Molecular Neurodegeneration

Papers
(The median citation count of Molecular Neurodegeneration is 11. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
In Memoriam of John T. Trojanowski, MD, PhD 1946-2022332
Regulation of the hippocampal translatome by Apoer2-ICD release205
Tau interactome and RNA binding proteins in neurodegenerative diseases202
Emerging targets of α-synuclein spreading in α-synucleinopathies: a review of mechanistic pathways and interventions182
Mis-localization of endogenous TDP-43 leads to ALS-like early-stage metabolic dysfunction and progressive motor deficits182
TREM2 dependent and independent functions of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease180
Guidelines for bioinformatics of single-cell sequencing data analysis in Alzheimer’s disease: review, recommendation, implementation and application180
A genome-wide search for pleiotropy in more than 100,000 harmonized longitudinal cognitive domain scores166
Cautions on utilizing plasma GFAP level as a biomarker for reactive astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases157
Inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase confers neuroprotection and restores microglial homeostasis in a tauopathy mouse model154
Neuroprotection by WldS depends on retinal ganglion cell type and age in glaucoma151
The Parkinson’s disease risk gene cathepsin B promotes fibrillar alpha-synuclein clearance, lysosomal function and glucocerebrosidase activity in dopaminergic neurons147
Multimarker synaptic protein cerebrospinal fluid panels reflect TDP-43 pathology and cognitive performance in a pathological cohort of frontotemporal lobar degeneration139
Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress137
Circadian clocks, cognition, and Alzheimer’s disease: synaptic mechanisms, signaling effectors, and chronotherapeutics136
Astrocytic autophagy plasticity modulates Aβ clearance and cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease133
HDGFL2 cryptic proteins report presence of TDP-43 pathology in neurodegenerative diseases121
Multi-region brain transcriptomic analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reveals widespread RNA alterations and substantial cerebellum involvement116
Sex dependent glial-specific changes in the chromatin accessibility landscape in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease brains114
Human VCP mutant ALS/FTD microglia display immune and lysosomal phenotypes independently of GPNMB113
Single-cell peripheral immunoprofiling of Lewy body and Parkinson’s disease in a multi-site cohort108
Correction: Blood-brain barrier-associated pericytes internalize and clear aggregated amyloid-β42 by LRP1-dependent apolipoprotein E isoform-specific mechanism108
The role of peripheral inflammatory insults in Alzheimer’s disease: a review and research roadmap106
The role of NURR1 in metabolic abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease94
Immunotherapy against tau fragment diminishes AD pathology, improving synaptic function and cognition90
Unravelling cell type-specific responses to Parkinson’s Disease at single cell resolution88
Correction: Sodium oligomannate alters gut microbiota, reduces cerebral amyloidosis and reactive microglia in a sex-specific manner87
APOE targeting strategy in Alzheimer’s disease: lessons learned from protective variants85
α-Synuclein pathology disrupts mitochondrial function in dopaminergic and cholinergic neurons at-risk in Parkinson’s disease84
BAX activation in mouse retinal ganglion cells occurs in two temporally and mechanistically distinct steps81
Selective reduction of astrocyte apoE3 and apoE4 strongly reduces Aβ accumulation and plaque-related pathology in a mouse model of amyloidosis80
Combination therapy using GDNF and cell transplant in Parkinson’s disease79
Alzheimer risk gene product Pyk2 suppresses tau phosphorylation and phenotypic effects of tauopathy68
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation alleviates motor impairment in Parkinson’s disease: association with peripheral inflammatory regulatory T-cells and SYT668
Finding memo: versatile interactions of the VPS10p-Domain receptors in Alzheimer’s disease66
TMEM106B aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases: linking genetics to function63
Correction: The major TMEM106B dementia risk allele affects TMEM106B protein levels, fibril formation, and myelin lipid homeostasis in the ageing human hippocampus63
Deficits in mitochondrial TCA cycle and OXPHOS precede rod photoreceptor degeneration during chronic HIF activation63
ASO-mediated knock-down of GPNMB in mutant-GRN and in Grn-deficient peripheral myeloid cells disrupts lysosomal function and immune responses63
A perspective on Alzheimer’s disease: exploring the potential of terminal/paradoxical lucidity and psychedelics63
The transcription factor combination MEF2 and KLF7 promotes axonal sprouting in the injured spinal cord with functional improvement and regeneration-associated gene expression62
Correction: HDGFL2 cryptic proteins report presence of TDP-43 pathology in neurodegenerative diseases62
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 disease60
Using mass spectrometry to validate mouse models of tauopathy60
Molecular mechanisms and consequences of TDP-43 phosphorylation in neurodegeneration59
Evidence suggesting that microglia make amyloid from neuronally expressed APP: a hypothesis58
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Aging exacerbates the brain inflammatory micro-environment contributing to α-synuclein pathology and functional deficits in a mouse model of DLB/PD56
Dementia with lewy bodies patients with high tau levels display unique proteome profiles55
Neuropathology of incidental Lewy body & prodromal Parkinson’s disease54
The endotoxin hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease54
Blood-based biomarkers of inflammation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis53
Contribution of amyloid deposition from oligodendrocytes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease51
Novel App knock-in mouse model shows key features of amyloid pathology and reveals profound metabolic dysregulation of microglia51
The role of n-3-derived specialised pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in microglial mitochondrial respiration and inflammation resolution in Alzheimer’s disease51
Brain mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review of symptom-general and –specific lesion patterns51
Microglial function, INPP5D/SHIP1 signaling, and NLRP3 inflammasome activation: implications for Alzheimer’s disease51
Microglial TYROBP/DAP12 in Alzheimer’s disease: Transduction of physiological and pathological signals across TREM250
Parkinson mice show functional and molecular changes in the gut long before motoric disease onset49
Correction: Network proteomics of the Lewy body dementia brain reveals presynaptic signatures distinct from Alzheimer’s disease49
Correction: Predominant expression of Alzheimer’s disease-associated BIN1 in mature oligodendrocytes and localization to white matter tracts48
SETD7-mediated monomethylation is enriched on soluble Tau in Alzheimer’s disease47
Cerebrospinal fluid proteome profiling across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum: a step towards solving the equation for ‘X’47
Mechanisms of astrocyte aging in reactivity and disease47
Peripheral and central neuroimmune mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis46
Sodium oligomannate alters gut microbiota, reduces cerebral amyloidosis and reactive microglia in a sex-specific manner45
VCP suppresses proteopathic seeding in neurons45
Proteomic landscape of Alzheimer’s Disease: novel insights into pathogenesis and biomarker discovery44
Sex specific molecular networks and key drivers of Alzheimer’s disease43
Wild-type FUS corrects ALS-like disease induced by cytoplasmic mutant FUS through autoregulation42
Small molecule inhibitors of α-synuclein oligomers identified by targeting early dopamine-mediated motor impairment in C. elegans41
Tracking reactive astrogliosis in autosomal dominant and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease with multi-modal PET and plasma GFAP39
Correction: Blood–brain barrier-associated pericytes internalize and clear aggregated amyloid-β42 by LRP1-dependent apolipoprotein E isoform-specific mechanism39
NF-κB is a critical mediator of post-mitotic senescence in oligodendrocytes and subsequent white matter loss38
GBA1 inactivation in oligodendrocytes affects myelination and induces neurodegenerative hallmarks and lipid dyshomeostasis in mice38
SRSF1-dependent inhibition of C9ORF72-repeat RNA nuclear export: genome-wide mechanisms for neuroprotection in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis38
Neuropathology and molecular diagnosis of Synucleinopathies38
Amyloid-β (Aβ) immunotherapy induced microhemorrhages are linked to vascular inflammation and cerebrovascular damage in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease37
Trem2 deletion enhances tau dispersion and pathology through microglia exosomes37
Increased expression of mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (MANF) contributes to synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease36
Correction: Border-associated macrophages promote cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive impairment through vascular oxidative stress36
Proteomic analysis of APOEε4 carriers implicates lipid metabolism, complement and lymphocyte signaling in cognitive resilience36
Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology35
MicroRNA-100-5p and microRNA-298-5p released from apoptotic cortical neurons are endogenous Toll-like receptor 7/8 ligands that contribute to neurodegeneration34
Nuclear pore and nucleocytoplasmic transport impairment in oxidative stress-induced neurodegeneration: relevance to molecular mechanisms in Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s and other related neurodegenerat34
Therapeutic potential of APP antisense oligonucleotides for Alzheimer’s disease and down syndrome-related Alzheimer’s disease34
Key role of the CCR2-CCL2 axis in disease modification in a mouse model of tauopathy34
The role of inflammasomes in vascular cognitive impairment33
Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes in neurodegeneration33
CCR5 antagonist reduces HIV-induced amyloidogenesis, tau pathology, neurodegeneration, and blood-brain barrier alterations in HIV-infected hu-PBL-NSG mice33
Pathological characteristics of axons and alterations of proteomic and lipidomic profiles in midbrain dopaminergic neurodegeneration induced by WDR45-deficiency33
Blood platelet factor 4: the elixir of brain rejuvenation32
Correction: Collusion of α-Synuclein and Aβ aggravating co-morbidities in a novel prion-type mouse model32
TDP-43 seeding activity in the olfactory mucosa of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis31
Targeted long-read sequencing to quantify methylation of the C9orf72 repeat expansion31
Seeding activity of skin misfolded tau as a biomarker for tauopathies31
Age-dependent progression from clearance to vulnerability in the early response of periventricular microglia to α-synuclein toxic species31
Alpha synuclein co-pathology is associated with accelerated amyloid-driven tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease31
Network proteomics of the Lewy body dementia brain reveals presynaptic signatures distinct from Alzheimer’s disease30
BACE1 regulates expression of Clusterin in astrocytes for enhancing clearance of β-amyloid peptides30
Elevated nuclear TDP-43 induces constitutive exon skipping30
Proteo-genomics of soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid provides novel insights and identifies novel modulators for Alzheimer’s disease30
Resistant and Resilient mutations in protection against familial Alzheimer’s disease: learning from nature30
Microglial ferroptotic stress causes non-cell autonomous neuronal death30
Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease – a key disease hallmark with therapeutic potential30
Correction: Trem2 H157Y increases soluble TREM2 production and reduces amyloid pathology29
Early transcriptional and cellular abnormalities in choroid plexus of a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease29
Mouse models of Anti-Aβ immunotherapies28
HDGFL2 cryptic protein: a portal to detection and diagnosis in neurodegenerative disease28
cGAS-STING triggers inflammaging-associated neurodegeneration28
Amyloid fibril proteomics of AD brains reveals modifiers of aggregation and toxicity27
Gut microbiota-host lipid crosstalk in Alzheimer’s disease: implications for disease progression and therapeutics27
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
Astrocyte reactivity is associated with tau tangle load and cortical thinning in Alzheimer’s disease27
The integrated stress response in neurodegenerative diseases27
TREM2 and microglia exosomes: a potential highway for pathological tau26
An adapted protocol to derive microglia from stem cells and its application in the study of CSF1R-related disorders26
Loss of MEF2C function by enhancer mutation leads to neuronal mitochondria dysfunction and motor deficits in mice26
Astrocytes of the optic nerve exhibit a region-specific and temporally distinct response to elevated intraocular pressure26
Immune cell metabolic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease25
Mitochondrial CISD1/Cisd accumulation blocks mitophagy and genetic or pharmacological inhibition rescues neurodegenerative phenotypes in Pink1/parkin models25
Pharmacological rescue of cognitive function in a mouse model of chemobrain25
Aging-associated sensory decline and Alzheimer’s disease25
A novel AAV Vector for gene therapy of RPE-related retinal degenerative diseases via intravitreal delivery25
A Trem2R47H mouse model without cryptic splicing drives age- and disease-dependent tissue damage and synaptic loss in response to plaques25
Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy25
Microglial CD2AP deficiency exerts protection in an Alzheimer’s disease model of amyloidosis24
TDP-43 pathology is associated with increased tau burdens and seeding24
Nuclear import receptors are recruited by FG-nucleoporins to rescue hallmarks of TDP-43 proteinopathy24
Specific detection of tau seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease using rationally designed biosensor cells24
Retinal ganglion cell repopulation for vision restoration in optic neuropathy: a roadmap from the RReSTORe Consortium24
Current views on meningeal lymphatics and immunity in aging and Alzheimer’s disease24
Edaravone activates the GDNF/RET neurotrophic signaling pathway and protects mRNA-induced motor neurons from iPS cells23
Knock-in models related to Alzheimer’s disease: synaptic transmission, plaques and the role of microglia23
Nuclear-import receptors as gatekeepers of pathological phase transitions in ALS/FTD23
“Don’t Phos Over Tau”: recent developments in clinical biomarkers and therapies targeting tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies23
Transcriptome deregulation of peripheral monocytes and whole blood in GBA-related Parkinson’s disease23
Post-infection cognitive impairments in a cohort of elderly patients with COVID-1923
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
hiPSC-based models to decipher the contribution of human astrocytes to Alzheimer’s disease and potential therapeutics22
Are oligodendrocytes the missing link in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia research?22
Correction: Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy22
Inactivation of NLRP3 inflammasome by dephosphorylation at Serine 658 alleviates glial inflammation in the mouse model of Parkinson’s disease21
Single-domain antibody-based protein degrader for synucleinopathies21
Fate-mapping and functional dissection reveal perilous influence of type I interferon signaling in mouse brain aging21
The concept of resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease: current definitions and cellular and molecular mechanisms21
The neuroimmune nexus: unraveling the role of the mtDNA-cGAS-STING signal pathway in Alzheimer’s disease21
Does proteopathic tau propagate trans-synaptically in the brain?19
18F-MK-6240 tau PET in patients at-risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy19
Functional microRNA targetome undergoes degeneration-induced shift in the retina19
Lewy body diseases and the gut19
Tau protein profiling in tauopathies: a human brain study19
When the infectious environment meets the AD brain18
BIN1 is a key regulator of proinflammatory and neurodegeneration-related activation in microglia18
Disparate and shared transcriptomic signatures associated with cortical atrophy in genetic behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration18
Genome-wide analyses identify NEAT1 as genetic modifier of age at onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis18
Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges18
Advanced structural brain aging in preclinical autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease18
Translation dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on ALS18
Alzheimer’s genes in microglia: a risk worth investigating18
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathological tau phosphorylation in traumatic brain injury: implications for chronic traumatic encephalopathy18
Comparison of immunoassay- with mass spectrometry-derived p-tau quantification for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology17
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
Correction: Cerebrospinal fluid tau levels are associated with abnormal neuronal plasticity markers in Alzheimer’s disease17
Crosstalk of organelles in Parkinson’s disease – MiT family transcription factors as central players in signaling pathways connecting mitochondria and lysosomes17
Insights from new in vivo models of TREM2 variants17
Variants in the MS4A cluster interact with soluble TREM2 expression on biomarkers of neuropathology17
Regulation of human microglial gene expression and function via RNAase-H active antisense oligonucleotides in vivo in Alzheimer’s disease17
Alzheimer’s disease associated isoforms of human CD33 distinctively modulate microglial cell responses in 5XFAD mice17
Simple model systems reveal conserved mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies16
Calcium-dependent cytosolic phospholipase A2 activation is implicated in neuroinflammation and oxidative stress associated with ApoE416
Single-cell microglial transcriptomics during demyelination defines a microglial state required for lytic carcass clearance16
Dynamic changes of CSF sPDGFRβ during ageing and AD progression and associations with CSF ATN biomarkers16
Urolithin A promotes p62-dependent lysophagy to prevent acute retinal neurodegeneration16
CD8+ T cells in neurodegeneration: friend or foe?16
Nuclear speckle specific hnRNP D-like prevents age- and AD-related cognitive decline by modulating RNA splicing16
Updates on mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease15
The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp13015
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
Genetic context modulates aging and degeneration in the murine retina14
Altered plasma protein profiles in genetic FTD – a GENFI study14
Author response to “post-infection cognitive impairments in a cohort of elderly patients with COVID-19”14
Regulatory T cells limit age-associated retinal inflammation and neurodegeneration13
Mitovesicles secreted into the extracellular space of brains with mitochondrial dysfunction impair synaptic plasticity13
17q21.31 sub-haplotypes underlying H1-associated risk for Parkinson’s disease are associated with LRRC37A/2 expression in astrocytes13
Research models to study lewy body dementia13
METTL3-dependent RNA m6A dysregulation contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease through aberrant cell cycle events13
Translational molecular imaging and drug development in Parkinson’s disease12
The role of inflammation in neurodegeneration: novel insights into the role of the immune system in C9orf72 HRE-mediated ALS/FTD12
RNA-Targeting CRISPR/CasRx system relieves disease symptoms in Huntington’s disease models12
TREM2 and sTREM2 in Alzheimer’s disease: from mechanisms to therapies12
The informed road map to prevention of Alzheimer Disease: A call to arms12
Proteostasis failure exacerbates neuronal circuit dysfunction and sleep impairments in Alzheimer’s disease12
Drug development targeting degeneration of the basal forebrain cholinergic system: its time has come11
Valosin containing protein (VCP): initiator, modifier, and potential drug target for neurodegenerative diseases11
A proteomic network approach resolves stage-specific molecular phenotypes in chronic traumatic encephalopathy11
A microglial activity state biomarker panel differentiates FTD-granulin and Alzheimer’s disease patients from controls11
ApoE in Alzheimer’s disease: pathophysiology and therapeutic strategies11
Chitinase-3-like-1: a multifaceted player in neuroinflammation and degenerative pathologies with therapeutic implications11
AMPK hyperactivation promotes dendrite retraction, synaptic loss, and neuronal dysfunction in glaucoma11
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