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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Cerebrospinal fluid tau, Abeta1-42 and inflammatory cytokines in patients with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2005-04-25 Tau biomarkers

    In this study we aimed to evaluate the possibility of using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau, Abeta(1-42) and inflammatory cytokines for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD).

  2. Ocular static and dynamic light scattering: a noninvasive diagnostic tool for eye research and clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of biomedical optics 2004 Brain scans and imaging

    The noninvasive techniques of static and dynamic light scattering are emerging as valuable diagnostic tools for the early detection of ocular and systemic diseases.

  3. Cerebrospinal fluid tau protein levels in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 2003-04 Tau biomarkers

    Increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau protein levels are generally considered to provide a sensitive marker of neurodegenerative processes such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Cerebrospinal fluid Abeta40 and Abeta42: natural course and clinical usefulness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library 2002-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    Amyloid beta protein 40 (Abeta40) and 42 Abeta42, major components of senile plaque amyloids, are physiological peptides present in the brain, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma.

  5. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and beta-amyloid(1-42) in dementia disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Mechanisms of ageing and development 2001-11 Tau biomarkers

    The reliability of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-tau and CSF-beta-amyloid assays for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders such as frontotemporal dementia (FTD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is reviewed.

  6. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Their Role in Clinical Chemistry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. EJIFCC 2000-03-21 Tau biomarkers

    In view of current (AChE inhibitors) and future (e.g. anti-Aβ aggregators), development and evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a rapidly growing research field.

  7. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: an overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology 2000-03 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is characterized by amyloid deposition in cortical and leptomeningeal vessels.

  8. Longitudinal stability of CSF tau levels in Alzheimer patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-09-15 Tau biomarkers

    Despite significant changes in the clinical measures consistent with progression of the disease, no significant overall change in CSF tau levels (548 +/- 355 vs. 557 +/- 275 pg/mL, NS) was observed.

  9. Tau protein in cerebrospinal fluid: a new diagnostic and prognostic marker in Alzheimer disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 1998-09 Tau biomarkers

    Tau is the main protein of paired helical filaments.

  10. Aging and cerebrovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurologic clinics 1998-08 Vascular contributions

    Aging influences cerebrovascular disease expression by a variety of mechanisms.

  11. Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 1988-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Section I: Pathophysiology of Stroke. Epidemiology of Stroke.

  12. Surface Plasmon Resonance Clinical Biosensors for Medical Diagnostics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. ACS Sensors 2016-12-25 Risk factors

    The design and application of sensors for monitoring biomolecules in clinical samples is a common goal of the sensing research community.

  13. In Vivo Tau, Amyloid, and Gray Matter Profiles in the Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that Tau and amyloid-β deposits are associated with distinctive spatial patterns of brain tissue loss.

  14. Neurofilament Light Chain in Blood and CSF as Marker of Disease Progression in Mouse Models and in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2016-06-09 Biomarkers

    A majority of current disease-modifying therapeutic approaches for age-related neurodegenerative diseases target their characteristic proteopathic lesions (α-synuclein, Tau, Aβ).

  15. Suppression of glymphatic fluid transport in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2016-05-24 Tau biomarkers

    Glymphatic transport, defined as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) peri-arterial inflow into brain, and interstitial fluid (ISF) clearance, is reduced in the aging brain.

  16. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) in Immunotherapy Trials for Alzheimer's Disease: Need for Prognostic Biomarkers?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-03-01 Treatments

    At the 8th International Conference on Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease held November 5-7, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, promising data were presented on two candidate Alzheimer's disease immunotherapeutic agents, gantenerumab and aducanumab.

  17. Ultra-fast magnetic resonance encephalography of physiological brain activity - Glymphatic pulsation mechanisms?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2015-12-21 Tau biomarkers

    The theory on the glymphatic convection mechanism of cerebrospinal fluid holds that cardiac pulsations in part pump cerebrospinal fluid from the peri-arterial spaces through the extracellular tissue into the peri-venous spaces facilitated by aquaporin water channels.

  18. Amyloid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2015-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) into oligomers, fibrils, and plaques is central in the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is the main focus of AD drug development.

  19. Blood-brain barrier breakdown in the aging human hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2015-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) limits entry of blood-derived products, pathogens, and cells into the brain that is essential for normal neuronal functioning and information processing.

  20. Recommended implementation of arterial spin-labeled perfusion MRI for clinical applications: A consensus of the ISMRM perfusion study group and the European consortium for ASL in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Magnetic resonance in medicine 2014-04-08 Vascular contributions

    This review provides a summary statement of recommended implementations of arterial spin labeling (ASL) for clinical applications.

  21. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a clinical approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Seminars in neurology 2014-04-01 Drug development

    In this review, the authors outline a clinical approach to frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), a term coined to describe a pathology associated with atrophy of the frontal and temporal lobes commonly seen with abnormal protein aggregates.

  22. Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma: mechanistic similarities and differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of glaucoma 2013-06-01 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia.

  23. Brain-wide pathway for waste clearance captured by contrast-enhanced MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2013-02-22 Tau biomarkers

    The glymphatic system is a recently defined brain-wide paravascular pathway for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial fluid (ISF) exchange that facilitates efficient clearance of solutes and waste from the brain.

  24. A selected reaction monitoring (SRM)-based method for absolute quantification of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 in cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer's disease patients and healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are increasingly used in research centers, clinical trials, and clinical settings.

  25. Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease among Mexican Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Drug development

    The biomarker profile for AD among Mexican American cases is significantly different from that previously identified among non-Hispanic cases from many large-scale studies.

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