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  1. Potential Biomarkers in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma for Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Genetics

    The molecules released into CSF, namely APOE2 for any dementia, APOE2 and Siglec-3 for AD, APOE2 for vascular dementia, and APOE2 for DLB, might be potential biomarkers.

  2. Amyloid PET Imaging: Standard Procedures and Semiquantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid plaques are a neuropathologic hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which can be imaged through positron emission tomography (PET) technology using radiopharmaceuticals that selectively bind to the fibrillar aggregates of amyloid-β plaques (Amy-PET).

  3. Hyperspectral Retinal Imaging as a Non-Invasive Marker to Determine Brain Amyloid Status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Brain scans and imaging

    The retinal reflectance spectra in the 450-585 nm wavelengths exhibited a significant difference in individuals with increasing brain amyloid.

  4. Beyond Vision: A View from Eye to Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024 Brain scans and imaging

    With the aging of the global population, the health care burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia is considered to increase dramatically in the coming decades.

  5. Anti-Amyloid Therapy, AD, and ARIA: Untangling the Role of CAA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2023-10-27 Treatments

    Anti-amyloid therapies (AATs), such as anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies, are emerging treatments for people with early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. The potential clinical value of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-09-11 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers could revolutionize many areas of the AD diagnostic pathway and care continuum, but further research is needed.

  7. Non-invasive Biomarkers for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease: a New-Age Perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2023-08-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects the elderly population.

  8. Vertical Graphene-Based Printed Electrochemical Biosensor for Simultaneous Detection of Four Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biosensors 2023-07-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Early detection and timely intervention play a vital role in the effective management of Alzheimer's disease.

  9. Levels of Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers are altered after food intake-A pilot intervention study in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-27 Biomarkers

    Our data suggest that AD-related biomarkers are altered by food intake.

  10. Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Available Assays, Recent Developments, and Implications for Clinical Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-05-03 Biomarkers

    Recently, low-sensitive plasma assays have been replaced by new ultra-sensitive assays such as single molecule enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Simoa), the Mesoscale Discovery (MSD) platform, and immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (IP-MS) with higher accuracy in the determination of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Blood-brain barrier opening of the default mode network in Alzheimer's disease with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Biomarkers

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain but is also an important obstacle for the effective delivery of therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  12. Acute sleep loss decreases CSF-to-blood clearance of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-01-25 Biomarkers

    These findings show that sleep loss alters some plasma AD biomarkers by lowering brain clearance mechanisms and needs to be taken into account when interpreting individual plasma AD biomarkers but not ratios.

  13. A combined physiologically-based pharmacokinetic and quantitative systems pharmacology model for modeling amyloid aggregation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology 2023-01-20 Treatments

    Antibody-mediated removal of aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ) is the current, most clinically advanced potential disease-modifying treatment approach for Alzheimer's disease.

  14. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: Associations with Aβ-PET, neurodegeneration, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-28 Biomarkers

    Our findings support a role for plasma GFAP as a clinical biomarker of Aβ-related astrocyte reactivity that is associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration.

  15. Comparative analytical performance of multiple plasma Aβ42 and Aβ40 assays and their ability to predict positron emission tomography amyloid positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-12 Biomarkers

    Measurement of Aβ in plasma contributes to addressing the amyloid component of the ATN (amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration) framework and could be a first step before or in place of a PET or cerebrospinal fluid screening study.

  16. Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Progression: An Overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cells 2022-04-17 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposition and neurofibrillary tangle accumulation in the brain.

  17. Development of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers: From CSF- to Blood-Based Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-04-05 Biomarkers

    In the 115 years since the discovery of Alzheimer's disease (AD), our knowledge, diagnosis, and therapeutics have significantly improved.

  18. Biofluid-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease-related pathologies: An update and synthesis of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-25 Biomarkers

    The past few years have seen an explosion in sensitive and specific assays for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders, as well as some novel assays based on pathological seed-induced protein misfolding in patient samples.

  19. Dynamic changes of CSF sPDGFRβ during ageing and AD progression and associations with CSF ATN biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-01-15 Biomarkers

    Our results suggest that pericyte injury contributes to AD progression in the early stage in an Aβ-independent pathway.

  20. Cellular localization of p-tau217 in brain and its association with p-tau217 plasma levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2022-01-06 Biomarkers

    Recent studies highlight phosphorylated tau (p-tau) at threonine tau 217 (p-tau217) as a new promising plasma biomarker for pathological changes implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the specific brain pathological events related to the alteration in p-tau217 plasma levels are still largely unknown.

  21. Perivascular space dilation is associated with vascular amyloid-β accumulation in the overlying cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-12-20 Digital health tools

    Perivascular spaces (PVS) are compartments surrounding cerebral blood vessels that become visible on MRI when enlarged.

  22. Locus coeruleus integrity is related to tau burden and memory loss in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-12-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Abnormally phosphorylated tau, an indicator of Alzheimer's disease, accumulates in the first decades of life in the locus coeruleus (LC), the brain's main noradrenaline supply.

  23. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2021-12-03 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) represent a mounting public health challenge.

  24. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: towards clinical implementation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2021-11-24 Biomarkers

    For many years, blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease seemed unattainable, but recent results have shown that they could become a reality.

  25. Neurofilament Proteins as Biomarkers to Monitor Neurological Diseases and the Efficacy of Therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-09-27 Biomarkers

    Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuronal injury have the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, disease monitoring, prognosis, and measure treatment efficacy.

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