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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. Plasma MTBR-tau243 biomarker identifies tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2025-03-31 Disease mechanisms

    Insoluble tau aggregates within neurofibrillary tangles are a defining neuropathological feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and closely correlate with clinical symptoms.

  2. Plasma p-tau217 and tau-PET predict future cognitive decline among cognitively unimpaired individuals: implications for clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Nature Aging 2025-03-28 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 and tau positron emission tomography (PET) are strong prognostic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their relative performance in predicting future cognitive decline among cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals is unclear.

  3. α-synuclein and tau: interactions, cross-seeding, and the redefinition of synucleinopathies as complex proteinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025-03-27 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by protein aggregation and overlapping pathologies, challenging traditional classifications and highlighting shared underlying mechanisms.

  4. Both Amyloid and Tau Assessments Are Desired Before Initiating Disease-modifying Therapy for Alzheimer Disease: Three Real-world Cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2025-03-20 Treatments

    To the Editor: We have recently highlighted the potential pitfalls of amyloid-beta (Aβ) PET, suggesting that both Aβ and tau assessments are necessary to relate clinical symptoms to Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology.1 Herein, we would like to present 3 additional cases related to the clinical practice of disease-modifying therapy (DMT) for AD.

  5. Plasma NfL, P-tau181, and P-tau181/Aβ42 Ratio in Predicting Mild Behavioral Impairment in Dementia-Free Multiethnic Asian Older Adults With Mixed Pathology in a 5-Year Clinical Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2025-03-05 Tau biomarkers

    The underlying mechanisms of mild behavioral impairment (MBI), a marker for cognitive impairment and dementia, have remained unclear especially in a multiethnic Asian population.

  6. Sex Differences in Longitudinal Tau-PET in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-03-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Mounting evidence in adults without AD indicates that females exhibit higher tau deposition than age-matched males, particularly in the setting of elevated β-amyloid (Aβ), but the evidence for sex differences in tau accumulation rates is inconclusive.

  7. Diagnostic accuracy of plasma p-tau217/Aβ42 for Alzheimer's disease in clinical and community cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-03 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217/Aβ42 has high performance in detecting cerebral AD pathologies, thus offering a promising tool for clinical diagnosis and community screening of AD.

  8. Entorhinal tau impairs short-term memory binding in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2025-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Aβ + CN individuals performed worse than Aβ-CN participants in the SCBC while the SOC only distinguished Aβ − CN from MCI participants.

  9. Generalizability of tau and amyloid plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease cohorts of diverse genetic ancestries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-03-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated threonine 181 of tau (pTau181) and amyloid beta (Aβ) are biomarkers for differential diagnosis and preclinical detection of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  10. Perfusionsmuster der [18F]PI-2620-Tau-PET bei verschiedenen neurodegenerativen Tauopathien

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine 2025-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Die Frühphasen- & R1-Bilder korrelierten signifikant in allen Gruppen (Gesunde: r=0,68-0,84; AD: r=0,81-0,9; PSP-RS: r=0,81-0,86; FTD: r=0,76-0,82).

  11. Combination of Aβ40, Aβ42, and Tau Plasma Levels to Distinguish Amyloid-PET Positive Alzheimer Patients from Normal Controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Experimental Neurobiology 2025-02-28 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) diagnosis is confirmed using a medley of modalities, such as the detection of amyloid-β (Aβ) neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles with positron electron tomography (PET) or the appraisal of irregularities in cognitive function with examinations.

  12. Early Alzheimer's Disease with frequent neuritic plaques harbors neocortical tau seeds distinct from primary age-related tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-02-21 Laboratory science

    Tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the presence of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques are required for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and closely track with cognitive impairment, yet cognitively normal aged individuals frequently exhibit NFTs arising from tau seed accumulation.

  13. Retinal ganglion cell vulnerability to pathogenic tau in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-02-15 Disease mechanisms

    Using the RGC marker ribonucleic acid binding protein with multiple splicing (RBPMS) and Nissl staining, we found a 46–56% reduction in RBPMS + RGCs and Nissl + neurons in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) of MCI and AD retinas ( P < 0.05–0.001).

  14. Mechanistic Insights into the Inhibitory and Destabilizing Effects of K353 Acetylation on Tau Peptides and Protofibrils

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2025-02-14 Disease mechanisms

    Misfolding and aggregation of microtubule-associated tau protein is implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative disorders (named tauopathies), including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  15. The Prevention of Fatal Tauopathy in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer Disease by Blocking BCL2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology 2025-02-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    A major goal in Alzheimer disease (AD) research is the reduction of the abnormal tau burden.

  16. A comprehensive head-to-head comparison of key plasma phosphorylated tau 217 biomarker tests

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Brain 2025-02-03 Biomarkers

    Plasma %p-tau217WashU had the highest performance, with significantly higher AUCs than all the immunoassays (Pdiff < 0.007).

  17. Plasma p-tau217 identifies cognitively normal older adults who will develop cognitive impairment in a 10-year window

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-02 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 is a prognostic marker for identifying individuals who will develop cognitive impairment within ten years.

  18. Tau‐related reduction of glucose metabolism in mild cognitive impairment occurs independently of APOE ε4 genotype and is influenced by Aβ

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We found cortical regions where a reduced glucose metabolism was maximally correlated with distributed patterns of tau, accounting for the effect of Aβ and APOE ε4 genotype.

  19. The interaction between dysfunction of vasculature and tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathy is one of the pathological features of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  20. RIPK1 expression and inhibition in tauopathies: implications for neuroinflammation and neuroprotection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025-01-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the alteration/aggregation of TAU protein.

  21. Tau Pathology Drives Disease‐Associated Astrocyte Reactivity in Salt‐Induced Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Advanced Science 2025-01-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Dietary high salt intake is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Amyloid-associated hyperconnectivity drives tau spread across connected brain regions in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Science Translational Medicine 2025-01-22 Laboratory science

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid-β (Aβ) triggers the aggregation and spreading of tau pathology, which drives neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

  23. Blood Neurofilament Light Chain and Phospho-Tau 181 in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Age-Related Hearing Loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025-01-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    Patients with hearing impairment presented slightly altered results on cognitive tests, typical of a mild cognitive impairment.

  24. Distinct subcellular localization of tau and alpha-synuclein in lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-01-21 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy bodies and neurofibrillary tangles, composed of α-synuclein (α-syn) and tau, respectively, often are found together in the same brain and correlate with worsening cognition.

  25. Quantitative Assessment of the Effect of Chronic Kidney Disease on Plasma P-Tau217 Concentrations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2025-01-17 Biomarkers

    CKD was associated with increased p-tau217 concentrations when measuring p-tau217 by ALZpath and C 2 N methodologies, but the effect was mitigated by the use of %p-tau217.

  26. Brain-derived tau oligomer polymorphs: distinct aggregations, stability profiles, and biological activities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Communications Biology 2025-01-14 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregation of microtubule-associated tau protein is a distinct hallmark of several neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

  27. Updated appropriate use criteria for amyloid and tau PET: A report from the Alzheimer's Association and Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Workgroup

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-01-08 Getting a diagnosis

    AUC for amyloid and tau PET provide expert recommendations for clinical use of these technologies in the evolving landscape of diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.

  28. Informing etiological heterogeneity of mild cognitive impairment and risk for progression to dementia with plasma p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-01 Disparities

    . Longitudinally, older age (OR=1.14 [1.06-1.22], p<.001), higher levels of p-tau217 (OR=10.37 [3.00-35.02], p<.001) and higher neuropsychiatric symptoms (OR=1.19 [1.02-1.39], p=.023) were associated with higher odds of progression to dementia.

  29. Plasma phospho-tau217 for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis in primary and secondary care using a fully automated platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2025 Biomarkers

    This large multi-country study tested a fully automated, commercially available blood test (Lumipulse platform, measuring p-tau217) in nearly 1,800 people across memory clinics and, notably, primary care doctors' offices in Sweden, Spain, and Italy.

  30. Comparison of Plasma p-tau217 and [18F]FDG-PET for Identifying Alzheimer Disease in People With Early-Onset or Atypical Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2024-12-23 Biomarkers

    Our study provides evidence that plasma p-tau217 has strong discriminative accuracy for AD among patients with early-onset and/or atypical dementia assessed in specialized settings.

  31. This meta-analysis pooled 30 studies (nearly 9,800 people from 10 countries) to see how well p-tau217 measured in blood or spinal fluid detects Alzheimer's amyloid and tau pathology compared with PET scans.

  32. Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau231) and total tau (t-tau) as prognostic markers of neurological outcome after cardiac arrest - a multicentre study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Resuscitation 2024-12-03 Tau biomarkers

    We studied the promising Alzheimer biomarker plasma tau phosphorylated at threonine 231 (p-tau231) in a cohort of cardiac arrest patients who survived to intensive care to predict long-term neurological outcomes.

  33. Post hoc analysis of ADAMANT, a phase 2 clinical trial of active tau immunotherapy with AADvac1 in patients with Alzheimer's disease, positive for plasma p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-11-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    These results suggest that AADvac1 tau immunotherapy can reduce plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation.

  34. High-molecular-weight oligomer tau (HMWoTau) species are dramatically increased in Braak-stage dependent manner in the frontal lobe of human brains, demonstrated by a novel oligomer Tau ELISA with a mouse monoclonal antibody (APNmAb005)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2024-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Disease-specific oligomers Tau assay system is anticipated in Alzheimer disease (AD) to elucidate their etiological roles.

  35. Plasma p-tau-181 and GFAP are closely associated with synaptic density measured using 18 F-SynVesT-1 PET/MRI, with the relationship primarily influenced by tau accumulation rather than Aβ deposition or cortical thickness. © RSNA, 2024 Supplemental material is available for this article.

  36. UCB Presents Data on Bepranemab (anti-tau antibody) in Early Alzheimer's Disease: Phase 2a TOGETHER Study

    ⚠ Press release — not a study alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. UCB press release (data presented at CTAD 2024) 2024-10-31 Clinical trials

    The Phase 2a TOGETHER trial tested bepranemab, an antibody targeting the tau protein (rather than amyloid), in 466 people with prodromal-to-mild Alzheimer's disease over 80 weeks.

  37. Plasma phosphorylated tau181 outperforms [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the identification of early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2024-10-24 Tau biomarkers

    This study was undertaken to compare the performance of plasma p-tau181 with that of [ 18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in the identification of early biological Alzheimer disease (AD).

  38. Association of Seizure Foci and Location of Tau and Amyloid Deposition and Brain Atrophy in Patients With Alzheimer Disease and Seizures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2024-09-27 Biomarkers

    Our results reveal a spatial association between the epileptogenic focus and tau deposition, amyloid deposition, and neurodegeneration in early clinical stages of AD.

  39. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 and Aβ42/40 to Predict Early Brain Aβ Accumulation in People Without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2024-09-01 Biomarkers

    In BioFINDER-2, the mean (SD) age was 65.7 (14.4) with 261 females (52.7%).

  40. Performance of plasma p-tau217 for the detection of amyloid-β positivity in a memory clinic cohort using an electrochemiluminescence immunoassay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-08-19 Biomarkers

    Of 108 participants (age: 69 ± 6.5 years; 54.6% female) with paired samples obtained at time of LP, 64.8% (n = 70/108) had Aβ pathology detected (35 with Mild Cognitive Impairment and 35 with mild dementia).

  41. Tau Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Dementia in Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2024-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In the discovery cohort, the mean (SD) age was 70.9 (8.5) years, 191 (58%) were male, the mean (SD) MMSE score was 27.1 (1.9), and 110 individuals with MCI (33%) converted to dementia (71 to AD dementia).

  42. Late Life Depression is Not Associated With Alzheimer-Type Tau: Preliminary Evidence From a Next-Generation Tau Ligand PET-MR Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2024-07-18 Biomarkers

    Our findings suggest AD-type tau is not higher in LLD compared to non-depressed, cognitively unimpaired older adults and appears unlikely to contribute to lower gray matter volume in LLD, further underscoring the need to distinguish major depressive disorder from depressive symptoms occurring in early AD.

  43. Plasma extracellular vesicle tau and TDP-43 as diagnostic biomarkers in FTD and ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature medicine 2024-06-18 Disease mechanisms

    Minimally invasive biomarkers are urgently needed to detect molecular pathology in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  44. Plasma VEGFA and PGF impact longitudinal tau and cognition in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2024-06-01 Biomarkers

    Baseline plasma VEGFA and PGF each showed a significant interaction with amyloid burden on prospective cognitive decline.

  45. Clinical Significance of the Plasma Biomarker Panels in Amyloid-Negative and Tau PET-Positive Amnestic Patients: Comparisons with Alzheimer's Disease and Unimpaired Cognitive Controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-05-21 Tau biomarkers

    The purpose of this study was to investigate whether plasma biomarkers can help to diagnose, differentiate from Alzheimer disease (AD), and stage cognitive performance in patients with positron emission tomography (PET)-confirmed primary age-related tauopathy, termed tau-first cognitive proteinopathy (TCP) in this study.

  46. Human iPSC 4R tauopathy model uncovers modifiers of tau propagation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cell 2024-04-05 Laboratory science

    Tauopathies are age-associated neurodegenerative diseases whose mechanistic underpinnings remain elusive, partially due to a lack of appropriate human models.

  47. Sex-specific modulation of amyloid-β on tau phosphorylation underlies faster tangle accumulation in females

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2024-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Females are disproportionately affected by dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Tau spatial spread may demonstrate earlier changes than tau burden which could have broad impact in clinical trial design.

  49. ANU-ADRI scores, tau pathology, and cognition in non-demented adults: the CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-03-26 Tau biomarkers

    It has been reported that the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) could be predicted by the Australian National University Alzheimer Disease Risk Index (ANU-ADRI) scores.

  50. Diagnostic Accuracy of a Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 Immunoassay for Alzheimer Disease Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2024-03-01 Biomarkers

    This study found that a commercially available plasma p-tau217 immunoassay accurately identified biological AD, comparable with results using CSF biomarkers, with reproducible cut-offs across cohorts.

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