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  1. Impact of pre-analytical sample handling factors on plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2023-01-23 Biomarkers

    An unmet need exists for reliable plasma biomarkers of amyloid pathology, in the clinical laboratory setting, to streamline diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Plasma biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders: ready for prime time?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current opinion in psychiatry 2023-01-16 Biomarkers

    Recent findings Plasma biomarkers have significantly improved our understanding of ADRD time-course, risk factors, diagnosis and prognosis.

  3. Diagnostic Biomarkers of Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease: An Overview of Tests for Clinical Practice in the United States and Europe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023-01-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid and tau biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease are widely recognized diagnostic tools for the identification of Alzheimer's disease pathology antemortem and are recommended by the most recent clinical and research guidelines.

  4. Vascular Considerations for Amyloid Immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2022-10-21 Treatments

    Decades of research into anti-Aβ immunotherapies provide evidence for increased Aβ clearance from the brain; however, this is frequently accompanied by complicated vascular deficits.

  5. Aptamer-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors for Alzheimer's Disease Serum Biomarker Detection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ACS sensors 2022-07-11 Biomarkers

    Blood-biomarker-based tests are highly important for the early clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the treatment and care of AD patients, but the complex serum environment and extremely low abundance of AD blood protein biomarkers present challenges.

  6. Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2022-04-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the single commonest cause of dementia.

  7. Current trends in blood biomarker detection and imaging for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biosensors & bioelectronics 2022-04-12 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes cognitive impairments in areas such as memory, language, and reasoning.

  8. Portable electrochemical micro-workstation platform for simultaneous detection of multiple Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Mikrochimica acta 2022-02-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease, as a most prevalent type of dementia, is quickly becoming one of the most expensive, lethal, and burdening diseases of this century.

  9. Detection and Management of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Treated with Anti-Amyloid Beta Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) are adverse events reported in Alzheimer's disease trials of anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) therapies.

  10. Mass spectrometry-based methods for robust measurement of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in biological fluids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2021-08-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting 60%-70% of people afflicted with this disease.

  11. Current advances in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2021-04-01 Biomarkers

    This review provides a concise overview of recent advances in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease lesions.

  12. ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2021-03-02 Digital health tools

    Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging technique that has been increasingly used to image the retinal vasculature at capillary level resolution.

  13. Alpha-synuclein RT-QuIC in the CSF of patients with alpha-synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2016-08-28 Tau biomarkers

    We have developed a novel real-time quaking-induced conversion RT-QuIC-based assay to detect alpha-synuclein aggregation in brain and cerebrospinal fluid from dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease patients.

  14. Estimation of Tau and Phosphorylated Tau181 in Serum of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2016-07-26 Biomarkers

    The elevated level of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Tau and phosphorylated Tau181 (p-Tau181) proteins are well established hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. The ultra-sensitive IMR by utilizing antibody-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles and high-Tc SQUID magnetometer is promising as a method to assay plasma α-synuclein, which is a potential biomarker for discriminating patients with PD or PDD.

  16. Lymphatic Clearance of the Brain: Perivascular, Paravascular and Significance for Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2016-03-18 Risk factors

    The lymphatic clearance pathways of the brain are different compared to the other organs of the body and have been the subject of heated debates.

  17. Comparative analysis of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-12-21 Biomarkers

    Combining the biomarker panel allows differentiating between various types of neurodegenerative dementias and contributes to a better understanding of their pathophysiological processes.

  18. Serum amyloid-beta levels are increased in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2015-09-09 Biomarkers

    A critical link between amyloid-beta (Aβ) and hypoxia has been demonstrated in in vitro and animal studies but has not yet been proven in humans.

  19. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 Biomarker Core: A review of progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Biomarkers

    Further studies will refine this model and enable the use of biomarkers studied in ADNI clinically and in disease-modifying therapeutic trials.

  20. Beta-amyloid imaging with florbetaben

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-02-12 Treatments

    Florbetaben is a fluorine-18 ( 18 F)-labeled stilbene derivative that was developed as a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for routine clinical application to visualize β-amyloid plaques in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  21. Amyloid-β 42/40 cerebrospinal fluid concentration ratio in the diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease: validation of two novel assays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    (a) the novel Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42 ELISA assays characterize with very good analytical performance; (b) we reconfirm that the CSF Aβ42/40 concentration ratio shows significantly better diagnostic performance compared to the CSF Aβ1-42 concentration alone.

  22. Aβ immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: effects on apoE and cerebral vasculopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-09-07 Treatments

    Aβ immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) results in the removal of Aβ plaques and increased cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  23. Specificity of anti-tau antibodies when analyzing mice models of Alzheimer's disease: problems and solutions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2014-05-02 Drug development

    Aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau protein are found in a group of diseases called tauopathies, which includes Alzheimer's disease.

  24. Using mice to model Alzheimer's dementia: an overview of the clinical disease and the preclinical behavioral changes in 10 mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in genetics 2014-04-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The goal of this review is to discuss how behavioral tests in mice relate to the pathological and neuropsychological features seen in human Alzheimer's disease (AD), and present a comprehensive analysis of the temporal progression of behavioral impairments in commonly used AD mouse models that contain mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP).

  25. TDP-43 is a key player in the clinical features associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-03-23 Brain scans and imaging

    The aim of this study was to determine whether the TAR DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) has any independent effect on the clinical and neuroimaging features typically ascribed to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, and whether TDP-43 pathology could help shed light on the phenomenon of resilient cognition in AD.

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