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Newest in this topic

  1. Midlife and Late-Life Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and 11-Year Cognitive Decline 2026-10-16
  2. Clinical Factors Associated With Discordant Plasma P-Tau217 and Established Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers 2026-10-01
  3. A neurocognitive speech taxonomy for voice biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease 2026-09-25

Studies

854 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1980 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 131
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 37
  • JAMA neurology 35
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 28
  • Archives of neurology 25

251 journals in all.

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  1. Determination in human cerebrospinal fluid of glial fibrillary acidic protein, S-100 and myelin basic protein as indices of non-specific or specific central nervous tissue pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 1986-03-01 Biomarkers

    The nervous system specific proteins glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAp), S-100 and myelin basic protein (MBP) were determined in 535 human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples.

  2. Measurement of GFAP in hepatic encephalopathy by ELISA and transblots

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1985-09-01 Biomarkers

    Basal ganglia, cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter were studied for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in four cases of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) with Alzheimer II gliosis and five age-matched controls.

  3. Reduced amounts of immunoreactive somatostatin in the temporal cortex in senile dementia of Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1980-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Post-mortem brain tissue from 15 patients dying with a diagnosis of senile dementia of Alzheimer type (SDAT) was compared with tissue obtained from 16 control patients at routine post-mortem.

  4. Glial fibrillary acidic protein and Alzheimer-type senile dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 1980-07-01 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), a protein that is associated with 9-nm filaments of astrocytes, was observed to be increased in the astrocytes surrounding senile plaques in patients with Alzheimer dementia and in aged subjects without dementia.

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