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  1. Refining Alzheimer's disease biological diagnosis with plasma biomarkers: Resolving p-tau217 "gray zone" with p-tau181 integration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-02-15 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 demonstrated the strongest discrimination of Core1 positivity (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.95) and showed the steepest increase with disease progression.

  2. Plasma NfL, GFAP, and pTau181 in patients with isolated REM sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Sleep 2025-12-11 Biomarkers

    The study included 44 iRBD patients (81.8% males, mean age 71.0 ± 6.4 years), 55 HC (66.3% males, mean age 69.1 ± 5.5 years), and 28 AD patients (82.1% males, mean age of 70.4 ± 6.7 years). iRBD patients showed significantly higher plasma NfL and GFAP levels and similar pTau181 levels compared to HC.

  3. A Biomarker-Based Classification of Corticobasal Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2025-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau positivity was found in 90% of CBS cases, Aβ in 28%, and αSyn in 24%.

  4. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease are upregulated in patients with diabetic retinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-09-22 Biomarkers

    BackgroundDiabetes has been linked to increased prevalence of dementia, but the link between diabetic retinopathy (DR) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains unclear.

  5. Phosphorylated tau 181 and 217 are elevated in serum and muscle of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-03-05 Biomarkers

    Blood phosphorylated (p)-tau 181 and p-tau 217 have been proposed as accurate biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  6. Plasma p-tau217 in Alzheimer's disease: Lumipulse and ALZpath SIMOA head-to-head comparison

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2025-02-03 Biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated-tau217 (p-tau217) has been shown to be one of the most accurate diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease.

  7. Plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarker variability: Amyloid-independent and amyloid-dependent factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-13 Biomarkers

    Aβ-independent factors included hemoglobin and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) for p-tau217 and hemoglobin, eGFR, and triiodothyronine (T3) for GFAP and NfL.

  8. Plasma and CSF neurofilament light chain distinguish neurodegenerative from primary psychiatric conditions in a clinical setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-06 Biomarkers

    A total of 337 participants were included: 136 ND, 77 PPD, and 124 Controls.

  9. Diagnostic accuracy of automated Lumipulse plasma pTau-217 in Alzheimer's disease: a real-world study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2024-08-22 Biomarkers

    The CSF A/T profiles included 49 A+/T+, 8 A+/T-, and 41 A-/T-.

  10. Impact of PET Reconstruction on Amyloid-β Quantitation in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In the cross-sectional study, CLs in both the Aβ- and the Aβ+ groups were impacted by the FWHM of the reconstruction method.

  11. Performance of the Lumipulse plasma Aβ42/40 and pTau181 immunoassays in the detection of amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-01-31 Biomarkers

    Lumipulse and IP-MS Aβ42/40 exhibited the highest diagnostic accuracy for detecting an abnormal amyloid-PET (areas under the curve [AUCs] of 0.81 and 0.84, respectively).

  12. Primary retinal tauopathy: A tauopathy with a distinct molecular pattern

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-08-24 Risk factors

    Retinal p-tau pathology showed a consistent pattern with four stages and a molecular composition distinct from that of cerebral tauopathies.

  13. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-25 Biomarkers

    Biomarkers were correlated with one another.

  14. White matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's disease: An alternative view of an alternative hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-12 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) - - areas of increased signal appearing on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging - - are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk and progression in late onset and genetic forms.

  15. Design and feasibility of an Alzheimer's disease blood test study in a diverse community-based population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-19 Biomarkers

    Of the 859 participants enrolled in this ongoing study, 20.6% self-identified as Black or African American.

  16. SPARE-Tau: A flortaucipir machine-learning derived early predictor of cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. PloS one 2022-11-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared to CSF p-tau, meta-temporal, and averaged Braak tau PET ROIs, SPARE-Tau showed the strongest association with baseline ADAS-cog13 scores and diagnosis.

  17. Sex differences in off-target binding using tau positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2021-05-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Voxel-wise analysis showed higher meningeal off-target binding in women compared to men across all three tracers.

  18. Characterization of Alzheimer's tau biomarker discordance using plasma, CSF, and PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Across different tau biomarker groups, the proportion of participants with a discordant profile varied (plasma+/CSF- 15.6%, plasma-/CSF+ 15.3%, plasma+/PET- 22.4%, and plasma-/PET+ 6.1%).

  19. Plasma Neurofilament Light and Longitudinal Progression of White Matter Hyperintensity in Elderly Persons Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Biomarkers

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) is mainly caused by cerebrovascular injury and may also increase the possibilities of progression to Alzheimer's disease.

  20. VGF Peptides in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-09-20 Tau biomarkers

    In a previous proteomic study, we identified the neurosecretory protein VGF (VGF) as a potential biomarker for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  21. Relationships between flortaucipir PET tau binding and amyloid burden, clinical diagnosis, age and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    For amyloid positron emission tomography positive (Aβ+) subjects, flortaucipir neocortical standard uptake value ratio was significantly higher with more advanced clinical stage (Alzheimer's disease > mild cognitive impairment > older cognitively normal) and was significantly elevated for Aβ+ mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease subjects relative to the respective Aβ- subjects.

  22. Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and neurodegeneration in dried blood spots-A new collection method for remote settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-01-29 Biomarkers

    Our data suggest that measuring blood biomarkers related to AD pathology and neurodegeneration from DPS venous extends the utility of blood-based biomarkers to remote settings with simplified sampling conditions, storage, and logistics.

  23. Scalable plasma and digital cognitive markers for diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-01-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Combinations of plasma and digital cognitive markers show promise for scalable diagnosis and prognosis of ADRD.

  24. Plasma and CSF biomarkers in a memory clinic: Head-to-head comparison of phosphorylated tau immunoassays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-11-12 Biomarkers

    Several plasma p-tau biomarkers can be used in a specialized memory clinic as a stand-alone biomarker to detect biologically-defined AD.

  25. Plasma Aβ42/40 ratio, p-tau181, GFAP, and NfL across the Alzheimer's disease continuum: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study in the AIBL cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-21 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that plasma biomarkers are altered cross-sectionally and longitudinally, along the AD continuum, and are prospectively associated with cognitive decline and brain Aβ-PET load.

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