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  1. This editorial summarizes advances from the Clearance of Interstitial Fluid and Cerebrospinal Fluid (CLIC) group, within the Vascular Professional Interest Area (PIA) of the Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART).

  2. Early Alzheimer's Disease Screening Approach Using Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-09-15 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent dementia, but it shows similar initial symptoms to other neurocognitive diseases (Lewy body disease (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)).

  3. Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) both reflect early changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  4. Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 Ratios in Older People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023-05-24 Biomarkers

    The plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio was significantly lower, and the APS higher, in PWoH_AD than in other groups.

  5. Brain iron content in cerebral amyloid angiopathy using quantitative susceptibility mapping

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-04-17 Vascular contributions

    No differences were found between regions of interest in CAA compared to NC.

  6. BACE1 influences clinical manifestations and central inflammation in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2023-01-24 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative and inflammatory processes influence the clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS).

  7. Atypical White Matter Hyperintensities Markedly Impact Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Variability in GRN Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Biomarkers

    GRN mutations, causing frontotemporal dementia, can be associated with atypical white matter hyperintensities (WMH).

  8. TDP-43 pathology effect on volume and flortaucipir uptake in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Older participants had lower hippocampal volumes and overall flortaucipir uptake.

  9. Blood based biomarkers for movement disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2022-10 Biomarkers

    Movement disorders have been carefully clinically defined, based on clinico-pathological series; however there is often diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty, especially in early stage disease.

  10. Elevation of plasma phosphorylated tau181 during neurological illnesses affecting consciousness and kidney dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-09-30 Biomarkers

    Among participants enrolled, the median (interquartile range) age was 57 (28.5-75) years and 5.8% had AD.

  11. Locus coeruleus catecholamines link neuroticism and vulnerability to tau pathology in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NeuroImage 2022-09-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Higher neuroticism is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is implicated in disordered stress responses.

  12. TREM2 risk variants are associated with atypical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2022-09-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) has multiple clinically and pathologically defined subtypes where the underlying causes of such heterogeneity are not well established.

  13. Diagnostic performance of automated plasma amyloid-β assays combined with pre-analytical immunoprecipitation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-09-07 Biomarkers

    Pre-analytical immunoprecipitation resulted in a significant increase in the area under the ROC curve (AUC) from 0.73 to 0.88 (p = 0.01547) for identifying subjects with abnormal CSF Aβ42/40.

  14. Atypical Alzheimer's disease phenotypes with normal or borderline PET biomarker profiles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2022-08-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) and logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA) are clinical syndromes that commonly have underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD), although non-AD pathologies have also been reported.

  15. Amyloid PET ordering practices in a memory disorders clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Among 565 veterans, 34.9% of received an amyloid PET scan and 98.0% of these were consistent with appropriate use criteria.

  16. Investigation of coenzyme Q10 status, serum amyloid-β, and tau protein in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-07-25 Biomarkers

    A total of 73% of patients had a low coenzyme Q10 status.

  17. Association of plasma biomarkers of amyloid and neurodegeneration with cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-07-24 Biomarkers

    The objective of this study was to determine the differential mapping of plasma biomarkers to postmortem neuropathology measures.

  18. Early-phase 18F-Florbetapir and 18F-Flutemetamol images as proxies of brain metabolism in a memory clinic setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Positive correlations were found between eFBP/eFMM and 18F-FDG-PET SUVR independently of Aβ status and Aβ radiotracer (R>0.72, p<0.001). eFBP/eFMM single-subject analysis revealed clusters of significant hypoperfusion with good correspondence to hypometabolism topographies, independently of the underlying neurodegenerative patterns.

  19. Alzheimer's Disease CSF Biomarker Profiles in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2022-06-06 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) frequently show pathologic CSF Aβ42 levels, comparable with Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  20. A possible blood plasma biomarker for early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2022-04-21 Biomarkers

    We sought to identify a usable biomarker from blood samples to characterize early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, in order to facilitate rapid diagnosis, early therapeutic intervention, and monitoring of clinical trials.

  21. Cortical hypometabolism reflects local atrophy and tau pathology in symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-04-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Regression analyses were run within cohorts to identify variables associated with retrosplenial or inferior parietal FDG standard uptake value ratios.

  22. Clinical and analytical comparison of six Simoa assays for plasma P-tau isoforms P-tau181, P-tau217, and P-tau231

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-12-04 Biomarkers

    P-tau isoforms can be measured robustly by several novel high-sensitive Simoa assays.

  23. Binding characteristics of [18F]PI-2620 distinguish the clinically predicted tau isoform in different tauopathies by PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2021-05-27 Brain scans and imaging

    The novel tau-PET tracer [18F]PI-2620 detects the 3/4-repeat-(R)-tauopathy Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the 4R-tauopathies corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

  24. This mass spectrometry-based plasma biomarker test: has strong diagnostic performance; can accurately distinguish brain amyloid positive from amyloid negative individuals; may aid in the diagnostic evaluation process for Alzheimer's disease; and may enhance the efficiency of enrolling participants into Alzheimer's disease drug trials.

  25. Diagnostic and prognostic value of plasma neurofilament light and total-tau in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-04-21 Biomarkers

    Among diagnostic groups, highest plasma Nfl and t-tau concentrations were detected in CJD (fold changes of 38 and 18, respectively, compared to HC).

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