• The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is not yet very well understood. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified...
    65 KB (7,749 words) - 21:50, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia...
    178 KB (18,887 words) - 14:02, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carol Jennings
    Carol Jennings (category Alzheimer's disease activists)
    campaigner and advocate for research into Alzheimer's Disease. She served as an honorary Vice-President of the Alzheimer's Society until her death in 2024. Through...
    16 KB (1,592 words) - 13:46, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neurodegenerative disease
    Neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple...
    63 KB (7,018 words) - 19:15, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frontotemporal dementia
    temporal lobes. FTD is the second most prevalent type of early onset dementia after Alzheimer's disease.[citation needed] Men and women appear to be equally...
    55 KB (5,661 words) - 15:06, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proteinopathy
    mad cow disease) and other prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyloidosis, multiple system atrophy, and a wide range of other disorders...
    62 KB (4,592 words) - 03:35, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Progressive supranuclear palsy
    Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The cause of the condition is uncertain, but involves the accumulation of tau protein...
    42 KB (4,513 words) - 13:14, 8 May 2024
  • hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), also known as the channel hypothesis or the amyloid beta ion channel hypothesis, is a more recent variant of the amyloid...
    22 KB (2,641 words) - 16:01, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amyloid
    Amyloid (redirect from Amyloid disease)
    terminus of the β amyloid protein is critical for the seeding of amyloid formation: implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease". Biochemistry. 32...
    60 KB (6,514 words) - 10:39, 27 March 2024
  • neurodegenerative diseases, cells of the central nervous system stop working or die via neurodegeneration. An example of this is Alzheimer's disease. The other...
    16 KB (1,614 words) - 16:12, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Donepezil
    Donepezil (category Treatment of Alzheimer's disease)
    donepezil or other similar agents alter the course or progression of Alzheimer's disease. Six-to-twelve-month controlled studies have shown modest benefits...
    32 KB (2,823 words) - 08:39, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amyloid plaques
    brain as a result of aging, but large numbers of plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease. The plaques are...
    31 KB (3,370 words) - 05:18, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amyloid beta
    Amyloid beta (category Alzheimer's disease)
    denotes peptides of 36–43 amino acids that are the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. The peptides...
    43 KB (4,769 words) - 15:53, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Angiotensin-converting enzyme
    reduction in extracellular volume. ACE's effect on Alzheimer's disease is still highly debated. Alzheimer patients usually show higher ACE levels in their...
    24 KB (2,536 words) - 02:33, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for TREM2
    TREM2 (category Alzheimer's disease)
    receptor. Levels of sTREM2 are increased in CSF of patients with Alzheimer's disease, and correlate with the CSF levels of disease biomarkers, such as...
    39 KB (4,092 words) - 18:40, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alzheimer type II astrocyte
    associated with Alzheimer's disease, but were first described by the same neuroscientist who first described the eponymous disease, Alois Alzheimer. Astrocytes...
    9 KB (1,130 words) - 12:54, 27 May 2023
  • Peter Davies (scientist) (category Alzheimer's disease researchers)
    focused on the biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease. His early work was in the development of the currently approved drugs for Alzheimer's disease: Aricept,...
    9 KB (954 words) - 07:42, 18 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tau protein
    oligodendrocytes. Pathologies and dementias of the nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are associated with tau proteins that...
    56 KB (6,277 words) - 06:22, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oxidative stress
    Oxidative stress (category Alzheimer's disease)
    Parkinson's disease, Lafora disease, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, heart failure, myocardial infarction, fragile X syndrome, sickle-cell disease, lichen...
    55 KB (6,124 words) - 07:25, 22 March 2024
  • James Adjaye (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    lines from a female and male Alzheimer's disease patient expressing different copy numbers of a coding CNV in the Alzheimer risk gene CR1., 2016; (contrib...
    9 KB (829 words) - 22:09, 13 February 2024
  • Lindsay Burns (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    enabling signaling of Abeta42 to hyperphosphorylate tau. In 2017, they reported in Neurobiology of Aging that the FLNA in Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice...
    25 KB (2,362 words) - 21:24, 26 April 2024
  • John Hardy (geneticist) (category Alumni of the University of Leeds)
    Umeå, Sweden where he started to work on Alzheimer's disease. He became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at St. Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London...
    14 KB (1,043 words) - 11:35, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eburnamenine
    Eburnamenine (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from November 2013)
    as potential therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease: An in silico approach". Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics. 50 (2): 120–5. PMID 23720886...
    1 KB (44 words) - 01:07, 1 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Channel blocker
    an open channel block, as a form of treatment. Thus far, the use of memantine in patients with Alzheimer's disease quickly results in clinical progress...
    26 KB (3,020 words) - 11:51, 16 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sodium butyrate
    Function in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model When Administered at an Advanced Stage of Disease Progression". Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 26 (1): 187–97...
    5 KB (436 words) - 13:46, 24 January 2024
  • diseases, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, chronic kidney disease, and Alzheimer's disease. Animal-derived foods that are high in fat and protein are...
    35 KB (3,736 words) - 02:00, 3 January 2024
  • HEPPS (buffer) (category Biochemistry stubs)
    used in biology and biochemistry. The pKa of HEPPS is 8.00. It is ones of Good's buffers. Research on mice with Alzheimer's disease-like amyloid beta plaques...
    4 KB (299 words) - 14:12, 18 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for ALS
    ALS (redirect from Lou Gehrigs disease)
    neuron disease in adults and the third most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Worldwide the number of people...
    130 KB (14,008 words) - 15:00, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pleiocarpamine
    as potential therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease: An in silico approach". Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics. 50 (2): 120–5. PMID 23720886...
    1 KB (45 words) - 18:16, 6 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Prion
    Prion (category Infectious diseases)
    neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. A prion disease is a type of proteopathy, or disease of structurally abnormal...
    98 KB (10,669 words) - 19:32, 13 May 2024