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  1. Optical coherence tomography and neurodegeneration: are eyes the windows to the brain?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2016-05-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Central nervous system (CNS) pathologies have ocular manifestations due to direct and/or retrograde degeneration of the visual pathways, most often related to a direct injury to the optic nerve, retinal ganglion cells and/or its surrounding cells.

  2. Plasma Proteomics Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: Latest Advances and Challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2016 Biomarkers

    The recent paradigm shift towards a more biologically oriented definition of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical settings increases the need for sensitive biomarkers that can be applied in population-based settings.

  3. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation Biomarkers: Where are we Now?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Treatments

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy- related inflammation (CAA-ri) is an aggressive disease subtype of CAA with characteristic clinical and radiological findings.

  4. Amyloid positron emission tomography and cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. World journal of radiology 2015-12-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a non-linear progressive course and several aspects influence the relationship between cerebral amount of AD pathology and the clinical expression of the disease.

  5. The cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile in an HIV-infected subject with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. AIDS research and therapy 2015-07-14 Tau biomarkers

    It is a challenge to differentiate between HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and other types of neurocognitive disease in the ageing HIV-infected population.

  6. [(18)F]Florbetaben: a review in β-amyloid PET imaging in cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. CNS drugs 2015-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Intravenous (18)F-labelled florbetaben ([(18)F]florbetaben) [Neuraceq™] is a polyethylene glycol stilbene derivative that is approved in the USA, EU and South Korea for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain.

  7. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Familial Forms of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2015-05-13 Tau biomarkers

    As dementia is a fast-growing health care problem, it is becoming an increasingly urgent need to provide an early diagnosis in order to offer patients the best medical treatment and care.

  8. Sphingolipid metabolism correlates with cerebrospinal fluid Beta amyloid levels in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-04 Tau biomarkers

    Sphingolipids are important in many brain functions but their role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not completely defined.

  9. Amyloid-β and α-synuclein cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and cognition in early Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2015-05-02 Tau biomarkers

    In the PD group, 13 had normal cognition, 4 had subjective and 14 mild cognitive impairment.

  10. FIBT versus florbetaben and PiB: a preclinical comparison study with amyloid-PET in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2015-03-28 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that FIBT (2-(p-methylaminophenyl)-7-(2-[(18)F]fluoroethoxy)imidazo[2,1-b]benzothiazole) compares favorably to florbetaben as a high-contrasting PET radiopharmaceutical for imaging Aβ pathology.

  11. Cerebral autoregulation, beta amyloid, and white matter hyperintensities are interrelated

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2015-03-04 Vascular contributions

    Emerging studies link vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular health to the prevalence and rates of progression in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Amyloid PET imaging: applications beyond Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    As a biomarker of beta-amyloid, positron emission tomography (PET) amyloid imaging offers a unique opportunity to detect the presence of this protein in the human body during life.

  13. Matrix Metalloproteinases in Alzheimer's Disease and Concurrent Cerebral Microbleeds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015 Tau biomarkers

    Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes able to degrade components of the extracellular matrix, which is important for normal blood-brain barrier function.

  14. Ocular biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Central nervous system agents in medicinal chemistry 2015 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterised clinically by a progressive decline in executive functions, memory and cognition.

  15. Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a current perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Advances in medical sciences 2014-12-09 Tau biomarkers

    A growing body of evidence supports the application of the neurochemical dementia diagnostics (NDD) biomarkers for the diagnosis of dementing conditions.

  16. Retinal microvasculature in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014 Brain scans and imaging

    Although cerebral small vessel disease has been implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the cerebral microcirculation is difficult to visualize directly in vivo.

  17. Brain hemorrhages in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in thrombosis and hemostasis 2013-10-09 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is cerebrovascular amyloid deposition.

  18. [The DIAN study]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2013-10 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The DIAN study compared the pathophysiological markers between carriers and non-carriers of mutation for autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Amyloid pathology influences aβ1-42 cerebrospinal fluid levels in dementia with lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013 Tau biomarkers

    A significant proportion of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) show Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology like senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  20. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The neuroradiology journal 2012-11-09 Vascular contributions

    The aim of this report was to describe the case of an elderly patient with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated dementia who presented with new onset symptomatology compatible with an acute cerebrovascular event.

  21. α-Synuclein as CSF and Blood Biomarker of Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2012-09-26 Biomarkers

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common subtype of dementia in the elderly.

  22. Tau phosphorylation pathway genes and cerebrospinal fluid tau levels in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics 2012-08-27 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence in the brain of amyloid plaques, consisting predominately of the amyloid β peptide (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles, consisting primarily of tau.

  23. Amyloid imaging in Alzheimer's disease: comparison of florbetapir and Pittsburgh compound-B positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2012-07-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Both ligands displayed highly significant group discrimination and correlation of regional uptake.

  24. Sympathetic noradrenergic before striatal dopaminergic denervation: relevance to Braak staging of synucleinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society 2011-07-28 Brain tissue and pathology

    Braak's staging concept of Lewy body disease pathogenesis is based on a spatiotemporal sequence of alpha-synuclein deposition, with autonomic nervous system involvement before synucleinopathy in substantia nigra neurons.

  25. Cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid and dynabridging in Alzheimer's disease drug development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Biomarkers in medicine 2009-12 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has become a matrix for biomarker discovery and development in recent years.

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