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  1. The role of optical coherence tomography in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of retina and vitreous 2016-10-17 Brain scans and imaging

    The purpose of this article is to review the main findings on OCT in AD patients, to discuss the role of this important diagnostic tool in these patients and how OCT technology may be useful in understanding morphological retinal changes in AD.

  2. Low Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Beta Concentration Is Associated with Poorer Delayed Memory Recall in Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2016-07-19 Tau biomarkers

    In women we found a significant correlation between CSF amyloid-beta (Aβ1-42) and several subtests measuring delayed recall.

  3. Greater specificity for cerebrospinal fluid P-tau231 over P-tau181 in the differentiation of healthy controls from Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measures of phosphorylated-tau (P-tau) 231 and P-tau181 are two biomarkers for the identification of tau pathology as related to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Insulin Resistance is Associated with Higher Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Levels in Asymptomatic APOEɛ4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    IR among asymptomatic APOEɛ4 carriers was associated with higher P-Tau181 and T-Tau in late-middle age.

  5. Progranulin and Amyloid-β Levels: Relationship to Neuropsychology in Frontotemporal and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015 Tau biomarkers

    For all patients across both groups, an association between PGRN and categoric (p = 0.016) and letter fluency (p = 0.029), naming (p = 0.003), and overall cognition (Mini-Mental State Examination: p = 0.04) was observed.

  6. Tau, amyloid, and hypometabolism in a patient with posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-12-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Determining the relative contribution of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles to brain dysfunction in Alzheimer disease is critical for therapeutic approaches, but until recently could only be assessed at autopsy.

  7. Increased cerebrospinal fluid tau levels in logopenic variant of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014 Tau biomarkers

    p-Tau181 levels were higher in the lvPPA-AD group than in the aMCI-AD group (p < 0.05).

  8. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and ischemic stroke patients: a critical analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2013-07-23 Tau biomarkers

    Vascular factors are thought to contribute to the development of disease pathology in neurodegenerative dementia such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Cerebrospinal fluid tau, p-tau 181 and amyloid-β38/40/42 in frontotemporal dementias and primary progressive aphasias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2010-12-07 Tau biomarkers

    High CSF p-tau and low ratios of Aβ(1-42)/Aβ(1-40) and Aβ(1-42)/Aβ(1-38), respectively, were specific for AD.

  10. CSF-tau and CSF-Abeta(1-42) in posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2010-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    The Abeta(1-42), T-tau and P-tau(181) levels in PCA patients differed significantly (p < 0.02) from those in healthy controls but were indistinguishable from subjects with a clinical diagnosis of AD.

  11. Brain metabolic correlates of cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid 42 and tau in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-05-12 Tau biomarkers

    After correction for multiple comparisons, a strong positive association between CSF Abeta42 levels and glucose metabolism was identified for 2 extensive clusters located in the right temporal, prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices.

  12. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurosurgery 2005-07-01 Genetics

    This case highlights potential long-term neurodegenerative outcomes in retired professional National Football League players subjected to repeated mild traumatic brain injury.

  13. Age but not diagnosis is the main predictor of plasma amyloid beta-protein levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-07-01 Drug development

    Plasma Abeta measures increase with age, but, in contrast to reports on familial AD, plasma Abeta measures were neither sensitive nor specific for the clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or sporadic AD.

  14. Decreased cerebrospinal fluid acetylcholinesterase in patients with subcortical ischemic vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2003 Tau biomarkers

    The main objective was to investigate the acetylcholinesterase E (AChE) activity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with three common dementia disorders.

  15. Cerebrospinal fluid phospho-tau, total tau and beta-amyloid(1-42) in the differentiation between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2002 Tau biomarkers

    The two most frequently examined biomarkers in the diagnosis of dementia are cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and beta-amyloid(1-42) (Abeta(1-42)).

  16. Cerebrospinal fluid markers for Alzheimer's disease evaluated after acute ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2000-11 Tau biomarkers

    Potential cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) markers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) include tau protein, the 42 amino-acid form of amyloid beta (amyloid beta(1-42)) and apolipoprotein E (apoE).

  17. Three-year follow-up of cerebrospinal fluid tau, beta-amyloid 42 and 40 concentrations in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2000-02-18 Tau biomarkers

    Earlier studies have shown elevated levels of tau protein and decreased levels of amyloid beta42 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. EEG slowing and cerebrospinal fluid tau levels in patients with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuroreport 1998-01-05 Tau biomarkers

    We explored the relationship between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau levels as indirect markers of tau-related pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and EEG slowing, a typical neurophysiological finding in the disease.

  19. Tau protein concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1995-09 Tau biomarkers

    Tau protein concentrations were measured in the CSF of 23 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), 36 patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID), and 23 control subjects.

  20. Large amounts of neocortical beta A4 deposits without neuritic plaques nor tangles in a psychometrically assessed, non-demented person

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1990-08-01 Drug development

    An 88-year-old mentally normal woman (Blessed test score = 27) had very large amounts (397/mm2) of deposits stained by anti-beta A4 serum in the first temporal gyrus.

  21. Expression of regional brain amyloid-β deposition with [18F]Flutemetamol in Centiloid scale -a multi-site study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuroradiology 2024-04-27 Brain scans and imaging

    14 out of 16 regional conversions from [18F]Flutemetamol SUVr to Centiloid successfully passed the quality control, showing good reliability and relative variance, especially precuneus/posterior cingulate and prefrontal regions with good stability for Centiloid scaling.

  22. High-Performance Plasma Biomarker Panel for Alzheimer's Disease Screening Using a Femtomolar-Level Label-Free Biosensing System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. ACS nano 2023-12-20 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older people.

  23. Post-mortem histopathology underlying β-amyloid PET imaging following flutemetamol F 18 injection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-12-12 Brain scans and imaging

    In vivo imaging of fibrillar β-amyloid deposits may assist clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), aid treatment selection for patients, assist clinical trials of therapeutic drugs through subject selection, and be used as an outcome measure.

  24. National trends in cerebrospinal fluid biomarker testing for Alzheimer's disease in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2025-12-22 Tau biomarkers

    The annual number of health insurance claims for p-tau181 testing gradually increased from 1358 (2014) to 3420 (2023); 79-86% of claims were from inpatient settings throughout the study period.

  25. Glial and neuronal cell-free DNA in plasma of sporadic bvFTD and late onset primary psychiatric disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2025-11-06 Biomarkers

    Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and primary psychiatric disorders (PPD) have symptomatic overlap that leads to diagnostic challenges.

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