Molecular Neurodegeneration

Papers
(The median citation count of Molecular Neurodegeneration is 12. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
LRRK2 kinase activity regulates Parkinson’s disease-relevant lipids at the lysosome630
Molecular hallmarks of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal resilience to Alzheimer’s disease354
Altered trafficking of Kv1-Kvβ2 leads to neuronal hyperexcitability and memory deficits in amyloid-β pathology268
Mutations in PSEN1 predispose inflammation in an astrocyte model of familial Alzheimer’s disease through disrupted regulated intramembrane proteolysis257
Synaptic control of retinal ganglion cell survival and axon regeneration240
Retraction Note: Hippocampal neuronal cells that accumulate α-synuclein fragments are more vulnerable to Aβ oligomer toxicity via mGluR5– implications for dementia with lewy bodies188
Obesity-driven phosphatidylethanolamine dysregulation impairs neuroimmune crosstalk and accelerates Alzheimer’s pathogenesis185
TREM2 dependent and independent functions of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease168
Regulation of the hippocampal translatome by Apoer2-ICD release161
Mis-localization of endogenous TDP-43 leads to ALS-like early-stage metabolic dysfunction and progressive motor deficits158
Tau interactome and RNA binding proteins in neurodegenerative diseases143
Emerging targets of α-synuclein spreading in α-synucleinopathies: a review of mechanistic pathways and interventions139
Organelle stress in NLRP3 inflammasome: a central mediator of neurodegenerative diseases133
Death-associated protein kinase 1-dependent SENP1 degradation increases tau SUMOylation and leads to cognitive dysfunction in a mouse model for tauopathy125
The Parkinson’s disease risk gene cathepsin B promotes fibrillar alpha-synuclein clearance, lysosomal function and glucocerebrosidase activity in dopaminergic neurons112
Cautions on utilizing plasma GFAP level as a biomarker for reactive astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases110
A genome-wide search for pleiotropy in more than 100,000 harmonized longitudinal cognitive domain scores108
Inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase confers neuroprotection and restores microglial homeostasis in a tauopathy mouse model107
Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress106
Astrocytic autophagy plasticity modulates Aβ clearance and cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease104
Cerebrospinal fluid markers link to synaptic plasticity responses and Alzheimer’s disease genetic pathways104
Microglia sensing of peripheral signals that bridge the brain and body103
Correction: Blood-brain barrier-associated pericytes internalize and clear aggregated amyloid-β42 by LRP1-dependent apolipoprotein E isoform-specific mechanism97
The role of peripheral inflammatory insults in Alzheimer’s disease: a review and research roadmap93
Multi-omics insights into GBA1-associated Parkinson’s disease: interplay of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and lipidomics93
The role of NURR1 in metabolic abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease86
Recombinant cathepsins B and L promote α-synuclein clearance and restore lysosomal function in human and murine models with α-synuclein pathology85
Immunotherapy against tau fragment diminishes AD pathology, improving synaptic function and cognition78
HDGFL2 cryptic proteins report presence of TDP-43 pathology in neurodegenerative diseases78
Single-cell peripheral immunoprofiling of Lewy body and Parkinson’s disease in a multi-site cohort76
Human VCP mutant ALS/FTD microglia display immune and lysosomal phenotypes independently of GPNMB74
Unravelling cell type-specific responses to Parkinson’s Disease at single cell resolution73
Multi-region brain transcriptomic analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reveals widespread RNA alterations and substantial cerebellum involvement73
In Memoriam of Edward H. Koo, MD 1954–202571
Correction: Sodium oligomannate alters gut microbiota, reduces cerebral amyloidosis and reactive microglia in a sex-specific manner70
Impaired nucleocytoplasmic transport in SOD1-mediated ALS69
Combination therapy using GDNF and cell transplant in Parkinson’s disease68
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation alleviates motor impairment in Parkinson’s disease: association with peripheral inflammatory regulatory T-cells and SYT667
Pharmacological restoration of impaired autophagy in retinal ganglion cells prevents abnormal mitochondrial accumulation and glaucomatous neurodegeneration66
Finding memo: versatile interactions of the VPS10p-Domain receptors in Alzheimer’s disease65
BAX activation in mouse retinal ganglion cells occurs in two temporally and mechanistically distinct steps64
Autophagic impairment in sleep–wake circuitry is linked to sleep loss at the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease63
Clinical progression and genetic pathways in body-first and brain-first Parkinson’s disease62
α-Synuclein pathology disrupts mitochondrial function in dopaminergic and cholinergic neurons at-risk in Parkinson’s disease61
APOE targeting strategy in Alzheimer’s disease: lessons learned from protective variants61
Entering the era of precision medicine to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis61
Plasma platelet-derived growth factor receptor-β decrease correlates with blood-brain barrier damage in Alzheimer’s disease60
Correction: The major TMEM106B dementia risk allele affects TMEM106B protein levels, fibril formation, and myelin lipid homeostasis in the ageing human hippocampus60
Deficits in mitochondrial TCA cycle and OXPHOS precede rod photoreceptor degeneration during chronic HIF activation59
A perspective on Alzheimer’s disease: exploring the potential of terminal/paradoxical lucidity and psychedelics59
ASO-mediated knock-down of GPNMB in mutant-GRN and in Grn-deficient peripheral myeloid cells disrupts lysosomal function and immune responses58
TMEM106B aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases: linking genetics to function57
Methylome analysis of FTLD patients with TDP-43 pathology identifies epigenetic signatures specific to pathological subtypes56
Using mass spectrometry to validate mouse models of tauopathy56
Evidence suggesting that microglia make amyloid from neuronally expressed APP: a hypothesis55
The transcription factor combination MEF2 and KLF7 promotes axonal sprouting in the injured spinal cord with functional improvement and regeneration-associated gene expression55
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Aging exacerbates the brain inflammatory micro-environment contributing to α-synuclein pathology and functional deficits in a mouse model of DLB/PD53
The PKCι-β-arrestin2 axis disrupts SORLA retrograde trafficking, driving its degradation and amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease53
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 disease53
Correction: HDGFL2 cryptic proteins report presence of TDP-43 pathology in neurodegenerative diseases52
The endotoxin hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease52
Dementia with lewy bodies patients with high tau levels display unique proteome profiles52
Microglial function, INPP5D/SHIP1 signaling, and NLRP3 inflammasome activation: implications for Alzheimer’s disease51
Contribution of amyloid deposition from oligodendrocytes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease51
Molecular mechanisms and consequences of TDP-43 phosphorylation in neurodegeneration50
The role of n-3-derived specialised pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in microglial mitochondrial respiration and inflammation resolution in Alzheimer’s disease50
Neuropathology of incidental Lewy body & prodromal Parkinson’s disease50
Glial phagocytosis for synapse and toxic proteins in neurodegenerative diseases49
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
Diagnostic biomarkers for α-synucleinopathies- state of the art and future developments: a systematic review48
Interplay between astrocyte reactivity and APOE ε4 status is associated with accelerated pTau-related tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease46
APOE genotype influences on the brain metabolome of aging mice – role for mitochondrial energetics in mechanisms of resilience in APOE2 genotype46
Cerebrospinal fluid proteome profiling across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum: a step towards solving the equation for ‘X’46
The Hippo signaling pathway as a therapeutic target in Alzheimer’s disease46
Correction: Predominant expression of Alzheimer’s disease-associated BIN1 in mature oligodendrocytes and localization to white matter tracts46
Sodium oligomannate alters gut microbiota, reduces cerebral amyloidosis and reactive microglia in a sex-specific manner45
Sex specific molecular networks and key drivers of Alzheimer’s disease44
Correction: Network proteomics of the Lewy body dementia brain reveals presynaptic signatures distinct from Alzheimer’s disease44
Peripheral and central neuroimmune mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis44
Correction: Blood–brain barrier-associated pericytes internalize and clear aggregated amyloid-β42 by LRP1-dependent apolipoprotein E isoform-specific mechanism43
GBA1 inactivation in oligodendrocytes affects myelination and induces neurodegenerative hallmarks and lipid dyshomeostasis in mice43
Mechanisms of astrocyte aging in reactivity and disease43
Mitochondria transfer in neurological disorders: the key role of neuroglia43
Trem2 deletion enhances tau dispersion and pathology through microglia exosomes42
Amyloid-β (Aβ) immunotherapy induced microhemorrhages are linked to vascular inflammation and cerebrovascular damage in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease41
NF-κB is a critical mediator of post-mitotic senescence in oligodendrocytes and subsequent white matter loss41
Correction: Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress40
Tracking reactive astrogliosis in autosomal dominant and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease with multi-modal PET and plasma GFAP40
Pathological characteristics of axons and alterations of proteomic and lipidomic profiles in midbrain dopaminergic neurodegeneration induced by WDR45-deficiency40
Therapeutic potential of APP antisense oligonucleotides for Alzheimer’s disease and down syndrome-related Alzheimer’s disease39
Modulation of O-GlcNAc cycling influences α-synuclein amplification, degradation, and associated neuroinflammatory pathology39
Current strategies in the management of dementia with lewy bodies and future directions based on disease pathophysiology39
The molecular fidelity of Aβ pathology in 5xFAD and AppNL−FPsen1P117L mice revealed by cryo-EM38
Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology38
Correction: Decoding distinctive features of plasma extracellular vesicles in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis37
Nuclear pore and nucleocytoplasmic transport impairment in oxidative stress-induced neurodegeneration: relevance to molecular mechanisms in Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s and other related neurodegenerat37
Proteomic analysis of APOEε4 carriers implicates lipid metabolism, complement and lymphocyte signaling in cognitive resilience37
Proteomic landscape of Alzheimer’s disease: emerging technologies, advances and insights (2021 – 2025)37
Increased expression of mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (MANF) contributes to synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease36
BACE1 regulates expression of Clusterin in astrocytes for enhancing clearance of β-amyloid peptides35
TDP-43 seeding activity in the olfactory mucosa of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis35
Correction: Collusion of α-Synuclein and Aβ aggravating co-morbidities in a novel prion-type mouse model35
Age-dependent progression from clearance to vulnerability in the early response of periventricular microglia to α-synuclein toxic species35
Effect of antidiabetic drugs in Alzheimer´s disease: a systematic review of preclinical and clinical studies35
Resistant and Resilient mutations in protection against familial Alzheimer’s disease: learning from nature35
Early transcriptional and cellular abnormalities in choroid plexus of a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease34
Blood platelet factor 4: the elixir of brain rejuvenation34
Targeted long-read sequencing to quantify methylation of the C9orf72 repeat expansion34
Elevated nuclear TDP-43 induces constitutive exon skipping34
Synaptic dysfunction and glial activation markers throughout aging and early neurodegeneration: a longitudinal CSF biomarker-based study34
Molecular characterization of humanized APOE mouse models reveals source and genotype dependent differences33
Network proteomics of the Lewy body dementia brain reveals presynaptic signatures distinct from Alzheimer’s disease33
Seeding activity of skin misfolded tau as a biomarker for tauopathies33
Proteo-genomics of soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid provides novel insights and identifies novel modulators for Alzheimer’s disease33
Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease – a key disease hallmark with therapeutic potential32
Alpha synuclein co-pathology is associated with accelerated amyloid-driven tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease32
HDGFL2 cryptic protein: a portal to detection and diagnosis in neurodegenerative disease31
Microglial ferroptotic stress causes non-cell autonomous neuronal death31
Myelin dysfunction in aging and brain disorders: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities31
TDP-43: [GU]-ardian of the transcriptome30
Amyloid fibril proteomics of AD brains reveals modifiers of aggregation and toxicity30
cGAS-STING triggers inflammaging-associated neurodegeneration30
Gut microbiota-host lipid crosstalk in Alzheimer’s disease: implications for disease progression and therapeutics30
Astrocyte reactivity is associated with tau tangle load and cortical thinning in Alzheimer’s disease30
Correction: Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology30
ACSS2-dependent histone acetylation improves cognition in mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease29
Mouse models of Anti-Aβ immunotherapies29
Loss of MEF2C function by enhancer mutation leads to neuronal mitochondria dysfunction and motor deficits in mice29
The integrated stress response in neurodegenerative diseases29
Pioglitazone modulates metabolic adaptation and peripheral nerve regeneration after injury29
Astrocytes of the optic nerve exhibit a region-specific and temporally distinct response to elevated intraocular pressure28
A novel AAV Vector for gene therapy of RPE-related retinal degenerative diseases via intravitreal delivery28
Current views on meningeal lymphatics and immunity in aging and Alzheimer’s disease27
An adapted protocol to derive microglia from stem cells and its application in the study of CSF1R-related disorders27
Microglial CD2AP deficiency exerts protection in an Alzheimer’s disease model of amyloidosis27
TDP-43 pathology is associated with increased tau burdens and seeding27
Nuclear import receptors are recruited by FG-nucleoporins to rescue hallmarks of TDP-43 proteinopathy27
Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy27
A Trem2R47H mouse model without cryptic splicing drives age- and disease-dependent tissue damage and synaptic loss in response to plaques27
TREM2 and microglia exosomes: a potential highway for pathological tau26
Specific detection of tau seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease using rationally designed biosensor cells26
Retinal ganglion cell repopulation for vision restoration in optic neuropathy: a roadmap from the RReSTORe Consortium26
Aging-associated sensory decline and Alzheimer’s disease25
Immune cell metabolic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease25
Lipid alterations in hereditary peripheral neuropathies: common mechanisms in disease heterogeneity?25
Mitochondrial CISD1/Cisd accumulation blocks mitophagy and genetic or pharmacological inhibition rescues neurodegenerative phenotypes in Pink1/parkin models25
Nuclear-import receptors as gatekeepers of pathological phase transitions in ALS/FTD24
TDP-43-regulated cryptic RNAs accumulate in Alzheimer’s disease brains24
Are oligodendrocytes the missing link in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia research?24
Transcriptome deregulation of peripheral monocytes and whole blood in GBA-related Parkinson’s disease24
Fate-mapping and functional dissection reveal perilous influence of type I interferon signaling in mouse brain aging24
Temporal single-cell atlas of full-length Huntington’s disease mouse model defines stage-specific signatures of corticostriatal dysfunction24
Inflammatory signaling differentially changes chromatin accessibility and gene expression of the PD- associated kinase LRRK2 between human and mice24
Mechanisms of interventions targeting modifiable factors for dementia risk reduction24
Correction: Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy23
Single-domain antibody-based protein degrader for synucleinopathies23
sPLA2-IIA modifies progranulin deficiency phenotypes in mouse models23
Tau oligomers modulate synapse fate by eliciting progressive bipartite synapse dysregulation and synapse loss23
hiPSC-based models to decipher the contribution of human astrocytes to Alzheimer’s disease and potential therapeutics23
Inactivation of NLRP3 inflammasome by dephosphorylation at Serine 658 alleviates glial inflammation in the mouse model of Parkinson’s disease22
Non-invasive systemic viral delivery of human alpha-synuclein mimics selective and progressive neuropathology of Parkinson’s disease in rodent brains22
The concept of resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease: current definitions and cellular and molecular mechanisms22
A novel alpha-synuclein G14R missense variant is associated with atypical neuropathological features22
The neuroimmune nexus: unraveling the role of the mtDNA-cGAS-STING signal pathway in Alzheimer’s disease22
Genome-wide analyses identify NEAT1 as genetic modifier of age at onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis21
18F-MK-6240 tau PET in patients at-risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy21
Lewy body diseases and the gut21
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathological tau phosphorylation in traumatic brain injury: implications for chronic traumatic encephalopathy20
Tau protein profiling in tauopathies: a human brain study20
Alzheimer’s genes in microglia: a risk worth investigating20
Translation dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on ALS19
In vivo profiling of astrocyte secretome reveals brain-region specific regulatory networks in a mouse model of amyloid pathology19
When the infectious environment meets the AD brain19
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)18
Simple model systems reveal conserved mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies18
Crosstalk of organelles in Parkinson’s disease – MiT family transcription factors as central players in signaling pathways connecting mitochondria and lysosomes18
Comparison of immunoassay- with mass spectrometry-derived p-tau quantification for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology18
Regulation of human microglial gene expression and function via RNAase-H active antisense oligonucleotides in vivo in Alzheimer’s disease17
Insights from new in vivo models of TREM2 variants17
Disparate and shared transcriptomic signatures associated with cortical atrophy in genetic behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration16
Calcium-dependent cytosolic phospholipase A2 activation is implicated in neuroinflammation and oxidative stress associated with ApoE416
Advanced structural brain aging in preclinical autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease16
Correction: Clinical progression and genetic pathways in body-first and brain-first Parkinson’s disease16
CD8+ T cells in neurodegeneration: friend or foe?16
Variants in the MS4A cluster interact with soluble TREM2 expression on biomarkers of neuropathology16
The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp13015
Midbrain degeneration triggers astrocyte reactivity and tau pathology in experimental Alzheimer’s Disease15
Early intervention anti-Aβ immunotherapy attenuates microglial activation without inducing exhaustion at residual plaques15
Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis: standing at the crossroad of lipid metabolism and immune response15
Single-cell microglial transcriptomics during demyelination defines a microglial state required for lytic carcass clearance15
Plasma TDP-43 is a potential biomarker for advanced limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change14
Urolithin A promotes p62-dependent lysophagy to prevent acute retinal neurodegeneration14
Large-scale CSF proteome profiling identifies biomarkers for accurate diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia14
Updates on mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease14
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 disease14
Altered plasma protein profiles in genetic FTD – a GENFI study13
Alzheimer’s disease associated isoforms of human CD33 distinctively modulate microglial cell responses in 5XFAD mice13
Author response to “post-infection cognitive impairments in a cohort of elderly patients with COVID-19”13
A manifesto for Alzheimer’s disease drug discovery in the era of disease-modifying therapies13
Regulatory T cells limit age-associated retinal inflammation and neurodegeneration13
Genetic context modulates aging and degeneration in the murine retina13
Making tracks: microglia and the extracellular matrix13
Proteostasis failure exacerbates neuronal circuit dysfunction and sleep impairments in Alzheimer’s disease12
Mitovesicles secreted into the extracellular space of brains with mitochondrial dysfunction impair synaptic plasticity12
17q21.31 sub-haplotypes underlying H1-associated risk for Parkinson’s disease are associated with LRRC37A/2 expression in astrocytes12
Translational molecular imaging and drug development in Parkinson’s disease12
TREM2 and sTREM2 in Alzheimer’s disease: from mechanisms to therapies12
The complement cascade in Alzheimer’s disease: modern implications of an ancient immune protagonist12
Research models to study lewy body dementia12
RNA-Targeting CRISPR/CasRx system relieves disease symptoms in Huntington’s disease models12
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