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Newest in this topic

  1. Evaluation of Tau Radiotracers in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 2022-09-15
  2. Tau Positron Emission Tomographic Findings in a Former US Football Player With Pathologically Confirmed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 2020-04-01
  3. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in collision sports: Possible mechanisms of transformation into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) 2019-11-01

Studies

5 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2016 to 2022

Top journals

  • JAMA neurology 1
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 1
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1
  • Metabolism: clinical and experimental 1
  • NeuroImage. Clinical 1

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  1. Evaluation of Tau Radiotracers in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-09-15 Brain scans and imaging

    3 H-flortaucipir demonstrated a positive signal in all CTE cases examined, with varying degrees of specific binding (68.7% ± 10.5%; n = 12) defined by homologous blockade and to a lesser extent by heterologous blockade with MK-6240 (27.3% ± 13.6%; n = 12).

  2. Tau Positron Emission Tomographic Findings in a Former US Football Player With Pathologically Confirmed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The FTP standardized uptake value ratios (inferior cerebellar gray reference region) and W-score (age-adjusted z-score) maps were compared with phosphorylated tau immunohistochemical analysis with monoclonal antibody CP13.

  3. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in collision sports: Possible mechanisms of transformation into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Metabolism: clinical and experimental 2019-11-01 Biomarkers

    TBI arising from closed head trauma (CHT) significantly increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  4. Tau PET and multimodal brain imaging in patients at risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-10-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Mildly elevated tau-PET binding was observed in a subset of amyloid-negative patients at risk for CTE, in a distribution consistent with CTE pathology stages III-IV.

  5. Preliminary Study of Plasma Exosomal Tau as a Potential Biomarker for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    These preliminary findings suggest that exosomal tau in plasma may be an accurate, noninvasive CTE biomarker.

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