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  1. Genetic risk scores enhance the diagnostic value of plasma biomarkers of brain amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-11-02 Genetics

    Blood-based biomarkers offer strong potential to revolutionize diagnosis, trial enrolment and treatment monitoring in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Associations between multimorbidity burden and Alzheimer's pathology in older adults without dementia: the CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-09-27 Tau biomarkers

    Studies have shown that multimorbidity may be associated with the Alzheimer's disease (AD) stages, but it has not been fully characterized in patients without dementia.

  3. Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry 2023-07-21 Biomarkers

    Large differences were seen between bvFTD (mean NfL 34.9 pg/mL) and all PPDs and controls (all < 11 pg/mL).

  4. Comparative evaluation of clinical and cerebrospinal fluid biomarker characteristics in rapidly and non-rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-06-08 Biomarkers

    Lower CSF Amyloid beta 1-42 concentrations (p = 0.048), lower Amyloid beta 42/40 ratio (p = 0.038), and higher Tau/Amyloid-beta 1-42 ratio, as well as pTau/Amyloid-beta 1-42 ratio (each p = 0.004) were associated with rpAD.

  5. Unsupervised [18F]Flortaucipir cutoffs for tau positivity and staging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2023-06-05 Brain scans and imaging

    GMM-based cutoffs classified less subjects as T+, mainly in the A- CN (<3.4% vs >28.5%) and A+ CN (<14.5% vs >42.9%) groups and showed higher agreement with visual rating (ICC=0.91 vs ICC<0.62) than published cutoffs.

  6. The clinical application of optimized AT(N) classification in Alzheimer's clinical syndrome (ACS) and non-ACS conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-03-17 Biomarkers

    We aimed to assess the utility of AT(N) classification in clinical practice.

  7. Clinical performance and head-to-head comparison of CSF p-tau235 with p-tau181, p-tau217 and p-tau231 in two memory clinic cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-03-10 Biomarkers

    High CSF p-tau235 levels were strongly associated with CSF amyloidosis regardless of the clinical diagnosis, being significantly increased in MCI Aβ+ and dementia Aβ+ when compared with all other Aβ- groups (Paris cohort: P ˂0.0001 for all; BIODEGMAR cohort: P ˂0.05 for all).

  8. Differences between ante mortem Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in predicting neuropathology at autopsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-02-25 Tau biomarkers

    Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta (Aβ)42/phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181 showed excellent performance in differentiating autopsy-confirmed AD and predicting the risk of neuropathological changes in early and late clinical stages.

  9. Genetically identical twins show comparable tau PET load and spatial distribution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-10-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau accumulation starts during the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease and is closely associated with cognitive decline.

  10. Associations of plasma phosphorylated tau181 and neurofilament light chain with brain amyloid burden and cognition in objectively defined subtle cognitive decline patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2022-09-08 Biomarkers

    After adjustment, only plasma p‐tau181 and NfL were significantly elevated in Aβ+ Obj‐SCD participants compared to Aβ− NC group.

  11. Hepatic and renal function impact concentrations of plasma biomarkers of neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-07-12 Biomarkers

    p-tau181, NfL, t-tau, and UCHL1 were increased 2- to 4-fold in cirrhosis, whereas GFAP was not increased.

  12. Specific Cerebrospinal Fluid SerpinA1 Isoform Pattern in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-06-22 Biomarkers

    SerpinA1 (α1-antitrypsin) is a soluble glycoprotein, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) isoforms of which showed disease-specific changes in neurodegenerative disorders that are still unexplored in Alz-heimer’s disease (AD).

  13. The vascular risk factors and vascular neuropathology in subjects with autopsy-confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2022-03 Vascular contributions

    No significant differences of VRFs were identified between DLB and AD.

  14. A Combination of Neurofilament Light, Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, and Neuronal Pentraxin-2 Discriminates Between Frontotemporal Dementia and Other Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    CSF NPTX2 and serum GFAP levels varied most between diagnostic groups.

  15. Distinct characteristics of limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy in Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-12-02 Brain tissue and pathology

    Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) is characterized by the accumulation of TAR-DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) aggregates in older adults.

  16. Amyloid-dependent and amyloid-independent effects of Tau in individuals without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2021-10-07 Brain scans and imaging

    In both cohorts, we observed that tau-PET standardized uptake value ratio in medial temporal lobes was associated with clinical dementia rating Sum of Boxes (CDR-SoB) scores independently of local amyloid-PET uptake (FWE corrected at p < 0.001).

  17. Neurogranin as biomarker in CSF is non-specific to Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-08-08 Tau biomarkers

    We aimed to evaluate the specificity of neurogranin (Ng) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a dementia cohort.

  18. Comparison of CSF phosphorylated tau 181 and 217 for cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-07-26 Biomarkers

    CSF p-tau217 was superior to p-tau181 for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  19. Patterns of tau pathology identified with 18 F-MK-6240 PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-05-31 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-MK-6240 recapitulated Braak staging and correlated with CSF tau and p-tau, normalized to Aβ42 . 18 F-MK-6240 negatively correlated with age across Braak regions in amyloid-positive participants, consistent with greater tau pathology in earlier onset AD.

  20. Measurement batch differences and between-batch conversion of Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker values

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-25 Tau biomarkers

    We found statistically significant batch differences for all biomarkers and ratios, except that neurofilament light was comparable between batches 1 and 2.

  21. Amyloid-β positive individuals with subjective cognitive decline present increased CSF neurofilament light levels that relate to lower hippocampal volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-03-06 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is an axonal protein that when measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) serves as a biomarker of neurodegeneration.

  22. Utility of plasma neurofilament light and total tau for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-13 Biomarkers

    NfL had a stronger association than t-tau with clinical scales; t-tau did not hold additional information to that given by NfL (P > 0.05 at all time points).

  23. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy differs from frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Another proposed neuropathological feature related to TDP-43 proteinopathy in aged individuals is 'Alpha' versus 'Beta' in amygdala.

  24. Cerebrospinal fluid irisin correlates with amyloid-β, BDNF, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-06-21 Tau biomarkers

    CSF irisin correlated positively with BDNF, Aβ42, and MMSE scores, but not with CSF total tau.

  25. Optical coherence tomography angiography as a potential screening tool for cerebral small vessel diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-06-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The SVCI group showed lower CD in the temporal quadrant of the RPC network compared to the CN group (mean (SD), 42.34 (6.29) vs 48.45 (7.08); p = 0.001).

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