau in synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2015-01-09 Drug development

    In addition to the deposition of tau oligomers, our results also provide compelling evidence of co-occurrence of α-synuclein and tau into their most toxic forms, i.e., oligomers suggesting that these species interact and influence each other's aggregation via an interface in synucleinopathies.

  19. Pseudophosphorylation of Tau at distinct epitopes or the presence of the P301L mutation targets the microtubule-associated protein Tau to dendritic spines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2015-01-03 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) and Tau in the brain.

  20. Patterns of Tau and α-Synuclein Pathology in the Visual System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2015 Brain tissue and pathology

    We detected immunoreactivity for all proteins along the optic pathway.

  21. Models of β-amyloid induced Tau-pathology: the long and "folded" road to understand the mechanism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-11-18 Treatments

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis has been the prevailing hypothesis in Alzheimer's Disease research, although the final and most wanted proof i.e. fully successful anti-amyloid clinical trials in patients, is still lacking.

  22. Tau PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2014-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In several neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively called tauopathies, progressive accumulation of tau in the brain is closely associated with neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment.

  23. Cleavage of tau by asparagine endopeptidase mediates the neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature medicine 2014-10-19 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), composed of truncated and hyperphosphorylated tau, are a common feature of numerous aging-related neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Complex disposition of methylthioninium redox forms determines efficacy in tau aggregation inhibitor therapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 2014-10-15 Drug development

    Methylthioninium (MT) is a tau aggregation inhibitor with therapeutic potential in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. PICALM modulates autophagy activity and tau accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-09-22 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies have identified several loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), including proteins involved in endocytic trafficking such as PICALM/CALM (phosphatidylinositol binding clathrin assembly protein).

  26. Identification of structural determinants on tau protein essential for its pathological function: novel therapeutic target for tau immunotherapy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-08-01 Drug development

    We have discovered defined determinants on mis-disordered truncated tau protein which are responsible for tau oligomerisation leading to neurofibrillary degeneration.

  27. Tau-targeting passive immunization modulates aspects of pathology in tau transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2014-08-01 Drug development

    Immunization is increasingly recognized as a suitable therapeutic avenue for the treatment of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

  28. Neuronal uptake of tau/pS422 antibody and reduced progression of tau pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-07-31 Drug development

    The severity of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease brain correlates closely with disease progression.

  29. Specificity of anti-tau antibodies when analyzing mice models of Alzheimer's disease: problems and solutions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2014-05-02 Drug development

    Aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau protein are found in a group of diseases called tauopathies, which includes Alzheimer's disease.

  30. The intersection of amyloid beta and tau at synapses in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2014-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    The collapse of neural networks important for memory and cognition, including death of neurons and degeneration of synapses, causes the debilitating dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. Active immunotherapy options for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-01-30 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and a major contributor to disability and dependency among older people.

  32. Clinicopathologic assessment and imaging of tauopathies in neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-01-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Microtubule-associated protein tau encoded by the MAPT gene binds to microtubules and is important for maintaining neuronal morphology and function.

  33. Specific targeting of tau oligomers in Htau mice prevents cognitive impairment and tau toxicity following injection with brain-derived tau oligomeric seeds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Drug development

    Neurodegenerative disease is one of the greatest health crises in the world and as life expectancy rises, the number of people affected will continue to increase.

  34. Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2013-11-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Drosophila melanogaster provides an important resource for in vivo modifier screens of neurodegenerative diseases.

  35. Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2013-10-06 Genetics

    Psychotic symptoms, delusions and hallucinations, occur in approximately 50% of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (AD with psychosis [AD + P]).

  36. Anti-tau antibodies that block tau aggregate seeding in vitro markedly decrease pathology and improve cognition in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2013-09-26 Drug development

    Tau aggregation occurs in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease and many other disorders collectively termed tauopathies. trans-cellular propagation of tau pathology, mediated by extracellular tau aggregates, may underlie pathogenesis of these conditions.

  37. Functional screening in Drosophila identifies Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes and implicates Tau-mediated mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Human Molecular Genetics 2013-09-25 Genetics

    Using a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease (AD), we systematically evaluated 67 candidate genes based on AD-associated genomic loci (P < 10(-4)) from published human genome-wide association studies (GWAS).

  38. Tau immunotherapy and imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2013-09-11 Drug development

    Disappointing findings from recent phase III trials on amyloid-β (Aβ) immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have shifted the focus of such treatments to the tau protein.

  39. Formation and propagation of tau oligomeric seeds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2013-07-17 Drug development

    Tau misfolding and aggregation leads to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which have long been considered one of the main pathological hallmarks for numerous neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD).

  40. Novel 18F-labeled arylquinoline derivatives for noninvasive imaging of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2013-07-15 Brain scans and imaging

    (18)F-labeled THK-5105 and THK-5117 are promising candidates as PET tau imaging radiotracers.

  41. Melatonin in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2013-07-12 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), an age-related neurodegenerative disorder with progressive cognition deficit, is characterized by extracellular senile plaques (SP) of aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, mainly containing the hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau.

  42. Antisense reduction of tau in adult mice protects against seizures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013-07-01 Drug development

    Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in regard to both neurofibrillary tangle formation and neuronal network hyperexcitability.

  43. Distinct α-synuclein strains differentially promote tau inclusions in neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell 2013-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Many neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates, including neurofibrillary tangles comprised of tau in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy bodies composed of α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease.

  44. GSK3 and tau: two convergence points in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Drug development

    Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) is a ubiquitously expressed serine/threonine kinase that plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. The neuroprotection of liraglutide on Alzheimer-like learning and memory impairment by modulating the hyperphosphorylation of tau and neurofilament proteins and insulin signaling pathways in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Drug development

    The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of liraglutide on Alzheimer-like learning and memory impairment in mice, which were intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) injected with streptozotocin (STZ).

  46. Alzheimer brain-derived tau oligomers propagate pathology from endogenous tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2012-10-03 Disease mechanisms

    Intracerebral injection of brain extracts containing amyloid or tau aggregates in transgenic animals can induce cerebral amyloidosis and tau pathology.

  47. Tau phosphorylation pathway genes and cerebrospinal fluid tau levels in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics 2012-08-27 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence in the brain of amyloid plaques, consisting predominately of the amyloid β peptide (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles, consisting primarily of tau.

  48. Biochemistry and cell biology of tau protein in neurofibrillary degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2012-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tau represents the subunit protein of one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer disease (AD), the neurofibrillary tangles, and is therefore of major interest as an indicator of disease mechanisms.

  49. Structure and pathology of tau protein in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2012-05-29 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia.

  50. Targeting phospho-Ser422 by active Tau Immunotherapy in the THYTau22 mouse model: a suitable therapeutic approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2012-05-01 Drug development

    Recent data indicate that Tau immunotherapy may be relevant for interfering with neurofibrillary degeneration in Alzheimer disease and related disorders referred to as Tauopathies.

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