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  1. Blood Biomarkers Discriminate Cerebral Amyloid Status and Cognitive Diagnosis when Collected with ACD-A Anticoagulant

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2023 Biomarkers

    Plasma AB42/40 had the highest AUC (0.833, 95% C.I. 0.767-0.899) at a cut-point of 0.0706 for discriminating between the two cerebral amyloid groups (sensitivity 76%, specificity 78.5%).

  2. Assessment of perfusion deficit with early phases of [18F]PI-2620 tau-PET versus [18F]flutemetamol-amyloid-PET recordings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022-12-27 Brain scans and imaging

    The z-scores of perfusion-weighted images of both tracers showed high correlations across the brain, especially in the frontal and parietal lobes, which were the brain regions with pronounced perfusion deficit in the patient group (R = 0.83 ± 0.08; range, 0.61-0.95).

  3. Plasma p-tau217 predicts in vivo brain pathology and cognition in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-26 Biomarkers

    Carriers had higher plasma p-tau217 levels than non-carriers.

  4. Development and clinical validation of CT-based regional modified Centiloid method for amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-10-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Both MRI-based and CT-based rdcCL scales showed that FMM and FBB were highly correlated with each other, globally and regionally (R2 = 0.96~0.99).

  5. Confounding factors of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers and their impact on clinical performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-09-24 Biomarkers

    Creatinine and BMI are related to certain plasma biomarkers levels, but they do not have clinically relevant confounding effects for the vast majority of individuals.

  6. Head-to-Head Comparison of Different Blood Collecting Tubes for Quantification of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers in Plasma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-08-28 Biomarkers

    To examine whether the type of blood collection tubes affects the quantification of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease analyzed with a single-molecule array (Simoa), we recruited a healthy cohort (n = 34, 11 males, mean age = 28.7 ± 7.55) and collected plasma in the following tubes: dipotassium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (K2-EDTA), heparin lithium (Li-Hep), and heparin sodium (Na-Hep).

  7. Evaluation of tau deposition using 18F-PI-2620 PET in MCI and early AD subjects-a MissionAD tau sub-study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Percentage of visually tau-positive scans increased with amyloid-beta deposition measured in 18F-florbetaben Centiloids (CL) (7.7% (<36 CL), 80% (>83 CL)). 18F-PI-2620 standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) was correlated with increased 18F-florbetaben CL in several regions of interest.

  8. TDP-43 Pathology Exacerbates Cognitive Decline in Primary Age-Related Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-07-11 Brain tissue and pathology

    Concomitant LATE-NC and vascular pathology were equally common, and cognition was equally impaired, in PART (Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] = 24.8 ± 6.9) and ADNC (MMSE = 24.2 ± 6.0).

  9. Plasma p-tau181 associated with structural changes in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with dementia and is a serious concern for the health of individuals and government health care systems worldwide.

  10. Impact of cerebral blood flow and amyloid load on SUVR bias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2022-05-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Despite high correlations (GCA: R2 ≥ 0.85), large overestimation and proportional bias of SUVR relative to DVR was observed.

  11. CSF biomarkers and plasma p‐tau181 as predictors of longitudinal tau accumulation: Implications for clinical trial design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2022-02-28 Biomarkers

    P‐tau181 in CSF and plasma predicted tau accumulation (r > 0.36, P < .001), even in AD‐continuum individuals with normal baseline tau‐PET (A+T–; r > 0.37, P < .05).

  12. Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease in relation to neuropathology and cognitive change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2022-02-23 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers related to amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (ATN) show great promise for identifying these pathological features of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) as shown by recent clinical studies and selected autopsy studies.

  13. Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau231 as an early indicator of emerging pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2022-02-12 Biomarkers

    All CSF p-tau biomarkers were accurate predictors of cognitive impairment but CSF p-tau217 demonstrated the largest fold-changes in AD patients in comparison to non-AD dementias and cognitively unimpaired individuals.

  14. Crosswalk study on blood collection-tube types for Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-02-09 Biomarkers

    Brain amyloidosis differentiated several measures, especially EDTA plasma pTa u 181 A β 42 ( d = 1.29).

  15. Unravelling the Association Between Amyloid-PET and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in the Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum: Who Really Deserves an A+?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Different pipelines gave highly inter-correlated standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) (rho = 0.93-0.99).

  16. [18F]Flortaucipir PET Across Various MAPT Mutations in Presymptomatic and Symptomatic Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2021-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flortaucipir BPND images showed overall highest binding in the symptomatic carriers.

  17. Detecting amyloid positivity in early Alzheimer's disease using combinations of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 and p-tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-06-20 Biomarkers

    A combination of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 and p-tau217 discriminated Aβ status with relatively high accuracy, whereas p-tau217 showed strongest associations with Aβ pathology in MCI but not in CU.

  18. Plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease improve prediction of cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired elderly populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-11 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers of amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (ATN) need to be characterized in cognitively unimpaired (CU) elderly individuals.

  19. Periodontal dysbiosis associates with reduced CSF Aβ42 in cognitively normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-04-12 Tau biomarkers

    At genera and species levels, higher subgingival periodontal dysbiosis was associated with reduced CSF amyloid beta (Aβ)42 (P = 0.02 and 0.01) but not with P-tau.

  20. 18F-AV-1451 positron emission tomography in neuropathological substrates of corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-02-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Subjects without amyloid, including three with pathologically confirmed corticobasal degeneration, showed greater regional 18F-AV-1451 retention and associated regional atrophy in areas commonly associated with corticobasal degeneration pathology than healthy control subjects [retention was higher compared to healthy controls (P = 0.0011), driven especially by the precentral gyrus (P = 0.011) and pallidum (P < 0.0001), and greater atrophy was seen in subjects compared to control subjects (P = 0.0004)].

  21. Evaluation of a visual interpretation method for tau-PET with 18F-flortaucipir

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-11-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Global visual scores were reliable, correlated with global cortical 18F-flortaucipir standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) and were associated with clinical diagnosis and amyloid status.

  22. Blood plasma phosphorylated-tau isoforms track CNS change in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2020-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Highly sensitive and specific plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in the clinic and facilitate research studies including enrollment in prevention and treatment trials.

  23. Associations of quantitative susceptibility mapping with Alzheimer's disease clinical and imaging markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2020-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Altered iron metabolism has been hypothesized to be associated with Alzheimer's disease pathology, and prior work has shown associations between iron load and beta amyloid plaques.

  24. Development and evaluation of an automated quantification tool for amyloid PET images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EJNMMI physics 2020-09-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared with manual step-by-step processing, our developed automated quantification tool reduced processing time by 85%.

  25. Sex Mediates Relationships Between Regional Tau Pathology and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2020-08-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau vulnerability in women is not just limited to the medial temporal lobe and significantly contributed to greater risk of faster cognitive decline.

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