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  1. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of YKL-40 in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2019-11-30 Tau biomarkers

    Recently, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) YKL-40 levels were reported to be a promising candidate biomarker of glial inflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. CSF biomarkers and amyloid PET: concordance and diagnostic accuracy in a MCI cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neurologica Belgica 2019-03-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain amyloid deposition is one of the main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and two approaches are available for assessing amyloid pathology in vivo: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers levels and amyloid load visualized by amyloid beta positron emission tomography imaging (Amy-PET) probes.

  3. Antemortem CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio predicts Alzheimer's disease pathology better than Aβ42 in rapidly progressive dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2018-12-14 Biomarkers

    The score reflecting the severity of Aβ pathology showed a better correlation with ln(Aβ42/Aβ40) (R 2 = 0.506, β = -0.713, P < 0.001) than with ln(Aβ42) (R 2 = 0.206, β = -0.458, P < 0.001), which was confirmed after adjusting for covariates.

  4. Tau-PET imaging with [18F]AV-1451 in primary progressive apraxia of speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2018-01-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder characterized by combinations of slow speaking rate, abnormal prosody, distorted sound substitutions, and trial-and-error articulatory movements.

  5. Anti-amyloid β autoantibodies in cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation: implications for amyloid-modifying therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-04-26 Treatments

    Our data support the hypothesis that the pathogenesis of CAA-ri may be mediated by a selective autoimmune reaction against cerebrovascular Aβ, directly related to autoantibody concentration and soluble Aβ.

  6. Preclinical evidence of Alzheimer changes: convergent cerebrospinal fluid biomarker and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-05 Tau biomarkers

    Voxel-based analyses demonstrated significant negative correlations between CSF tau and ptau(181) levels and CMRglu in the posterior cingulate, precuneus, and parahippocampal regions.

  7. Inflammation profiles in Alzheimer's disease relate to cognition and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-07 Biomarkers

    Two components were identified. Proinflammatory Component 2 was elevated in AD/MCI and in Black/African American participants, and strongly associated with poorer cognition (independently of neurofilament light [NfL], phosphorylated tau 217 [p-tau217], and glial fibrillary acidic protein [GFAP]).

  8. Plasma GFAP, NfL and pTau 181 detect preclinical stages of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in endocrinology 2024-04-09 Biomarkers

    GFAP, NfL and pTau 181 levels in plasma were lower in SCD and MCI than in AD patients.

  9. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA): radiological, biological and clinical characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-11-01 Treatments

    This review provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art conceptual review of radiological features, clinical detection and classification challenges, pathophysiology, underlying biological mechanism(s) and risk factors/predictors associated with ARIA.

  10. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Science bulletin 2023-07-10 Biomarkers

    Discrepancies in diagnostic biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) may arise from racial disparities, risk factors, or lifestyle differences.

  11. Amyloid-beta misfolding and GFAP predict risk of clinical Alzheimer's disease diagnosis within 17 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-19 Biomarkers

    Aβ misfolding and GFAP showed a strong ability to predict clinical AD risk and may be important early AD risk markers.

  12. The cerebrospinal fluid biomarker ratio Aβ42/40 identifies amyloid positron emission tomography positivity better than Aβ42 alone in a heterogeneous memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-04-26 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ42/40 ratio can predict PET amyloid positivity with high accuracy in patients with a range of cognitive disorders when evaluating Aβ pathology independent of tau and neurodegeneration for research purposes.

  13. Amyloid-β misfolding as a plasma biomarker indicates risk for future clinical Alzheimer's disease in individuals with subjective cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-12-24 Biomarkers

    A panel of structure- and concentration-based plasma amyloid biomarkers may predict conversion to clinical MCI and dementia due to AD in cognitively unimpaired subjects.

  14. Predicting future rates of tau accumulation on PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In the cognitively unimpaired group, only higher baseline amyloid PET was a significant independent predictor of higher tau accumulation rates (P < 0.001).

  15. Relationship between cortical iron and tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A growing body of evidence suggests that the dysregulation of neuronal iron may play a critical role in Alzheimer's disease.

  16. Elecsys CSF biomarker immunoassays demonstrate concordance with amyloid-PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-03-31 Biomarkers

    Strong concordance between CSF biomarkers and Aβ-PET status was observed overall, including for cognitively normal participants, further strengthening the association between these markers of AD neuropathological burden for both developmental research studies and for use in clinical trials.

  17. Relevance of Aβ42/40 Ratio for Detection of Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Clinical Routine: The PLM R Scale

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-05-28 Biomarkers

    Nine hundred and four participants (342 AD and 562 NAD) were studied; 400 in Mtp-1 and 504 in Mtp-2.

  18. Reproducibility of Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid-Biomarker Measurements under Clinical Routine Conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Biomarkers

    Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is one of the key tools for the state-of-the-art differential diagnosis of dementias.

  19. PET Imaging of Tau Pathology and Relationship to Amyloid, Longitudinal MRI, and Cognitive Change in Down Syndrome: Results from the Down Syndrome Biomarker Initiative (DSBI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2017-09-18 Brain scans and imaging

    All amyloid negative subjects imaged were tau-negative.

  20. Age-specific and sex-specific prevalence of cerebral β-amyloidosis, tauopathy, and neurodegeneration in cognitively unimpaired individuals aged 50-95 years: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-04-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Dichotomising these biomarkers as normal or abnormal results in eight possible profiles.

  21. A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016-06-25 Biomarkers

    The present study creates the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an AD blood screen.

  22. [(18)F]flutemetamol amyloid positron emission tomography in preclinical and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease: specific detection of advanced phases of amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-30 End-of-life care

    [(18)F]flutemetamol amyloid PET detects primarily advanced stages of Aβ pathology in preclinical and symptomatic AD cases.

  23. CSF Aβ42 predicts early-onset dementia in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2014-04-18 Biomarkers

    These in vivo data support the role of Aβ pathology in the etiology and highlight the potential utility of CSF Aβ42 as an early prognostic biomarker of dementia associated with PD.

  24. Plasma p-tau217 and glucose metabolism correlate in neocortical association areas in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain communications 2026-03-09 Biomarkers

    While the biomarkers available for Alzheimer's disease are continually expanding, including clinically approved blood tests, not all of the relationships between various biomarkers have been fully elucidated.

  25. Multivariate patterns of plasma biomarkers predict region-specific Alzheimer's pathology and cognitive decline across independent cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-03 Biomarkers

    Specific plasma biomarker combinations predicted amyloid burden in the precuneus, tau in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampal atrophy, and memory decline.

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