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  1. Plasma neurofilament light, glial fibrillary acid protein, and phosphorylated tau 181 as biomarkers for neuropsychiatric symptoms and related clinical disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-07-25 Biomarkers

    None of the three plasma biomarker was associated with NPS at baseline.

  2. Cognitive and functional performance and plasma biomarkers of early Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-04-14 Biomarkers

    In general linear models lower plasma Aβ42/40 was related to lower visuospatial ability, higher total tau was related to lower episodic memory, and higher NfL was related to lower visuospatial ability and lower episodic memory.

  3. Plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and NfL as early indicators of dementia risk in a community cohort: The Shanghai Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-12-22 Biomarkers

    Higher concentrations of plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and NfL were correlated to higher decline speed of Mini-Mental State Examination score, and higher risk of incident dementia and AD.

  4. GFAP as a Potential Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Cells 2023-05-04 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers have been considered tools for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain communications 2023-03-06 Biomarkers

    An accurate blood test for Alzheimer's disease that is sensitive to preclinical proteinopathy and cognitive decline has clear implications for early detection and secondary prevention.

  6. Plasma biomarker profiles in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Biomarkers

    Emerging plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease might be non-invasive tools to trace early Alzheimer's disease-related abnormalities such as the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptides, neurofibrillary tau tangles, glial activation and neurodegeneration.

  7. Chinese Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease Study (C-PAS): Design and Challenge from PET Acceptance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    There were 571 participants in the normal cognition group, 625 participants in the subjective cognitive decline group, 155 participants in the objectively defined subtle cognitive decline group, 501 participants in the mild cognitive impairment group, 471 participants in Alzheimer's disease group, and 128 participants with cognitive impairment from other known causes.

  8. Emerging blood exosome-based biomarkers for preclinical and clinical Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis and systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2022-11-01 Biomarkers

    Blood exosomes, which are extracellular vesicles secreted by living cells into the circulating blood, are regarded as a relatively noninvasive novel tool for monitoring brain physiology and disease states.

  9. Quantification of amyloid beta and tau PET without a structural MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-04-16 Brain scans and imaging

    The best-performing MRI-free approaches had high continuous and dichotomous agreement with MRI-dependent SUVRs for Aβ PET and temporal flortaucipir (R2 ≥0.95; ± agreement ≥92%) and for Alzheimer's disease-related effect sizes; agreement was slightly lower for entorhinal flortaucipir and longitudinal slopes.

  10. Longitudinal 18F-MK-6240 tau tangles accumulation follows Braak stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that the cognitively unimpaired amyloid-β-negative individuals had significant longitudinal tau accumulation confined to the PET Braak-like stage I (3.9%) and II (2.8%) areas.

  11. Plasma markers predict changes in amyloid, tau, atrophy and cognition in non-demented subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-10-01 Biomarkers

    It is currently unclear whether plasma biomarkers can be used as independent prognostic tools to predict changes associated with early Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Association of plasma P-tau181 with memory decline in non-demented adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain Communications 2021-06-14 Biomarkers

    Mixed-effect models assessed rates of memory decline in relation to baseline plasma p-tau181, and whether plasma p-tau181 significantly predicted memory decline beyond widely available clinical and genetic data (age, sex, years of education, cardiovascular and metabolic conditions, and APOEε4 status).

  13. Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature medicine 2021-04-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the spread of tau pathology throughout the cerebral cortex.

  14. Machine Learning and Novel Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-03-09 Digital health tools

    Our results revealed machine learning with novel biomarkers and multiple variables may increase the sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis of AD.

  15. Melatonin levels in the Alzheimer's disease continuum: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-02-23 Biomarkers

    Our systematic review shows evidence for disruptions in (night-time) melatonin levels in AD as compared to age-matched controls.

  16. Plasma phospho-tau181 in presymptomatic and symptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-07-14 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers have great potential to advance clinical care and accelerate trials in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. The application of retinal fundus camera imaging in dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016-12-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Ten studies assessing retinal properties in dementia were included.

  18. Presymptomatic plasma biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: sequence and timing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2026-10-13 Biomarkers

    Nine proteins (amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42), beta-secretase 1 (BACE1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), pTau181, pTau231, pTau217, t0tal tau (MAPT), neurofilament light (NfL) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE)) robustly differed between carriers and non-carriers cross-sectionally.

  19. Association of plasma p-tau and p-tau/Aβ ratio with Alzheimer's pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2026-01-01 Biomarkers

    Among the individual plasma p-tau variants, p-tau217 consistently outperformed p-tau181 and p-tau231.

  20. AD-related plasma biomarkers in centenarians: links to cognition and neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Biomarkers

    Cognition ranged from high to early cognitive decline (median Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] score = 26).

  21. Cerebral perfusion and amyloidosis in the oldest-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Participants with CIND displayed lower perfusion in the PCC+PCu relative to participants who were CN, but there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in amyloid burden in this region.

  22. Neuroimaging biomarkers and CSF sTREM2 levels in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-07-03 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Understanding the exact pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the involvement of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) related microglia activation is crucial for the development of clinical trials targeting microglia activation at different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. A blood biomarker test for brain amyloid impacts the clinical evaluation of cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2023-08-07 Biomarkers

    A 95% (347/366) concordance rate was noted between clinicians' patient selection and the test's intended use criteria.

  24. Phosphorylated tau in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Advances in clinical chemistry 2023-06-09 Biomarkers

    There is a need for blood biomarkers to detect individuals at different Alzheimer's disease (AD) stages because obtaining cerebrospinal fluid-based biomarkers is invasive and costly.

  25. A glycan epitope correlates with tau in serum and predicts progression to Alzheimer's disease in combination with APOE4 allele status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-12 Biomarkers

    Bisecting N-acetylglucosamine correlated with tau levels (p < 0.0001).

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