Molecular Neurodegeneration

Papers
(The median citation count of Molecular Neurodegeneration is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
In Memoriam of John T. Trojanowski, MD, PhD 1946-2022309
Mis-localization of endogenous TDP-43 leads to ALS-like early-stage metabolic dysfunction and progressive motor deficits199
TREM2 dependent and independent functions of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease194
Tau interactome and RNA binding proteins in neurodegenerative diseases178
Regulation of the hippocampal translatome by Apoer2-ICD release176
Guidelines for bioinformatics of single-cell sequencing data analysis in Alzheimer’s disease: review, recommendation, implementation and application175
Emerging targets of α-synuclein spreading in α-synucleinopathies: a review of mechanistic pathways and interventions172
Genome-wide histone acetylation analysis reveals altered transcriptional regulation in the Parkinson’s disease brain157
Circadian clocks, cognition, and Alzheimer’s disease: synaptic mechanisms, signaling effectors, and chronotherapeutics147
A genome-wide search for pleiotropy in more than 100,000 harmonized longitudinal cognitive domain scores145
Neuroprotection by WldS depends on retinal ganglion cell type and age in glaucoma143
Multimarker synaptic protein cerebrospinal fluid panels reflect TDP-43 pathology and cognitive performance in a pathological cohort of frontotemporal lobar degeneration142
Inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase confers neuroprotection and restores microglial homeostasis in a tauopathy mouse model139
Astrocytic autophagy plasticity modulates Aβ clearance and cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease133
Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress131
The Parkinson’s disease risk gene cathepsin B promotes fibrillar alpha-synuclein clearance, lysosomal function and glucocerebrosidase activity in dopaminergic neurons131
Correction: Blood-brain barrier-associated pericytes internalize and clear aggregated amyloid-β42 by LRP1-dependent apolipoprotein E isoform-specific mechanism130
HDGFL2 cryptic proteins report presence of TDP-43 pathology in neurodegenerative diseases117
Unravelling cell type-specific responses to Parkinson’s Disease at single cell resolution109
Multi-region brain transcriptomic analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reveals widespread RNA alterations and substantial cerebellum involvement108
Sex dependent glial-specific changes in the chromatin accessibility landscape in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease brains105
Single-cell peripheral immunoprofiling of Lewy body and Parkinson’s disease in a multi-site cohort105
Human VCP mutant ALS/FTD microglia display immune and lysosomal phenotypes independently of GPNMB103
The role of peripheral inflammatory insults in Alzheimer’s disease: a review and research roadmap95
The role of NURR1 in metabolic abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease88
Combination therapy using GDNF and cell transplant in Parkinson’s disease86
Correction: Sodium oligomannate alters gut microbiota, reduces cerebral amyloidosis and reactive microglia in a sex-specific manner86
BAX activation in mouse retinal ganglion cells occurs in two temporally and mechanistically distinct steps83
APOE targeting strategy in Alzheimer’s disease: lessons learned from protective variants82
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation alleviates motor impairment in Parkinson’s disease: association with peripheral inflammatory regulatory T-cells and SYT680
α-Synuclein pathology disrupts mitochondrial function in dopaminergic and cholinergic neurons at-risk in Parkinson’s disease80
Alzheimer risk gene product Pyk2 suppresses tau phosphorylation and phenotypic effects of tauopathy79
Selective reduction of astrocyte apoE3 and apoE4 strongly reduces Aβ accumulation and plaque-related pathology in a mouse model of amyloidosis78
Finding memo: versatile interactions of the VPS10p-Domain receptors in Alzheimer’s disease77
Correction: The major TMEM106B dementia risk allele affects TMEM106B protein levels, fibril formation, and myelin lipid homeostasis in the ageing human hippocampus66
A perspective on Alzheimer’s disease: exploring the potential of terminal/paradoxical lucidity and psychedelics66
TMEM106B aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases: linking genetics to function64
ASO-mediated knock-down of GPNMB in mutant-GRN and in Grn-deficient peripheral myeloid cells disrupts lysosomal function and immune responses63
Deficits in mitochondrial TCA cycle and OXPHOS precede rod photoreceptor degeneration during chronic HIF activation63
The transcription factor combination MEF2 and KLF7 promotes axonal sprouting in the injured spinal cord with functional improvement and regeneration-associated gene expression61
Correction: HDGFL2 cryptic proteins report presence of TDP-43 pathology in neurodegenerative diseases60
Using mass spectrometry to validate mouse models of tauopathy60
Contribution of amyloid deposition from oligodendrocytes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease60
Common features of neurodegenerative disease: exploring the brain-eye connection and beyond (part 2): the 2021 pre-symposium of the 15th international conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease59
Dementia with lewy bodies patients with high tau levels display unique proteome profiles59
Microglial function, INPP5D/SHIP1 signaling, and NLRP3 inflammasome activation: implications for Alzheimer’s disease58
Oligomerization of Lrrk controls actin severing and α-synuclein neurotoxicity in vivo57
Blood-based biomarkers of inflammation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis54
Neuropathology of incidental Lewy body & prodromal Parkinson’s disease53
The endotoxin hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease53
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Aging exacerbates the brain inflammatory micro-environment contributing to α-synuclein pathology and functional deficits in a mouse model of DLB/PD52
The role of n-3-derived specialised pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in microglial mitochondrial respiration and inflammation resolution in Alzheimer’s disease49
Brain mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review of symptom-general and –specific lesion patterns49
Modulating innate immune activation states impacts the efficacy of specific Aβ immunotherapy49
Novel App knock-in mouse model shows key features of amyloid pathology and reveals profound metabolic dysregulation of microglia49
Microglial TYROBP/DAP12 in Alzheimer’s disease: Transduction of physiological and pathological signals across TREM248
Correction: Network proteomics of the Lewy body dementia brain reveals presynaptic signatures distinct from Alzheimer’s disease48
Correction: Predominant expression of Alzheimer’s disease-associated BIN1 in mature oligodendrocytes and localization to white matter tracts47
Parkinson mice show functional and molecular changes in the gut long before motoric disease onset47
VCP suppresses proteopathic seeding in neurons47
Proteomic landscape of Alzheimer’s Disease: novel insights into pathogenesis and biomarker discovery46
SETD7-mediated monomethylation is enriched on soluble Tau in Alzheimer’s disease46
Sodium oligomannate alters gut microbiota, reduces cerebral amyloidosis and reactive microglia in a sex-specific manner44
Sex specific molecular networks and key drivers of Alzheimer’s disease44
Peripheral and central neuroimmune mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis44
NF-κB is a critical mediator of post-mitotic senescence in oligodendrocytes and subsequent white matter loss44
Mechanisms of astrocyte aging in reactivity and disease44
Wild-type FUS corrects ALS-like disease induced by cytoplasmic mutant FUS through autoregulation43
Tracking reactive astrogliosis in autosomal dominant and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease with multi-modal PET and plasma GFAP41
GBA1 inactivation in oligodendrocytes affects myelination and induces neurodegenerative hallmarks and lipid dyshomeostasis in mice40
Trem2 deletion enhances tau dispersion and pathology through microglia exosomes40
Correction: Blood–brain barrier-associated pericytes internalize and clear aggregated amyloid-β42 by LRP1-dependent apolipoprotein E isoform-specific mechanism40
Amyloid-β (Aβ) immunotherapy induced microhemorrhages are linked to vascular inflammation and cerebrovascular damage in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease38
SRSF1-dependent inhibition of C9ORF72-repeat RNA nuclear export: genome-wide mechanisms for neuroprotection in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis36
Small molecule inhibitors of α-synuclein oligomers identified by targeting early dopamine-mediated motor impairment in C. elegans36
Neuropathology and molecular diagnosis of Synucleinopathies36
Correction: Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress35
Increased expression of mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (MANF) contributes to synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease35
Proteomic analysis of APOEε4 carriers implicates lipid metabolism, complement and lymphocyte signaling in cognitive resilience34
Pathological characteristics of axons and alterations of proteomic and lipidomic profiles in midbrain dopaminergic neurodegeneration induced by WDR45-deficiency34
Nuclear pore and nucleocytoplasmic transport impairment in oxidative stress-induced neurodegeneration: relevance to molecular mechanisms in Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s and other related neurodegenerat33
Therapeutic potential of APP antisense oligonucleotides for Alzheimer’s disease and down syndrome-related Alzheimer’s disease33
Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology33
MicroRNA-100-5p and microRNA-298-5p released from apoptotic cortical neurons are endogenous Toll-like receptor 7/8 ligands that contribute to neurodegeneration32
CCR5 antagonist reduces HIV-induced amyloidogenesis, tau pathology, neurodegeneration, and blood-brain barrier alterations in HIV-infected hu-PBL-NSG mice32
Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes in neurodegeneration32
Key role of the CCR2-CCL2 axis in disease modification in a mouse model of tauopathy32
BACE1 regulates expression of Clusterin in astrocytes for enhancing clearance of β-amyloid peptides31
The role of inflammasomes in vascular cognitive impairment31
Blood platelet factor 4: the elixir of brain rejuvenation31
Proteo-genomics of soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid provides novel insights and identifies novel modulators for Alzheimer’s disease31
Correction: Collusion of α-Synuclein and Aβ aggravating co-morbidities in a novel prion-type mouse model31
Seeding activity of skin misfolded tau as a biomarker for tauopathies30
Resistant and Resilient mutations in protection against familial Alzheimer’s disease: learning from nature30
TDP-43 seeding activity in the olfactory mucosa of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis30
Network proteomics of the Lewy body dementia brain reveals presynaptic signatures distinct from Alzheimer’s disease30
Age-dependent progression from clearance to vulnerability in the early response of periventricular microglia to α-synuclein toxic species29
Targeted long-read sequencing to quantify methylation of the C9orf72 repeat expansion29
Alpha synuclein co-pathology is associated with accelerated amyloid-driven tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease29
Elevated nuclear TDP-43 induces constitutive exon skipping29
Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease – a key disease hallmark with therapeutic potential28
Correction: Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology28
HDGFL2 cryptic protein: a portal to detection and diagnosis in neurodegenerative disease28
Microglial ferroptotic stress causes non-cell autonomous neuronal death28
Amyloid fibril proteomics of AD brains reveals modifiers of aggregation and toxicity28
Astrocyte reactivity is associated with tau tangle load and cortical thinning in Alzheimer’s disease27
Oligodendrocyte death and myelin loss in the cuprizone model: an updated overview of the intrinsic and extrinsic causes of cuprizone demyelination27
ACSS2-dependent histone acetylation improves cognition in mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease27
Gut microbiota-host lipid crosstalk in Alzheimer’s disease: implications for disease progression and therapeutics27
cGAS-STING triggers inflammaging-associated neurodegeneration27
The integrated stress response in neurodegenerative diseases26
Loss of MEF2C function by enhancer mutation leads to neuronal mitochondria dysfunction and motor deficits in mice26
A novel AAV Vector for gene therapy of RPE-related retinal degenerative diseases via intravitreal delivery26
Astrocytes of the optic nerve exhibit a region-specific and temporally distinct response to elevated intraocular pressure26
Microglial CD2AP deficiency exerts protection in an Alzheimer’s disease model of amyloidosis26
An adapted protocol to derive microglia from stem cells and its application in the study of CSF1R-related disorders26
Mitochondrial CISD1/Cisd accumulation blocks mitophagy and genetic or pharmacological inhibition rescues neurodegenerative phenotypes in Pink1/parkin models26
Specific detection of tau seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease using rationally designed biosensor cells25
TREM2 and microglia exosomes: a potential highway for pathological tau25
Pharmacological rescue of cognitive function in a mouse model of chemobrain25
Immune cell metabolic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease25
Retinal ganglion cell repopulation for vision restoration in optic neuropathy: a roadmap from the RReSTORe Consortium24
TDP-43 pathology is associated with increased tau burdens and seeding24
Current views on meningeal lymphatics and immunity in aging and Alzheimer’s disease24
Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy24
Knock-in models related to Alzheimer’s disease: synaptic transmission, plaques and the role of microglia23
Nuclear import receptors are recruited by FG-nucleoporins to rescue hallmarks of TDP-43 proteinopathy23
Transcriptome deregulation of peripheral monocytes and whole blood in GBA-related Parkinson’s disease23
A Trem2R47H mouse model without cryptic splicing drives age- and disease-dependent tissue damage and synaptic loss in response to plaques23
Are oligodendrocytes the missing link in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia research?23
Aging-associated sensory decline and Alzheimer’s disease23
“Don’t Phos Over Tau”: recent developments in clinical biomarkers and therapies targeting tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies22
hiPSC-based models to decipher the contribution of human astrocytes to Alzheimer’s disease and potential therapeutics22
Nuclear-import receptors as gatekeepers of pathological phase transitions in ALS/FTD22
Edaravone activates the GDNF/RET neurotrophic signaling pathway and protects mRNA-induced motor neurons from iPS cells22
Correction: Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy22
Post-infection cognitive impairments in a cohort of elderly patients with COVID-1922
Non-invasive systemic viral delivery of human alpha-synuclein mimics selective and progressive neuropathology of Parkinson’s disease in rodent brains22
TDP-43-regulated cryptic RNAs accumulate in Alzheimer’s disease brains22
The neuroimmune nexus: unraveling the role of the mtDNA-cGAS-STING signal pathway in Alzheimer’s disease21
Inactivation of NLRP3 inflammasome by dephosphorylation at Serine 658 alleviates glial inflammation in the mouse model of Parkinson’s disease21
Fate-mapping and functional dissection reveal perilous influence of type I interferon signaling in mouse brain aging21
Single-domain antibody-based protein degrader for synucleinopathies21
Tau protein profiling in tauopathies: a human brain study20
Lewy body diseases and the gut20
Does proteopathic tau propagate trans-synaptically in the brain?20
Functional microRNA targetome undergoes degeneration-induced shift in the retina20
The concept of resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease: current definitions and cellular and molecular mechanisms20
When the infectious environment meets the AD brain19
BIN1 is a key regulator of proinflammatory and neurodegeneration-related activation in microglia19
Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges19
18F-MK-6240 tau PET in patients at-risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy19
Translation dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on ALS19
Alzheimer’s genes in microglia: a risk worth investigating19
Genome-wide analyses identify NEAT1 as genetic modifier of age at onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis18
Advanced structural brain aging in preclinical autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease18
A blood-based diagnostic test incorporating plasma Aβ42/40 ratio, ApoE proteotype, and age accurately identifies brain amyloid status: findings from a multi cohort validity analysis18
Calcium-dependent cytosolic phospholipase A2 activation is implicated in neuroinflammation and oxidative stress associated with ApoE417
CD8+ T cells in neurodegeneration: friend or foe?17
To the editor: Response to post-infection cognitive impairments in a cohort of elderly patients with COVID-19, by Wang, Y.J. et al. (2021)17
Genetic context modulates aging and degeneration in the murine retina17
Disparate and shared transcriptomic signatures associated with cortical atrophy in genetic behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration17
Simple model systems reveal conserved mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies17
Crosstalk of organelles in Parkinson’s disease – MiT family transcription factors as central players in signaling pathways connecting mitochondria and lysosomes16
Comparison of immunoassay- with mass spectrometry-derived p-tau quantification for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology16
Insights from new in vivo models of TREM2 variants16
Regulation of human microglial gene expression and function via RNAase-H active antisense oligonucleotides in vivo in Alzheimer’s disease16
Correction: Cerebrospinal fluid tau levels are associated with abnormal neuronal plasticity markers in Alzheimer’s disease16
The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp13015
Nuclear speckle specific hnRNP D-like prevents age- and AD-related cognitive decline by modulating RNA splicing15
Urolithin A promotes p62-dependent lysophagy to prevent acute retinal neurodegeneration15
Alzheimer’s disease associated isoforms of human CD33 distinctively modulate microglial cell responses in 5XFAD mice15
Variants in the MS4A cluster interact with soluble TREM2 expression on biomarkers of neuropathology15
Single-cell microglial transcriptomics during demyelination defines a microglial state required for lytic carcass clearance15
Real-time imaging of mitochondrial redox reveals increased mitochondrial oxidative stress associated with amyloid β aggregates in vivo in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease15
Author response to “post-infection cognitive impairments in a cohort of elderly patients with COVID-19”14
17q21.31 sub-haplotypes underlying H1-associated risk for Parkinson’s disease are associated with LRRC37A/2 expression in astrocytes14
The role of inflammation in neurodegeneration: novel insights into the role of the immune system in C9orf72 HRE-mediated ALS/FTD14
RNA-Targeting CRISPR/CasRx system relieves disease symptoms in Huntington’s disease models14
TREM2 and sTREM2 in Alzheimer’s disease: from mechanisms to therapies14
Dynamic changes of CSF sPDGFRβ during ageing and AD progression and associations with CSF ATN biomarkers14
Updates on mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease14
Research models to study lewy body dementia13
Mitovesicles secreted into the extracellular space of brains with mitochondrial dysfunction impair synaptic plasticity13
Regulatory T cells limit age-associated retinal inflammation and neurodegeneration13
Altered plasma protein profiles in genetic FTD – a GENFI study13
Proteostasis failure exacerbates neuronal circuit dysfunction and sleep impairments in Alzheimer’s disease13
Translational molecular imaging and drug development in Parkinson’s disease12
METTL3-dependent RNA m6A dysregulation contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease through aberrant cell cycle events12
Drug development targeting degeneration of the basal forebrain cholinergic system: its time has come12
ApoE in Alzheimer’s disease: pathophysiology and therapeutic strategies11
Extracellular protein components of amyloid plaques and their roles in Alzheimer’s disease pathology11
A microglial activity state biomarker panel differentiates FTD-granulin and Alzheimer’s disease patients from controls11
A proteomic network approach resolves stage-specific molecular phenotypes in chronic traumatic encephalopathy11
Chitinase-3-like-1: a multifaceted player in neuroinflammation and degenerative pathologies with therapeutic implications10
Clarifying the association of CSF Aβ, tau, BACE1, and neurogranin with AT(N) stages in Alzheimer disease10
Impaired antioxidant KEAP1-NRF2 system in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: NRF2 activation as a potential therapeutic strategy10
TDP-43 Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease10
AMPK hyperactivation promotes dendrite retraction, synaptic loss, and neuronal dysfunction in glaucoma10
Valosin containing protein (VCP): initiator, modifier, and potential drug target for neurodegenerative diseases10
Common mouse models of tauopathy reflect early but not late human disease10
Correction: Drug development targeting degeneration of the basal forebrain cholinergic system: its time has come10
The informed road map to prevention of Alzheimer Disease: A call to arms10
CSF protein ratios with enhanced potential to reflect Alzheimer’s disease pathology and neurodegeneration10
Correction: Alzheimer risk gene product Pyk2 suppresses tau phosphorylation and phenotypic effects of tauopathy10
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