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  1. Head-to-head comparison of tau positron emission tomography tracers [18F]flortaucipir and [18F]RO948

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2019-10-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Neocortical tracer retention was highly comparable using both SUVR and distribution volume ratio-1 values obtained from dynamic scans.

  2. Validation of Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Segmentation in Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Translational vision science & technology 2019-09-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The outer plexiform layer line had one of the lowest mean error ratios (2%), while RNFL had the highest (23%).

  3. The CSF p-tau181/Aβ42 Ratio Offers a Good Accuracy “In Vivo” in the Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2019-09-04 Biomarkers

    It might constitute a simple, cost-effective and reproducible in vivo proxy of AD suitable to be adopted worldwide not only in daily clinical practice but also in future experimental trials, to avoid the enrolment of misdiagnosed AD patients.

  4. 18F-Florbetaben PET/CT to Assess Alzheimer's Disease: A new Analysis Method for Regional Amyloid Quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2019-02-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Forty-four consecutive patients with clinical evidence of dementia, were retrospectively evaluated.

  5. Brain Amyloid-β Deposition and Blood Biomarkers in Patients with Clinically Diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    Brain amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition is a hallmark to define Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β Subtypes in Confirmed Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Cases: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    To investigate amyloid-β (Aβ) in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD; N = 18 genetically and/or pathologically confirmed and N = 8 FTD with concomitant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) were compared with Alzheimer's disease (AD; pathological or Pittsburgh-compound-B Positron-emission-tomography (PIB-PET) positive; N = 25) and controls (N = 24).

  7. Revisiting the Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Profile in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: The Bologna Pro-Hydro Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been extensively investigated in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) with the aim of a better differential diagnosis, but the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying CSF biomarker changes and the relationship between biomarker levels and clinical variables are still a matter of debate.

  8. Soluble LR11 competes with amyloid β in binding to cerebrospinal fluid-high-density lipoprotein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2018-11-15 Tau biomarkers

    CSF-sLR11 concentrations were higher in patients with AD than controls (adjusted for sLR11 using phospholipid).

  9. Neurofilament relates to white matter microstructure in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-06-28 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NFL) is a protein biomarker of axonal injury.

  10. Amyloid PET Positivity in Different Primary Progressive Aphasia Phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2018-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the 12 patients with PPA syndrome, 8 (66.7%) were considered as amyloid positive.

  11. Neurofilaments and tau proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in dementias and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia 2017-09-25 Tau biomarkers

    The ratio CSF p-tau/t-tau was significantly higher in the NC group than that in the AD or OD groups (P<0.0005 for each group).

  12. Tau pathology and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-05-10 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is defined as the ability to maintain functionality despite accumulating pathology.

  13. [Amyloid positron-emission-tomography with [18 F]-florbetaben in the diagnostic workup of dementia patients]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Der Nervenarzt 2017-02 Brain scans and imaging

    17 out of 33 patients were scored as FBB-PET positive.

  14. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Microbleeds and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    The 88 patients with AD included 15 with microbleeds only in cortical/subcortical regions (cortical microbleeds) that could be CAA-related, 16 with microbleeds only in deep locations (deep microbleeds), 3 with microbleeds in both cortical and deep locations (mixed microbleeds), and 54 without microbleeds.

  15. Plasma Tau Association with Brain Atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Plasma tau was negatively correlated with GMD in the medial temporal lobe (MTL), precuneus, thalamus, and striatum.

  16. Reference Intervals for Plasma Amyloid β in Korean Adults Without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of laboratory medicine 2016-11 Biomarkers

    Amyloid β (Aβ) peptides are important components of plaques in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Decreased levels of guanosine 3′, 5′‐monophosphate (c GMP ) in cerebrospinal fluid ( CSF ) are associated with cognitive decline and amyloid pathology in A lzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2015-05-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    c GMP , and not c AMP levels, were significantly lower in the CSF of patients diagnosed with mild AD when compared with nondemented controls.

  18. A Novel Plasma Based Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015 Biomarkers

    Specific biomarkers in a readily accessible biological fluid, such as blood, could aid in the identification, characterization, validation, and routine monitoring of Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression.

  19. Neuropsychological and behavioural correlates of CSF biomarkers in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2006-01-24 Tau biomarkers

    To improve clinical, neuropsychological and behavioural characterisation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers beta-amyloid((1-42)) protein (Abeta42), protein tau (tau) and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau181) across diagnostic dementia categories, a prospective study was set up.

  20. A positive Alzheimer's blood biomarker is not a diagnosis: the presence-primacy-permission framework for plasma p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 2026-09-08 Biomarkers

    Validated plasma phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217) assays identify Alzheimer disease pathology with high accuracy.

  21. Association Between Plasma Phosphorylated Tau-217 and Cognition in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2026-07-19 Biomarkers

    No significant differences in p-tau217, GFAP and NfL level were observed between groups (pFDR > 0.08).

  22. Blood-based biomarkers for dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-06-09 Biomarkers

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), a synucleinopathy, is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Balancing Speed and Sensitivity: Echo-Planar Accelerated MRI for ARIA-H Screening in Anti-Aβ Therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Investigative radiology 2026-05-01 Treatments

    The recent advent of anti-amyloid-β monoclonal antibodies has introduced new demands for MRI-based screening of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, particularly the hemorrhage subtype (ARIA-H).

  24. Head-to-head comparison of brain-derived pTau217 and total pTau217 for brain amyloid and tau pathology classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2026-03-02 Biomarkers

    Phosphorylated-tau 217 (pTau217) is currently the most promising blood-based biomarker for accurately detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  25. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: Advances in early detection and monitoring of age-related neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2026-02-08 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a critical global challenge, accounting for over 60 % of the 57 million current dementia cases worldwide, with prevalence projected to exceed 100 million by 2050.

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