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  1. Plasma biomarkers identify older adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in a real-world population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-03-06 Biomarkers

    Abnormal plasma Aβ42/40 ratio identified older adult groups with lower memory scores, higher dementia risks, and higher ADRD biomarker levels, with potential implications for population screening.

  2. Psychiatric symptoms of frontotemporal dementia and subcortical (co-)pathology burden: new insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-01-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Elaborating on the results, we validated one finding using a quantitative assessment of TDP-43 pathology in the granular layer of the hippocampus in FTLD-TDP brain donors with (n = 15) and without (n = 15) hallucinations.

  3. Evaluation of blood-based, extracellular vesicles as biomarkers for aging-related TDP-43 pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-12-15 Brain tissue and pathology

    TDP-43 was significantly elevated in plasma ADEVs derived from autopsy confirmed LATE-NC subjects, with or without comorbid AD pathology.

  4. Comparison of plasma and CSF biomarkers in predicting cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022-10-02 Biomarkers

    Both plasma and CSF measures of Aβ42/Aβ40 and NfL predicted cognitive decline.

  5. Relationship of serum beta-synuclein with blood biomarkers and brain atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-09-21 Biomarkers

    Serum beta-synuclein changes differ from those of NfL and p-tau181 and are strongly related to AD, most likely reflecting temporal synaptic degeneration.

  6. Astrocyte biomarker signatures of amyloid-β and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-08-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocytes can adopt multiple molecular phenotypes in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  7. Plasma Neurofilament Light and p-tau181 and Risk of Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's Disease 2022-07-08 Biomarkers

    Baseline plasma NfL was a significant predictor of psychotic symptoms longitudinally across the study adjusted for age, Hoehn and Yahr stage, duration of follow up, duration of disease, baseline levodopa and dopamine agonist medication, and baseline cognition: (OR 8.15 [95% CI 1.40–47.4], p = 0.020).

  8. Serum GFAP differentiates Alzheimer's disease from frontotemporal dementia and predicts MCI-to-dementia conversion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2022-04-27 Biomarkers

    In total, samples from 610 individuals from four clinical centres were investigated in this study.

  9. Biomarker modeling of Alzheimer's disease using PET-based Braak staging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-04-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Gold-standard diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relies on histopathological staging systems.

  10. Association of plasma biomarkers, p-tau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein, and neurofilament light, with intermediate and long-term clinical Alzheimer's disease risk: Results from a prospective cohort followed over 17 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-03-02 Biomarkers

    GFAP may be an early AD biomarker increasing before p-tau181 and NfL and the effect modifying role of cardiovascular health should be considered in biomarker risk stratification.

  11. Plasma p-tau231, p-tau181, PET Biomarkers, and Cognitive Change in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-02-18 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau231 showed more robust associations with PET biomarkers than p-tau181 in presymptomatic individuals.

  12. Deep residual inception encoder-decoder network for amyloid PET harmonization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Significantly stronger between-tracer correlations (P < .001) were observed after harmonization for both global amyloid burden indices and voxel-wise measurements in the training cohort and the external testing cohort.

  13. The accuracy and robustness of plasma biomarker models for amyloid PET positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-02-07 Biomarkers

    Increasing variation greatly impacted the performance of plasma Aβ42/40 in discriminating Aβ status.

  14. Comparison of serum neurodegenerative biomarkers among hospitalized COVID-19 patients versus non-COVID subjects with normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, or Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-01-13 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative biomarkers were elevated to levels observed in AD dementia and associated with encephalopathy and worse outcomes among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

  15. Differences Between Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid p-tau181 and p-tau231 in Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated tau species have been recently proposed as peripheral markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  16. Elecsys Cerebrospinal Fluid Assays Accurately Distinguish Alzheimer's Disease from Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022 Tau biomarkers

    AUC-based performance was similarly good for the pTau181/Aβ42 ratio (AUC=0.841; 95% CI: 0.759-0.923), pTau181/Aβ40 ratio (AUC=0.837; 95% CI: 0.754-0.919), Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio (AUC=0.829; 95% CI: 0.746-0.912), tTau/Aβ42 ratio (AUC=0.822; 95% CI: 0.736-0.908), pTau181/Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio (AUC=0.817; 95% CI: 0.734-0.901), and Aβ42 (AUC=0.812; 95% CI: 0.722-0.902).

  17. Neurofilament Light Chain as a Biomarker for Cognitive Decline in Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2021-09-04 Biomarkers

    Plasma NfL is a useful prognostic biomarker for PD, predicting clinical conversion to mild cognitive impairment or dementia. © 2021 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

  18. Novel blood test for early biomarkers of preeclampsia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Scientific reports 2021-08-05 Biomarkers

    A non-invasive and sensitive blood test has long been a goal for early stage disease diagnosis and treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other proteinopathy diseases.

  19. Phosphorylated tau181 in plasma as a potential biomarker for Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-07-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau181) predicts Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology with high accuracy in the general population.

  20. Plasma biomarker profiles and the correlation with cognitive function across the clinical spectrum of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-07-05 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau181 had correlations with broader cognitive domains, suggesting its potential as a promising clinical-relevant blood-based biomarker.

  21. P-tau/Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 ratios in CSF are equally predictive of amyloid PET status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-18 Biomarkers

    These data suggest that p-tau/Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 ratios provide similar clinical information in the assessment of amyloid pathology.

  22. Head-to-head comparison of amplified plasmonic exosome Aβ42 platform and single-molecule array immunoassay in a memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2021-01-23 Biomarkers

    Compared to Simoa biomarkers, APEX-Aβ42 showed significantly higher correlations with amyloid PET retention values and excellent diagnostic performance (sensitivity 100%, specificity 93.3%, area under the curve 0.995).

  23. An examination of a novel multipanel of CSF biomarkers in the Alzheimer's disease clinical and pathological continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-12-18 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The NTK contains promising markers that improve the pathophysiological characterization of AD.

  24. Plasma Phospho-Tau Identifies Alzheimer's Co-Pathology in Patients with Lewy Body Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2020-12-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    Plasma phospho-tau217 correlated with plasma phospho-tau181, CSF phospho-tau217 (rs = 0.68, P < 0.001), and negatively with CSF β-amyloid42/40 (rs = -0.52, P = 0.001).

  25. Cerebrospinal fluid α-synuclein predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in non-demented elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2020-11-23 Tau biomarkers

    The CSF α-synuclein levels correlated with AD-specific biomarkers, CSF total tau and phosphorylated tau levels, in 651 Chinese Han participants (training set).

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