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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. Blood phosphorylated tau for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2025-09 Biomarkers

    This large review pooled 113 studies (nearly 30,000 people) comparing different forms of blood phosphorylated tau for detecting Alzheimer's pathology. p-tau217 was clearly the best-performing marker, correctly identifying disease pathology about 88% of the time, outperforming other tau variants like p-tau181.

  2. Emerging roles for innate and adaptive immunity in tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Cell Reports 2025-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies encompass a large majority of dementia diagnoses and are characterized by toxic neuronal or glial inclusions of the microtubule-associated protein tau.

  3. Structural and functional insights into the selective inhibition of mutant tau aggregation by purpurin and oleocanthal in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Protein Science 2025-08-27 Lewy body dementia

    Tau aggregation driven by microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) mutations is central to frontotemporal dementia pathology, yet no disease-modifying therapies effectively target mutant tau.

  4. A novel C. elegans model for MAPT/Tau spreading reveals genes critical for endolysosomal integrity and seeded MAPT/Tau aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Autophagy 2025-08-25 Genetics

    The spreading of MAPT/Tau pathology is closely associated with the progression of neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease and other tauopathies.

  5. Integrating MRI Volume and Plasma p-Tau217 for Amyloid Risk Stratification in Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2025-08-19 Biomarkers

    A total of 807 K-ROAD participants (median age 72.0 years, 58.7% female) and 230 ADNI participants (median age 70.9 years, 49.1% female) were analyzed.

  6. Detecting amyloid and tau pathology in Parkinson’s disease, 4R-tauopathies and control subjects with plasma pTau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-08-15 Disease mechanisms

    Plasma pTau217 levels serve as a scalable, non-invasive marker of AD-pathology across Lewy body diseases, PSP/CBS, and MCI/CU populations.

  7. Role of prion protein in mediating the synaptotoxic effects of tau oligomers: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Neural Regeneration Research 2025-08-13 Disease mechanisms

    We recently confirmed and extended these findings using recombinant TauOs generated from full-length human tau in the presence of arachidonic acid (Balducci et al., 2025; Figure 1).

  8. ApoE-calypse tau: ApoE–tau synergy in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2025-08-05 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) in senile plaques and abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau proteins in neurofibrillary tangles.

  9. The role of Tau, amyloid-β and neuroinflammation in the association between cognition and white matter hyperintensities in a southeast Asian cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-08-05 Vascular contributions

    WMH burden positively correlated to Neurofilament-Light (NfL) and pTau181.

  10. In Vivo Cortical Microstructure: Relationships With Tauopathy and Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 2025-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Our results suggest that microstructural features derived from NODDI such as fISO might be useful adjunct markers to tau, which needs to be confirmed in longitudinal studies.

  11. Plasma tau biomarkers are distinctly associated with tau tangles and decreased with Lewy body pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-08-01 Biomarkers

    Understanding how plasma tau biomarkers are influenced by co-pathologies and comorbidities is crucial for their accurate implementation.

  12. Twenty years of therapeutic development in tauopathy mouse models: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by pathological tau protein inclusions and dementia.

  13. Co-occurrence of multiple pathologies in a case of frontotemporal dementia with TBK1 mutation: first in vivo detection of alpha-synuclein and tau co-pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-07-25 Disease mechanisms

    Our findings support a broader interpretation of TBK1-associated neurodegeneration and highlight the importance of multimodal diagnostic approaches that integrate molecular, genetic, imaging, and neuropathological tools.

  14. Tau and tauopathies across primate species: implications for modeling neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-07-23 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the abnormal accumulation and aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  15. Cross-sectional associations of plasma vitamin D with plasma phosphorylated tau-181 and plasma neurofilament light chain in older adults with memory complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of Disease 2025-07-22 Biomarkers

    Lack of vitamin D is associated with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

  16. An Anti-tau Therapeutic Antibody Etalanetug (E2814): A Phase 1, First-in-human (FIH) Study of Single and Multiple Ascending Doses in Healthy Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2025-07-17 Treatments

    Etalanetug presented an adequate safety and immunogenicity profile in healthy adults.

  17. Pittsburgh plasma p-tau217: Classification accuracies for autosomal dominant and sporadic Alzheimer's disease in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-07-15 Biomarkers

    Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh developed a new plasma p-tau217 test (using a different antibody than existing commercial tests) and validated it in 363 people, including some with genetic early-onset Alzheimer's mutations and community-dwelling older adults.

  18. Higher Educational Attainment and Accelerated Tau Accumulation in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-07-07 Biomarkers

    This study included 887

  19. Looking into Abnormal Co-Expressions of Tau and TDP-43 in the Realm of Mixed Dementia Types: A Double-Punch Scenario

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain Sciences 2025-07-03 Brain tissue and pathology

    Transactive response DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) and tau proteins play critical roles in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. Associations between intrinsic capacity, plasma p-tau181 and cognitive function over a 5-year follow-up among community-dwelling older adults: a secondary analysis of the MAPT Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of frailty & aging 2025-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Intrinsic capacity (IC) is a recent key concept proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) based on aspects of functional ability (both physical and mental) rather than the presence or absence of diseases, with a potential to predict several health outcomes.

  21. C3 and C3a as indicators of complement dysregulation in tauopathies and FTLD-associated disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Immunobiology 2025-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Dementia encompasses a range of neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) presenting with progressive decline in memory, cognition, language and ability to complete daily tasks.

  22. Clinicopathological characterization of vacuolar tauopathy associated with VCP D395G

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    All participants had heterozygous c.1184A > G, p.Asp395Gly in VCP.

  23. Structural and functional connectivity in tau mutation carriers: from presymptomatic to symptomatic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Early isolated functional disruptions in salience/visual networks were present in asymptomatic carriers, along with anterior cingulate gray matter reductions.

  24. The Cell and Molecular Pathology of Tau Protein in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2025-07-01 Treatments

    As a result of multiple phosphorylation, Tau undergoes early conformational changes involving the bending of the intact amino (N)-terminus over the third repeated domain, which in turn was evidenced by positive immunolabeling with the monoclonal antibody Alz-50 [2].

  25. Evaluation of preanalytical factors on quantification of amyloid-β (1-42), phosphorylated tau 181, and total tau in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Laboratory Medicine 2025-06-21 Tau biomarkers

    For all 3 analytes, less than 10% difference was observed between the concentrations measured on day 0 and after 14 days of transportation and refrigeration.

  26. Cell autonomous microglia defects in a stem cell model of frontotemporal dementia tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular Psychiatry 2025-06-17 Lewy body dementia

    Neuronal dysfunction has been extensively studied as a central feature of neurodegenerative tauopathies.

  27. Frequency and Clinical Outcomes Associated With Tau Positron Emission Tomography Positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA 2025-06-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the 6514 participants (mean age, 69.5 years; 50.5% female), median follow-up time ranged from 1.5 to 4.0 years.

  28. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder in which tau neurofibrillary tangles are a pathological hallmark closely associated with cognitive dysfunction and neurodegeneration.

  29. Association of Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 With Clinical Deterioration Across Alzheimer Disease Stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2025-06-05 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 levels showed a significant increase across advancing AD stages, with all between-group comparisons remaining significant after false discovery rate adjustment ( p p = 0.002) and CSF p-tau181 (β = 3.2, 95% CI 1.4-5.0, p = 0.001).

  30. Cognitive Stability Among Plasma p-tau 181 Negative Individuals: A 5-year Analysis of the Multidomain Alzheimer Prevention Trial Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2025-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    This study aims to assess the evolution of cognitive performances over a 5-year follow-up period in community-dwelling older people with negative plasma p-tau181 levels and to determine whether frailty could discriminate between those who experience cognitive decline and those who do not, in the p-tau negative groups.

  31. Diagnostic performance of plasma p-tau217 and Aβ42/40 biomarkers in the outpatient memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-06 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 concentrations demonstrated robust diagnostic performance in a heterogeneous clinical cohort; interpretation requires consideration of kidney function.

  32. Diverse tau pathologies in late‐life mood disorders revealed by PET and autopsy assays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    LLMD participants were more likely to be tau PET and Aβ PET positive than HCs.

  33. Integrating plasma p-tau217 and digital cognitive assessments for early detection in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-06-01 Biomarkers

    This approach offers a sensitive method for identifying individuals at high risk for AD-related cognitive decline.

  34. Tau from SPAM Transgenic Mice Exhibit Potent Strain-Specific Prion-Like Seeding Properties Characteristic of Human Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. NeuroMolecular Medicine 2025-05-30 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), are characterized by the aberrant aggregation of tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles.

  35. Changes in Daily Functioning in Association With Tau and Amyloid Among Unimpaired Older Adults With and Without Elevated Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2025-05-29 Treatments

    Higher tau levels are associated with the fastest decline in everyday functioning in the presence of elevated amyloid, and those accumulating more tau show a faster decline in everyday functioning.

  36. Associations Between Changes in Levels of Phosphorylated Tau and Severity of Cognitive Impairment in Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2025-05-15 Biomarkers

    In DDI (n = 431), participants were classified as CN A-/T- (n = 169), A+/T- (CN = 26, MCI = 24), A+/T+ (CN = 40, MCI = 105), and A-/T+ (CN = 34, MCI = 33), with a mean age of 64.1 years and 55.9% female.

  37. pS396/pS404 (PHF1) tau vaccine outperforms pS199/pS202 (AT8) in rTg4510 tauopathy model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. npj Vaccines 2025-05-13 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), are histopathologically defined by the aggregation of hyperphosphorylated pathological tau (pTau) as neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

  38. The Role of Tau in Neuronal Function and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurology International 2025-05-13 Disease mechanisms

    Tau protein plays a pivotal role in maintaining neuronal structure and function through its regulation of microtubule stability and neuronal polarity.

  39. Temporal transcriptomic changes in the THY-Tau22 mouse model of tauopathy display cell type- and sex-specific differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-05-07 Disease mechanisms

    We identified several significant sex-specific and sex-dimorphic differentially expressed genes in neurons, microglia, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, including both cross-sectional changes and alterations from 7 months to 17 months of age.

  40. Analytical Validation and Performance of a Blood-Based P-tau217 Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of applied laboratory medicine 2025-05-01 Biomarkers

    Through analytical validation, this assay demonstrated robust performance across multiple lots, operators, and instruments and could be used as a tool for diagnosing AD.

  41. Directionality bias underpins divergent spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer‐related tauopathy in mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Retrograde bias better predicted tau progression than anterograde bias, but our best-fitting biophysical models incorporate the mixed effects of both retrograde- and anterograde-directed spread, with notable tau-strain-specific differences.

  42. Repeated plasma p‐tau217 measurements to monitor clinical progression heterogeneity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Three progression clusters emerged in both cohorts: stable cognition, slow decline, and rapid decline-each including cases initially classified as CN or MCI.

  43. A mass-producible macaque model displays a durable Alzheimer-like cognitive deficit and hallmark amyloid-β/tau/neurofilament light chain pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-04-23 Tau biomarkers

    BackgroundAlzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive deficit and pathological accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau proteins.

  44. Primary Tauopathy With Logopenic/Semantic Mixed Progressive Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia-like Behavior

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology 2025-04-18 Disease mechanisms

    Here we present the cases of two individuals with language and behavioral symptoms indicative of the early clinical manifestations of both Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  45. [18F]Florzolotau PET for the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonism in Patients with Suspected 4-Repeat Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2025-04-17 Disease mechanisms

    The 4R-like pattern was more prevalent and more strongly expressed (84.3%, mean score, 2.0 ± 1.1) in patients with a consensus diagnosis of PSP/CBD (joint diagnostic group of clinically likely 4R tauopathies) than in all other groups (11.6%, 0.26 ± 0.75, P < 0.0001).

  46. Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Cognitively Unimpaired Individuals With a Parental History of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-09 Brain scans and imaging

    (69.4% female) were aged 68.3 ± 5.1 years at their first PET scans.

  47. Comparison of MK-6240 and Flortaucipir Tau PET for the Biological Staging of Alzheimer Disease (P11-4.004)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-07 Brain scans and imaging

    We aim to compare the biological staging of Alzheimer Disease using two different tau PET tracers.

  48. Brain‐derived tau to measure treatment effect in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    CSF BD‐tau shows potential as a biomarker of treatment effect in AD but not bvFTD.

  49. Cross‐sectional study of plasma phosphorylated tau 217 in persons without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Our results elucidate the characteristics and genetic associations of p‐tau217 in a population‐based setting.

  50. Plasma p-tau212 as a biomarker of sporadic and Down syndrome Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-04-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Plasma p-tau212 might have utility for theragnostics, monitoring therapy efficacy, and as a target engagement biomarker in clinical trials both in sporadic and DSAD.

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