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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

739 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. Aggregation of detergent-insoluble tau is involved in neuronal loss but not in synaptic loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-10-04 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which consist of highly phosphorylated tau, are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  2. Cerebrospinal fluid tau protein levels and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2010-09-15 Tau biomarkers

    In this study, we aimed to compare cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau (p-tau(181)) and positron emission tomography with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) under clinical conditions.

  3. Acetylation of tau inhibits its degradation and contributes to tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neuron 2010-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    Neurodegenerative tauopathies characterized by hyperphosphorylated tau include frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Cell-mediated neuroprotection in a mouse model of human tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tau protein in a hyperphosphorylated state makes up the intracellular inclusions of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and cases of frontotemporal dementia.

  5. Elevated tauopathy and alpha-synuclein pathology in postmortem Parkinson's disease brains with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2010-06-28 Disease mechanisms

    Parkinson's disease (PD), a progressive neurodegenerative disease, results in abnormal accumulation of insoluble alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn) in dopaminergic neurons.

  6. Synergistic Interactions between Abeta, tau, and alpha-synuclein: acceleration of neuropathology and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent age-related neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized pathologically by the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques and tau-laden neurofibrillary tangles.

  7. Recent evidences indicate that polymorphisms within the promoter region of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene may elevate the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. CSF phospho-tau is independent of age, cognitive status and gender of neurological patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2009-11-17 Tau biomarkers

    CSF phospho-tau (p-tau(181)) levels have shown good diagnostic utility in differential diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  9. Characterization of hydrophobic residue requirements for alpha-synuclein fibrillization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemistry 2009-10-01 Clinical safety

    alpha-Synuclein is the major component of pathological inclusions characteristic of diseases like Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple-system atrophy.

  10. Baseline CSF p-tau levels independently predict progression of hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2009-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This effect is independent of baseline neuropsychological and MRI predictors.

  11. Tau fragmentation, aggregation and clearance: the dual role of lysosomal processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2009-08-04 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregation and cleavage are two hallmarks of Tau pathology in Alzheimer disease (AD), and abnormal fragmentation of Tau is thought to contribute to the nucleation of Tau paired helical filaments.

  12. The dorsal raphe nucleus shows phospho-tau neurofibrillary changes before the transentorhinal region in Alzheimer's disease. A precocious onset?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2009-08-01 Caregiving

    These observations: (i) support the hypothesis of transneuronal spread of neurofibrillary changes from the DR to its interconnected cortical brain areas; and (ii) indicate that the supratrochlear subnucleus of the DR is affected by neurofibrillary changes before the transentorhinal cortex during the disease process underlying AD.

  13. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes: progressive tauopathy after repetitive head injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2009-07-01 Digital health tools

    Since the 1920s, it has been known that the repetitive brain trauma associated with boxing may produce a progressive neurological deterioration, originally termed dementia pugilistica, and more recently, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  14. Tangle-bearing neurons survive despite disruption of membrane integrity in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2009-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are associated with neuronal loss and correlate with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease, but how NFTs relate to neuronal death is not clear.

  15. Dystrophic (senescent) rather than activated microglial cells are associated with tau pathology and likely precede neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2009-06-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    The role of microglial cells in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neurodegeneration is unknown.

  16. Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature cell biology 2009-06-07 Lewy body dementia

    Hyperphosphorylated tau makes up the filamentous intracellular inclusions of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Monitoring of brain interstitial total tau and beta amyloid proteins by microdialysis in patients with traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 2009-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Object Damage to axons contributes to postinjury disabilities and is commonly observed following traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  18. Rapid progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease in subjects with elevated levels of tau in cerebrospinal fluid and the APOE epsilon4/epsilon4 genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-05-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    CSF T-tau and P-tau as well as the APOE epsilon4/epsilon4 genotype are robust predictors of AD and are also associated with a more rapid progression from MCI to AD.

  19. Sanfilippo syndrome type B, a lysosomal storage disease, is also a tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009-05-05 Disease mechanisms

    Sanfilippo syndrome type B (mucopolysaccharidosis III B, MPS III B) is an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative disease of children, characterized by profound mental retardation and dementia.

  20. A zebrafish model of tauopathy allows in vivo imaging of neuronal cell death and drug evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2009-04-13 Disease mechanisms

    Our aging society is confronted with a dramatic increase of patients suffering from tauopathies, which include Alzheimer disease and certain frontotemporal dementias.

  21. Hippocampal tau pathology is related to neuroanatomical connections: an ageing population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-03-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Deposits of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein are found in numerous neurodegenerative disorders; the 'tauopathies', which include Alzheimer's and Pick's diseases, but tau pathology is also found in the ageing brain.

  22. Propagation of tau misfolding from the outside to the inside of a cell

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-03-11 Lewy body dementia

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein Tau in neurons and glia.

  23. The role of tau in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2009-03-11 Lewy body dementia

    Since the identification of tau as the main component of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies, and the discovery that mutations in the tau gene cause frontotemporal dementia, much effort has been directed towards determining how the aggregation of tau into fibrillar inclusions causes neuronal death.

  24. Association of total tau and phosphorylated tau 181 protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid with cerebral atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2009-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    We sought to examine the association of levels of total tau (t-tau) and phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181) protein with brain morphology in mild cognitive impairment, as defined by the concept of aging-associated cognitive decline (AACD) and Alzheimer disease.

  25. Mechanisms of tau-induced neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2009-01-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer disease (AD) and related tauopathies are histopathologically characterized by a specific type of slow and progressive neurodegeneration, which involves the abnormal hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule associated protein (MAP) tau.

  26. Combined CSF tau, p-tau181 and amyloid-beta 38/40/42 for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2009-01-14 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of amyloid-beta (Abeta) 1-38, 1-40, 1-42, total-tau and phospho-tau in samples from 156 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (n = 44), depressive cognitive complainers (DCC, n = 25) and various other forms of non-Alzheimer dementias (NAD, n = 87) were analyzed by electrochemiluminescence and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay, respectively.

  27. Phosphorylated TDP-43 in Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2009-01-13 Brain tissue and pathology

    Phosphorylated and proteolytically cleaved TDP-43 is a major component of the ubiquitin-positive inclusions in the most common pathological subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-U).

  28. Tau forms in CSF as a reliable biomarker for progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2008-10-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau form ratio was significantly reduced in patients with PSP (0.504 +/- 0.284) when compared to age-matched controls (0.989 +/- 0.343), and to patients with other neurodegenerative conditions (range = 0.899-1.215).

  29. Inverse association of cortisol serum levels with T-tau, P-tau 181 and P-tau 231 peptide levels and T-tau/Abeta 1-42 ratios in CSF in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 2008-09-19 Tau biomarkers

    Hypercortisolemia and increased levels of hyperphosphorylated tau proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are common features with pathogenic relevance in Alzheimer;s disease (AD).

  30. Decreased drebrin mRNA expression in Alzheimer disease: correlation with tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2008-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    To investigate the mRNA expression of the dendritic spine protein drebrin in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we performed post-mortem in situ hybridization studies in brain sections from 20 AD patients and 21 controls.

  31. Tauopathy with paired helical filaments in an aged chimpanzee

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of comparative neurology 2008-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    An enigmatic feature of age-related neurodegenerative diseases is that they seldom, if ever, are fully manifested in nonhuman species under natural conditions.

  32. Concomitant TAR-DNA-binding protein 43 pathology is present in Alzheimer disease and corticobasal degeneration but not in other tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2008-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    Pathologic TAR-DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a disease protein in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  33. TDP-43 protein in plasma may index TDP-43 brain pathology in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2008-05-28 Disease mechanisms

    Autopsy studies have shown that about 55% of patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and 25% of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) harbour TDP-43 immunoreactive pathological changes in their brains.

  34. CSF beta-amyloid 1-42 and tau in Tunisian patients with Alzheimer's disease: the effect of APOE epsilon4 allele

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2008-05-24 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia.

  35. Pin1 has opposite effects on wild-type and P301L tau stability and tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2008-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tau pathology is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).

  36. A novel transgenic mouse expressing double mutant tau driven by its natural promoter exhibits tauopathy characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2008-03-21 Disease mechanisms

    The neurofibrillary-tangles (NTFs), characteristic of tauopathies including Alzheimer's-disease (AD), are the pathological features which correlate best with dementia.

  37. The potential for beta-structure in the repeat domain of tau protein determines aggregation, synaptic decay, neuronal loss, and coassembly with endogenous Tau in inducible mouse models of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2008-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    We describe two new transgenic mouse lines for studying pathological changes of Tau protein related to Alzheimer's disease.

  38. The tauopathy associated with mutation +3 in intron 10 of Tau: characterization of the MSTD family

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-12-07 Digital health tools

    Multiple system tauopathy with presenile dementia (MSTD) is an inherited disease caused by a (g) to (a) transition at position +3 in intron 10 of Tau.

  39. Multicenter assessment of CSF-phosphorylated tau for the prediction of conversion of MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2007-12-01 Genetics

    An a priori defined cutoff value of p-tau(231) yields relatively stable results across centers, suggesting a good feasibility of a standard criterion of p-tau(231) for the prediction of Alzheimer disease.

  40. Concurrence of TDP-43, tau and alpha-synuclein pathology in brains of Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain research 2007-10-25 How common it is

    TAR-DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) has been identified as a major component protein of ubiquitin-positive inclusions in brains from patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  41. BAG-1 associates with Hsc70.Tau complex and regulates the proteasomal degradation of Tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-10-22 Tau biomarkers

    Intraneuronal accumulation of phosphorylated Tau protein is a molecular pathology found in many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer disease.

  42. Pattern of Tau forms in CSF is altered in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2007-08-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) total Tau levels vary widely in neurodegenerative disorders, thus being not useful in their discrimination over Alzheimer disease.

  43. Reducing Endogenous Tau Ameliorates Amyloid ß-Induced Deficits in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Science 2007-05-03 Disease mechanisms

    Many potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease target amyloid-beta peptides (Abeta), which are widely presumed to cause the disease.

  44. Tau aggregation and toxicity in a cell culture model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2007-04-11 Tau biomarkers

    Intracellular aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau into filamentous inclusions is a defining characteristic of Alzheimer disease.

  45. Accumulation of pathological tau species and memory loss in a conditional model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, but recent studies in a conditional mouse model of tauopathy (rTg4510) have suggested that NFT formation can be dissociated from memory loss and neurodegeneration.

  46. Cerebrospinal fluid tau protein is increased in neurosyphilis: a discrimination from syphilis without nervous system involvement?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Sexually transmitted diseases 2007-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    The objective of this study was to investigate the levels of tau protein in neurosyphilis.

  47. Diagnostic accuracy of ELISA and xMAP technology for analysis of amyloid beta(42) and tau proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2007-03-29 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of amyloid beta(42) (Abeta(42)) peptides and tau proteins may serve as biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  48. Calcium-mediated transient phosphorylation of tau and amyloid precursor protein followed by intraneuronal amyloid-beta accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2006-11-03 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Intraneuronal accumulation of hyperphosphorylated protein tau in paired helical filaments together with amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) deposits confirm the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease.

  49. A Phase II study targeting amyloid-beta with 3APS in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2006-11-02 Tau biomarkers

    As a potential disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer disease (AD), 3-amino-1-propanesulfonic acid (3APS) is a compound that binds to amyloid beta (Abeta), a toxic protein known to aggregate, leading to amyloid plaque deposition in the brain.

  50. Tauopathy-like abnormalities and neurologic deficits in mice immunized with neuronal tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    These results provide a link between tau autoimmunity and tauopathy-like abnormalities and indicate potential dangers of using tau for immunotherapy.

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