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  1. Menopause Status Moderates Sex Differences in Tau Burden: A Framingham PET Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-05-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Clear divergence in tauopathy between the sexes are apparent approximately 20 years earlier than previously reported.

  2. Serum neurofilament light chain level as a predictor of cognitive stage transition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-01-07 Biomarkers

    The study shows that higher serum NFL tertile levels correlate with increased risk of cognitive stage transition in both MCI and CU participants.

  3. Characterization of pre-analytical sample handling effects on a panel of Alzheimer's disease-related blood-based biomarkers: Results from the Standardization of Alzheimer's Blood Biomarkers (SABB) working group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-11-29 Biomarkers

    We constructed a standardized operating procedure for plasma handling, to facilitate introduction of blood-based biomarkers into the research and clinical settings.

  4. Effects of pre-analytical procedures on blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's pathophysiology, glial activation, and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-06-02 Biomarkers

    The same tube type should be used in research studies on blood biomarkers.

  5. Untangling the association of amyloid-β and tau with synaptic and axonal loss in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-02-01 Biomarkers

    It is currently unclear how amyloid-β and tau deposition are linked to changes in synaptic function and axonal structure over the course of Alzheimer's disease.

  6. Blood-brain barrier breakdown is an early biomarker of human cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature medicine 2019-01-14 Tau biomarkers

    Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment are increasingly recognized 1-5 as shown by neuropathological 6,7 , neuroimaging 4,8-11 , and cerebrospinal fluid biomarker 4,12 studies.

  7. Neurofilament Light in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid of Hip Fracture Patients with Delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2018-12-06 Biomarkers

    Our findings support an association between neuroaxonal injury and delirium.

  8. Tau Accumulation in Clinically Normal Older Adults Is Associated with Hippocampal Hyperactivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Animal studies demonstrate that hyperactive neurons facilitate early accumulation and spread of tau and amyloid-β proteins in the pathological cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Characterization of tau positron emission tomography tracer [ 18 F]AV-1451 binding to postmortem tissue in Alzheimer's disease, primary tauopathies, and other dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-02-15 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]AV-1451 binds to tau in AD, and some other tauopathies.

  10. Primary biomarker efficacy endpoints were not statistically significant in either dose group.

  11. Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ40 Improves the Interpretation of Aβ42 Concentration for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2015-11-27 Biomarkers

    The combination of decreased amyloid β42 (Aβ42) and increased total tau proteins (T-Tau) and phosphorylated tau (P-Tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has recently been considered as a biological diagnostic criterion of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Plasma Concentration of the Neurofilament Light Protein (NFL) is a Biomarker of CNS Injury in HIV Infection: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2015-11-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma and CSF NFL concentrations were very highly correlated (r = 0.89, P < 0.0001).

  13. C-terminal neurogranin is increased in cerebrospinal fluid but unchanged in plasma in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-16 Biomarkers

    This study strengthens the potential of neurogranin as an AD CSF biomarker, which now needs validation in larger studies.

  14. Plasma DYRK1A as a novel risk factor for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2014-08-12 Biomarkers

    To determine whether apparent involvement of DYRK1A in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology makes it a candidate plasma biomarker for diagnosis, we developed a method to quantify plasma DYRK1A by immunoblot in transgenic mouse models having different gene dosages of Dyrk1a, and, consequently, different relative protein expression.

  15. Impact of harmonization of collection tubes on Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2013-10-23 Biomarkers

    The predictive value of Aβ42 was highly affected by the type of collection tube used.

  16. Soluble amyloid precursor protein β as blood-based biomarker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2013-02-19 Biomarkers

    The aim of this study was to explore concentrations differences of soluble amyloid precursor protein (sAPP) α and β in blood plasma in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitively healthy age-matched control subjects, as well as patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

  17. Diverging patterns of amyloid deposition and hypometabolism in clinical variants of probable Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2013-01-28 Brain scans and imaging

    In contrast, all Alzheimer's disease variants showed diffuse patterns of (11)C-labelled Pittsburgh compound B binding, with posterior cortical atrophy additionally showing elevated uptake in occipital cortex compared with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

  18. The pathological process underlying Alzheimer's disease in individuals under thirty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-12-15 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Brains of 42 individuals between the ages of 4 and 29 were examined with antibodies (AT8, 4G8) and silver stains for the presence of intraneuronal and extracellular protein aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Exercise and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These results are supportive of an association between exercise engagement and AD biomarkers in cognitively normal older adults.

  20. Relationship between atrophy and beta-amyloid deposition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    There is a strong relationship between beta-amyloid deposition and atrophy very early in the disease process.

  21. Increased metabolic vulnerability in early-onset Alzheimer's disease is not related to amyloid burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-01-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with early age-of-onset Alzheimer's disease show more rapid progression, more generalized cognitive deficits and greater cortical atrophy and hypometabolism compared to late-onset patients at a similar disease stage.

  22. Evaluation of CSF biomarkers as predictors of Alzheimer's disease: a clinical follow-up study of 4.7 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Biomarkers

    In this study, we determined the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers to predict development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) within five years in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  23. Decreased cerebrospinal fluid Abeta(42) correlates with brain atrophy in cognitively normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2009-02-01 Biomarkers

    Reduction in CSF Abeta(42), likely reflecting Abeta aggregation in the brain, is associated with brain atrophy in the preclinical phase of AD.

  24. Abeta amyloid and glucose metabolism in three variants of primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    LPA is associated with Abeta amyloidosis, suggesting that subclassification of PPA based on language features can help predict the likelihood of AD pathology.

  25. Amyloid load in Parkinson's disease dementia and Lewy body dementia measured with [11C]PIB positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2008-07-24 Treatments

    This study suggests that amyloid load is significantly raised in over 80% of subjects with DLB, while amyloid pathology is infrequent in PDD.

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