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  1. Harmonizing tau positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease: The CenTauR scale and the joint propagation model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Brain scans and imaging

    A strong linear relationship was observed between CTR values across brain regions.

  2. Reasons for undergoing amyloid imaging among diverse enrollees in the A4 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Disparities

    Compared to non-Hispanic or Latino (NH) White participants, Hispanic or Latino (3.52 points, 95% confidence interval [CI]: [2.61, 4.42]); NH Asian (2.97 points, 95% CI: [1.71, 4.22]); and NH Black participants (2.79 points, 95% CI: [1.96, 3.63]) participants demonstrated higher levels of endorsement of the VPAI items at baseline.

  3. CSF proteomic profiles of neurodegeneration biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-06 Tau biomarkers

    Only a few individuals were A+T+Ng-. A+T+Ng+ and A+T+NfL+ showed different proteomic profiles compared to A+T+Ng- and A+T+NfL-, respectively.

  4. Unexpected Low Rate of Amyloid-β Pathology in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2024-07-04 Biomarkers

    The life expectancy of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) has increased, yet we have noted that development of a typical Alzheimer disease dementia syndrome is uncommon.

  5. Changes in Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers in kidney failure before and after kidney transplant

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-07-03 Biomarkers

    CKD patients showed elevated levels of neurofilament light (117 ± 72 vs. 11 ± 5 pg/mL), phosphorylated tau 181 (75 ± 42 vs. 13 ± 8 pg/mL), glial fibrillary acidic protein (193 ± 127 vs. 94 ± 39 pg/mL), amyloid β 42 (17 ± 5 vs. 5 ± 1 pg/mL), and amyloid β 40 (259 ± 96 vs. 72 ± 17 pg/mL) compared to controls.

  6. Benchmarking of a multi-biomarker low-volume panel for Alzheimer's Disease and related dementia research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-14 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) biomarker measurement is key to aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of the disease.

  7. APOE ε4 carrier status modifies plasma p-tau181 concentrations in cognitively healthy super-seniors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-05-16 Biomarkers

    Eighty (22%) participants were APOE ε4 carriers and 290 (73%) were non-carriers.

  8. Choriocapillaris reduction accurately discriminates against early-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-05-15 Biomarkers

    Both cohorts revealed diminished choriocapillaris signals, demonstrating the highest discriminatory capability (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve: SS-OCTA 0.913, SD-OCTA 0.991; P < 0.001).

  9. Quantification of neurofilament light and glial fibrillary acidic protein in finger-prick blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain communications 2024-04-29 Biomarkers

    An accurate diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease and traumatic brain injury is important for prognostication and treatment.

  10. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein in the visual and language variants of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-25 Biomarkers

    GFAP did not correlate with Aβ- or tau-PET cross-sectionally.

  11. Diffusion MRI relates to plasma Aβ42/40 in PET negative participants without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-05 Biomarkers

    Plasma+/PET- demonstrated increased FW (24 regions) and decreased FAt (66 regions) compared to plasma-/PET-.

  12. Identifying Genetic Risk for Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2023-12-28 Treatments

    In the last 2 years, there have been 3 successful trials of antiamyloid antibodies in Alzheimer disease (AD): aducanemab, now controversially US Food and Drug Administration-approved under the accelerated approval pathway1; lecanemab, now FDA-approved2; and donanemab, now going through the approval process.3 All 3 share a common broad mechanism, that is, antibody-mediated removal of β-amyloid (Aβ) from the brain, and this is almost certainly the basis of their therapeutic action.4 When used in the earliest symptomatic stages of AD, all have modest clinical effects, all clear Aβ from the brain, and all show evidence for some changes in molecular markers believed to be downstream of Aβ accumulation in keeping with disease modification.4 However, all these drugs-and several other antiamyloid immunotherapies that failed to show positive effects in clinical trials (e.g. bapineuzemab and gantenerumab)5,6-have the troubling adverse event of antibody-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA).

  13. A review of the flortaucipir literature for positron emission tomography imaging of tau neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain communications 2023-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is defined by the presence of β-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tau tangles potentially preceding clinical symptoms by many years.

  14. A 19-Year-Old Adolescent with Probable Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) primarily affects older adults.

  15. Neuropathology of Anti-Amyloid-β Immunotherapy: A Case Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Treatments

    Host responses to anti-amyloid-β (Aβ) antibody therapy are evident in neuroimaging changes and clinical symptoms in a subset of clinical trial subjects receiving such therapy.

  16. Semiquantitative Approach to Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Interpretation in Clinical Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. World journal of nuclear medicine 2022-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Visual assessment and semiquantitative analysis provide highly congruent results, thereby enhancing reader confidence and improving scan interpretation.

  17. Dual-Phase 18F-Florbetaben PET/CT: Unsuspected Thalamic Infarction Mimicking Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2022-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Dual-phase amyloid PET is considered a useful protocol to study patients with cognitive impairment.

  18. An autopsy case of corticobasal syndrome with pure diffuse Lewy Body Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurocase 2021-06-15 Brain tissue and pathology

    Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is associated with diverse pathological substrates such as tau, prion protein, transactive response and, rarely, alpha synuclein.

  19. MRI and flortaucipir relationships in Alzheimer's phenotypes are heterogeneous

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2020-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    For 50-59 greater medial temporal atrophy and flortaucipir uptake was observed in the typical compared with atypical phenotype.

  20. Fingerprinting Alzheimer's Disease by 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of proteome research 2020-03-12 Tau biomarkers

    In this study, we sought for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) metabolomic fingerprint in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients characterized, according to the clinical picture and CSF AD core biomarkers (Aβ42, p-tau, and t-tau), both at pre-dementia (mild cognitive impairment due to AD, MCI-AD) and dementia stages (ADdem) and in a group of patients with a normal CSF biomarker profile (non-AD) using untargeted 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based metabolomics.

  21. Targeted Mass Spectrometry Suggests Beta-Synuclein as Synaptic Blood Marker in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of proteome research 2020-02-26 Biomarkers

    Synaptic degeneration is a major hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the best pathological correlate of cognitive dysfunction.

  22. Challenges in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic Work-Up: Amyloid Biomarker Incongruences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Tau biomarkers

    CSF AβR better agreed with Amy-PET compared to CSF Aβ42 (Cohen's K 0.431 versus 0.05).

  23. Increased Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentration of ZnT3 Is Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Tau biomarkers

    We found a significant increase in the concentrations of ZnT3, GluA3, and Dynamin1 in AD (p = 0.002) and of ZnT3 and Dynamin 1 in DLB (p = 0.001, p = 0.002) when compared to SCD patients.

  24. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers to Differentiate Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus from Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Tau biomarkers

    Lower levels of NFL, NG, Aβ42, and t-tau were found in patients with iNPH versus SIVD, while YKL-40 and p-tau were similar in the two diseases.

  25. Tau Tangles in Parkinson's Disease: A 2-Year Follow-Up Flortaucipir PET Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2020 Brain scans and imaging

    We found no significant changes in substantia nigra or cortex flortaucipir uptake in Parkinson's disease patients over two years and no association with changes in cognitive symptoms.

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