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  1. Blood biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: Balancing clinical relevance with improved accessibility and sustainability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2025-11 Biomarkers

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a blood-based biomarker to confirm diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD-BBMs).

  2. Early detection of Alzheimer's disease: From multiplex assays and imaging to point of care devices and AI-based functional monitoring

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-10-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The advent of disease-modifying treatments and risk-reduction strategies in the clinic have increased the demand for biomarkers for early disease detection, prediction of clinical course of disease, individual risk prediction and monitoring of treatment effects.

  3. Mapping cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers to dementia risk through Mendelian randomization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Medicine 2025-09-26 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers can directly reflect physiological and pathological changes within the central nervous system, serving as a critical element in the preliminary diagnosis and disease monitoring of central nervous system disorders.

  4. Integrating kidney function assessment into the clinical interpretation of plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-09-09 Biomarkers

    As plasma biomarkers like p-tau217 move towards clinical use in Alzheimer's disease (AD), it is important to understand how kidney function may influence their accuracy.

  5. Biomarker-related phospho-tau217 appears in synapses around Aβ plaques prior to tau tangle in cerebral cortex of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell reports 2025-09-02 Biomarkers

    Phospho-tau protein p-tau181 is a cerebrospinal fluid biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD), while p-tau217 is the most sensitive plasma biomarker for cerebral amyloid β (Aβ) load prior to tau pathology in preclinical AD.

  6. Biomarker profile of a Chinese ALS cohort: A comprehensive clinical-biomarkers-imaging analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2025-08-14 Biomarkers

    Firstly, we found that plasma levels of NfL (p < 0.001) and p-tau181 (p < 0.001) were significantly higher in ALS than in HC.

  7. Portable platform for measuring amyloid beta 42/40 ratio via photooxidation-induced fluorescence amplification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Lab on a chip 2025-08-05 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious health condition that exacerbates with age.

  8. From Amyloid to Synaptic Dysfunction: Biomarker-Driven Insights into Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Current issues in molecular biology 2025-07-22 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder and represents a major public health challenge.

  9. Evaluation of Blood-Based Diagnostic Biomarkers for Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 2025-07-04 Biomarkers

    Canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in aging dogs and serves as a natural model for Alzheimer's disease in humans.

  10. α-klotho as a biomarker of amyloid β levels in the cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2025-06-23 Biomarkers

    HT was associated with increased CSF α-klotho levels.

  11. PLASMA-CYCLEGAN: PLASMA BIOMARKER-GUIDED MRI TO PET CROSS-MODALITY TRANSLATION USING CONDITIONAL CYCLEGAN

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2025-05-12 Biomarkers

    Cross-modality translation between MRI and PET imaging is challenging due to the distinct mechanisms underlying these modalities.

  12. TAU PET HARMONIZATION VIA SURFACE-BASED DIFFUSION MODEL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2025-05-12 Brain scans and imaging

    The heterogeneity inherent in tau positron emission tomography (PET) imaging data across different tracers challenges the integration of multi-site tau PET data, thereby necessitating the trustful harmonization technique for a better utilization of the emerging large-scale datasets.

  13. Diagnosis, pathomechanisms and therapy of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-ri)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurological research and practice 2025-04-26 Treatments

    CAA-ri gains increasing interest as a spontaneous human model of iatrogenic edematous amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA-E) in the context of amyloid-modifying therapies.

  14. Editorial introduction to the special issue on biomarker-based diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: A synthesis of the commentaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropsychology 2025-04-23 Biomarkers

    We introduce a special issue of the Journal of Neuropsychology dedicated to a recent paradigm shift in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

  15. A fully automated paper-based smartphone-assisted microfluidic chemiluminescence sample to result immunoassay platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Analytica chimica acta 2025-04-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In this study, we developed a newly designed μPAD for CL immunoassays, leveraging smartphone-based image capture, valve-regulated reaction process, and app-driven result analysis to enable fully automated detection.

  16. Lifestyle factors and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: A narrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-03-12 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by amyloid-β (Aβ), tau hyperphosphorylation and neurodegeneration.

  17. A practical overview of the use of amyloid-PET Centiloid values in clinical trials and research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2025-03-10 Brain scans and imaging

    The density of brain amyloid-beta neuritic plaque accumulation, a marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD), can be visualized and quantified using amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET).

  18. Altered Clearance and Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2025-02-19 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) are parenchymal edema/effusion and hemorrhage that occur as side effects of immunotherapies targeting beta-amyloid for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Altered Clearance in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2025-02-19 Vascular contributions

    With our focus on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), the authors herein provided a comprehensive overview of impaired amyloid beta and tau clearance pathways observed through advanced neuroimaging techniques such as dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging, arterial spin labeling, phase contrast MR imaging, PET, and functional MR imaging.

  20. Development of Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring from Traditional to Digital Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biosensors 2025-02-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Monitoring and assessing the progression of symptoms in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, are critical for improving patient outcomes.

  21. Using cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer's disease: an Australian perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2024-12-05 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are currently the only clinically validated biofluid diagnostic test for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) available in Australia.

  22. [Radiological Identification and Evaluation of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Alzheimer's Disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition 2024-11-20 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA), intracranial signal abnormalities observed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), represent one of the main adverse events associated with treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) with anti-amyloid-β (anti-Aβ) monoclonal antibodies.

  23. Plasma Neurodegenerative Biomarkers in Cognitively Preserved Nonagenarians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging and disease 2024-10-30 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers represent promising tools for the screening and diagnosis of patients with neurodegenerative conditions.

  24. Multimodal photoacoustic microscopy and optical coherence tomography ocular biomarker imaging in Alzheimer's disease in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomedical optics express 2024-10-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloid beta (Aβ)-containing extracellular plaques and tau-containing intracellular neurofibrillary tangles.

  25. Advances in Blood Biomarkers and Diagnosis Approaches for Neurodegenerative Dementias and Related Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2024-10-10 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative dementias and related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson's disease have no fundamental cure yet.

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