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  1. Amyloid beta peptides in human plasma and tissues and their significance for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2009-01-01 Treatments

    Efforts to use plasma levels of Abeta peptides as AD biomarkers or disease-staging scales have failed.

  2. Presymptomatic hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease. A longitudinal MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1996-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The hippocampal formation (HF) is known from pathological and MRI studies to be severely atrophied in established Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Resting-State EEG captures functional network correlates of plasma p-Tau-217 in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2026-01-10 Biomarkers

    AD-MCI and AD-DEM patients showed increased p-tau217 and spectral slowing (higher theta, lower alpha).

  4. Plasma p-Tau217 and p-Tau181 levels in Well-Controlled versus Drug-Resistant focal epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2025-12-11 Biomarkers

    Plasma was collected from 103 patients: 48 well-controlled (C, 31.3 % female) and 55 drug-resistant (DR, 50.9 % female).

  5. Distinct cerebrovascular pathways underlying Alzheimer's disease-related neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2025-12-11 Vascular contributions

    The etiology of cerebrovascular pathology is heterogeneous.

  6. Assessing outer retinal and choroidal changes in scd: potential for high-risk screening using SS-OCTA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2025-11-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) serves as an initial symptom of preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Plasma Biomarkers and Cognitive Decline in HIV: Findings from Two U.S. Cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. TouchREVIEWS in infectious diseases 2025-11-05 Biomarkers

    With advances in antiretroviral treatment, the population of older people living with HIV (PLWH) is increasing rapidly, leading to a rise in cognitive impairment related to both HIV and aging.

  8. Regional tau PET patterns predict prospective domain-specific cognitive decline in early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Differential FTP-PET signal patterns showed significant negative associations with domain-specific annual rates of decline.

  9. Evidence-based standardized sample handling protocol for accurate blood-based Alzheimer's disease biomarker measurement: Results and consensus of the Global Biomarker Standardization Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    All assessed BBM levels varied by over 10% by collection tube type.

  10. Alzheimer's disease diagnostic progression is associated with cerebrovascular disease and neuroinflammation in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    Higher baseline WMH volume and higher GFAP were associated with a greater likelihood of diagnostic progression.

  11. Comparison of plasma ALZpath p-Tau217 with Lilly p-Tau217 and p-Tau181 in a neuropathological cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2025-06-30 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers were compared with densities of post-mortem-assessed amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary changes.

  12. Plasma biomarkers for early detection of alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study in a Japanese cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-06-07 Biomarkers

    Sixty-nine HC, 13 preclinical AD, 38 AD-MCI, 44 AD-D, and 79 non-AD CI participants were included.

  13. Retinal optical coherence tomography angiography imaging in population studies for study of microvascular dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Intergrader agreements for overall 3 × 3 mm image quality and quantitative assessment of VD and FAZ ranged between 71% and 87% (52 images).

  14. 18F-PI-2620 Tau PET is associated with cognitive and motor impairment in Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain communications 2024-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    A subset of participants received cognitive testing and/or the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part III motor exam (off medication). 18F-PI-2620 uptake was low overall in Lewy body disease and correlated with β-amyloid PET in temporal lobe regions and precuneus.

  15. Combining cerebrospinal fluid and PI-2620 tau-PET for biomarker-based stratification of Alzheimer's disease and 4R-tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Elevated CSF p-tau181 and cortical 18F-PI-2620 binding was characteristic for AD while normal CSF p-tau181 with elevated subcortical 18F-PI-2620 binding was characteristic for 4RTs. 18F-PI-2620-assessed posterior cortical hypoperfusion could be used as an additional neuronal injury biomarker in AD.

  16. Tau pathology mediated the plasma biomarkers and cognitive function in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2024-08-15 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and neurofilament light (NfL) are putative non-amyloid biomarkers indicative of ongoing inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease processes.

  17. Plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration in patients and high risk subjects with Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2024-07-31 Biomarkers

    Comorbid Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology is common in Lewy body disease (LBD); however, AD comorbidity in the prodromal phase of LBD remains unclear.

  18. Identification of retinal oligomeric, citrullinated, and other tau isoforms in early and advanced AD and relations to disease status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2024-07-09 Brain scans and imaging

    This study investigates various pathological tau isoforms in the retina of individuals with early and advanced Alzheimer's disease (AD), exploring their connection with disease status.

  19. Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau181, 217, and 231 in definite Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with and without concomitant pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-24 Biomarkers

    N-terminal p-tau was increased in CJD versus SCD (p < 0.0001) and correlated with total tau (t-tau) in the presence of AD and PART co-pathology (rho = 0.758-0.952, p ≤ 001).

  20. SIMOA Diagnostics on Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Biomedicines 2024-06-04 Biomarkers

    CSF exhibited increased levels of all SIMOA biomarkers in AD compared to Controls (AUCs: 0.71, 0.86, 0.92, and 0.94, respectively).

  21. α-Synuclein seed amplification assay detects Lewy body co-pathology in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease late in the disease course and dependent on Lewy pathology burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-26 Brain tissue and pathology

    No asymptomatic participant and only 11% (3/27) of the symptomatic patients tested SAA positive.

  22. Ageing-Related Neurodegeneration and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-04-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neuropathological assessment was conducted on 1630 subjects, representing 5% of all the deceased that had been sent to the morgue of Uppsala University Hospital during a 15-year-long period.

  23. Characteristics of discordance between amyloid positron emission tomography and plasma amyloid-β 42/40 positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2024-02-10 Biomarkers

    Various plasma biomarkers for amyloid-β (Aβ) have shown high predictability of amyloid PET positivity.

  24. Correlation Between Amyloid PET Imaging and Discordant Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers Results in Patients with Suspected Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Tau biomarkers

    Comparing the discordant CSF results of each patient with the cerebral amyloid-PET results, we found that in the group with Aβ1 - 42+ and p-tau-CSF values, the amyloid-PET was positive in 51.2% and negative in 48.8% of patients, while in the group with Aβ1 - 42-and p-Tau+ CSF values, the amyloid-PET was positive in 52.6% of patients and negative in 47.4% of them.

  25. Plasma p-tau212: antemortem diagnostic performance and prediction of autopsy verification of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-12-11 Biomarkers

    Blood phosphorylated tau (p-tau) biomarkers, including p-tau217, show high associations with Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathologic change and clinical stage.

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