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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. In vivo 18F-AV-1451 tau PET signal in MAPT mutation carriers varies by expected tau isoforms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2018-02-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau PET shows higher magnitude of binding in MAPT mutation carriers who harbor mutations that are more likely to produce AD-like tau pathology (e.g., in our series, the non-exon 10 families tend to accumulate mixed 3R/4R aggregates).

  2. In vivo [18F]-AV-1451 tau-PET imaging in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2018-02-07 Tau biomarkers

    In vivo [ 18 F]-AV-1451 PET neuroimaging was performed in 5 patients with sporadic CJD (median age, 66 years [63-74]), and results were compared to cognitively normal (CN) persons (n = 44; median age, 68 years [63-74]) and to participants with very mild Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia (n = 8; median age, 77 years [63-90]).

  3. Structural tract alterations predict downstream tau accumulation in amyloid-positive older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-02-05 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Animal models of Alzheimer's disease have suggested that tau pathology propagation, facilitated by amyloid pathology, may occur along connected pathways.

  4. Associations Between Tau, β-Amyloid, and Cognition in Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggest that patterns of cortical Aβ and tau do not differ in people with PD-CN, people with PD-MCI, and healthy older adults.

  5. Comparative In Vitro and In Vivo Quantifications of Pathologic Tau Deposits and Their Association with Neurodegeneration in Tauopathy Mouse Models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2018-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In vivo 11 C-PBB3 binding to the rTg4510 neocortex/hippocampus was increased relative to controls and correlated with local atrophy.

  6. Tau and neuroinflammation: What impact for Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Biomedical journal 2018-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the most common type of dementia (60-80% of cases).

  7. Widespread brain tau and its association with ageing, Braak stage and Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In older cognitively unimpaired individuals (≥50 years), widespread, age-related elevated tau signal was seen among those with normal or abnormal amyloid status as compared to younger cognitively unimpaired individuals (30-49 years).

  8. Test-Retest Reproducibility for the Tau PET Imaging Agent Flortaucipir F 18

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2017-12-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Test-retest analyses demonstrated low variability in flortaucipir F 18 SUVR.

  9. Associations between [18F]AV1451 tau PET and CSF measures of tau pathology in a clinical sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2017-12-27 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]AV1451-PET and CSF p-tau had comparable value for differential diagnosis.

  10. CSF neurofilament light chain and phosphorylated tau 181 predict disease progression in PSP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2017-12-27 Biomarkers

    Both CSF p-tau and NfL correlate with disease severity and rate of disease progression in PSP.

  11. Distinct differences in prion-like seeding and aggregation between Tau protein variants provide mechanistic insights into tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2017-12-19 Disease mechanisms

    The accumulation of aberrantly aggregated MAPT (microtubule-associated protein Tau) defines a spectrum of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Comparative binding properties of the tau PET tracers THK5117, THK5351, PBB3, and T807 in postmortem Alzheimer brains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-12-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Regional binding of 3 H-THK5117 and 3 H-THK5351 was similar, except in the temporal cortex, which showed higher 3 H-THK5117 binding.

  13. Increased midlife triglycerides predict brain β-amyloid and tau pathology 20 years later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2017-12-01 Genetics

    Increased levels of triglycerides at midlife predict brain Aβ and tau pathology 20 years later in cognitively healthy individuals.

  14. Region-Specific Association of Subjective Cognitive Decline With Tauopathy Independent of Global β-Amyloid Burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-12-01 Caregiving

    The following 2 regions for tau burden were identified: the entorhinal cortex, which exhibits early signs of tauopathy, and the inferior temporal region, which is more closely associated with AD-related pathologic mechanisms.

  15. Tau pathology and neurodegeneration contribute to cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-12-01 Caregiving

    Neuropathological and in vivo studies have revealed a tight relationship between tau pathology and cognitive impairment across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum.

  16. Total Tau and Phosphorylated Tau Protein Serum Levels in Patients with Schizophrenia Compared with Controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. The Psychiatric quarterly 2017-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Tau protein is located in the axons of neurons and in Alzheimer Disease, is abnormally phosphorylated and aggregates into paired helical filaments (neurofibrillary tangles) reflecting the degree of neurofibrillary pathology and neurodegeneration.

  17. Tau-based therapies in neurodegeneration: opportunities and challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2017-10-06 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregates of the microtubule-associated protein tau are a defining feature of several neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively known as tauopathies, and constitute one of the hallmark lesions of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  18. 18 F-flortaucipir tau positron emission tomography distinguishes established progressive supranuclear palsy from controls and Parkinson disease: A multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-flortaucipir uptake was elevated in PSP versus controls and PD patients in a pattern consistent with the expected distribution of tau pathology.

  19. ApoE4 markedly exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature 2017-09-20 Genetics

    APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease.

  20. We report for the first time quantitative data on the plasma levels of p-tau181 in controls and patients with AD and DS, and these data suggest that the plasma p-tau181 is a promising blood biomarker for brain AD pathology.

  21. Association of Plasma Total Tau Level With Cognitive Decline and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia in the Mayo Clinic Study on Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    The utility of plasma total tau level as a prognostic marker for cognitive decline and dementia is not well understood.

  22. Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid tau and neurofilament concentrations in rapidly progressive neurological syndromes: a neuropathology-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2017-08-16 Biomarkers

    Molecular subtypes of sporadic CJD show different levels of plasma tau.

  23. AV-1451 PET imaging of tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer disease: Defining a summary measure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2017-07-26 Biomarkers

    Utilizing [18F]-AV-1451 tau positron emission tomography (PET) as an Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarker will require identification of brain regions that are most important in detecting elevated tau pathology in preclinical AD.

  24. Glial contributions to neurodegeneration in tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2017-06-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Tauopathies are a broad set of neurodegenerative dementias characterized by aggregation of the tau protein into filamentous inclusions that can be found in neurons and glial cells.

  25. Comparison of multiple tau-PET measures as biomarkers in aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. NeuroImage 2017-06-03 Getting a diagnosis

    The recent development of tau-specific positron emission tomography (PET) tracers enables in vivo quantification of regional tau pathology, one of the key lesions in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  26. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42, t-tau, and p-tau levels in the differential diagnosis of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2017-05-10 Tau biomarkers

    The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the performance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) beta amyloid 42 (Aβ42), total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau) as potential diagnostic biomarkers for idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) and to assess their utility indistinguishing patients with iNPH from those with Alzheimer disease (AD) and healthy normal controls.

  27. Multimodal PET Imaging of Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer Disease and Non-Alzheimer Disease Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. PET clinics 2017-04-18 Biomarkers

    Biomarkers of the molecular pathology underpinning dementia syndromes are increasingly recognized as crucial for diagnosis and development of disease-modifying treatments.

  28. Prion-like Spreading in Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2017-04-13 Disease mechanisms

    Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that functions in regulating cytoskeleton dynamics, especially in neurons.

  29. Tau Antibody Targeting Pathological Species Blocks Neuronal Uptake and Interneuron Propagation of Tau in Vitro

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2017-04-11 Tau biomarkers

    The clinical progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with the accumulation of tau neurofibrillary tangles, which may spread throughout the cortex by interneuronal tau transfer.

  30. Translocator Protein-18 kDa (TSPO) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging and Its Clinical Impact in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2017-04-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    In vivo exploration of activated microglia in neurodegenerative diseases is achievable by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, using dedicated radiopharmaceuticals targeting the translocator protein-18 kDa (TSPO).

  31. Cortical laminar tau deposits and activated astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease visualised by 3H-THK5117 and 3H-deprenyl autoradiography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-04-04 Biomarkers

    Hyperphosphorylated tau protein deposits and, inflammatory processes are characteristic components of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology.

  32. Association of In Vivo [18F]AV-1451 Tau PET Imaging Results With Cortical Atrophy and Symptoms in Typical and Atypical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-04-01 Biomarkers

    In all 6 patients (3 women and 3 men; mean age 61.8 years), the underlying clinical phenotype was associated with the regional distribution of the [18F]AV-1451 signal.

  33. Evaluating the Patterns of Aging-Related Tau Astrogliopathy Unravels Novel Insights Into Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2017-04-01 Genetics

    The term "aging-related tau astrogliopathy" (ARTAG) describes pathological accumulation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in astrocytes.

  34. Tau-PET Binding Distinguishes Patients With Early-stage Posterior Cortical Atrophy From Amnestic Alzheimer Disease Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2017-04-01 Biomarkers

    Flortaucipir uptake distinguished individuals with PCA and amnestic AD dementia early in the symptomatic course.

  35. In vivo tau PET imaging in dementia: Pathophysiology, radiotracer quantification, and a systematic review of clinical findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2017-03-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    In addition to the deposition of β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles composed of aggregated hyperphosphorylated tau are one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  36. Frontotemporal dementia with the V337M MAPT mutation: Tau-PET and pathology correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2017-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Our study supports the usefulness of [ 18 F]AV1451 to characterize tau pathology in at least a subset of pathogenic MAPT mutations.

  37. Pathological correlations of [F-18]-AV-1451 imaging in non-alzheimer tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    AV-1451 may have limited utility for in vivo selective and reliable detection of tau aggregates in these non-Alzheimer tauopathies.

  38. Tau Oligomers Associate with Inflammation in the Brain and Retina of Tauopathy Mice and in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    It is well-established that inflammation plays an important role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD).

  39. Tau reduction prevents neuronal loss and reverses pathological tau deposition and seeding in mice with tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2017-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau directly correlates with cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and other primary tauopathies.

  40. Synergistic interaction between amyloid and tau predicts the progression to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-12-23 Clinical safety

    The present results support that progression to AD dementia is driven by the synergistic rather than a mere additive effect between Aβ and p-tau proteins.

  41. Tau-PET uptake: Regional variation in average SUVR and impact of amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016-12-21 Biomarkers

    Regions with high-average SUVR are not necessarily those with the greatest tau pathology.

  42. Tau Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging in the Lewy Body Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-11-01 Caregiving

    Twenty-four patients with Lewy body disease (7 DLB, 8 PD-impaired, and 9 PD-normal) underwent multimodal brain imaging, cognitive testing, and neurologic evaluation, and imaging measures were compared with those of an independently acquired group of 29 controls with minimal brain amyloid burden as measured with carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B ([11C]PiB) positron emission tomography (PET).

  43. Microglial neuroinflammation contributes to tau accumulation in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-10-28 Inflammation and the immune system

    The chronic effects of repetitive head impacts (RHI) on the development of neuroinflammation and its relationship to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are unknown.

  44. [18 F]AV-1451 tau positron emission tomography in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2016-10-27 Disease mechanisms

    Progressive supranuclear palsy is associated with an elevated [ 18 F]AV-1451 signal in a characteristic and distinct regional pattern that correlates with disease severity and differs from the patterns observed in Alzheimer's dementia. © 2016 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

  45. Reduction of Nuak1 Decreases Tau and Reverses Phenotypes in a Tauopathy Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuron 2016-10-06 Tau biomarkers

    Many neurodegenerative proteinopathies share a common pathogenic mechanism: the abnormal accumulation of disease-related proteins.

  46. Plasma tau in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2016-09-30 Getting a diagnosis

    Plasma tau partly reflects AD pathology, but the overlap between normal aging and AD is large, especially in patients without dementia.

  47. Does neuroinflammation drive the relationship between tau hyperphosphorylation and dementia development following traumatic brain injury?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2016-09-28 Disease mechanisms

    A history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is linked to an increased risk for the later development of dementia.

  48. Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of the Tau PET Radiotracer 18F-T807 (18F-AV-1451) in Human Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-09-22 Brain scans and imaging

    The percentage of unmetabolized 18 F-T807 in plasma followed a single exponential with a half-life of 17.0 ± 4.2 min. Metabolite-corrected plasma radioactivity concentration fit a biexponential (half-lives, 18.1 ± 5.8 and 2.4 ± 0.5 min). 18 F-T807 in gray matter peaked quickly (SUV > 2 at ∼5 min).

  49. Evaluation of Tau Imaging in Staging Alzheimer Disease and Revealing Interactions Between β-Amyloid and Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Moreover, the presence of Aβ+ was associated with an elevated [18F]-AV-1451 SUVR in AD cortical signature regions (Aβ+ participants: mean [SD], 1.3 [0.3]; Aβ- participants: 1.1 [0.1]; F = 4.3, P = .04) but not in the hippocampus.

  50. Human iPSC-Derived Neuronal Model of Tau-A152T Frontotemporal Dementia Reveals Tau-Mediated Mechanisms of Neuronal Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Stem cell reports 2016-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and other tauopathies characterized by focal brain neurodegeneration and pathological accumulation of proteins are commonly associated with tau mutations.

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