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  1. Genetic Architecture of Plasma Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in the Amish 2026-10-19
  2. Elevation in Plasma p-tau217 Concentrations Among Blood Donors: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study 2026-09-24
  3. A Harmonized Visual Reading Framework for Tau PET Staging in Alzheimer Disease 2026-09-21

Studies

738 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 52
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 50
  • JAMA neurology 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 24
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 22

231 journals in all.

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  1. Genetic Architecture of Plasma Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in the Amish

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Tau biomarkers

    GWAS found associations between plasma biomarkers and the APOE gene.

  2. Elevation in Plasma p-tau217 Concentrations Among Blood Donors: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-24 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 concentrations were positively associated with plasma TNF- (Kendalls {tau} = 0.339; P < .001) and IL-6 (Kendalls {tau} = 0.310; P < .001) concentrations.

  3. A Harmonized Visual Reading Framework for Tau PET Staging in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2026-09-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Of 822 individuals enrolled in the HEAD study, 681 participants spanning cognitively unimpaired to dementia were included.

  4. Development and External Validation of a Plasma p-tau217-Based Model for MCI-to-Dementia Progression

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-16 Biomarkers

    --Clinical trajectories after a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) vary widely, so prognostic models must account for both the timing of subsequent diagnoses and unequal follow-up.

  5. Prognostic Value of Blood-Based P-Tau217 Levels for Progression to Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA 2026-09-15 Biomarkers

    In a pooled sample of multiple selected cohorts of cognitively unimpaired older adults, higher plasma p-tau217 levels were consistently associated with increased risk of clinical progression and accelerated cognitive decline.

  6. Amyloid-Independent Elevation of Plasma phosphorylated tau-217 Tracks Neurodegenerative Risk in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Implications for mTOR-Targeted Intervention

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-11 How common it is

    BackgroundTuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in TSC1 or TSC2, resulting in chronic hyperactivation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway.

  7. Plasma p-tau217 concentrations, considered together with APOE genotype, might help stratify risk and estimate the timing of future cognitive impairment in asymptomatic individuals who are at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease, such as those with a family history of dementia or known APOE-ε4 carrier status.

  8. Prion disease mimicking rapidly progressive Alzheimer disease: case series and systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2026-09-07 Tau biomarkers

    Prion disease and Alzheimer disease (AD) are common causes of rapidly progressive dementia (RPD).

  9. Cell type- and tau lesion-specific accumulation of phospho-Ser65 ubiquitin in primary tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2026-09-04 Disease mechanisms

    Defective mitochondrial quality control is increasingly implicated in tau-mediated neurodegeneration, but how distinct tau lesions in different cell types interact with PINK1-PRKN-mediated mitophagy remains unclear.

  10. A Two-Stage Plasma Biomarker Algorithm Reduces Amyloid PET Use and the p-Tau217 Gray Zone

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2026-09-02 Biomarkers

    ObjectivePlasma p-Tau217 leaves 30-50% of patients in an indeterminate "gray zone" often requiring A{beta}-PET.

  11. Analytical validation and amyloid-status discrimination of a high-throughput, research-use-only plasma p-Tau217 immunoassay

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-02 Biomarkers

    BackgroundPlasma phosphorylated tau at threonine 217 (p-Tau217) is a leading blood-based biomarker for Alzheimers disease (AD).

  12. P-TAU217 COMO BIOMARCADOR SANGUÍNEO NO DIAGNÓSTICO PRECOCE DA DOENÇA DE ALZHEIMER: UMA REVISÃO DA LITERATURA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação 2026-09-02 Biomarkers

    A doença de Alzheimer (DA) é uma enfermidade neurodegenerativa progressiva cuja fisiopatologia envolve, entre outros mecanismos, o acúmulo cerebral de β-amiloide, associado a alterações da proteína tau, sua hiperfosforilação e formação de emaranhados neurofibrilares, contribuindo para a disfunção sináptica e a perda neuronal.

  13. Big tau and brain-derived tau reveal peripheral and central nervous system involvement in neuropathies

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-31 Biomarkers

    INTRODUCTIONBiomarkers for monitoring disease activity and treatment response in peripheral neuropathies remain limited.

  14. Temporal progression of auditory brainstem dysfunction and behavioral phenotypes in mouse models of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2026-08-27 Disease mechanisms

    The PS19 mouse model expressing the P301S tau mutation exhibits tau pathology associated with frontotemporal dementia.

  15. Age-Related Prevalence of Abnormal Plasma p-Tau217 Across Racial Ethnic Groups in the Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology Open Access 2026-08-25 Biomarkers

    Older age was associated with greater odds of abnormal p-Tau217 (odds ratio [OR] 1.08 per year, 95% CI 1.07–1.09), as was APOE ε4 carrier status (OR 3.32, 95% CI 2.65–4.17).

  16. Brain organoids in Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies: Challenges and opportunities for translational readiness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Stem Cell Reports 2026-08-20 Disease mechanisms

    A major hurdle in Alzheimer disease research is the failure of mouse models to capture complexities of the human brain that contributes to repeated clinical trial failure.

  17. The missing improvers: Tau pathology, neuroplasticity, and the case for tau-informed patient selection before amyloid immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2026-08-13 Health systems and care delivery

    Amyloid immunotherapy with lecanemab and donanemab has been approved on the basis of statistically significant slowing of cognitive and functional decline in early Alzheimer's disease (1,2).

  18. Plasma Biomarkers for Neocortical Tau Burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2026-08-10 Biomarkers

    The study included 560 amyloid-positive participants (BioFINDER: n = 431; mean [SD] age, 73.6 [7.0] years; 212 female [49.2%] and 219 male [51.8%]; TRIAD: n = 129; mean [SD] age, 70.4 [8.3] years; 76 female [58.9%] and 53 male [41.1%]).

  19. Plasma P-tau217 for detecting amyloid clearance after donanemab in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2026-08-07 Biomarkers

    Despite reductions in plasma p-tau217 with donanemab treatment, this biomarker cannot currently be used to accurately detect TRAC by PET (< 24.1 CL) in individuals with early symptomatic AD.

  20. Scalable human neuronal models of tauopathy producing endogenous seed-competent 4R tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Science Advances 2026-07-31 Disease mechanisms

    The accumulation of pathological four-repeat (4R) tau is central to several frontotemporal dementia (FTD) subtypes, but human neuronal models amenable to high-throughput screening of 4R tau-targeting therapies remain very limited.

  21. Is Tau Acetylation a Key to Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Diagnosis?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Clinical Chemistry 2026-07-27 Tau biomarkers

    Tau protein misfolding and deposition in the brain is a common factor across many neurodegenerative diseases, grouped under the term tauopathies.

  22. Associations of [ 18 F]PI-2620 Binding with Memory and Phosphorylated Tau 217 in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2026-07-16 Biomarkers

    In older adults, temporal [18F]PI-2620 binding was higher in women (β = 0.543, P < 0.001) and APOE4 carriers (β = 0.395, P = 0.030) and was positively associated with plasma p-tau217 (β = 0.22, P = 0.008).

  23. Using CA1 rather than the whole hippocampus to capture tau-PET Braak stage II

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026-07-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Spatial analyses localised early hippocampal tau-PET signal predominantly to the anterior CA1.

  24. Plasma eMTBR-tau243 and %p-tau217 for Biological Staging of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2026-07-01 Biomarkers

    The BioFINDER-2 main cohort included 872 participants, with an additional 156 participants in the Knight ADRC cohort for independent validation.

  25. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 in Participants at Risk for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA network open 2026-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    In vivo biomarkers for detecting neuropathologies from repetitive head impacts (RHI), including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), are needed.

  26. The tau biomarker cascade is condensed in Down syndrome compared with sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2026-07-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Characterizing the timing and progression of Alzheimer's disease biomarker onset in Down syndrome (DS) and contrasting potential timing differences with neurotypical adults is needed to identify optimal Alzheimer's disease therapeutic treatment windows in DS.

  27. Arc mediates intercellular tau transmission via extracellular vesicles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Cell 2026-06-29 Laboratory science

    Tau pathology spreads cell to cell, but the mechanisms of intercellular tau transmission remain unclear.

  28. Neuropathological perspectives on neuroinflammation and tau molecular imaging in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Discover Neuroscience 2026-06-28 Inflammation and the immune system

    Flortaucipir (FTP) PET imaging was developed to quantify tau burden in tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and to distinguish AD from other dementias, including frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  29. Dysregulation of a novel autophagosome-mitochondria contact contributes to tauopathy-related neurodegeneration by disrupting autophagy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Autophagy 2026-06-19 Disease mechanisms

    Beyond their role in energy production, mitochondria also interact with other organelles through forming membrane contacts that serve as central hubs of cellular metabolism and signaling.

  30. Frontotemporal dementia associated CHCHD10V57E mutation aggravates tau pathology via disrupting the CHCHD10-Rab7A-TBC1D15 complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell Death and Disease 2026-06-19 Disease mechanisms

    Furthermore, we showed that phosphorylated tau accumulates within the endo-lysosomal system of the CHCHD10 V57E -expressing flies and mammalian cells.

  31. To evaluate plasma p-tau217 ability to detect pre-symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD) in ethnoracially diverse cognitively normal individuals.

  32. ApoE4 lowers the ptau217 threshold for tau aggregation and spread in an allele dose-dependent manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain 2026-06-03 Laboratory science

    We found that ApoE4 did not facilitate amyloid-PET-associated ptau increases, suggesting that amyloid-related ptau secretion is not altered by ApoE4 carriage.

  33. Associations of Anthropometry Measures Across 35 Years With Late-Life Plasma P-tau217 and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2026-06-02 Biomarkers

    The final study sample comprised 8,797 participants (53.5% women, mean age at HUNT4 77.8 [SD 6.2]).

  34. Variability in Clinical Performance of the FDA-Cleared Lumipulse P-Tau217/β-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma Ratio

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2026-06-01 Biomarkers

    This cross-sectional study evaluates the performance of the US Food and Drug Administration–cleared phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217) to β-amyloid 42 ratio cut points used to detect amyloid pathology associated with Alzheimer disease.

  35. Loss of SMARCAD1 Mitigates Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Aging Cell 2026-05-27 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the accumulation of misfolded tau protein and include Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia disorders.

  36. Tau-PET and CSF MTBR-tau243 comparisons validate increased tau aggregation in females

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026-05-27 Brain scans and imaging

    In both cohorts, CSF MTBR-tau243 was associated with tau-PET temporal meta-ROI burden (BioFINDER-2: β = 1.1, p = < 0.0001 and Knight-ADRC: β = 0.7, p = < 0.0001), and this association did not differ by sex (BioFINDER-2 β = 0.04, p = 0.6 and Knight-ADRC: β = 0.009, p = 0.9).

  37. TDP-43: [GU]-ardian of the transcriptome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2026-05-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    TDP-43 is a ubiquitously expressed, primarily nuclear DNA/RNA-binding protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau217–A Pivotal Plasma Biomarker for Predicting the Progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease: A Reanalysis of ADNI Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2026-05-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    P-tau217 demonstrated the most significant inter-group differences, the highest hazard ratio, and best distinguished MCI-Converters from MCI-Nonconverters, with its discriminative performance comparable to that of Aβ-PET measures and multi-plasma biomarker models.

  39. Comorbid neuropathologies but not Braak stage influence cognitive impairment in primary age-related tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2026-05-02 Disease mechanisms

    Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) is a β-amyloid-independent tauopathy, thought by some to be a distinct process from Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change (ADNC).

  40. Outcome associations of CSF total tau in suspected non-Alzheimer pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2026-04-30 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitively impaired patients with negative biomarkers of amyloidosis but with neurochemical evidence of Tau pathophysiology or neurodegeneration or both are classified as "suspected non-Alzheimer pathophysiology" (SNAP), according to the 2018 research framework for a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  41. Blood Phosphorylated Tau for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Clinical Chemistry 2026-04-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia globally and is defined by the presence of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles formed by the accumulation of phosphorylated tau (p-tau).

  42. Amyloid-β, Tau Protein, α-Synuclein, TDP-43, and FUS in Mixed Pathology: And Intrinsic Disorder to Rule Them All

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2026-04-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD), Lewy Body Disease (LBD), and related dementias, represent a global health challenge, particularly in aging populations.

  43. Connecting HTT intermediate alleles and microRNA dysregulation to enhanced tauopathy in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2026-04-20 Disease mechanisms

    HTT IAs carriers patients exhibited decreased survival after disease onset compared to non-carriers.

  44. An acetylated Tau-174 CSF biomarker discriminates between TDP-43 and tau pathology in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2026-04-15 Brain tissue and pathology

    Biomarkers to determine underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) tau or TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP) pathology during life are needed to advance clinical trials targeting specific FTD pathologies.

  45. Engineered Alzheimer Organoids Validate the Link Between Intracellular and Soluble p-Tau Biomarkers and Highlight the Contribution of Astrocytic Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2026-04-11 Tau biomarkers

    Soluble phosphorylated tau has become a key biomarker for Alzheimer's disease pathology, yet further mechanistic studies are needed beyond observational investigations to clarify the relationship between soluble p-tau species and intracellular tau pathology.

  46. Trajectories of plasma and CSF MTBR-tau243 and phosphorylated-tau species across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature Communications 2026-04-09 Biomarkers

    To efficiently implement plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for staging and prognosis of Alzheimer disease (AD), we must understand their dynamics across disease progression.

  47. A human iPSC model of tauopathies engineered for 4R tau isoform expression endogenously develops late-stage neuronal tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Science Translational Medicine 2026-04-08 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia, are common neurodegenerative diseases characterized by misfolding, hyperphosphorylation, and aggregation of tau.

  48. KCTD20 Suppression as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy against Neurodegenerative Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 25 out of 100. Current Neuroscience 2026-04-07 Disease mechanisms

    The accumulation of tau proteins in the brain contributes to the therapeutic challenges faced by patients with Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  49. Sex differences for clinical presentations and co-pathologies in four-repeat tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biology of Sex Differences 2026-04-03 Disease mechanisms

    Most common clinical diagnosis was PSP (41%) for PSP; unspecified FTD (36%) for CBD; AD for AGD (57%) and Other-4R groups (48%), without sex differences.

  50. Amyloid- und Tau-PET im Real-World-Setting: Vergleich von visueller Beurteilung und Quantifizierung mit Liquor-Biomarkern zur Optimierung der Alzheimer-Diagnostik

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine 2026-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Sowohl in der Tau- als auch in der Amyloid-PET-Bildgebung zeigte die Quantifizierung eine gute bis exzellente Vorhersage der visuellen Beurteilung (Tau: AUC=0,86, p<0,0001; Amyloid: AUC=0,99, p<0,0001).

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