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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 cortical spreading pattern of tau and amyloid in the Alzheimer disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-07-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our PET study replicated postmortem spreading patterns of tau and amyloid-β pathologies.

  2. Tau PET in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2016-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau PET imaging with (18)F-AV-1451 could serve as an in vivo biomarker for the evaluation of AD-related tau pathology and monitoring disease progression.

  3. Tau physiology and pathomechanisms in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2016-06-15 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) has been associated with toxic intracellular aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau (FTLD-tau).

  4. An autoradiographic evaluation of AV-1451 Tau PET in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-06-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Reduced AV-1451 binding in neuritic pathology compared to neurofibrillary tangles suggests that the maturity of tau pathology may affect AV-1451 binding and suggests complexity in AV-1451 binding.

  5. Kinetics of the Tau PET Tracer 18F-AV-1451 (T807) in Subjects with Normal Cognitive Function, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-05-05 Brain scans and imaging

    We report kinetic modeling results of dynamic acquisition data from 0 to 100 min after injection with the tau PET tracer 18 F-AV-1451 in 19 subjects.

  6. Functional screening of Alzheimer risk loci identifies PTK2B as an in vivo modulator and early marker of Tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2016-04-26 Genetics

    A recent genome-wide association meta-analysis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) identified 19 risk loci (in addition to APOE) in which the functional genes are unknown.

  7. Acetylated Tau Obstructs KIBRA-Mediated Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity and Promotes Tauopathy-Related Memory Loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2016-03-31 Disease mechanisms

    Tau toxicity has been implicated in the emergence of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the mechanism by which tau alters synapse physiology and leads to cognitive decline is unclear.

  8. Tau PET patterns mirror clinical and neuroanatomical variability in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain 2016-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Voxel-wise contrasts against controls (at P < 0.05 family-wise error corrected) showed that (18)F-AV1451 and (18)F-FDG patterns in patients with posterior cortical atrophy ('visual variant of Alzheimer's disease', n = 7) specifically targeted the clinically affected posterior brain regions, while (11)C-PiB bound diffusely throughout the neocortex.

  9. Tau PET patterns mirror clinical and neuroanatomical variability in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain 2016-03-08 Laboratory science

    Using PET brain scans, researchers found that where tau protein tangles build up in the brain closely tracks which brain regions lose function and matches a person's specific symptoms (memory loss vs. language problems vs. visual problems), much more closely than where amyloid plaques sit.

  10. Regional profiles of the candidate tau PET ligand 18F-AV-1451 recapitulate key features of Braak histopathological stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-03-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    SEE THAL AND VANDENBERGHE DOI101093/BRAIN/AWW057 FOR A SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY ON THIS ARTICLE: Post-mortem Braak staging of neurofibrillary tau tangle topographical distribution is one of the core neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

  11. PET Imaging of Tau Deposition in the Aging Human Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neuron 2016-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Researchers used a tau PET agent to examine tau retention patterns in cognitively normal older people and compared them with young controls and Alzheimer's disease patients.

  12. Abnormal tau induces cognitive impairment through two different mechanisms: synaptic dysfunction and neuronal loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-02-18 Disease mechanisms

    The hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau is present in several neurodegenerative diseases, although the causal relationship remains elusive.

  13. Characterization of Early Pathological Tau Conformations and Phosphorylation in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2016-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy that develops after repetitive head injury.

  14. Tau positron emission tomographic imaging in aging and early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-12-15 Getting a diagnosis

    These findings suggest that (18)F T807 PET could have value as a biomarker that reflects both the progression of AD tauopathy and the emergence of clinical impairment.

  15. Obesity, diabetes, and leptin resistance promote tau pathology in a mouse model of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2015-12-14 Disease mechanisms

    Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) convey an increased risk for developing dementia.

  16. Tau and neurodegenerative disease: the story so far

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2015-12-04 Lewy body dementia

    In 1975, tau protein was isolated as a microtubule-associated factor from the porcine brain.

  17. Tau in physiology and pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2015-12-03 Disease mechanisms

    This review summarizes the expression, post-translational modifications, and functions of tau in physiology and pathophysiology.

  18. Depletion of microglia and inhibition of exosome synthesis halt tau propagation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature Neuroscience 2015-10-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    Researchers developed an adeno-associated virus-based model to study tau propagation from the entorhinal cortex to the dentate gyrus.

  19. Validating novel tau positron emission tomography tracer [F-18]-AV-1451 (T807) on postmortem brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-09-25 Getting a diagnosis

    Our data suggest that [F-18]-AV-1451 holds promise as a surrogate marker for the detection of brain tau pathology in the form of tangles and paired helical filament-tau-containing neurites in Alzheimer brains but also point to its relatively lower affinity for lesions primarily made of straight tau filaments in non-Alzheimer tauopathy cases and to the existence of some [F-18]-AV-1451 off-target binding.

  20. Critical role of acetylation in tau-mediated neurodegeneration and cognitive deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature medicine 2015-09-21 Lewy body dementia

    Tauopathies, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), are neurodegenerative diseases in which tau fibrils accumulate.

  21. Quantitative analysis and clinico-pathological correlations of different dipeptide repeat protein pathologies in C9ORF72 mutation carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-09-15 Caregiving

    Hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease.

  22. Tauopathies as clinicopathological entities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2015-09-08 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by neuronal and/or glial inclusions composed of the microtubule-binding protein, tau.

  23. Appoptosin-Mediated Caspase Cleavage of Tau Contributes to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2015-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a movement disorder characterized by tau neuropathology where the underlying mechanism is unknown.

  24. Visualization of regional tau deposits using (3)H-THK5117 in Alzheimer brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2015-07-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Saturation and competition binding studies of (3)H-THK5117 in post-mortem AD brain tissue showed the presence of multiple binding sites.

  25. The role of tau in the pathological process and clinical expression of Huntington's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-05-06 Disease mechanisms

    Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an abnormal CAG repeat expansion within exon 1 of the huntingtin gene HTT.

  26. Hydration water mobility is enhanced around tau amyloid fibers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015-04-27 Brain scans and imaging

    The paired helical filaments (PHF) formed by the intrinsically disordered human protein tau are one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer disease.

  27. A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2015-03-17 Genetics

    APOE ɛ4, the most significant genetic risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), may mask effects of other loci.

  28. Cellular Models of Aggregation-dependent Template-directed Proteolysis to Characterize Tau Aggregation Inhibitors for Treatment of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-03-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a degenerative tauopathy characterized by aggregation of Tau protein through the repeat domain to form intraneuronal paired helical filaments (PHFs).

  29. Pathological tau disrupts ongoing network activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2015-02-19 Disease mechanisms

    Pathological tau leads to dementia and neurodegeneration in tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease.

  30. In vivo imaging of tau pathology using multi-parametric quantitative MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage 2015-02-17 Disease mechanisms

    As the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) reaches epidemic proportions, there is an urgent need to develop effective treatment strategies to tackle the social and economic costs of this fatal condition.

  31. Invited review: Frontotemporal dementia caused by microtubule-associated protein tau gene (MAPT) mutations: a chameleon for neuropathology and neuroimaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2015-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    Hereditary frontotemporal dementia associated with mutations in the microtubule-associated protein tau gene (MAPT) is a protean disorder.

  32. Invited review: Neuropathology of tauopathies: principles and practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2015-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    Tauopathies are clinically, morphologically and biochemically heterogeneous neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the deposition of abnormal tau protein in the brain.

  33. Tau proteins in the temporal and frontal cortices in patients with vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2015-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    We previously reported that, in the brains of older patients with vascular dementia (VaD), there is a distinctive accumulation of detergent-extractable soluble amyloid-β, with a predominance of Aβ42 species.

  34. Tau depletion prevents progressive blood-brain barrier damage in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2015-01-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Since increased BBB permeability is found in tauopathies without Aß pathology, like PSP, we suspected that tau accumulation alone could not only be sufficient, but even more important than Aß for BBB damage.

  35. Tau aggregation inhibitor therapy: an exploratory phase 2 study in mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    As tau aggregation pathology correlates with clinical dementia in Alzheimer's disease (AD), a tau aggregation inhibitor (TAI) could have therapeutic utility.

  36. Tau imaging: early progress and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2015-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    Use of selective in-vivo tau imaging will enable improved understanding of tau aggregation in the brain, facilitating research into causes, diagnosis, and treatment of major tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and some variants of frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  37. A novel, ultrasensitive assay for tau: potential for assessing traumatic brain injury in tissues and biofluids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurotrauma 2014-12-23 Disease mechanisms

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a cause of death and disability and can lead to tauopathy-related dementia at an early age.

  38. Impairment of glymphatic pathway function promotes tau pathology after traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2014-12-01 Risk factors

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an established risk factor for the early development of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, and the post-traumatic brain frequently exhibits neurofibrillary tangles comprised of aggregates of the protein tau.

  39. Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-10-28 Getting a diagnosis

    We recommend a new term, "primary age-related tauopathy" (PART), to describe a pathology that is commonly observed in the brains of aged individuals.

  40. Passive immunization targeting the N-terminal projection domain of tau decreases tau pathology and improves cognition in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer disease and tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2014-09-19 Tau biomarkers

    Intraneuronal accumulation of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau in the brain is a histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and a family of related neurodegenerative disorders collectively called tauopathies.

  41. Tauopathy PET and amyloid PET in the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathies: studies of a retired NFL player and of a man with FTD and a severe head injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2014-09-16 Disease mechanisms

    Single, severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) which elevates CNS amyloid, increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD); while repetitive concussive and subconcussive events as observed in athletes and military personnel, may increase the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  42. Huntington's disease is a four-repeat tauopathy with tau nuclear rods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2014-07-20 Disease mechanisms

    An imbalance of tau isoforms containing either three or four microtubule-binding repeats causes frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) in families with intronic mutations in the MAPT gene.

  43. Physiological and pathological phosphorylation of tau by Cdk5

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2014-07-15 Disease mechanisms

    Hyperphosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein tau is one of the major pathological events in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other related neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).

  44. Divergent CSF τ alterations in two common tauopathies: Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2014-06-04 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Elevated CSF τ is considered a biomarker of neuronal injury in newly developed Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) criteria.

  45. Temsirolimus attenuates tauopathy in vitro and in vivo by targeting tau hyperphosphorylation and autophagic clearance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2014-05-29 Disease mechanisms

    In a variety of neurodegenerative tauopathies including Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and some types of Parkinson's disease, tau protein is abnormally hyperphosphorylated by several kinases and eventually aggregates to form neurofibrillary tangles, a neurotoxic pathological characteristic that closely correlates with cognitive impairments.

  46. Diagnostic performance of cerebrospinal fluid total tau and phosphorylated tau in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: results from the Swedish Mortality Registry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    Identifying a clinical distinction between the invariably lethal prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and nonprion rapidly progressive dementias is important and sometimes difficult; thus, reliable tools for diagnosis are in great demand.

  47. An epigenetic signature in peripheral blood associated with the haplotype on 17q21.31, a risk factor for neurodegenerative tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2014-03-06 Disease mechanisms

    Little is known about how changes in DNA methylation mediate risk for human diseases including dementia.

  48. Quantification of tau in cerebrospinal fluid by immunoaffinity enrichment and tandem mass spectrometry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2014-02-24 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau is a common biomarker for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  49. In vivo evaluation of a novel tau imaging tracer for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2014-02-11 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    (18)F-THK523 does not bind to Aβ in vivo, while following the known distribution of paired helical filaments (PHF)-tau in the brain.

  50. Tau-aggregation inhibitor therapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Biochemical pharmacology 2013-12-19 Brain tissue and pathology

    Many trials of drugs aimed at preventing or clearing β-amyloid pathology have failed to demonstrate efficacy in recent years and further trials continue with drugs aimed at the same targets and mechanisms.

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