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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. Clinical validation of a plasma p ‐tau217 immunoassay and evaluation of the impact of kidney function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    . The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of plasma p -tau217 was 0.941.

  2. Comparing Off‐Target Meningeal and Skull Signal in Head‐to‐Head MK‐6240 and AV‐1451 Tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Average age of participants was 66 (21-88) years. 25 were biologically female and 15 were amyloid positive.

  3. Comparing Off‐Target Meningeal and Skull Signal in Head‐to‐Head MK‐6240 and AV‐1451 Tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Average age of participants was 66 (21-88) years. 25 were biologically female and 15 were amyloid positive.

  4. CSF Acetylated Tau‐174 as a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    AcTau174 levels were elevated in all dementia groups compared to controls, with a stepwise increase from controls to MCI-AD (2.2-fold) to AD dementia (3.5-fold, Figure 1).

  5. Deep Learning Framework for Characterizing Tau‐PET Spatial Heterogeneity along AD Spectrum: A Self‐supervised Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Three robustly differentiated AD subtypes (S1, S2, and S3) were identified, with 93% validation accuracy and Adjusted Mutual Information scores >0.89, each exhibiting distinct tau patterns.

  6. Deep Learning Framework for Characterizing Tau‐PET Spatial Heterogeneity along AD Spectrum: A Self‐supervised Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Three robustly differentiated AD subtypes (S1, S2, and S3) were identified, with 93% validation accuracy and Adjusted Mutual Information scores >0.89, each exhibiting distinct tau patterns.

  7. Development of small molecules promoting tau degradation in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Within around 700 new designed PROTACs, we found by computational modelling more than 25 PROTACs that were predicted to have a better ability to form ternary complexes than the previously reported PROTACs.

  8. Diagnostic performance of MK and Flortaucipir tau PET for the biological staging of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinical stages showed a progressively increased prevalence of Aβ-positivity and higher entorhinal tau PET pathology from cognitively normal (CN) to SOCD, MCI, and dementia in both tracers.

  9. Differential expression of conditioned medium from tauopathies patients' olfactory neuroepithelial precursor cells, implications in the neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    hONE-NPCs expressed proteins such as Ki67, Nestin, GFAP, and b-III Tubulin, which are associated with cellular proliferation and the neuronal progenitor lineage.

  10. Differing network patterns of functional connectivity and amyloid PET between tau PET subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    We replicated three distinct spatiotemporal subtypes of tau PET accumulation and their associations with individual differences and AD severity in an independent sporadic AD cohort.

  11. Differing network patterns of functional connectivity and amyloid PET between tau PET subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    We replicated three distinct spatiotemporal subtypes of tau PET accumulation and their associations with individual differences and AD severity in an independent sporadic AD cohort.

  12. External Validation of Joint Propagation Model‐Based Tau PET CenTauR units

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These analyses suggest that CenTauR harmonization increases the comparability of tau‐PET data acquired with different tracers.

  13. External Validation of Joint Propagation Model‐Based Tau PET CenTauR units

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These analyses suggest that CenTauR harmonization increases the comparability of tau‐PET data acquired with different tracers.

  14. Integrating MRI Volume and Plasma p ‐Tau217 for Amyloid Risk Stratification in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    The study included 807 participants form K-ROAD (median age: 72.0 years, 58.7% female) and 230 from ADNI (median age: 70.9 years, 49.1% female).

  15. Longitudinal tau‐PET accumulation and downstream effects in amyloid‐beta negative cognitively unimpaired individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    16% of individuals were identified as tau-accumulators.

  16. Low CSF APP refines diagnosis for p ‐tau negative Alzheimer‐like dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Concentrations of CSF APP were significantly lower in T- compared to T+ individuals across all clinical diagnostic groups across cohorts, regardless of A± status (Figure 1).

  17. We included 1179 CU subjects (n = 474 females (40%), 70.9 ± 4.5 years old) of European descent who had pTau217 and PACC.

  18. Modulatory effect of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels on the association between plasma p ‐tau217 levels and cognitive decline in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    Additionally, growing evidence suggests that neuroinflammation may modulate the effects of tau spread on cognitive impairment in AD [Peretti, Débora E., et al., Brain 147.12 (2024): 4094‐4104.].

  19. Neighborhood disadvantage, systemic inflammation, and tau pathology: a link between social determinants of health and Alzheimer's disease risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Higher ADI was significantly associated with increased CRP (r=0.469, p = 0.002) and TREM-1 (r=0.316, p = 0.047).

  20. Prediction of continuous amyloid positron emission tomography with fluid measures of phosphorylated tau and β-amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. EMBO Molecular Medicine 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 contributed most to identify Aβ-positivity, while continuous Aβ-PET load within the positive range was best predicted by plasma P-tau217.

  21. Tau is associated with atrophy in MCI independently of beta‐amyloid and APOE e4 genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    The first SVD component accounted for 21.56%, 12.93%, 11.91% of the total co-variability between the pairs (cortical thickness, tau), (relative GM density, tau) and (absolute GM density, tau), respectively.

  22. Tau PET imaging in Black and Latino participants with and without cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Eighty-three Black (mean 72±10.8-years-old, 63% female, 33% cognitively impaired) and 27 Latino participants (mean 65.8-years-old, 56% female, 11% cognitively impaired) completed neuroimaging.

  23. Tau Protein and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    The different Alzheimer and Pick tau folds establish the existence of molecular conformers of assembled tau.

  24. The economic value of plasma p ‐tau217 testing for patients presenting with cognitive impairment in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    In the study scenario, adding plasma p -tau217 testing to SCE reduced diagnostic costs by $342/patient, through more efficient use of amyloid PET and CSF testing.

  25. Trajectories of CSF and plasma MTBR‐tau 243 and phosphorylated‐tau species across the Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The CSF and plasma cohorts were on average 71.4(±8.5) and 72.2 (±9.3) years of age, 49.1%/50.8% was female, and 263/453 (0.59%/51.8%) were cognitively impaired, respectively.

  26. Avaliação do Papel da Proteína Tau no Diagnóstico Precoce e Monitoramento do Alzheimer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 25 out of 100. Revista JRG de Estudos Acadêmicos 2025-11-30 Tau biomarkers

    A doença de Alzheimer (DA) configura-se como a principal causa de demência em idosos, se tornando um dos maiores desafios da medicina moderna devido à sua alta prevalência e o impacto social associado.

  27. Correlation and Interchangeability of Amyloid, Tau, and Glucose Metabolism PET in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Brain Sciences 2025-11-26 Biomarkers

    Positron emission tomography (PET) allows for minimally invasive in vivo localization of amyloid and tau deposition, and visualization of glucose metabolism using amyloid PET, tau PET, and FDG PET.

  28. The Role of Amyloid- and Tau PET in the New Era of Alzheimer Disease Therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2025-11-25 Brain scans and imaging

    The advent of amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau PET imaging has revolutionized Alzheimer disease (AD) research, enabling in vivo detection of hallmark pathologies and transforming both diagnosis and therapeutic development.

  29. Seeding biosensor cell line that reproduces the Alzheimer tau fold

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2025-11-20 Disease mechanisms

    The assembly of tau protein into amyloid filaments through templated seeding is believed to underlie the propagation of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies.

  30. Co‐localization of tau and TDP ‐43 after extracellular vesicle delivery to cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. FEBS Journal 2025-11-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    Perturbations in the metabolism of microtubule‐associated protein tau (tau) underlie the pathology of a broad array of dementias, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with cognitive impairment (ALSci) and approximately half of the dementias associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  31. Intercellular signaling and synaptic deconstruction uncovered by single-cell and spatial transcriptomics in an AD tauopathy model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Communications Biology 2025-11-17 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in elderly individuals worldwide; however, all mechanisms leading to disease onset and progression are not well understood.

  32. Diagnostic Value of Serum p-tau217 in Alzheimer Disease: Equal to Plasma in Levels and Clinical Utility?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Clinical Chemistry 2025-11-13 Biomarkers

    High correlations between plasma and serum were observed for most assays (ρ > 0.8), though plasma often yielded higher concentrations.

  33. Plasma p-tau217 as a biomarker of Alzheimer's disease pathology in individuals with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-11-10 Biomarkers

    Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) in adults with Down syndrome (DS), a population with a high genetically determined risk of AD, remains challenging.

  34. Abnormal behaviors and glial responses in an animal model of tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular Brain 2025-11-06 Disease mechanisms

    Tau hyperphosphorylation has been considered a major contributor to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia, and related tauopathies have gained prominence in the development of therapies for these conditions.

  35. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 to Identify Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-11-01 Biomarkers

    Participants had a mean (SD) age of 66.9 (9.9) years; 971 (33.3%) were Aβ positive by either CSF or PET, 1667 (57.2%) were women, and 1108 (38.1%) carried at least 1 APOE ε4 allele.

  36. Interplay between astrocyte reactivity and APOE ε4 status is associated with accelerated pTau-related tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-10-29 Laboratory science

    Plasma GFAP and pTau biomarkers (pTau181, pTau231, pTau217) are significantly elevated in Aβ-positive individuals, with stronger Aβ–pTau associations observed in APOE ε4 carriers (CPAS: β = 0.26, p = 0.003 for pTau231; ADNI: β = 0.45, p < 0.001 for pTau181).

  37. Computational Insights into the Destabilization of Baicalein on the Tau Protofibrils Associated with Alzheimer’ s Disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2025-10-23 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are a subgroup of neurodegenerative diseases pathologically typified as tau protein aggregate deposits in the brain, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  38. Midbrain degeneration triggers astrocyte reactivity and tau pathology in experimental Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-10-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    The concomitant depletion of dopaminergic and serotonergic inputs within the hippocampus of C57BL/6N mice provokes a pronounced activation of microglia via the NLRP3-inflammasome pathway, accompanied by increased IL-1β expression.

  39. Primary age-related tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2025-10-09 Disease mechanisms

    Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) was proposed in 2014 as a neuropathological term to describe patients with Alzheimer's-type medial temporal lobe neurofibrillary degeneration in the absence of significant β-amyloid pathology.

  40. Longitudinal Association of a Polygenic Risk Score for Plasma T-Tau With Incident Alzheimer Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2025-10-03 Genetics

    In the HELIAD sample, among 618 cognitively healthy participants (mean age 73.37 years, 58.4% female), followed for 2.92 ± 0.80 years, 73 developed AD/aMCI.

  41. Concurrent Changes in Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217, Tau PET, and Cognition in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-10-01 Biomarkers

    Levels of plasma p-tau217 increased significantly in Aβ+ participants before showing significant deceleration (χ2 = 21.7; P Conclusions and relevance This study found that tau PET is valuable for both prognostic and real-time tracking of disease progression.

  42. Plasma p‐tau217 and Aβ42/40 as markers of Aβ pathology in the Lewy body continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Higher plasma p-tau217, lower Aβ42/40, and their interaction were associated with greater Aβ-PET uptake.

  43. Plasma p-tau217 showed strong diagnostic performance for distinguishing AD from bvFTD (96% accuracy) and PPD (93% accuracy).

  44. Associations of plasma p‐tau231 with serial position recall performance in free‐of‐dementia individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Neuropsychology 2025-09-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive assessment and analysis of plasma biomarkers are lower-cost options for the early assessment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. Implication for Clinical Trials From Longitudinal Tau-PET Accumulation Across Biological Alzheimer Disease Stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2025-09-23 Biomarkers

    < 0.001). Stage-specific tau-PET region-of-interest selection reduced required sample sizes by 30%-93% for detecting hypothetical disease-modifying drug effects.

  46. Visual Classification of Tau-PET Detects 4 Subtypes With Different Long-Term Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2025-09-12 Brain scans and imaging

    < 0.001), with the automated approach more likely to classify a scan as tau negative and lower agreement between methods in more severe cases and AD clinical variants.

  47. Artificial Intelligence–Powered Quantification of Flortaucipir PET for Detecting Tau Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2025-09-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The AI-powered pipeline achieved robust performance with intraclass correlation coefficients exceeding 0.97 for regional uptake estimation compared with MR-based ground truth.

  48. Evaluation of a Sensitive Visual Read Algorithm for Assessing 3R/4R Tau PET Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2025-09-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Both visual read methods exhibited strong concordance with semiquantitative SUVRs.

  49. A Case of Late‐Onset Semantic Dementia With Right‐Predominant Temporal Lobe Atrophy due to Primary Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics 2025-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Semantic dementia (SD) is a type of dementia characterized by a loss of semantic memory, typically presenting with left-predominant temporal lobe atrophy and a frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 (FTLD-TDP) type C pathology.

  50. A phenotypic screen for novel small molecules that correct tau‐mediated pathologies in human frontotemporal dementia neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Screening a 19,786-compound chemical diversity library, we identified > 100 compounds that corrected nuclear membrane defects in MAPT IVS10+16 neurons, with 23 demonstrating robust dose-dependent rescue.

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