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  1. Passive immunization with anti-Tau antibodies in two transgenic models: reduction of Tau pathology and delay of disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2011-08-12 Disease mechanisms

    The microtubule-associated protein Tau plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease and several related disorders (tauopathies).

  2. Tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol, two main components of olive oil, protect N2a cells against amyloid-β-induced toxicity. Involvement of the NF-κB signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2011-08-01 Prevention trials

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

  3. Soluble tau species, not neurofibrillary aggregates, disrupt neural system integration in a tau transgenic model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2011-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles are a feature of Alzheimer disease and other tauopathies, and although they are generally believed to be markers of neuronal pathology, there is little evidence evaluating whether tangles directly impact neuronal function.

  4. Hippocampal dysfunction effects on context memory: possible etiology for posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2011-05-11 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume reductions and functional impairments are reliable findings in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) imaging studies.

  5. Age-dependent axonal transport and locomotor changes and tau hypophosphorylation in a "P301L" tau knockin mouse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2011-04-13 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are characterized by hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau and its accumulation into fibrillar aggregates.

  6. Corticobasal degeneration: a pathologically distinct 4R tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2011-04-12 Disease mechanisms

    Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorder with onset in the 5(th) to 7(th) decade of life.

  7. Hyperphosphorylated Tau in an α-synuclein-overexpressing transgenic model of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2011-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Although clinically distinct diseases, tauopathies and synucleinopathies share a common genesis and mechanisms, leading to overlapping degenerative changes within neurons.

  8. The neuronal transporter gene SLC6A15 confers risk to major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2011-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Major depression (MD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and a leading cause of loss in work productivity.

  9. Seeding of normal Tau by pathological Tau conformers drives pathogenesis of Alzheimer-like tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2011-03-03 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies are composed of insoluble hyperphosphorylated Tau protein, but the mechanisms underlying the conversion of highly soluble Tau into insoluble NFTs remain elusive.

  10. Effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor haploinsufficiency on stress-induced remodeling of hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Hippocampus 2011-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Chronic restraint stress (CRS) induces the remodeling (i.e., retraction and simplification) of the apical dendrites of hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons in rats, suggesting that intrahippocampal connectivity can be affected by a prolonged stressful challenge.

  11. PKC ε activation prevents synaptic loss, Aβ elevation, and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice

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

    Among the pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neurodegeneration, only synaptic loss in the brains of AD patients closely correlates with the degree of dementia in vivo.

  12. Vitamin C restores behavioral deficits and amyloid-β oligomerization without affecting plaque formation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Oxidative stress is related to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) characterized by progressive memory impairment.

  13. Role of iron in brain injury after intraventricular hemorrhage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Stroke 2010-12-16 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Iron has a role in brain injury after IVH.

  14. Phenylbutyrate rescues dendritic spine loss associated with memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Hippocampus 2010-11-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and ageing are associated with impaired learning and memory, and recent findings point toward modulating chromatin remodeling through histone acetylation as a promising therapeutic strategy.

  15. Diminished gray matter in the hippocampus of cannabis users: possible protective effects of cannabidiol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drug and alcohol dependence 2010-11-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Lower volume in the right hippocampus in chronic cannabis users was corroborated.

  16. Galantamine-induced amyloid-{beta} clearance mediated via stimulation of microglial nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-10-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Reduction of brain amyloid-β (Aβ) has been proposed as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer disease (AD), and microglial Aβ phagocytosis is noted as an Aβ clearance system in brains.

  17. Aggregation of detergent-insoluble tau is involved in neuronal loss but not in synaptic loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-10-04 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which consist of highly phosphorylated tau, are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  18. Amyloid efflux transporter expression at the blood-brain barrier declines in normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2010-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Reduced clearance of amyloid β peptides (Aβ) across the blood-brain barrier contributes to amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer disease.

  19. Amyloid-beta oligomers impair fear conditioned memory in a calcineurin-dependent fashion in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2010-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Soluble oligomeric aggregates of the amyloid-beta (A beta) peptide are believed to be the most neurotoxic A beta species affecting the brain in Alzheimer disease (AD), a terminal neurodegenerative disorder involving severe cognitive decline underscored by initial synaptic dysfunction and later extensive neuronal death in the CNS.

  20. Association between the oxytocin receptor gene and amygdalar volume in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2010-09-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The present results suggest that OXTR might be associated with the susceptibility to ASD, especially in its aspects of social interaction and communication mediated by a modulation of amygdala development, one of the most distributed brain regions with high density of OXTR.

  21. Clinical spectrum of Kufor-Rakeb syndrome in the Chilean kindred with ATP13A2 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-09-01 Clinical safety

    We report the clinical features of the original Chilean family with Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (KRS) that led to the discovery of the ATP13A2 gene at the PARK9 locus.

  22. Nitric oxide signaling in brain function, dysfunction, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2010-08-01 Vascular contributions

    Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is widely used in the nervous system.

  23. AGEs/RAGE complex upregulates BACE1 via NF-κB pathway activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-07-17 Disease mechanisms

    Although the pathogenesis of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) is not clearly understood, it is likely dependent on several age-related factors.

  24. Cell-mediated neuroprotection in a mouse model of human tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tau protein in a hyperphosphorylated state makes up the intracellular inclusions of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and cases of frontotemporal dementia.

  25. Elucidating the nature of deregulated semantic cognition in semantic aphasia: evidence for the roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal cortices

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2010-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Semantic cognition--semantically driven verbal and nonverbal behavior--is composed of at least two interactive principal components: conceptual representations and executive control processes that regulate and shape activation within the semantic system.

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