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  1. Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease in Blood Using a Disposable Electrochemical Microfluidic Platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. ACS sensors 2020-04-02 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition that affects a large number of elderly people worldwide and has a high social and economic impact.

  2. Amyloid-β as a Blood Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Recent Literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the main cause of dementia, is characterized by the aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ).

  3. Bidirectional relationship between sleep and Alzheimer's disease: role of amyloid, tau, and other factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2019-08-13 Tau biomarkers

    As we age, we experience changes in our nighttime sleep and daytime wakefulness.

  4. Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: JACC Scientific Expert Panel

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2019-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cognitive impairment associated with aging has emerged as one of the major public health challenges of our time.

  5. A Nanoplasmonic Biosensor for Ultrasensitive Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Using a Chaotropic Agent

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. ACS sensors 2019-02-22 Biomarkers

    Blood-based diagnosis (hemodiagnosis) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is emerging as a promising alternative to cerebrospinal-fluid-based methods because blood contains various kinds of AD biomarkers, including amyloid beta 1-40, 1-42, and τ (tau) protein.

  6. Astrocyte Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2019-01-02 Biomarkers

    Astrocytic contributions to Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression were, until recently, largely overlooked.

  7. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer disease: mapping the road to the clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2018-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarker discovery and development for clinical research, diagnostics and therapy monitoring in clinical trials have advanced rapidly in key areas of medicine - most notably, oncology and cardiovascular diseases - allowing rapid early detection and supporting the evolution of biomarker-guided, precision-medicine-based targeted therapies.

  8. Imaging the evolution and pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2018-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Technologies for imaging the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) now permit studies of the relationships between the two major proteins deposited in this disease - amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau - and their effects on measures of neurodegeneration and cognition in humans.

  9. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: current status and prospects for the future

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2018-08-19 Biomarkers

    Accumulating data from the clinical research support that the core Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers amyloid-β (Aβ42), total tau (T-tau), and phosphorylated tau (P-tau) reflect key elements of AD pathophysiology.

  10. A novel electrochemical aptamer-antibody sandwich assay for the detection of tau-381 in human serum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Analyst 2018-07-01 Drug development

    Tau protein plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Clinical Research on Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2018-06-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is becoming a major challenge for global health and social care.

  12. Label-free detection of β-amyloid peptides (Aβ40 and Aβ42): a colorimetric sensor array for plasma monitoring of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nanoscale 2018-04-01 Biomarkers

    Monitoring the ratio of 40- and 42-residue amyloid β peptides (i.e., Aβ40 and Aβ42) in human plasma is considered one of the hallmarks of detection of the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. An update on diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of molecular diagnostics 2018-01-23 Biomarkers

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major worldwide neurological disorder of epidemic proportions.

  14. Assay of Plasma Phosphorylated Tau Protein (Threonine 181) and Total Tau Protein in Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    The feasibility of assaying plasma phosphorylated tau protein (threonine 181), denoted p-tau181, using immunomagnetic reduction (IMR) is explored.

  15. From Cerebrospinal Fluid to Blood: The Third Wave of Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    The past five years have seen an enormous development in the field of fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders.

  16. Amyloid Accumulation and Cognitive Decline in Clinically Normal Older Individuals: Implications for Aging and Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The aberrant accumulation of the amyloid protein is a critical and early event in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) cascade.

  17. The tau positron-emission tomography tracer AV-1451 binds with similar affinities to tau fibrils and monoamine oxidases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2017-12-26 Brain scans and imaging

    High affinity of AV-1451 for monoamine oxidase proteins may limit its utility as a tau PET tracer in PSP and Alzheimer's disease because of high levels of monoamine oxidase expression in brain regions also affected by tau deposition, especially if monoamine oxidase levels change over time or with a treatment intervention. © 2017 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

  18. Clinical aspects and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Free radical biology & medicine 2017-09-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) may affect in excess of 90% of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) after age 60, due to duplication of the APP gene in trisomy of chromosome 21, with neuropathology that is comparable to Sporadic AD and Familial AD (FAD).

  19. Phases of Hyperconnectivity and Hypoconnectivity in the Default Mode and Salience Networks Track with Amyloid and Tau in Clinically Normal Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-03-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two hallmark molecular pathologies: amyloid aβ 1-42 and Tau neurofibrillary tangles.

  20. Tau and β-Amyloid Are Associated with Medial Temporal Lobe Structure, Function, and Memory Encoding in Normal Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-02-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Normal aging is associated with a decline in episodic memory and also with aggregation of the β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau proteins and atrophy of medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures crucial to memory formation.

  21. Biomarkers for the Early Detection and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2017-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The recent failures of potential disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) may reflect the fact that the enrolled participants in clinical trials are already too advanced to derive a clinical benefit.

  22. In vivo Patterns of Tau Pathology, Amyloid-β Burden, and Neuronal Dysfunction in Clinical Variants of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease is not reflected in the rather diffuse cortical deposition of amyloid-β.

  23. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in an Aged Squirrel Monkey with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in magnetic resonance imaging scans have emerged as indicators of potentially serious side effects in clinical trials of therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.

  24. The Eye As a Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2016-11-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder resulting in dementia and eventual death.

  25. Neuroinflammatory and morphological changes in late-life depression: the NIMROD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2016-10-06 Risk factors

    We studied neuroinflammation in individuals with late-life depression, as a risk factor for dementia, using [11C]PK11195 positron emission tomography (PET).

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