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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 deficiency induces parkinsonism with dementia by impairing APP-mediated iron export

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2012-01-29 Brain scans and imaging

    The microtubule-associated protein tau has risk alleles for both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease and mutations that cause brain degenerative diseases termed tauopathies.

  2. Dual modification of Alzheimer's disease PHF-tau protein by lysine methylation and ubiquitylation: a mass spectrometry approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2011-10-28 Drug development

    In sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), neurofibrillary lesion formation is preceded by extensive post-translational modification of the microtubule associated protein tau.

  3. Mechanistic Studies of Antibody-Mediated Clearance of Tau Aggregates Using an ex vivo Brain Slice Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2011-10-21 Drug development

    Recent studies have shown that immunotherapy clears amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and reduces Aβ levels in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as in AD patients.

  4. Tau oligomers impair memory and induce synaptic and mitochondrial dysfunction in wild-type mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2011-06-06 Disease mechanisms

    This study identifies tau oligomers as an acutely toxic tau species in vivo, and suggests that tau oligomers induce neurodegeneration by affecting mitochondrial and synaptic function, both of which are early hallmarks in AD and other tauopathies.

  5. β-carboline compounds, including harmine, inhibit DYRK1A and tau phosphorylation at multiple Alzheimer's disease-related sites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2011-05-06 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Harmine, a β-carboline alkaloid, is a high affinity inhibitor of the dual specificity tyrosine phosphorylation regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A) protein.

  6. Inflammation induced by infection potentiates tau pathological features in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2011-04-30 Drug development

    Comorbidities that promote the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain to be uncovered and evaluated in animal models.

  7. Amyloid beta-mediated cell death of cultured hippocampal neurons reveals extensive Tau fragmentation without increased full-length tau phosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2011-04-11 Drug development

    A variety of genetic and biochemical evidence suggests that amyloid β (Aβ) oligomers promote downstream errors in Tau action, in turn inducing neuronal dysfunction and cell death in Alzheimer and related dementias.

  8. Amyloid-β/Fyn-induced synaptic, network, and cognitive impairments depend on tau levels in multiple mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder, is a growing public health problem and still lacks effective treatments.

  9. The pathological process underlying Alzheimer's disease in individuals under thirty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-12-15 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Brains of 42 individuals between the ages of 4 and 29 were examined with antibodies (AT8, 4G8) and silver stains for the presence of intraneuronal and extracellular protein aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  10. Tau mislocalization to dendritic spines mediates synaptic dysfunction independently of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2010-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    The microtubule-associated protein tau accumulates in Alzheimer's and other fatal dementias, which manifest when forebrain neurons die.

  11. Biguanide metformin acts on tau phosphorylation via mTOR/protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-11-22 Drug development

    Hyperphosphorylated tau plays an important role in the formation of neurofibrillary tangles in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies and is a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of these disorders.

  12. Inhibition of GSK-3 ameliorates Abeta pathology in an adult-onset Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2010-09-02 Drug development

    Abeta peptide accumulation is thought to be the primary event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with downstream neurotoxic effects including the hyperphosphorylation of tau protein.

  13. Abeta oligomers cause localized Ca(2+) elevation, missorting of endogenous Tau into dendrites, Tau phosphorylation, and destruction of microtubules and spines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) and Tau protein are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and according to the Abeta-cascade hypothesis, Abeta is considered toxic for neurons and Tau a downstream target of Abeta.

  14. An In Vitro Model for Neuroscience: Differentiation of SH-SY5Y Cells into Cells with Morphological and Biochemical Characteristics of Mature Neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2010-06-13 Disease mechanisms

    Neuroscience, including research on Alzheimer's disease, is hampered by the lack of suitable in vitro models to study the human nervous system.

  15. Alzheimer's disease: strategies for disease modification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2010-05-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is the largest unmet medical need in neurology.

  16. ERK2 is increased in cerebrospinal fluid of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010 Tau biomarkers

    The clinical diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) can be supported by several biochemical markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) such as 14-3-3 proteins and tau protein.

  17. Amyloid-beta and tau synergistically impair the oxidative phosphorylation system in triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-11-06 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid-beta (Abeta)-containing plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuron and synapse loss.

  18. Total and phosphorylated tau protein as biological markers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2009-10-22 Biomarkers

    Advances in our understanding of tau-mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are moving this disease pathway to center stage for the development of biomarkers and disease modifying drug discovery efforts.

  19. Advances in tau-focused drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2009-10-01 Clinical trials

    Neuronal inclusions comprised of the microtubule-associated protein tau are found in numerous neurodegenerative diseases, commonly known as tauopathies.

  20. The excitotoxin quinolinic acid induces tau phosphorylation in human neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2009-07-22 Treatments

    Some of the tryptophan catabolites produced through the kynurenine pathway (KP), and more particularly the excitotoxin quinolinic acid (QA), are likely to play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Lithium Trial in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2009-06-15 Drug development

    No treatment effect on GSK-3 activity or CSF-based biomarker concentrations (P >. 05) was observed.

  22. Lithium trial in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter 10-week study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2009-06-01 Drug development

    The current results do not support the notion that lithium treatment may lead to reduced hyperphosphorylation of tau protein after a short 10-week treatment in the Alzheimer's disease target population.

  23. Alpha-Synuclein contributes to GSK-3beta-catalyzed Tau phosphorylation in Parkinson's disease models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2009-04-15 Drug development

    We have shown in the parkinsonism-inducing neurotoxin MPP(+)/MPTP model that alpha-Synuclein (alpha-Syn), a presynaptic protein causal in Parkinson's disease (PD), contributes to hyperphosphorylation of Tau (p-Tau), a protein normally linked to tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Recent developments in Alzheimer's disease therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC medicine 2009-02-19 Costs and economics

    Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurological disorder that affects more than 37 million people worldwide.

  25. Development of tau aggregation inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 2009-01-01 Drug development

    A variety of human diseases are suspected to be directly linked to protein misfolding.

  26. Parkinsonism and impaired axonal transport in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008-10-02 Digital health tools

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is characterized by cognitive and behavioral changes and, in a significant subset of patients, Parkinsonism.

  27. Tau-based treatment strategies in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2008-07-01 Drug development

    Neurofibrillary tangles are a characteristic hallmark of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Pick's disease (PiD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).

  28. Biochemistry of Tau in Alzheimer's disease and related neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Expert review of proteomics 2008-04-01 Genetics

    Microtubule-associated Tau proteins belong to a family of factors that polymerize tubulin dimers and stabilize microtubules.

  29. Microglial activation in brain lesions with tau deposits: comparison of human tauopathies and tau transgenic mice TgTauP301L

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2008-03-08 Drug development

    The aim of this study is to clarify the relationship of microglia to phosphorylated tau accumulation and the characteristics of microglial activation in brain lesions of human tauopathies in comparison to mutant tau transgenic (TG) mice.

  30. Impacts of Cd(II) on the conformation and self-aggregation of Alzheimer's tau fragment corresponding to the third repeat of microtubule-binding domain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2007-08-24 Risk factors

    Environmental exposure to some heavy metals such as cadmium appears to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), however, definite mechanism of their toxicity in AD remains to be elucidated.

  31. Epitope mapping of mAbs AT8 and Tau5 directed against hyperphosphorylated regions of the human tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2007-05-07 Drug development

    Post-mortem diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease relies on high numbers of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) stained in distinct brain areas.

  32. Lithium reduces tau phosphorylation but not A beta or working memory deficits in a transgenic model with both plaques and tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2007-05-01 Drug development

    Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is a major kinase implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and reducing its activity may have therapeutic efficacy.

  33. Anesthesia leads to tau hyperphosphorylation through inhibition of phosphatase activity by hypothermia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-03-01 Clinical safety

    Postoperative cognitive dysfunction, confusion, and delirium are common after general anesthesia in the elderly, with symptoms persisting for months or years in some patients.

  34. Sequential phosphorylation of tau protein by cAMP-dependent protein kinase and SAPK4/p38delta or JNK2 in the presence of heparin generates the AT100 epitope

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2006-10-01 Drug development

    Microtubule-associated protein tau in a hyperphosphorylated state is the major component of the filamentous lesions that define a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, Pick's disease, argyrophilic grain disease and frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).

  35. Alzheimer's Disease-Like Tau Neuropathology Leads to Memory Deficits and Loss of Functional Synapses in a Novel Mutated Tau Transgenic Mouse without Any Motor Deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. American Journal Of Pathology 2006-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tau transgenic mice are valuable models to investigate the role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

  36. The roles of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 and glycogen synthase kinase 3 in tau hyperphosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2006-06-27 Drug development

    Hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau is a characteristic feature of neurodegenerative tauopathies including Alzheimer disease.

  37. Tau protein binds to pericentromeric DNA: a putative role for nuclear tau in nucleolar organization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cell science 2006-04-25 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The microtubule-associated tau protein participates in the organization and integrity of the neuronal cytoskeleton.

  38. Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by lithium correlates with reduced tauopathy and degeneration in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-05-02 Drug development

    Neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated, aggregated tau are a common pathological feature of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease.

  39. Induction of hyperphosphorylated tau in primary rat cortical neuron cultures mediated by oxidative stress and glycogen synthase kinase-3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2004-12-01 Drug development

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) containing paired helical filaments (PHF) composed of abnormally phosphorylated tau are one of the hallmark lesions of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  40. MARK/PAR1 kinase is a regulator of microtubule-dependent transport in axons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of cell biology 2004-10-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Microtubule-dependent transport of vesicles and organelles appears saltatory because particles switch between periods of rest, random Brownian motion, and active transport.

  41. Early N-terminal changes and caspase-6 cleavage of tau in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004-09-01 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive amnestic dementia that involves post-translational hyperphosphorylation, enzymatic cleavage, and conformational alterations of the microtubule-associated protein tau.

  42. Phosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein tau by isoforms of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2004-07-01 Drug development

    Microtubule-associated protein tau in a hyperphosphorylated state is the major component of the filamentous lesions that define a number of neurodegenerative diseases commonly referred to as tauopathies.

  43. GSK-3beta inhibition reverses axonal transport defects and behavioural phenotypes in Drosophila

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2004-05-01 Drug development

    The tauopathies are a group of disorders characterised by aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau and include Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the fronto-temporal dementias (FTD).

  44. Increased MAP kinase activity in Alzheimer's and Down syndrome but not in schizophrenia human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2004-05-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Abnormal phosphorylation of tau is a feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which develops prematurely in Down syndrome (DS) patients.

  45. Taurine prevents the neurotoxicity of beta-amyloid and glutamate receptor agonists: activation of GABA receptors and possible implications for Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2004-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several other neurological disorders have been linked to the overactivation of glutamatergic transmission and excitotoxicity as a common pathway of neuronal injury.

  46. CHIP and Hsp70 regulate tau ubiquitination, degradation and aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human Molecular Genetics 2004-01-28 Brain tissue and pathology

    Molecular chaperones, ubiquitin ligases and proteasome impairment have been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, which are characterized by accumulation of abnormal protein aggregates (e.g. tau and alpha-synuclein respectively).

  47. Structural Insights and Biological Effects of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3-specific Inhibitor AR-A014418

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2003-11-01 Risk factors

    Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) is a serine/threonine kinase that has been implicated in pathological conditions such as diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Nitration of tau protein is linked to neurodegeneration in tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2003-09-01 Drug development

    Oxidative and nitrative injury is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS), but no direct evidence links this type of injury to the formation of neurofibrillary tau lesions.

  49. Idebenone treatment in Friedreich patients: One-year-long randomized placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2003-05-27 Biomarkers

    Filamentous tau inclusions in neurons and glia are neuropathological hallmarks of sporadic and familial tauopathies.

  50. Cerebrospinal fluid tau protein levels in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 2003-04 Tau biomarkers

    Increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau protein levels are generally considered to provide a sensitive marker of neurodegenerative processes such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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