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  1. Developing novel blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease is the public health crisis of the 21st century.

  2. Novel plasma biomarker surrogating cerebral amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences 2014-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common and devastating dementia.

  3. The relationship between cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cortical microinfarcts in brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2013-08-01 Drug development

    The present data show that CAA plays a role in the development of microvascular lesions in the ageing brain, but cannot be considered as the most important factor in this vascular pathology, suggesting that other mechanisms also contribute importantly to the pathogenesis of microvascular changes.

  4. The future of blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-07-11 Biomarkers

    Treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is significantly hampered by the lack of easily accessible biomarkers that can detect disease presence and predict disease risk reliably.

  5. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in plasma, serum and blood - conceptual and practical problems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-03-07 Biomarkers

    Substances produced throughout the body are detectable in the blood, which is the most common biological fluid used in clinical testing.

  6. Retinal vascular biomarkers for early detection and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2013-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The earliest detectable change in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the buildup of amyloid plaque in the brain.

  7. [(18)F]T807, a novel tau positron emission tomography imaging agent for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-02-12 Brain scans and imaging

    [(18)F]T807 demonstrates high affinity and selectivity to PHF-tau as well as favorable in vivo properties, making this a promising candidate as an imaging agent for AD.

  8. CSF biomarkers cutoffs: the importance of coincident neuropathological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2012-04-22 Biomarkers

    The effects of applying clinical versus neuropathological diagnosis and the inclusion of cases with coincident neuropathological diagnoses have not been assessed specifically when studying cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker classification cutoffs for patients with neurodegenerative diseases that cause dementia.

  9. Decreased brain stiffness in Alzheimer's disease determined by magnetic resonance elastography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2011-07-12 Brain scans and imaging

    3D MRE of the brain can be performed reproducibly and demonstrates significantly reduced brain tissue stiffness in patients with AD.

  10. Alzheimer's disease markers, hypertension, and gray matter damage in normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2011-05-06 Biomarkers

    It is not well known whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are associated with brain damage in cognitively normal elderly.

  11. Update on the magnetic resonance imaging core of the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Functions of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) core fall into three categories: (1) those of the central MRI core laboratory at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, needed to generate high quality MRI data in all subjects at each time point; (2) those of the funded ADNI MRI core imaging analysis groups responsible for analyzing the MRI data; and (3) the joint function of the entire MRI core in designing and problem solving MR image acquisition, pre-processing, and analyses methods.

  12. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and ptau(181) increase with cortical amyloid deposition in cognitively normal individuals: implications for future clinical trials of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2009-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is estimated to develop many years before detectable cognitive decline.

  13. PIB is a non-specific imaging marker of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide-related cerebral amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-08-13 Brain scans and imaging

    The in vivo imaging probe [11C]-PIB (Pittsburgh Compound B, N-methyl[11C]2-(4'-methylaminophenyl-6-hydroxybenzathiazole) is under evaluation as a key imaging tool in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to date has been assumed to bind with high affinity and specificity to the amyloid structures associated with classical plaques (CPs), one of the pathological hallmarks of the disease.

  14. Detection of oligomeric forms of alpha-synuclein protein in human plasma as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2006-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    To date there is no accepted clinical diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease (PD) based on biochemical analysis of blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). alpha-Synuclein (alpha-syn) protein has been linked to the pathogenesis of PD with the discovery of mutations in the gene encoding alpha-syn in familial cases with early-onset PD.

  15. Is Alzheimer's disease a neurodegenerative or a vascular disorder? Data, dogma, and dialectics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2004-03-01 Vascular contributions

    The cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown.

  16. The discovery of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 2003-03-31 Risk factors

    On November 3, 1906, a clinical psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, Alois Alzheimer, reported "A peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex" to the 37th Meeting of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tubingen, He described a 50-year-old woman whom he had followed from her admission for paranoia, progressive sleep and memory disturbance, aggression, and confusion, until her death 5 years later.

  17. Retinal pathology in Alzheimer's disease. II. Regional neuron loss and glial changes in GCL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1996-05-01 Biomarkers

    Detailed analyses of neuronal and astrocyte cell numbers in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) of whole-mounted peripheral retinas from 16 Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 11 control eyes (11 and 9 cases, respectively) demonstrate extensive neuronal loss throughout the entire retina in AD as compared to control eyes.

  18. Glial fibrillary acidic protein-immunoreactive astrocytosis in elderly patients with schizophrenia and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1996-01-01 Drug development

    Clinical and neuropsychological studies of chronically institutionalized patients with schizophrenia indicate that severe cognitive impairment and functional disability in late life are very prevalent.

  19. Reduction of beta-amyloid peptide42 in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1995-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    In this clinical study the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) level of a novel form of the beta-amyloid peptide (A beta) extending to position 42 (A beta 42) was determined in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as controls.

  20. Preliminary NINDS neuropathologic criteria for Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome (progressive supranuclear palsy)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1994-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    We present the preliminary neuropathologic criteria for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) as proposed at a workshop held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, April 24 and 25, 1993.

  21. Pathological alterations of the cerebral microvasculature in Alzheimer's disease and related dementing disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1994-01-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    In all dementing illnesses, increased microvascular pathology was evident compared to normal controls.

  22. Retinal ganglion cells in Alzheimer's disease and aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1993-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Optic nerve and retinal ganglion cell (GC) degeneration are possible explanations for the poor visual function reported in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Disease-specific patterns of locus coeruleus cell loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1992-11-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Computer visualization techniques were used to map and to quantitatively reconstruct the entire locus coeruleus, including the nucleus subcoeruleus, to compare the topographic patterns of cell loss in postmortem brains from patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Down syndrome.

  24. Tau, paired helical filaments and amyloid in the neocortex: a morphometric study of 15 cases with graded intellectual status in aging and senile dementia of Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1989-01-01 Drug development

    Tau immunoreactivity was studied in temporal neocortex, area 22, in 15 cases with graded intellectual status and compared with the immunoreactivity observed with an antiserum against paired helical filaments (PHF) and with the density of amyloid revealed by thioflavin S. Samples came from women over 75 years either intellectually normal or affected by senile dementia of the Alzheimer type at various degrees of severity.

  25. A white matter disorder in dementia of the Alzheimer type: a pathoanatomical study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1986-03-01 Vascular contributions

    In cases of Alzheimer's presenile and senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT), respectively, we have observed, in addition to the gray matter degeneration, a lesion that has the character of an incomplete infarction confined to the white matter.

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