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  1. Clinical and demographic factors modify the association between plasma phosphorylated tau-181 and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-12-20 Biomarkers

    Higher plasma p-tau181 level was associated with worse memory, executive functioning, and language abilities, and greater informant-reported SCD.

  2. Evaluating the updated LATE-NC staging criteria using data from NACC

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Of 1352 participants, 502 (37%) had LATE-NC (23% stage 1a, 6% stage 1b, 58% stage 2, 13% stage 3).

  3. Cerebrovascular disease is associated with Alzheimer's plasma biomarker concentrations in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain communications 2024-09-25 Biomarkers

    There was a direct and indirect bidirectional effect through the glial fibrillary acidic protein of WMH on phosphorylated tau 217 concentration, which was associated with neurofilament light chain concentration in the entire sample.

  4. Optimizing cutpoints for clinical interpretation of brain amyloid status using plasma p-tau217 immunoassays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-19 Biomarkers

    This study provides a systematic framework for selection of assay-specific cutpoints for clinical use of plasma p-tau217 for determination of amyloid status.

  5. The Bio-Hermes Study: Biomarker database developed to investigate blood-based and digital biomarkers in community-based, diverse populations clinically screened for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-02-28 Biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers are highly associated with amyloid PET/CSF results in diverse populations enrolled at clinical trial sites.

  6. Head-to-head study of diagnostic accuracy of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid p-tau217 versus p-tau181 and p-tau231 in a memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2024-01-09 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 demonstrated better performance in the identification of AD pathology and clinical phenotypes in comparison with other variants of p-tau in a memory clinic cohort.

  7. Alzheimer's disease and inflammatory biomarkers positively correlate in plasma in the UK-ADRC cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-27 Biomarkers

    Unique AD-inflammatory biomarker correlations in a community-based cohort reveal a new avenue for utilizing plasma-based biomarkers in the assessment of AD and related dementias.

  8. A universal neocortical mask for Centiloid quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    In the GAAIN dataset, the universal mask led to a small reduction in the variance of the YC, and a small increase in the inter-tracer agreement.

  9. Predicting amyloid PET and tau PET stages with plasma biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-05-01 Biomarkers

    We used multinomial regression models to estimate discrimination [concordance (C) statistics] among three amyloid PET stages (low, intermediate, high), four tau PET stages (Braak 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6) and a combined amyloid and tau PET stage (none/low versus intermediate/high severity) using plasma biomarkers as predictors separately within unimpaired and impaired individuals.

  10. The dynamics of plasma biomarkers across the Alzheimer's continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-02-08 Biomarkers

    This study is the first to delineate the trajectories of plasma biomarkers throughout the Alzheimer's continuum in the Chinese population, providing important implications for future trials targeting plasma GFAP to facilitate AD prevention and treatment.

  11. Association of serum neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acidic protein levels with cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain research 2023-02-07 Biomarkers

    We observed significantly higher serum NfL and GFAP levels in PD patients than in HC (p < 0.001).

  12. Vascular contributions to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine 2022-12-15 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and is characterized by progressive neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

  13. Amyloid-associated increases in soluble tau relate to tau aggregation rates and cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature communications 2022-11-04 Treatments

    For optimal design of anti-amyloid-β (Aβ) and anti-tau clinical trials, we need to better understand the pathophysiological cascade of Aβ- and tau-related processes.

  14. Elevated CSF and plasma complement proteins in genetic frontotemporal dementia: results from the GENFI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2022-09-05 Biomarkers

    CSF C1q and C3b, as well as plasma C2 and C3, were elevated in symptomatic mutation carriers compared to presymptomatic carriers and non-carriers.

  15. An accurate fully automated panel of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-08-11 Biomarkers

    The high accuracies for Aβ pathology and future AD dementia using fully automated instruments are promising for implementing plasma biomarkers in clinical trials and clinical routine.

  16. Population-based blood screening for pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease: a British birth cohort at age 70

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2022-05-27 Biomarkers

    In pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition precedes symptoms; Aβ-targeted therapies may have maximum benefits at this stage.

  17. Phospho-specific plasma p-tau181 assay detects clinical as well as asymptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022-05-03 Biomarkers

    The novel plasma p-tau181 and p-tau231 assays did not show cross-reactivity.

  18. Comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of plasma neurofilament light across FTD spectrum disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Cell reports. Medicine 2022-04-19 Biomarkers

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) therapy development is hamstrung by a lack of susceptibility, diagnostic, and prognostic biomarkers.

  19. Blood biomarkers for cognitive decline and clinical progression in a Mexican American cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-03-24 Biomarkers

    Higher GFAP and NFL were associated with global cognitive decline.

  20. Tau proteins in blood as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and other proteinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2022-02-17 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common age-dependent neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized neuropathologically by extracellular Aβ plaques and intracellular tau neurofibrillary tangles.

  21. Noninvasive Antemortem Detection of Retinal Prions by a Fluorescent Tracer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Brain scans and imaging

    We report that by early prion disease (50% timepoint), discrete fluorescent foci appeared adjacent to the optic disc.

  22. Plasma Total Tau and Neurobehavioral Symptoms of Cognitive Decline in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2021-11-05 Biomarkers

    Depression and related neurobehavioral symptoms are common features of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

  23. Preclinical in vivo longitudinal assessment of KG207-M as a disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease therapeutic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2021-08-11 Biomarkers

    In vivo biomarker abnormalities provide measures to monitor therapeutic interventions targeting amyloid-β pathology as well as its effects on downstream processes associated with Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology.

  24. Deep learning detection of informative features in tau PET for Alzheimer’s disease classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC Bioinformatics 2020-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A deep learning framework combining 3D CNN and LRP algorithms can be used with tau PET images to identify informative features for AD classification and may have application for early detection during prodromal stages of AD.

  25. Patient-centered connectivity-based prediction of tau pathology spread in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Science advances 2020-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the Braak staging scheme suggests a stereotypical tau spreading pattern that does, however, not capture interindividual variability in tau deposition.

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