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  1. Affective symptoms and regional cerebral tau burden in early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2021-03-15 Brain scans and imaging

    There were significant associations (p < 0.05) between the NPI variables (total score, Affective factor) and entorhinal and precuneus tau across all participants.

  2. Plasma neurofilament light chain predicts cerebellar atrophy and clinical progression in spinocerebellar ataxia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2021-02-23 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of brain atrophy and predictor of disease progression in rare diseases such as Huntington Disease, but also in more common neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Predicts Cognitive Progression in Prodromal and Clinical Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Biomarkers

    Plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of neuronal damage in different neurological disorders and might predict disease progression in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  4. Hyperconnectivity of Self-Referential Network as a Predictive Biomarker of the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Tau biomarkers

    Compared to cognitively normal subjects, AD-spectrum patients (i.e., EMCI, LMCI, and AD) showed a reversing trend toward an association between CSF pathological markers and the abnormal SRN occurring during the progression of AD.

  5. Renal function is associated with blood neurofilament light chain level in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-11-23 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a novel biomarker of neurodegenerative diseases.

  6. MRI phenotyping of underlying cerebral small vessel disease in mixed hemorrhage patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2020-10-09 Vascular contributions

    We included 110 patients with CAA (strictly lobar ICHs/CMBs), 33 with HA (strictly deep ICHs/CMBs) and 97 with mixed lobar/deep ICHs/CMBs.

  7. AD-Related CSF Biomarkers Across Distinct Levels of Cognitive Impairment: Correlations With Global Cognitive State

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2020-08-06 Tau biomarkers

    In the total sample, T-tau and Aβ42/p-tau correlated with the total CAMCOG (P < .01); all biomarkers correlated with memory (P < .001); T-tau correlated with language (P < .01).

  8. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light differentially detect neurodegeneration in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-07-25 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NfL) concentration has reproducibly been shown to reflect neurodegeneration in brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Defining a Centiloid scale threshold predicting long-term progression to dementia in patients attending the memory clinic: an [18F] flutemetamol amyloid PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    In the 98 participants with long follow-up, Centiloid = 26 provided the highest overall predictive value = 87% (NPV = 85%, PPV = 88%).

  10. Identification of early pericyte loss and vascular amyloidosis in Alzheimer's disease retina

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2020-02-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Pericyte loss and deficient vascular platelet-derived growth factor receptor-β (PDGFRβ) signaling are prominent features of the blood-brain barrier breakdown described in Alzheimer's disease (AD) that can predict cognitive decline yet have never been studied in the retina.

  11. Tau-positron emission tomography correlates with neuropathology findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Elevated FTP-PET reflects Braak IV or greater neuropathology.

  12. Head-to-Head Comparison of 18F-Florbetaben and 18F-Flutemetamol in the Cortical and Striatal Regions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Brain scans and imaging

    The cortical SUVR (R2 = 0.97) and striatal SUVR (R2 = 0.95) demonstrated an excellent linear correlation between FBB and FMM using a WC as reference region.

  13. High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry Assay for Quantifying β-Amyloid 40 and 42 in Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2019-10-18 Biomarkers

    The assay had a reportable range of 100 to 25000 pg/mL, a limit of quantification of 100 pg/mL, recoveries between 93% and 111%, and intraassay and interassay CV <15% for both peptides.

  14. Blood amyloid-β oligomerization associated with neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-05-10 Biomarkers

    We found brain volume reduction in the bilateral temporal, amygdala, parahippocampal and lower parietal lobe and left cingulate and precuneus regions (family-wise error, p < 0.05).

  15. Functional connectivity associated with tau levels in ageing, Alzheimer's, and small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's disease, tau pathology spreads hierarchically from the inferior temporal lobe throughout the cortex, ensuing cognitive decline and dementia.

  16. Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β (Aβ)42 and tau are biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the effects of other neurodegenerative processes on these biomarkers remain unclear.

  17. Tau covariance patterns in Alzheimer's disease patients match intrinsic connectivity networks in the healthy brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2019-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    According to the network model of neurodegeneration, the spread of pathogenic proteins occurs selectively along connected brain regions.

  18. Amyloid-beta and phosphorylated tau in post-mortem Alzheimer's disease retinas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-12-28 Brain scans and imaging

    In-vivo labeling of retinal amyloid-beta(Aβ) and tau has potential as non-invasive biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Centiloid scaling for quantification of brain amyloid with [ 18 F]flutemetamol using multiple processing methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2018-12-05 Treatments

    [ 18 F]flutemetamol data can now be expressed in Centiloid units, enhancing its utility in clinical and research applications for β-amyloid imaging.

  20. In vivo quantification of neurofibrillary tangles with [ 18 F]MK-6240

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-07-31 Brain scans and imaging

    This evaluation shows an [ 18 F]MK-6240 distribution in concordance with postmortem studies and that simplified quantitative approaches such as the SUVR offer valid estimates of neurofibrillary tangle load 90 min post injection. [ 18 F]MK-6240 is a promising tau tracer with the potential to be applied in the disease diagnosis and assessment of therapeutic interventions.

  21. The age of onset and evolution of Braak tangle stage and Thal amyloid pathology of Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-07-04 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    While post mortem studies have identified the major cell types and functional systems affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD) the initial sites and molecular characteristics of pathology are still unclear.

  22. Loss of white matter integrity reflects tau accumulation in Alzheimer disease defined regions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2018-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Our cohort was composed of 59 cognitively normal participants and 10 cognitively impaired individuals.

  23. Networks of tau distribution in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Second, to investigate if regions of high tau burden are associated with functional connectivity networks, we extracted the region with the maximum z-value in each of the generated tau pathology networks and used them as seeds in a subsequent resting-state functional MRI analysis, conducted in a group of healthy adults (n = 26) who were part of the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project.

  24. A new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for neurofilament light in cerebrospinal fluid: analytical validation and clinical evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2018-01-23 Biomarkers

    Our new NfL ELISA showed a good analytical performance (inter-plate coefficient of variation (CV) < 13%), with no cross-reactivity with neurofilament medium and heavy (NfM and NfH).

  25. Distinct 18F-AV-1451 tau PET retention patterns in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease can present with different clinical phenotypes.

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