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  1. Plasma P-Tau181 for the Discrimination of Alzheimer’s Disease from Other Primary Dementing and/or Movement Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-08-10 Biomarkers

    Blood phospho-tau181 may offer a useful biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease.

  2. Findings of 18 F‐PI‐2620 tau PET imaging in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and healthy controls in relation to the plasma P‐tau181 levels in a Japanese sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology Reports 2022-07-17 Biomarkers

    The uptake of 18 F‐PI‐2620 was distinctly increased in the AD group across all the ROIs.

  3. Fluorescent Aptasensor and Colorimetric Aptablot for p-tau231 Detection: Toward Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-01-01 Biomarkers

    The pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is considered to be mainly driven by two major hallmarks (tau and amyloid beta).

  4. Abundance of Nef and p-Tau217 in Brains of Individuals Diagnosed with HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders Correlate with Disease Severance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular Neurobiology 2021-11-29 Biomarkers

    HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) is a term used to describe a variety of neurological impairments observed in HIV-infected individuals.

  5. Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer's Biomarkers and Neurofilament Light Profile of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in China: A PUMCH Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2021-06-02 Tau biomarkers

    Twenty-seven iNPH, 27 AD, and 18 controls were included.

  6. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for the Diagnosis and Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Korean medical science 2020-11-16 Tau biomarkers

    CSF Aβ42, total tau (t-tau) and phosphorylated tau (p-tau) significantly differed across the three groups.

  7. Fluid Candidate Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: A Precision Medicine Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2020-11-11 Biomarkers

    A plethora of dynamic pathophysiological mechanisms underpins highly heterogeneous phenotypes in the field of dementia, particularly in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Ganglion Cell Layer Thinning in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 2020-10-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The main advantages of optical retinal imaging may allow researchers to achieve deeper analysis of retinal ganglion cells (GC) in vivo using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

  9. Amyloid PET imaging in clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Practical neurology 2020-09-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) imaging enables in vivo detection of brain Aβ deposition, one of the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.

  10. Cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease: Hopes and gaps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 2020-09-07 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is recognized as multifactorial and heterogeneous disease with multiple contributors to its pathophysiology, including vascular dysfunction.

  11. Using amyloid PET imaging to diagnose Alzheimer's disease in patients with multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2020-06-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Two patients were diagnosed with AD based on positive Amyloid PET imaging and were subsequently started on cholinesterase inhibitor treatment.

  12. Optical coherence tomography reveals light-dependent retinal responses in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage 2020-06-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is an accessible clinical tool for measuring structural changes to the retina, and increasingly as a biomarker for brain-predominant neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Information about retinal function can also be extracted from OCT images, but is under-studied, with literature examples often employing challenging protocols or requiring specialized hardware.

  13. Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2020-06-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Retinal microcirculation shares similar features with cerebral small blood vessels.

  14. Clinical significance of fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Pharmacological reports : PR 2020-05-08 Biomarkers

    The number of patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other types of dementia disorders has drastically increased over the last decades.

  15. Early-phase [18F]PI-2620 tau-PET imaging as a surrogate marker of neuronal injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-04-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Highest agreement with [18F]FDG-PET quantification was reached for [18F]PI-2620-PET acquisition from 0.5 to 2.5 min p.i. for global mean (lowest R = 0.69) and cerebellar scaling (lowest R = 0.63).

  16. Potential Role of Venular Amyloid in Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-03-14 Vascular contributions

    Insurmountable evidence has demonstrated a strong association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), along with various other cerebrovascular diseases.

  17. Developing robust biomarkers for vascular cognitive disorders: adding 'V' to the AT(N) research framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in psychiatry 2020-03 Brain scans and imaging

    The AT(N) research framework was introduced in 2018 to define Alzheimer's disease as a biological entity.

  18. Limbic Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE): Clinical and Neuropathological Associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2020-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Recently, a consensus working group provided new terminology for a common disease entity, limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), and its neuropathological substrate (LATE-NC).

  19. Temporal and anatomical distribution of 18F-flutemetamol uptake in canine brain using positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMC veterinary research 2020-01-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the six cerebral cortical regions, the cingulate cortices and frontal lobe showed the highest SUVRs.

  20. Pre-Analytical Sampling and Storage Conditions of Amyloid-β Peptides in Venous and Capillary Blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Biomarkers

    Previous studies on blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease suggest a less invasive blood test might be a valuable screening tool for Alzheimer-specific pathology.

  21. Amyloid Metabolism and Amyloid-Targeting Blood-Based Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Biomarkers

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) is a key protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) in that its accumulation induces complex pathological changes.

  22. Alzheimer's Disease: The Link Between Amyloid-β and Neurovascular Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Vascular contributions

    While prevailing evidence supports that the amyloid cascade hypothesis is a key component of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, many recent studies indicate that the vascular system is also a major contributor to disease progression.

  23. Repeated lumbar punctures within 3 days may affect CSF biomarker levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2019-12-13 Tau biomarkers

    Lumbar puncture (LP) is a common way of collecting cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) both in the clinic and in research.

  24. A new Centiloid method for 18F-florbetaben and 18F-flutemetamol PET without conversion to PiB

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2019-12-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Following the conversion of FBB or FMM SUVRs into CL units, a direct relationship was formed between the FBB or FMM SUVRs and the CL units using dcCL method (FBB dcCL = 151.42 × FBB dcSUVR - 142.24 and FMM dcCL = 148.52 × FMM dcSUVR - 137.09).

  25. Elevation of plasma soluble amyloid precursor protein beta in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2019-12-09 Biomarkers

    The plasma level of sAPPβ was significantly increased in AD patients than in cognitively healthy controls.

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