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  1. Biological age acceleration associates with Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarker levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-01 Biomarkers

    Age acceleration was significantly associated with sex, clinical diagnosis, and levels of eight plasma biomarkers, including P-tau217 levels.

  2. Plasma p-tau212 identifies cognitively unimpaired individuals with emerging amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2025-12-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated-tau (p-tau) biomarkers show high performance as first-in-line tests in the evaluation of patients with cognitive symptoms and have also found utility in clinical trials for anti-amyloid drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. Plasma p-Tau217 and GFAP predict widespread cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2025-12-17 Biomarkers

    Elevated CSF p-Tau181 and NfL levels were associated with greater decline in memory and executive function.

  4. Exploring Centiloid Robustness: Impact of Sample Size and Image Resolution on Centiloid Conversion Accuracy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2025-12-03 Brain scans and imaging

    In the smallest required sample of 15 cAD and 10 Aβ-negative participants, conversion error was 1.7 Centiloids at 25 Centiloids and 3.4 Centiloids at 100 Centiloids.

  5. Polygenic risk score predicts pathologically confirmed cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Treatments

    CAA-PRS was significantly associated with pathological CAA (OR = 1.766, p < 0.001), with an AUC of 0.783 overall and 0.766 (OR = 1.780, p = 0.002) in those with high amyloid burden.

  6. Predicting severity of cerebral amyloid angiopathy neuropathology: A modeling approach using NACC and ROSMAP data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10-01 Treatments

    CAARS has the potential to predict CAA severity; however, its clinical utility should be evaluated in follow-up studies.

  7. Combining plasma p-tau231 and glial fibrillary acidic protein produces higher discriminative accuracy for amyloid positivity than other blood-based biomarker combinations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    In single predictor models, p-tau231 (AUC = 0.87, p = 0.005) and GFAP (AUC = 0.87, p = 0.01) were associated with amyloid positivity, and p-tau231 remained significant in all multi-predictor models (p-values < 0.02).

  8. Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identification of biomarkers for amyloid and tau PET stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Cell reports. Medicine 2025-03-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Accurate staging of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is crucial for therapeutic trials and prognosis, but existing fluid biomarkers lack specificity, especially for assessing tau deposition severity, in amyloid-beta (Aβ)-positive patients.

  9. Blood Biomarkers Reflect Dementia Symptoms and Are Influenced by Cerebrovascular Lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2025-03-05 Biomarkers

    Dementia blood biomarkers are becoming increasingly important.

  10. Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ1-42 are effective biomarkers for identifying CSF- and PET imaging-diagnosed Alzheimer's disease: Insights for research and clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-01-30 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ1-42 are effective diagnostic tools.

  11. Heritability of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers: A nuclear twin family design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-26 Biomarkers

    Heritability estimates were 16% for Aβ42/40, 42% for NfL, and 60% for GFAP.

  12. Blood-brain barrier permeable β-blockers association with Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers levels in non-demented individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-11-25 Tau biomarkers

    β-blockers that easily cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) seem to diminish the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), hypothetically facilitating waste clearance.

  13. Can the clinical sign "head-turning sign" and simple questions in "Neucop-Q" predict amyloid β pathology?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-11-21 Biomarkers

    The specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) of HTS positivity (HTSpos) were the highest (amyloid PET: 0.930 and 0.870, tau PET: 0.944 and 0.957, respectively), while Cimp and Nimp had a high negative predictive value (NPV) for amyloid PET (negativity) (0.750 and 0.725).

  14. Neuronal plasma biomarkers in acute ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2024-10-25 Biomarkers

    Early imaging-based detection of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) has improved in the era of reperfusion therapy.

  15. Astrocyte reactivity is associated with tau tangle load and cortical thinning in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2024-07-30 Biomarkers

    Plasma A+/T + individuals showed the highest levels of astrocyte reactivity, Aβ plaque, tau tangle, and axonal degeneration, and the lowest hippocampal volume and temporal-metaROI cortical thickness.

  16. Age-Related Pathology in Corticobasal Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-02-27 Brain tissue and pathology

    Elderly human brains are vulnerable to multiple proteinopathies, although each protein has a different transmission pathway.

  17. Trajectories of CSF and plasma biomarkers across Alzheimer's disease continuum: disease staging by NF-L, p-tau181, and GFAP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2023-11-15 Biomarkers

    CSF-to-plasma transition will open new avenues for molecular phenotyping of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Utility of amyloid PET Imaging in a Memory Clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2023-08-11 Brain scans and imaging

    There is greater interest in amyloid biomarker for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) with the recent Food and Drug Administration approval of amyloid-targeted therapy.

  19. Plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2023-07-25 Biomarkers

    Probable MCI-LB had elevated GFAP (p < 0.001) and NfL (p = 0.012) relative to controls, but not significantly lower Aβ42/40 (p = 0.06).

  20. Profiling of plasma biomarkers in the context of memory assessment in a tertiary memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2023-07-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers have shown promising performance in research cohorts in discriminating between different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Preanalytical stability of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-05-12 Biomarkers

    Phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181), phosphorylated tau 231 (p-tau231), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) concentrations were unchanged both when stored at +4°C and +18°C. Amyloid-β 40 (Aβ40) and amyloid-β 42 (Aβ42) concentrations were stable for 24 h at +4°C but declined when stored at +18°C for longer than 6 h. This decline did not affect the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio.

  22. Higher plasma β-synuclein indicates early synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-27 Biomarkers

    Plasma β-synuclein levels were higher in preclinical AD and even higher in MCI and AD dementia.

  23. Equivalence of plasma p-tau217 with cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-20 Biomarkers

    Plasma and CSF p-tau 217 had equivalent diagnostic performance for biomarker-defined AD.

  24. Plasma p-tau181 and p-tau217 in discriminating PART, AD and other key neuropathologies in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2023-04-09 Biomarkers

    We examined whether plasma p-tau181 and p-tau217 are specific biomarkers of pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Optical coherence tomography and angiography in Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European journal of ophthalmology 2023-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Ninety-one eyes of AD patients and 53 eyes of patients with other dementias were included.

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