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  1. Inflammatory biomarker candidates in dementia with Lewy bodies: diagnostic classification, clinical associations, and survival 2026-11-01
  2. Longitudinal plasma biomarkers and multimodal PET across APOE ε4 genotypes: a prospective cohort study 2026-11-01
  3. Concurrent cognitive, behavioral and systemic physiological features mark preclinical Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30

Studies

701 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 123
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 53
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 46
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 36
  • medRxiv 29

196 journals in all.

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  1. Blood based biomarkers for movement disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2022-10 Biomarkers

    Movement disorders have been carefully clinically defined, based on clinico-pathological series; however there is often diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty, especially in early stage disease.

  2. Elevation of plasma phosphorylated tau181 during neurological illnesses affecting consciousness and kidney dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-09-30 Biomarkers

    Among participants enrolled, the median (interquartile range) age was 57 (28.5-75) years and 5.8% had AD.

  3. Confounding factors of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers and their impact on clinical performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-09-24 Biomarkers

    Creatinine and BMI are related to certain plasma biomarkers levels, but they do not have clinically relevant confounding effects for the vast majority of individuals.

  4. Relationship of serum beta-synuclein with blood biomarkers and brain atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-09-21 Biomarkers

    Serum beta-synuclein changes differ from those of NfL and p-tau181 and are strongly related to AD, most likely reflecting temporal synaptic degeneration.

  5. CSF Aβ40 and P-Tau181 Might Differentiate Atypical from Typical AD Phenotypes: Preliminary Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2022-09-15 Biomarkers

    Atypical and typical AD patients were comparable for Aβ42/40 values.

  6. Associations of plasma phosphorylated tau181 and neurofilament light chain with brain amyloid burden and cognition in objectively defined subtle cognitive decline patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2022-09-08 Biomarkers

    After adjustment, only plasma p‐tau181 and NfL were significantly elevated in Aβ+ Obj‐SCD participants compared to Aβ− NC group.

  7. Diagnostic performance of automated plasma amyloid-β assays combined with pre-analytical immunoprecipitation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-09-07 Biomarkers

    Pre-analytical immunoprecipitation resulted in a significant increase in the area under the ROC curve (AUC) from 0.73 to 0.88 (p = 0.01547) for identifying subjects with abnormal CSF Aβ42/40.

  8. Plasma biomarkers and their correlation in adult children of parents with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-08-30 Biomarkers

    Family history (FH) of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with changes in several cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in cognitively normal individuals.

  9. Head-to-Head Comparison of Different Blood Collecting Tubes for Quantification of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers in Plasma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-08-28 Biomarkers

    To examine whether the type of blood collection tubes affects the quantification of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease analyzed with a single-molecule array (Simoa), we recruited a healthy cohort (n = 34, 11 males, mean age = 28.7 ± 7.55) and collected plasma in the following tubes: dipotassium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (K2-EDTA), heparin lithium (Li-Hep), and heparin sodium (Na-Hep).

  10. Real-world applicability of glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light chain in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-08-22 Biomarkers

    We constructed a panel combining plasma NfL and GFAP with known AD risk factors (Combination panel: age+sex+APOE4+GFAP+NfL).

  11. An accurate fully automated panel of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-08-11 Biomarkers

    The high accuracies for Aβ pathology and future AD dementia using fully automated instruments are promising for implementing plasma biomarkers in clinical trials and clinical routine.

  12. Plasma p-tau231 and p-tau217 as state markers of amyloid-β pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature medicine 2022-08-11 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers indicating elevated amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease are needed to facilitate the initial screening process of participants in disease-modifying trials.

  13. Plasma P-Tau181 for the Discrimination of Alzheimer’s Disease from Other Primary Dementing and/or Movement Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-08-10 Biomarkers

    Blood phospho-tau181 may offer a useful biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease.

  14. Investigation of coenzyme Q10 status, serum amyloid-β, and tau protein in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-07-25 Biomarkers

    A total of 73% of patients had a low coenzyme Q10 status.

  15. Association of plasma biomarkers of amyloid and neurodegeneration with cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-07-24 Biomarkers

    The objective of this study was to determine the differential mapping of plasma biomarkers to postmortem neuropathology measures.

  16. Amyloid-beta misfolding and GFAP predict risk of clinical Alzheimer's disease diagnosis within 17 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-19 Biomarkers

    Aβ misfolding and GFAP showed a strong ability to predict clinical AD risk and may be important early AD risk markers.

  17. Hepatic and renal function impact concentrations of plasma biomarkers of neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-07-12 Biomarkers

    p-tau181, NfL, t-tau, and UCHL1 were increased 2- to 4-fold in cirrhosis, whereas GFAP was not increased.

  18. Aptamer-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors for Alzheimer's Disease Serum Biomarker Detection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ACS sensors 2022-07-11 Biomarkers

    Blood-biomarker-based tests are highly important for the early clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the treatment and care of AD patients, but the complex serum environment and extremely low abundance of AD blood protein biomarkers present challenges.

  19. Cerebrospinal Fluid Cortisol and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate, Alzheimer's Disease Pathology, and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-07-07 Tau biomarkers

    Higher CSF cortisol was associated with poorer global cognitive performance and higher disease severity at baseline.

  20. Specific Cerebrospinal Fluid SerpinA1 Isoform Pattern in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-06-22 Biomarkers

    SerpinA1 (α1-antitrypsin) is a soluble glycoprotein, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) isoforms of which showed disease-specific changes in neurodegenerative disorders that are still unexplored in Alz-heimer’s disease (AD).

  21. Cerebrospinal fluid proteomic profiling of individuals with mild cognitive impairment and suspected non-Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-06-14 Tau biomarkers

    A total of 96 proteins were decreased in MCI-SNAP compared to CN and MCI-AD.

  22. Test-retest variability of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and its effects on clinical prediction models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-06-14 Biomarkers

    Clinical prediction models combining plasma biomarkers-particularly p-tau217-exhibit high performance and are less effected by random error.

  23. Alzheimer's Disease CSF Biomarker Profiles in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2022-06-06 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) frequently show pathologic CSF Aβ42 levels, comparable with Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  24. Technical Performance Evaluation of Olink Proximity Extension Assay for Blood-Based Biomarker Discovery in Longitudinal Studies of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-06-06 Biomarkers

    The core Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers; amyloid-β (Aß), total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau181), are strong indicators of the presence of AD pathology, but do not correlate well with disease progression, and can be difficult to implement in longitudinal studies where repeat biofluid sampling is required.

  25. Plasma p-tau181 associated with structural changes in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with dementia and is a serious concern for the health of individuals and government health care systems worldwide.

  26. Population-based blood screening for pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease: a British birth cohort at age 70

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2022-05-27 Biomarkers

    In pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition precedes symptoms; Aβ-targeted therapies may have maximum benefits at this stage.

  27. Differential diagnostic performance of a panel of plasma biomarkers for different types of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-05-15 Biomarkers

    A combination of plasma p-tau181, NfL, and GFAP, but not Aβ 1-42/1-40 , might be useful to discriminate AD, FTD, and DLB.

  28. Diagnostic value of serum versus plasma phospho-tau for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-05-11 Biomarkers

    Comparable diagnostic performances and strong correlations between serum versus plasma pairs suggest that p-tau analyses can be expanded to research cohorts and hospital systems that prefer serum to other blood matrices.

  29. α-synuclein as an emerging pathophysiological biomarker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Expert review of molecular diagnostics 2022-05-06 Brain tissue and pathology

    α-syn aggregates represent the pathological hallmark of synucleinopathies as well as a frequent copathology (almost 1/3 of cases) in AD.

  30. Phospho-specific plasma p-tau181 assay detects clinical as well as asymptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022-05-03 Biomarkers

    The novel plasma p-tau181 and p-tau231 assays did not show cross-reactivity.

  31. Principal components from untargeted cerebrospinal fluid metabolomics associated with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-05-03 Biomarkers

    Studying the correlation between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) metabolites and the Alzheimer's Disease (AD) biomarkers may offer a window to the alterations of the brain metabolome and unveil potential biological mechanisms underlying AD.

  32. Multimer Detection System-Oligomerized Amyloid Beta (MDS-OAβ): A Plasma-Based Biomarker Differentiates Alzheimer's Disease from Other Etiologies of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2022-05-02 Biomarkers

    With emerging amyloid therapies, documentation of the patient's amyloid status to confirm the etiology of a clinical diagnosis is warranted prior to instituting amyloid-based therapy.

  33. Plasma Phosphorylated-tau181 Is a Predictor of Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment: A Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2022-04-29 Biomarkers

    Of 136 patients, 40 and 50 patients developed PSCI at 3 and 12 months after stroke, respectively.

  34. Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2022-04-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the single commonest cause of dementia.

  35. A possible blood plasma biomarker for early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2022-04-21 Biomarkers

    We sought to identify a usable biomarker from blood samples to characterize early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, in order to facilitate rapid diagnosis, early therapeutic intervention, and monitoring of clinical trials.

  36. Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Progression: An Overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cells 2022-04-17 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposition and neurofibrillary tangle accumulation in the brain.

  37. Current trends in blood biomarker detection and imaging for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biosensors & bioelectronics 2022-04-12 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes cognitive impairments in areas such as memory, language, and reasoning.

  38. Development of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers: From CSF- to Blood-Based Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-04-05 Biomarkers

    In the 115 years since the discovery of Alzheimer's disease (AD), our knowledge, diagnosis, and therapeutics have significantly improved.

  39. Cerebrospinal Fluid Profile of Lipid Mediators in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2022-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) develops into dementia over a period of several years, during which subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be used as intermediary diagnoses of increasing severity.

  40. Combining plasma phospho-tau and accessible measures to evaluate progression to Alzheimer's dementia in mild cognitive impairment patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-03-29 Biomarkers

    We identified that combining plasma p-tau217 and a brief cognitive composite score was strongly related to greater risk of progression to AD dementia in MCI patients, suggesting that these measures could be key components of future prognostic algorithms for early AD.

  41. Blood biomarkers for cognitive decline and clinical progression in a Mexican American cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-03-24 Biomarkers

    Higher GFAP and NFL were associated with global cognitive decline.

  42. P-tau217 in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2022-03-24 Biomarkers

    Current evidence shows that plasma p-tau217 is a sensitive maker of the clinical manifestation and progression of Alzheimer's disease and of pathological changes associated with this condition, including amyloid accumulation, tau burden, brain atrophy and physical degradation.

  43. A Longitudinal Study of Plasma pTau181 in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Lewy Bodies and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2022-03-23 Biomarkers

    One hundred forty-six subjects (56 probable MCI-LB, 22 possible MCI-LB, 44 MCI-AD, and 24 controls) were reviewed for up to 5.7 years.

  44. CSF biomarkers for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Practical neurology 2022-03-17 Biomarkers

    Although cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker testing is incorporated into some current guidelines for the diagnosis of dementia (such as England's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)), it is not widely accessible for most patients for whom biomarkers could potentially change management.

  45. Clinical Application of Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain in a Memory Clinic: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Dementia and neurocognitive disorders 2022-03-14 Biomarkers

    After adjusting for age, plasma NfL level was higher in subjects with DAT (65.98±84.96 pg/mL), compared to in subjects with SCD (16.90±2.54 pg/mL) or MCI (25.53±10.42 pg/mL, p=0.004).

  46. Diagnostic Accuracy of Blood-Based Biomarker Panels: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-03-11 Biomarkers

    Seventy-six articles met the inclusion criteria for systematic review.

  47. Serum glial fibrillary acidic protein is a body fluid biomarker: A valuable prognostic for neurological disease - A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. International immunopharmacology 2022-03-04 Biomarkers

    Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the human central nervous system, and they play an important role in the regulation of neuronal physiology.

  48. Cohort Analysis of the Association of Delirium Severity With Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration Pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-03-03 Biomarkers

    Delirium is associated with cognitive decline and subsequent dementia, and rises in plasma total tau (tTau) and neurofilament light (NfL), providing links to Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration (ATN) pathophysiology.

  49. Association of plasma biomarkers, p-tau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein, and neurofilament light, with intermediate and long-term clinical Alzheimer's disease risk: Results from a prospective cohort followed over 17 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-03-02 Biomarkers

    GFAP may be an early AD biomarker increasing before p-tau181 and NfL and the effect modifying role of cardiovascular health should be considered in biomarker risk stratification.

  50. Association of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) with neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease and vascular pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-02-28 Biomarkers

    GFAP was associated with amyloid and tau PET in multivariable models.

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