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  1. Precision Nanocrystal Theranostics for Neurodegenerative Proteopathies: Strategies to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier and Target Protein Aggregation 2026-10-26
  2. Temporal Proteomics Links the APP London Mutation to Early Cholesterol Remodeling Cell Programs in Human Neurons 2026-10-24
  3. Stimulating microglial neuroinflammation with amyloid-beta oligomers compatible with solid-state NMR structural characterization 2026-10-20

Studies

344 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1985 to 2026

Top journals

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 35
  • Nature 23
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 15
  • Neuron 14
  • Science (New York, N.Y.) 12

147 journals in all.

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  1. EGCG remodels mature alpha-synuclein and amyloid-beta fibrils and reduces cellular toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-04-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Protein misfolding and formation of beta-sheet-rich amyloid fibrils or aggregates is related to cellular toxicity and decay in various human disorders including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

  2. Understanding amyloid aggregation by statistical analysis of atomic force microscopy images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature nanotechnology 2010-04-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The aggregation of proteins is central to many aspects of daily life, including food processing, blood coagulation, eye cataract formation disease and prion-related neurodegenerative infections.

  3. Beneficial effect of human anti-amyloid-beta active immunization on neurite morphology and tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-03-31 Treatments

    Hippocampal sections from five patients with Alzheimer's disease enrolled in the AN1792 Phase 2a trial were compared with those from 13 non-immunized Braak-stage and age-matched patients with Alzheimer's disease, and eight age-matched non-demented controls.

  4. Truncated beta-amyloid peptide channels provide an alternative mechanism for Alzheimer's Disease and Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-03-22 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Full-length amyloid beta peptides (Abeta(1-40/42)) form neuritic amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and are implicated in AD pathology.

  5. Amyloid oligomers: formation and toxicity of Abeta oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The FEBS journal 2010-02-09 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related, progressive degenerative disorder that is characterized by synapse and neuron loss in the brain and the accumulation of protein-containing deposits (referred to as 'senile plaques') and neurofibrillary tangles.

  6. Assessing the Stability of Alzheimer’s Amyloid Protofibrils Using Molecular Dynamics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2010-01-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyloid fibrils represent a stable form of many misfolded proteins associated with numerous diseases.

  7. Amyloid-beta peptide and oligomers in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of aged canines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Biomarkers

    The study of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis requires the use of animal models that develop some amount of amyloid pathology in the brain.

  8. Leptin reduces pathology and improves memory in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Drug development

    We have previously reported anti-amyloidogenic effects of leptin using in vitro and in vivo models and, more recently, demonstrated the ability of leptin to reduce tau phosphorylation in neuronal cells.

  9. Alzheimer's disease-like pathological features in transgenic mice expressing the APP intracellular domain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-10-16 Drug development

    The hypothesis that amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides are the primary cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains the best supported theory of AD pathogenesis.

  10. Amyloid-β protein oligomerization and the importance of tetramers and dodecamers in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature chemistry 2009-07-01 Risk factors

    In recent years, small protein oligomers have been implicated in the aetiology of a number of important amyloid diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

  11. Functional amyloids as natural storage of peptide hormones in pituitary secretory granules

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2009-06-18 Risk factors

    Amyloids are highly organized cross-beta-sheet-rich protein or peptide aggregates that are associated with pathological conditions including Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes.

  12. Hereditary and sporadic forms of abeta-cerebrovascular amyloidosis and relevant transgenic mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2009-04-23 Biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) refers to the specific deposition of amyloid fibrils in the leptomeningeal and cerebral blood vessel walls, often causing secondary vascular degenerative changes.

  13. Comparison of Abeta levels in the brain of familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2009-03-20 Biomarkers

    Mutations in presenilin (PS) and amyloid precursor protein (APP) genes are a predominant cause for early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (AD).

  14. Oligomeric amyloid beta associates with postsynaptic densities and correlates with excitatory synapse loss near senile plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-02-19 Disease mechanisms

    Synapse loss correlates with a cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but whether this is caused by fibrillar deposits known as senile plaques or soluble oligomeric forms of amyloid beta (Abeta) is controversial.

  15. APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 10 out of 100. Nature 2009-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Naturally occurring axonal pruning and neuronal cell death help to sculpt neuronal connections during development, but their mechanistic basis remains poorly understood.

  16. Cellular prion protein mediates impairment of synaptic plasticity by amyloid-beta oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2009-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is an accumulation of insoluble plaque containing the amyloid-beta peptide of 40-42 amino acid residues.

  17. Molecular structural basis for polymorphism in Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008-11-17 Risk factors

    We describe a full structural model for amyloid fibrils formed by the 40-residue beta-amyloid peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease (Abeta(1-40)), based on numerous constraints from solid state NMR and electron microscopy.

  18. Herpes simplex virus type 1 DNA is located within Alzheimer's disease amyloid plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of Pathology 2008-09-18 Genetics

    The brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers are characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  19. Beta-amyloid deposition and functional impairment in the retina of the APPswe/PS1DeltaE9 transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2008-09-12 Biomarkers

    The present findings suggest that Abeta deposition disrupts retinal structure and may contribute to the visual deficits seen in aged APPswe/PS1DeltaE9 tg mice.

  20. The amyloid beta-peptide is imported into mitochondria via the TOM import machinery and localized to mitochondrial cristae

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008-08-29 Disease mechanisms

    The amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) has been suggested to exert its toxicity intracellularly.

  21. The ADAM metalloproteinases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular aspects of medicine 2008-08-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    The ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) are a fascinating family of transmembrane and secreted proteins with important roles in regulating cell phenotype via their effects on cell adhesion, migration, proteolysis and signalling.

  22. Neuronal calcium mishandling and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2008-07-31 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Perturbed neuronal Ca(2+) homeostasis is implicated in age-related cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Amyloid beta-peptide levels in laser capture microdissected cornu ammonis 1 pyramidal neurons of Alzheimer's brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroreport 2008-07-16 Biomarkers

    Deposition of the amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is a pathophysiological event associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  24. Rapid restoration of cognition in Alzheimer's transgenic mice with 8-hydroxy quinoline analogs is associated with decreased interstitial Abeta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2008-07-01 Vascular contributions

    As a disease-modifying approach for Alzheimer's disease (AD), clioquinol (CQ) targets beta-amyloid (Abeta) reactions with synaptic Zn and Cu yet promotes metal uptake.

  25. Expression of a noncoding RNA is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and drives rapid feed-forward regulation of beta-secretase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2008-06-29 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent efforts have revealed that numerous protein-coding messenger RNAs have natural antisense transcript partners, most of which seem to be noncoding RNAs.

  26. EGCG redirects amyloidogenic polypeptides into unstructured, off-pathway oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature structural & molecular biology 2008-05-30 Brain tissue and pathology

    The accumulation of beta-sheet-rich amyloid fibrils or aggregates is a complex, multistep process that is associated with cellular toxicity in a number of human protein misfolding disorders, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

  27. A new amyloid beta variant favoring oligomerization in Alzheimer's-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The E693Delta mutation has been suggested as a cause of dementia because of enhanced formation of synaptotoxic Abeta oligomers.

  28. Soluble oligomers of the amyloid beta-protein impair synaptic plasticity and behavior

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2008-02-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    During the last 25 years, neuropathological, biochemical, genetic, cell biological and even therapeutic studies in humans have all supported the hypothesis that the gradual cerebral accumulation of soluble and insoluble assemblies of the amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in limbic and association cortices triggers a cascade of biochemical and cellular alterations that produce the clinical phenotype of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: pathogenetic mechanisms and link to dense amyloid plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Genes, brain, and behavior 2008-02 Biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) of the amyloid-beta (Abeta) type is the most common form of sporadic CAA and is now also accepted as an early and integral part of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  30. Dimerization of the transmembrane domain of amyloid precursor proteins and familial Alzheimer's disease mutants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC neuroscience 2008-01-30 Biomarkers

    The dissociation constants are correlated to both the Abeta42/Abeta40 ratio and the mean age of disease onset in AD patients.

  31. Alzheimer disease models and human neuropathology: similarities and differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2007-11-16 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Animal models aim to replicate the symptoms, the lesions or the cause(s) of Alzheimer disease.

  32. Insight into the kinetic of amyloid beta (1-42) peptide self-aggregation: elucidation of inhibitors' mechanism of action

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology 2007-11-01 Treatments

    The initial transition of amyloid beta (1-42) (Abeta42) soluble monomers/small oligomers from unordered/alpha-helix to a beta-sheet-rich conformation represents a suitable target to design new potent inhibitors and to obtain effective therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.

  33. Peptide Conformation and Supramolecular Organization in Amylin Fibrils: Constraints from Solid-State NMR

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biochemistry 2007-11-01 Risk factors

    The 37-residue amylin peptide, also known as islet amyloid polypeptide, forms fibrils that are the main peptide or protein component of amyloid that develops in the pancreas of type 2 diabetes patients.

  34. Fibril specific, conformation dependent antibodies recognize a generic epitope common to amyloid fibrils and fibrillar oligomers that is absent in prefibrillar oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2007-09-26 Risk factors

    Since the fibril specific antibodies are conformation dependent, sequence-independent, and recognize epitopes that are distinct from those present in prefibrillar oligomers, they may have broad utility for detecting and characterizing the accumulation of amyloid fibrils and fibrillar type oligomers in degenerative diseases.

  35. PIB is a non-specific imaging marker of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide-related cerebral amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-08-13 Brain scans and imaging

    The in vivo imaging probe [11C]-PIB (Pittsburgh Compound B, N-methyl[11C]2-(4'-methylaminophenyl-6-hydroxybenzathiazole) is under evaluation as a key imaging tool in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to date has been assumed to bind with high affinity and specificity to the amyloid structures associated with classical plaques (CPs), one of the pathological hallmarks of the disease.

  36. Targeting amyloid-beta in glaucoma treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007-08-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The development of the devastating neurodegenerative condition, Alzheimer's disease, is strongly associated with amyloid-beta (Abeta) deposition, neuronal apoptosis, and cell loss.

  37. The secreted beta-amyloid precursor protein ectodomain APPs alpha is sufficient to rescue the anatomical, behavioral, and electrophysiological abnormalities of APP-deficient mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-07-01 Risk factors

    It is well established that the proteolytic processing of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) generates beta-amyloid (Abeta), which plays a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Expression of APP pathway mRNAs and proteins in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2007-06-05 Biomarkers

    In both trisomy 21 and rare cases of triplication of amyloid precursor protein (APP) Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathological changes are believed to be secondary to increased expression of APP.

  39. Atomic structures of amyloid cross-beta spines reveal varied steric zippers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 2007-04-29 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyloid fibrils formed from different proteins, each associated with a particular disease, contain a common cross-beta spine.

  40. A beta oligomers - a decade of discovery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2007-02-05 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Converging lines of evidence suggest that progressive accumulation of the amyloid beta-protein (A beta) plays a central role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease, but it was long assumed that A beta had to be assembled into extracellular amyloid fibrils to exert its cytotoxic effects.

  41. More than 100 missense mutations in presenilin 1 and 2 are associated with early-onset dominant Alzheimer disease.

  42. FAD mutants unable to increase neurotoxic Abeta 42 suggest that mutation effects on neurodegeneration may be independent of effects on Abeta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2007-01-24 Biomarkers

    Strong support for a primary causative role of the Abeta peptides in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neurodegeneration derives from reports that presenilin familial AD (FAD) mutants alter amyloid precursor protein processing, thus increasing production of neurotoxic Abeta 1-42 (Abeta 42).

  43. Transport pathways for clearance of human Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide and apolipoproteins E and J in the mouse central nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2006-11-01 Genetics

    Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) clearance from the central nervous system (CNS) maintains its low levels in brain.

  44. Modeling behavioral and neuronal symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice: a role for intraneuronal amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2006-10-20 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The amyloid Abeta-peptide (Abeta) is suspected to play a critical role in the cascade leading to AD as the pathogen that causes neuronal and synaptic dysfunction and, eventually, cell death.

  45. Control of peripheral nerve myelination by the beta-secretase BACE1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2006-09-21 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although BACE1 (beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1) is essential for the generation of amyloid-b peptide in Alzheimer's disease, its physiological function is unclear.

  46. Amyloid-beta peptide remnants in AN-1792-immunized Alzheimer's disease patients: a biochemical analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2006-09-01 Treatments

    Experiments with amyloid-beta (Abeta)-42-immunized transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease have revealed amyloid plaque disruption and apparent cognitive function recovery.

  47. Exogenous induction of cerebral beta-amyloidogenesis is governed by agent and host

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2006-09-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Protein aggregation is an established pathogenic mechanism in Alzheimer's disease, but little is known about the initiation of this process in vivo.

  48. Alzheimer's disease beta-amyloid peptides are released in association with exosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006-07-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although the exact etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a topic of debate, the consensus is that the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides in the senile plaques is one of the hallmarks of the progression of the disease.

  49. Soluble oligomers of amyloid-beta peptide induce neuronal apoptosis by activating a cPLA2-dependent sphingomyelinase-ceramide pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2006-04-19 Drug development

    Recent data have revealed that soluble oligomeric amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) may be the proximate effectors of neuronal injuries and death in Alzheimer's disease (AD) by unknown mechanisms.

  50. A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs memory

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 10 out of 100. Nature 2006-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Memory function often declines with age, and is believed to deteriorate initially because of changes in synaptic function rather than loss of neurons.

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