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  1. Whipple disease. Clinical review of 52 cases. The SNFMI Research Group on Whipple Disease. Société Nationale Française de Médecine Interne

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Medicine 1997-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    These results are discussed in the light of previously published series and case reports of Whipple disease.

  2. Accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration: a clinicopathologic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 1997-01-01 Digital health tools

    The accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is unknown.

  3. Tau, ubiquitin, and alpha B-crystallin immunohistochemistry define the principal causes of degenerative frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1995-10-01 Drug development

    These findings indicate that immunostaining with these antibodies is essential for the evaluation of frontal dementia.

  4. A diagnostic approach in Alzheimer's disease using three-dimensional stereotactic surface projections of fluorine-18-FDG PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1995-07-01 Vascular contributions

    3D-SSP enables quantitative data extraction and reliable localization of metabolic abnormalities by means of stereotactic coordinates.

  5. The distribution of tangles, plaques and related immunohistochemical markers in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1991-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Because even the very mildly demented brains showed substantial pathological change, emphasis was placed on examining the nondemented cases for the earliest changes that could be associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  6. The pattern of acquisition of plaques and tangles in the brains of patients under 50 years of age with Down's syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 1989-02-01 Treatments

    The form and distribution of senile plaques (SP) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) has been examined in the brains of 13 patients with Down's syndrome (DS), aged less than or equal to 50 years, using immunocytochemical and silver staining procedures.

  7. Multicenter 18F-PI-2620 PET for In Vivo Braak Staging of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-03-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau aggregates accumulate in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain according to the established Braak staging scheme and spread from transentorhinal over limbic regions to the neocortex.

  8. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities: manifestations, metrics and mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2025-01-10 Treatments

    Three monoclonal antibodies directed against specific forms of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide have been granted accelerated or traditional approval by the FDA as treatments for Alzheimer disease, representing the first step towards bringing disease-modifying treatments for this disease into clinical practice.

  9. Alzheimer Disease Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapies: Imaging Recommendations and Practice Considerations for Monitoring of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2025-01-08 Treatments

    With full FDA approval and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services coverage of lecanemab and donanemab, a growing number of practices are offering anti-amyloid immunotherapy to appropriate patients with cognitive impairment or mild dementia due to amyloid-positive Alzheimer disease.

  10. Blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease - moving towards a new era of diagnostics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2024-01-23 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), a primary cause of dementia globally, is traditionally diagnosed via cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measures and positron emission tomography (PET).

  11. Fully synthetic phosphorylated Tau181, Tau217, and Tau231 calibrators for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-01-15 Biomarkers

    By employing the hybridoma technique, 49 mAbs recognizing Tau (1-22), nine mAbs targeting p-Tau231, one mAb targeting p-Tau217, and two mAbs targeting p-Tau181 were developed.

  12. PET/CT/MRI in Clinical Trials of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-01-01 Treatments

    With the advent of PET imaging in 1976, 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG)-PET became the preferred method for in vivo investigation of cerebral processes, including regional hypometabolism in Alzheimer's disease.

  13. Clinical utility of plasma Aβ42/40 ratio by LC-MS/MS in Alzheimer's disease assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-12-14 Biomarkers

    High diagnostic sensitivity and negative predictive value (NPV) for Aβ-PET positivity were observed, consistent with the clinical performance of other plasma LC-MS/MS assays, but with greater separation between Aβ42/40 values for individuals with positive vs negative Aβ-PET results.

  14. Imaging of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin 2023-11-23 Treatments

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) can now be treated with monoclonal antibodies aiming at clearing amyloid plaques from the brain parenchyma.

  15. Alzheimer's Disease CSF Biomarkers as Possible Indicators of Tap-Test Response in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2023-11-15 Biomarkers

    The aim of the present study is the evaluation of established Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), both individually and as a total profile, and the investigation of their use as potential predictors of Tap-test responsiveness.

  16. Automatic Segmentation of Retinal Layers in Multiple Neurodegenerative Disorder Scenarios

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2023-11-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) allows the non-invasive direct observation of the central nervous system, enabling the measurement and extraction of biomarkers from neural tissue that can be helpful in the assessment of ocular, systemic and Neurological Disorders (ND).

  17. Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide.

  18. Association between ventricular CSF biomarkers and outcome after shunt surgery in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    The neurogranin concentration was higher in improved (68%) compared to unimproved patients (median 365 ng/L (IQR 186-544) vs 330 (205-456); p = 0.046).

  19. Retina Oculomics in Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of biomedical engineering 2023-10-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Ophthalmic biomarkers have long played a critical role in diagnosing and managing ocular diseases.

  20. [Sleep and dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie 2023-09-07 Risk factors

    Aging is associated with changes in sleep structure and cerebral deposition of amyloid beta and tau proteins.

  21. Plasma Neurofilament Light Chains as Blood-Based Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis of Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-09-06 Biomarkers

    The number of elderly dogs is increasing significantly worldwide, and many elderly dogs develop canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CCDS).

  22. Generative Adversarial Network-Enhanced Ultra-Low-Dose [18F]-PI-2620 τ PET/MRI in Aging and Neurodegenerative Populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2023-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    The enhanced ultra-low-dose τ images showed apparent noise reduction compared with the ultra-low-dose images.

  23. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP43 encephalopathy (LATE) neuropathological change in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2023-08-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP43) is a focus of research in late-onset dementias.

  24. Associations of Alzheimer's-related plasma biomarkers with cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2023-07-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein significantly correlated with cognitive function tests, including all subdomains, with a notable increase in the PDD group compared with the HC and PDND groups, while plasma neurofilament light chain captured both cognitive decline and disease severity in the PDND and PDD groups.

  25. Upregulation of endocytic protein expression in the Alzheimer's disease male human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging brain 2023-06-21 Biomarkers

    Amyloid-beta (Aβ) is produced from amyloid precursor protein (APP) primarily after APP is internalised by endocytosis and clathrin-mediated endocytic processes are altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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