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  1. Plasma and MRI biomarkers capture neuronal damage in former professional boxers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Scientific reports 2025-06-06 Biomarkers

    Repetitive Head Impacts (RHI) in boxing may increase the risk for neuronal damage.

  2. Blood essential trace elements and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in midlife

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2025-05-30 Biomarkers

    In the multivariable linear regression models, a doubling of serum molybdenum level was associated with 9.4% higher Aβ42/40 ratio (95% CI: 0.8, 18.6%; p = 0.03), and a doubling of serum cobalt level with 17.5% higher p-tau181 level (95% CI: 3.1, 33.8%; p = 0.02).

  3. A head-to-head comparison of plasma biomarkers to detect Alzheimer's disease in a memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-02 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau biomarkers had a greater diagnostic performance and larger effect sizes compared to t-tau and Aβ42/40 assays in detecting Aβ pathology.

  4. Pharmacodynamic effects of semorinemab on plasma and CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-08 Drug development

    Plasma phosphorylated Tau 181 (pTau181) and CSF chitinase-3-like protein 1 (YKL-40) increased following semorinemab treatment in both studies.

  5. Prognostic and Predictive Factors in Early Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-02-16 Treatments

    Age was the strongest risk factor for progression.

  6. Predicting amyloid PET positivity using plasma p-tau181 and other blood-based biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    In the Asan cohort, after adjusting for age and sex, p-tau181 (AUC = 0.854) or APOE ε4 status (AUC = 0.769) distinguished Aβ status with high accuracy.

  7. The association between personality and plasma biomarkers of astrogliosis and neuronal injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-04-25 Biomarkers

    Personality traits have been associated with the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease neuropathology, including amyloid and tau.

  8. Deamidation-related blood biomarkers show promise for early diagnostics of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Biomarker research 2022-12-27 Biomarkers

    Deamidation products of blood albumin were significantly elevated in vascular dementia and frontotemporal dementia (P < 0.05), but less so in PD.

  9. Plasma neurofilament light chain in memory clinic practice: Evidence from a real-life study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2022-12-01 Biomarkers

    (N = 558, mean age = 69.2 ± 8.8, 56.5% women) were diagnosed with AD (n = 274, considering dementia and MCI stages), frontotemporal dementia (FTD, n = 55), Lewy body disease (LBD, n = 40, considering MCI and dementia stages), other neurodegenerative diseases, n = 57 (e.g Supranuclear Palsy, Corticobasal syndrome), non-neurodegenerative cognitive impairment (NND, n = 79, e.g. vascular lesions, epilepsy or psychiatric disorders) or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI, n = 53).

  10. Investigating Tau and Amyloid Tracer Skull Binding in Studies of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-08-11 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that 50 of 313 (∼16%) FTP scans had high levels of skull signal.

  11. Technical Performance Evaluation of Olink Proximity Extension Assay for Blood-Based Biomarker Discovery in Longitudinal Studies of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-06-06 Biomarkers

    The core Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers; amyloid-β (Aß), total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau181), are strong indicators of the presence of AD pathology, but do not correlate well with disease progression, and can be difficult to implement in longitudinal studies where repeat biofluid sampling is required.

  12. Plasma phosphorylated-tau181 as a predictive biomarker for Alzheimer's amyloid, tau and FDG PET status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-11-13 Biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated-tau181 (p-tau181) showed the potential for Alzheimer's diagnosis and prognosis, but its role in detecting cerebral pathologies is unclear.

  13. Longitudinal Accumulation of Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2021-01-25 Treatments

    Our study highlights factors associated with the development of CMHs in individuals with DIAD.

  14. Cognitive Performance and Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Results from the Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Tau biomarkers

    Among participants with CDR 0 (n = 259), those with amyloid (A+) and/or tau pathology (T+, N+) showed similar performance on most cognitive tests compared to participants with A-T-N-.

  15. Effect of APOE ε4 genotype on amyloid-β and tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-10-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Progressive tau accumulation may be more prominent in ε4 carriers, particularly in the medial and lateral temporal cortices.

  16. Dynamics of plasma biomarkers in Down syndrome: the relative levels of Aβ42 decrease with age, whereas NT1 tau and NfL increase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-03-19 Biomarkers

    High levels of Aβ42 and tau in both young controls and DS suggest these proteins are produced by normal physiological processes, whereas the changes seen in later life are consistent with emergence of pathological alterations.

  17. Neurofilament light chain in serum for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2018-10-11 Biomarkers

    Serum NFL is increased in ALS in comparison to other conditions and can serve as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker.

  18. Spectral-Domain OCT Measurements in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Ophthalmology 2018-08-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Topic OCT is a noninvasive tool to measure specific retinal layers in the eye.

  19. Clinical criteria for subtyping Parkinson's disease: biomarkers and longitudinal progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Data from deformation-based magnetic resonance imaging morphometry demonstrated a Parkinson's disease-specific brain network had more atrophy in the diffuse malignant subtype, with the mild motor-predominant subtype having the least atrophy.

  20. Impact of Training Method on the Robustness of the Visual Assessment of 18F-Florbetaben PET Scans: Results from a Phase-3 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-01-28 End-of-life care

    Florbetaben scans were assessed visually and quantitatively, and results were compared with amyloid plaque scores.

  21. Cerebrospinal fluid τ protein in differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in Chinese population: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2013-10-27 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with AD exhibit significantly higher CSF τ protein levels than healthy controls or patients with VaD in the Chinese population.

  22. Increased neurofilament light chain blood levels in neurodegenerative neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. PloS one 2013-09-20 Biomarkers

    We developed and validated a novel ECL based sandwich immunoassay for the NfL protein in serum (NfL(Umea47:3)); levels in ALS were more than 20-fold higher than in controls.

  23. Lithium trial in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter 10-week study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2009-06-01 Drug development

    The current results do not support the notion that lithium treatment may lead to reduced hyperphosphorylation of tau protein after a short 10-week treatment in the Alzheimer's disease target population.

  24. Plasma p-tau markers, vascular factors, and cognitive decline in the CIMA-Q cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-06 Biomarkers

    Higher plasma p-tau levels were associated with worse cognition at baseline and over time, with the strongest effect observed with p-tau217 in cognitively impaired individuals (β = -0.49, p < 0.001).

  25. Scalable biological-cognitive profiling for Alzheimer's disease in the population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain communications 2026-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Plasma phosphorylated tau217 has been suggested as a core biomarker for establishing a biological Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

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