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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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Inhibition of tau neuronal internalization using anti-tau single domain antibodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-04-02 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease, tau pathology spreads across brain regions as the disease progresses.

  2. Alpha synuclein co-pathology is associated with accelerated amyloid-driven tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-03-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    αSyn SAA positivity was more common in Aβ + vs. Aβ- subjects and increased with clinical severity (p < 0.001).

  3. Tau degradation in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-03 Disease mechanisms

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), tau undergoes abnormal post-translational modifications and aggregations.

  4. Clinical trials targeting tau should be halted

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2025-02-04 Drug development

    Experimental drugs lowering brain tau are heralded as improvements in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

  5. Tau oligomers impair memory and synaptic plasticity through the cellular prion protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2025-01-27 Disease mechanisms

    Deposition of abnormally phosphorylated tau aggregates is a central event leading to neuronal dysfunction and death in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies.

  6. Plasma phosphorylated tau and neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-12-28 Biomarkers

    Hallucinations, delusions, and depression were more common in DLB than in AD and, in a subgroup with longitudinal follow-up, persistent hallucinations and NPSs were associated with lower p-tau181 and p-tau231 in DLB.

  7. Analytical and clinical performance of eight Simoa® and Lumipulse® assays for automated measurement of plasma p-tau181 and p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-12-19 Biomarkers

    We found a strong, positive correlation between all the measurements.

  8. Targeting Endogenous Tau in Seeded Tauopathy Models Inhibits Tau Spread

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2024-11-27 Drug development

    The transmission of tau pathology has been proposed as one of the major mechanisms for the spatiotemporal spreading of tau pathology in neurodegenerative diseases.

  9. The Mechanistic Link Between Tau-Driven Proteotoxic Stress and Cellular Senescence in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-11-17 Disease mechanisms

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), tau dissociates from microtubules (MTs) due to hyperphosphorylation and misfolding.

  10. Hyperphosphorylated tau targeting human serum albumin Fusion protein as therapeutics for Alzheimer's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. IBRO neuroscience reports 2024-11-07 Drug development

    We found that the AL04 treatment decreases hyperphosphorylated tau at PP2A-sensitive epitope Ser202/Thr205 in the hippocampus of the brain.

  11. Molecular Insights into Tau Pathology and its Therapeutic Strategies in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2024-10-30 Drug development

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

  12. Phosphorylated tau in cerebrospinal fluid-derived extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-10-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder characterized by brain aggregation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides and phosphorylated tau (P-tau) proteins.

  13. A novel peptide-based tau aggregation inhibitor as a potential therapeutic for Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-03 Drug development

    Unlike other aggregation inhibitors, RI-AG03 effectively suppresses aggregation of multiple Tau species containing both hotspots in vitro and in vivo, is non-toxic, and suppresses aggregation-dependent neurodegenerative and behavioral phenotypes.

  14. Tau proteotasis in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology 2024-10-02 Disease mechanisms

    Tau protein accumulation is one of the characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Cryo-EM structure of Alzheimer's disease tau filaments with PET ligand MK-6240

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Positron Emission Tomography (PET) ligands have advanced Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and treatment.

  16. NLRP3 inflammasome activation and pyroptosis are dispensable for tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-09-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Activation of the NLRP3 pathway was observed in the mouse organotypic slice culture (OSC) model following stimulation with LPS and nigericin or exposure to tau seeds.

  17. Gut-induced alpha-Synuclein and Tau propagation initiate Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease co-pathology and behavior impairments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2024-09-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Tau interacts with α-Synuclein (α-Syn) and co-localizes with it in the Lewy bodies, influencing α-Syn pathology in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  18. Endoplasmic reticulum unfolded protein response transcriptional targets of XBP-1s mediate rescue from tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Communications biology 2024-07-25 Disease mechanisms

    Pathological tau disrupts protein homeostasis (proteostasis) within neurons in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders.

  19. Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in the Different Stages of Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research square 2024-07-23 Disease mechanisms

    This study explored the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD) by examining changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of UPS proteins along with disease progression, AD imaging biomarkers (PiB PET, tau PET), neurodegeneration imaging measures (MRI, FDG PET), and Clinical Dementia Rating® (CDR®).

  20. Identification of retinal oligomeric, citrullinated, and other tau isoforms in early and advanced AD and relations to disease status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2024-07-09 Brain scans and imaging

    This study investigates various pathological tau isoforms in the retina of individuals with early and advanced Alzheimer's disease (AD), exploring their connection with disease status.

  21. Nasal tau immunotherapy clears intracellular tau pathology and improves cognitive functions in aged tauopathy mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2024-07-03 Drug development

    Pathological tau aggregates cause cognitive decline in neurodegenerative tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Anti-acetylated-tau immunotherapy is neuroprotective in tauopathy and brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2024-06-24 Drug development

    Anti-ac-tauK174 treatment mitigates neurobehavioral impairment and reduces tau pathology in PS19 mice.

  23. Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau181, 217, and 231 in definite Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with and without concomitant pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-24 Biomarkers

    N-terminal p-tau was increased in CJD versus SCD (p < 0.0001) and correlated with total tau (t-tau) in the presence of AD and PART co-pathology (rho = 0.758-0.952, p ≤ 001).

  24. Tau-targeting nanoparticles for treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Exploration (Beijing, China) 2024-06-21 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of neural connections and decreased brain tissue volume.

  25. Neuronal glutathione depletion elevates the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio and tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. FEBS letters 2024-05-24 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves reduced glutathione levels, causing oxidative stress and contributing to neuronal cell death.

  26. Nogo-A Drives Alzheimer's Disease Progression by Inducing Tauopathy Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging and disease 2024-04-23 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies, a group of neurodegenerative disorders, are characterized by disrupted homeostasis of the microtubule binding protein tau.

  27. Cortical Tau Aggregation Patterns associated with Apraxia in Alzheimer's Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024-04-10 Brain scans and imaging

    We identified significant clusters of tau-aggregation in praxis-related regions (e.g., supramarginal gyrus, angular gyrus, temporal, parietal and occipital regions) that were associated with apraxia.

  28. Messenger RNA-encoded antibody approach for targeting extracellular and intracellular tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain communications 2024-03-25 Drug development

    Monoclonal antibodies have emerged as a leading therapeutic agent for the treatment of disease, including Alzheimer's disease.

  29. P-tau217 correlates with neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, and targeting p-tau217 with immunotherapy ameliorates murine tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2024-03-20 Biomarkers

    Neuronal loss is the central issue in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet no treatment developed so far can halt AD-associated neurodegeneration.

  30. Disease-Modifying Treatments and Their Future in Alzheimer's Disease Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cureus 2024-03-13 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory impairment, a loss of cholinergic neurons, and cognitive decline that insidiously progresses to dementia.

  31. Person-specific differences in ubiquitin-proteasome mediated proteostasis in human neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-12 Disease mechanisms

    Neurons with lower basal UPS activity were more vulnerable to tau accumulation following mild UPS inhibition.

  32. Anti-alpha synuclein and anti-tau immunotherapies: Can a cocktail approach work?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2024-03-08 Drug development

    The hypothesis that neurodegenerative diseases are proteinopathies due to toxic effect of different underlying proteins, such as amyloid-beta and 3+4R-tau in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease (PD), while still controversial is supported by several studies in the literature.

  33. In vitro evaluation of [3H]PI-2620 and structural derivatives in non-Alzheimer's tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nuclear medicine and biology 2024-02-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and non-AD tauopathies such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are characterized by the abnormal aggregation of three-repeat (3R) and/or four-repeat (4R) tau isoforms.

  34. The levels of p-tau217 and p-tau231 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are associated with early amyloid beta (Aß) changes in the brain, while the CSF levels of p-tau205 are foremost related to tau pathology in the later stages of the disease.

  35. Tryptanthrin Analogs Substoichiometrically Inhibit Seeded and Unseeded Tau4RD Aggregation

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024-02-03 Drug development

    Microtubule-associated protein tau is an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) that forms characteristic fibrillar aggregates in several diseases, the most well-known of which is Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. Head-to-head comparison of [18F]-Flortaucipir, [18F]-MK-6240 and [18F]-PI-2620 postmortem binding across the spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2024-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    We and others have shown that [18F]-Flortaucipir, the most validated tau PET tracer thus far, binds with strong affinity to tau aggregates in Alzheimer's (AD) but has relatively low affinity for tau aggregates in non-AD tauopathies and exhibits off-target binding to neuromelanin- and melanin-containing cells, and to hemorrhages.

  37. Fully synthetic phosphorylated Tau181, Tau217, and Tau231 calibrators for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-01-15 Biomarkers

    By employing the hybridoma technique, 49 mAbs recognizing Tau (1-22), nine mAbs targeting p-Tau231, one mAb targeting p-Tau217, and two mAbs targeting p-Tau181 were developed.

  38. Modulation of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease by Dietary Bioactive Compounds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-01-09 Drug development

    Tau is a microtubule-associated protein essential for microtubule assembly and stability in neurons.

  39. Alzheimer's Disease: The Past, Present, and Future of a Globally Progressive Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cureus 2024-01-05 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a significant 21st-century public health challenge.

  40. Anti-amyloid-β Antibodies and Anti-tau Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease: Recent Advances and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin 2024 Treatments

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles containing phosphorylated tau protein are major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  41. Assays for the Screening and Characterization of Tau Aggregation Inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Drug development

    Aggregation of tau protein is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative tauopathies.

  42. Semorinemab Pharmacokinetics and The Effect on Plasma Total Tau Pharmacodynamics in Clinical Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024 Drug development

    Serum concentrations of semorinemab were consistent across studies and showed a dose-proportional increase across the evaluated dose range.

  43. The prediction model achieved PPV of 97.7% for amyloid, 96.2% for tau. 119 participants in the full analysis set (70 treatment and 49 placebo) were classified as A+T+.

  44. TANGO: a placebo-controlled randomized phase 2 study of efficacy and safety of the anti-tau monoclonal antibody gosuranemab in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-11-27 Drug development

    In Alzheimer's disease, the spread of aberrantly phosphorylated tau is an important criterion in the Braak staging of disease severity and correlates with disease symptomatology.

  45. Serum biomarkers associated with aging and neurodegeneration in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2023-11-23 Biomarkers

    The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), a small South American monkey, is an important nonhuman primate model in the study of aging and age-related neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and related dementias.

  46. Anti-tau intrabodies: From anti-tau immunoglobulins to the development of functional scFv intrabodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development 2023-11-14 Drug development

    Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in intrabodies and their therapeutic potential.

  47. Development of a P-tau217 Electrochemiluminescent Immunosensor Reinforced with Au-Cu Nanoparticles for Alzheimer's Disease Precaution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2023-11-08 Biomarkers

    To simply and rapidly detect the highly phosphorylated tau protein at threonine 217 (p-tau217) as a precautionary measure against Alzheimer's disease and distinguish it from other neurodegenerative diseases, a novel immunosensor was prepared using luminol as the electrochemiluminescent (ECL) sensing probe reinforced by Au-Cu nanoparticles (Au-Cu NPs).

  48. The role of TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease: from the perspective of Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology 2023-11-08 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), a pattern recognition receptor abundantly expressed on microglia, has been identified as one of the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  49. Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2023-10-24 Drug development

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals.

  50. Synthesis and Bioevaluation of 2-Styrylquinoxaline Derivatives as Tau-PET Tracers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular pharmaceutics 2023-10-18 Drug development

    This study focused on designing and evaluating Tau-PET tracers for noninvasive positron emission computed tomography (PET) imaging of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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