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  1. Neurogranin and tau in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma of patients with acute ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC neurology 2017-08-30 Biomarkers

    These findings indicate that although plasma and CSF neurogranin may reflect the volume of acute cerebral ischemia, this synaptic protein is less likely to be a potential AIS biomarker.

  2. Correlation between two methods of florbetapir PET quantitative analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2017-07-15 Brain scans and imaging

    This study evaluated performance of a commercially available standardized software program for calculation of florbetapir PET standard uptake value ratios (SUVr) in comparison with an established research method.

  3. Tau Pathology Distribution in Alzheimer's disease Corresponds Differentially to Cognition-Relevant Functional Brain Networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2017-03-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Neuropathological studies have shown that the typical neurofibrillary pathology of hyperphosphorylated tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) preferentially affects specific brain regions whereas others remain relatively spared.

  4. Depressive Symptoms and Tau Accumulation in the Inferior Temporal Lobe and Entorhinal Cortex in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Future longitudinal studies examining the association of more severe depressive symptoms and cerebral tau accumulation are needed to substantiate this finding and to guide prevention and treatment in AD.

  5. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β 42, Total Tau and Phosphorylated Tau are Low in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Analogies and Differences with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Co-existence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a frequent finding, thus a common pathophysiological basis between AD and NPH has been postulated.

  6. Amygdala α-Synuclein Pathology in the Population-Based Vantaa 85+ Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Brain tissue and pathology

    We investigated the frequency of Lewy-related pathology (LRP) in the amygdala among the population-based Vantaa 85+ study.

  7. P50: A candidate ERP biomarker of prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain research 2015-08-06 Tau biomarkers

    MCI-AD patients yielded larger P50s than MCI-Other.

  8. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and cerebral atrophy in distinct clinical variants of probable Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-04-25 Tau biomarkers

    Different clinical variants of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) share underlying plaques and tangles but show distinct atrophy patterns.

  9. Can agrin cerebrospinal fluid concentration be used as an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-03-29 Tau biomarkers

    The need for effective treatments halting Alzheimer's disease (AD) urges the discovery of the earliest possible biomarkers.

  10. Cognitive correlates of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-07-28 Tau biomarkers

    After correction for age, sex, and education, CSF tau levels were found to be negatively related to the Visual Association Test (standardized β = -0.3, P < .05), whereas CSF Aβ1-42 levels were found to be positively related to the Mini-Mental State Examination (β = 0.3, P < .05), the frontal assessment battery (β = 0.5, P < .05), and digit span backwards test (β = 0.3, P = .01).

  11. Evaluation of a previously suggested plasma biomarker panel to identify Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2012-01-18 Biomarkers

    There is an urgent need for biomarkers in plasma to identify Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Plasma transthyretin as a candidate marker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2012-01-01 Biomarkers

    Diagnosis of the progressive neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer's disease (AD) can only definitively be made postmortem.

  13. A blood-based screening tool for Alzheimer's disease that spans serum and plasma: findings from TARC and ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2011-12-07 Biomarkers

    It is possible to create a blood-based screening algorithm that works across both serum and plasma that provides a comparable screening accuracy to that obtained from CSF analyses.

  14. Identification of a blood-based biomarker panel for classification of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology 2011-04-05 Biomarkers

    An ideal diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD) should be non-invasive and easily applicable.

  15. DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein in human cerebrospinal fluid as biomarkers of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-02-15 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers are urgently needed for the diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression in Parkinson's disease.

  16. In dementia with Lewy bodies, Braak stage determines phenotype, not Lewy body distribution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2007-07-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    We used an autopsy series to determine whether the newest dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) consensus pathologic classification correlates with premortem diagnosis of DLB.

  17. Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease Using the CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 Ratio in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2007-01-01 Biomarkers

    Evidence supports an important role for beta-amyloid (Abeta) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Isolation of HTLV-III from cerebrospinal fluid and neural tissues of patients with neurologic syndromes related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 1985-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    We conducted virus-isolation studies on 56 specimens from the nervous system of 45 patients in order to determine whether human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type III (HTLV-III) is directly involved in the pathogenesis of the neurologic disorders frequently encountered in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the AIDS-related complex.

  19. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in Alzheimer's disease: from pathophysiology to individualized risk assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-03-28 Treatments

    Monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid-β are the first approved disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

  20. New landscape of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2025-09-22 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease involves a drastic departure from the cognitive, functional, and behavioural trajectory of normal ageing, and is both a dreaded and highly prevalent cause of disability to individuals, and a leading source of health and social care expenditure for society.

  21. Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening and Aducanumab in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2024-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Antiamyloid antibodies have been used to reduce cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  22. Plasma phosphorylated tau 181 predicts amyloid status and conversion to dementia stage dependent on renal function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2023-04-03 Biomarkers

    Plasma P-tau181 effectively detects Aβ+ status and conversion to dementia, confirming the value of this blood biomarker for the management of AD.

  23. Nanosensor-Driven Detection of Neuron-Derived Exosomal Aβ 42 with Graphene Electrolyte-Gated Transistor for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Analytical chemistry 2023-03-21 Biomarkers

    Blood-based tests have sparked tremendous attention in non-invasive early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a most prevalent neurodegenerative malady worldwide.

  24. ARIA in patients treated with lecanemab (BAN2401) in a phase 2 study in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-01-01 Treatments

    Lecanemab can be administered without titration with modest incidence of ARIA.

  25. Test-retest variability of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and its effects on clinical prediction models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-06-14 Biomarkers

    Clinical prediction models combining plasma biomarkers-particularly p-tau217-exhibit high performance and are less effected by random error.

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