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  1. Physical activity and amyloid-β plasma and brain levels: results from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2012-08-14 Prevention trials

    Previous studies suggest physical activity improves cognition and lowers Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk.

  2. Amyloid vs FDG-PET in the differential diagnosis of AD and FTLD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2011-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    PiB and FDG showed similar accuracy in discriminating AD and FTLD.

  3. Plasma Abeta42 and Abeta40 as markers of cognitive change in follow-up: a prospective, longitudinal, population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2010-05-16 Biomarkers

    Low or decreasing plasma Aβ42 during the follow-up is associated with cognitive decline.

  4. Glycemia and levels of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid and tau in patients attending a memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2010-05-07 Tau biomarkers

    In regression analyses across the whole study sample adjusted for age, sex, and diagnostic group, there was no relationship between HbA1c or fasting glucose and CSF tau, p-tau 182, or Abeta42 levels.

  5. The effects of normal aging and ApoE genotype on the levels of CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2007-10-24 Biomarkers

    While cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are of use in the prediction and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease our understanding of the background effects of age and the ApoE genotype is limited.

  6. An 8-plex version of an isobaric reagent for the quantitation of proteins using shotgun methods is presented.

  7. Cerebrospinal fluid profile in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2005-05 Tau biomarkers

    We assessed cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of tau and other biomarkers of neurodegenerative disease.

  8. Blood Neurofilament Levels Predict Cognitive Decline across the Alzheimer's Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-12-11 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a potential diagnostic and prognostic plasma biomarker for numerous neurological diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Conflicting cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and progression to dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-12-09 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with all biomarkers positive for AD (N = 145) had the highest hazard for progression to dementia due to AD, whilst patients with no positive biomarkers (N = 111) had the lowest.

  10. Differential Diagnosis of Dementia with High Levels of Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Tau biomarkers

    Patients were diagnosed with AD (n = 148, 73.2%), mixed dementia (n = 38, 18.8%), CJD, vascular dementia (n = 4, 2.0% for each), Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia (n = 3, 1.5% for each).

  11. Locus coeruleus-entorhinal cortex tract integrity is linked to plasma tau and glial fibrillary acidic protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Biomarkers

    Worse overall and local LC-EC integrity, indicated by lower fractional anisotropy (FA) and higher mean diffusivity (MD), was related to elevated concentrations of plasma phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181), p-tau217, and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP).

  12. Neuropathologic correlates of distinct plasma biomarker profiles in community-living older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2025-09-03 Biomarkers

    There has been a rapid growth in research on peripheral fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementias, because they are non-invasive, relatively inexpensive and easily accessible.

  13. Traumatic brain injury, changes in plasma amyloid, tau, and neurodegenerative biomarkers, and dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Biomarkers

    After the median time of incident TBI, Aβ42/Aβ40 levels remained lower for 9.3 years, and pTau181, NfL, and GFAP remained elevated for 8.5, >13.8, and 12.7 years, respectively.

  14. Combining Lumipulse p-tau217 and Aβ42/40 as confirmatory tests for Aβ positivity prior to disease-modifying therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Biomarkers

    Testing an Alzheimer's disease continuum cohort, the area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the p-tau217/Aβ42 ratio reached 0.961, 93%, 92%, and 93%, respectively.

  15. Cognitive impairment and p-tau217 are high in a vascular patient cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-08 Biomarkers

    Twenty-nine percent of the cohort had Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scores indicative of cognitive impairment or dementia after adjusting for age, sex, and education based on National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center normative data.

  16. Two cases of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) following lecanemab treatment for alzheimer's disease and a literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. BMC neurology 2025-07-07 Treatments

    During lecanemab treatment for AD, it is essential to fully understand the mechanisms, imaging characteristics, and management strategies of ARIA.

  17. [Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Profile in Atypical Alzheimer's Disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Revista de neurologia 2025-05-22 Tau biomarkers

    The study included 57 patients (54% female, mean age 67 years), of whom 41 met AD diagnostic criteria.

  18. The two cut-offs approach for plasma p-tau217 in detecting Alzheimer's disease in subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-05-11 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 was accurate for discriminating between Core1+ and Core1- patients (area under the curve = 0.92) with an optimal cut-off value of 0.274 pg/mL, revealing good accuracy (86.29%), positive predictive value (PPV; 88.18%), and negative predictive value (NPV; 83.09%).

  19. 18F-MK-6240 tau PET in patients at-risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-02-25 Brain scans and imaging

    All six CTE stage III cases had Braak NFT stage III but no neuritic plaques.

  20. White matter lesions rather than amyloid-β burden are associated with cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-02-16 Brain scans and imaging

    We assessed the severity of amyloid-β accumulation and white matter lesions (WML) in the brain, and their association with cognitive decline, in patients (n = 47) with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Multi-parametric [18F]PI-2620 tau PET/MRI for the phenotyping of different Alzheimer's disease variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2025-02-12 Brain scans and imaging

    The aAD patients showed significantly higher tau accumulation, relative hypoperfusion and grey matter density loss in the temporal lobes compared to PCA and lvPPA patients.

  22. ALS plasma biomarkers reveal neurofilament and pTau correlate with disease onset and progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2025-02-06 Biomarkers

    ALS plasma showed elevation of the established biomarkers, neurofilament light chain (NEFL) and neurofilament heavy chain (NEFH).

  23. Novel plasma biomarkers of amyloid plaque pathology and cortical thickness: Evaluation of the NULISA targeted proteomic platform in an ethnically diverse cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-02 Biomarkers

    On NULISA, phosphorylated tau (p-tau217, p-tau231, and p-tau181), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT-tau) showed the top significant association with amyloid beta (Aβ) positron emission tomography (PET) status, followed by the neuroinflammation markers C-C motif ligand 2 (CCL2), chitotriosidase 1 (CHIT1) and interleukin-8 (CXCL8), and the synaptic marker neurogranin (NRGN).

  24. Pragmatic algorithm for visual assessment of 4-Repeat tauopathies in [18F]PI-2620 PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage 2025-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with 4R-tauopathies in contrast to non-4R-tauopathies were detected at higher sensitivity in the 20-40-minute frame (common: 79%, scaled: 76%) compared to the 40-60-minute frame (common: 55%, scaled: 62%), albeit with reduced specificity in the common setting (20-40-min: 78%, 40-60-min: 95%), which was ameliorated in the intensity-scaled setting (20-40-min: 91%, 40-60-min: 96%).

  25. Intracerebral hemorrhage following mild ARIA-H in an APOE ε2 carrier receiving lecanemab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-12-19 Treatments

    Although APOE ε2 is known to be protective against Alzheimer's disease, it has also been shown to increase risk for hemorrhage with cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

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