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  1. Inflammatory biomarker candidates in dementia with Lewy bodies: diagnostic classification, clinical associations, and survival 2026-11-01
  2. Longitudinal plasma biomarkers and multimodal PET across APOE ε4 genotypes: a prospective cohort study 2026-11-01
  3. Concurrent cognitive, behavioral and systemic physiological features mark preclinical Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30

Studies

698 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 123
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 53
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 46
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 36
  • medRxiv 29

196 journals in all.

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  1. Plasma biomarkers of astrocytic and neuronal dysfunction in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-16 Biomarkers

    Principle component analyses identified 3 factors: trophic (BDNF, VEGF, TGFβ), degenerative (GFAP, NfL), and inflammatory (TNFα, IL-6, IP-10, IL-10).

  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. 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.

  4. Blood Amyloid-β Oligomerization as a Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease: A Blinded Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Biomarkers

    MDS-OAβ to measure plasma Aβ oligomerization is a valuable blood-based biomarker for clinical diagnosis of AD, with high sensitivity and specificity.

  5. Plasma Neurofilament Light and Longitudinal Progression of White Matter Hyperintensity in Elderly Persons Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Biomarkers

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) is mainly caused by cerebrovascular injury and may also increase the possibilities of progression to Alzheimer's disease.

  6. 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.

  7. A Review on MS-Based Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2019-12-12 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of neurodegenerative dementia and there is no cure to date.

  8. 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.

  9. Racial Disparity in Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers and Associated Cutoffs for Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-12-02 Biomarkers

    Data from 362 study participants were analyzed (mean [SD] age, 65.6 [7.9] years), of whom 152 (42.0%) were African American, 230 (63.5%) were women, and 189 (52.2%) had MCI.

  10. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of YKL-40 in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2019-11-30 Tau biomarkers

    Recently, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) YKL-40 levels were reported to be a promising candidate biomarker of glial inflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Clinical validation of the Lumipulse G cerebrospinal fluid assays for routine diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-11-23 Biomarkers

    The Lumipulse G assays show a very good analytical performance that makes them well-suited for CSF clinical routine measurements.

  12. Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarker trajectories with increasing amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2019-11-11 Biomarkers

    Failures in Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug trials highlight the need to further explore disease mechanisms and alterations of biomarkers during the development of AD.

  13. Multiplex proteomics identifies novel CSF and plasma biomarkers of early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-11-06 Genetics

    To date, the development of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has largely focused on the removal of amyloid beta Aβ fragments from the CNS.

  14. Alcohol drinking exacerbates neural and behavioral pathology in the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International review of neurobiology 2019-10-23 Biomarkers

    Multiplex immunoassay conducted on brain lysates showed that alcohol drinking upregulated primary markers of AD pathology in 3xTg-AD mice: Aβ 42/40 ratio in the lateral entorhinal and prefrontal cortex and total Tau expression in the lateral entorhinal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and amygdala at 1-month post alcohol exposure.

  15. High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry Assay for Quantifying β-Amyloid 40 and 42 in Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2019-10-18 Biomarkers

    The assay had a reportable range of 100 to 25000 pg/mL, a limit of quantification of 100 pg/mL, recoveries between 93% and 111%, and intraassay and interassay CV <15% for both peptides.

  16. Plasma neurofilament light associates with Alzheimer's disease metabolic decline in amyloid-positive individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-09-27 Biomarkers

    These findings indicate that plasma NfL is a proxy for neurodegeneration in AD-related regions in Aβ+ subjects.

  17. VGF Peptides in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-09-20 Tau biomarkers

    In a previous proteomic study, we identified the neurosecretory protein VGF (VGF) as a potential biomarker for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  18. Neurofilament light chain plasma concentration predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in nondemented elderly adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Aging 2019-09-12 Biomarkers

    Previous studies demonstrated that plasma neurofilament light chain (NFL) played important predictive roles in disease progression and neurodegeneration in the preclinical phase of familial Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Plasma lipocalin-2 levels in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-09-06 Biomarkers

    Plasma lipocalin-2 levels were higher in preclinical AD compared with control subjects and associated with cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta42 levels but not cerebrospinal fluid tau or phosphorylated-tau181 levels.

  20. The CSF p-tau181/Aβ42 Ratio Offers a Good Accuracy “In Vivo” in the Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2019-09-04 Biomarkers

    It might constitute a simple, cost-effective and reproducible in vivo proxy of AD suitable to be adopted worldwide not only in daily clinical practice but also in future experimental trials, to avoid the enrolment of misdiagnosed AD patients.

  21. Kallikrein-related peptidases 6 and 10 are elevated in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's disease and associated with CSF-TAU and FDG-PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2019-08-27 Tau biomarkers

    Levels of KLK6 and KLK10 were significantly increased in AD.

  22. Reciprocal Predictive Relationships between Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease Progression: An Empirical Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2019-07-26 Tau biomarkers

    In Alzheimer's disease patients, although amyloid deposition and CSF amyloid changes continued to "cascade", there was no evidence to suggest that amyloid and tau biomarkers predicted each other, although both amyloid deposition and CSF tau progression predicted cognitive decline independently.

  23. Plasma tau complements CSF tau and P-tau in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-06-28 Tau biomarkers

    Plasma tau was higher in patients with AD than cognitively normal controls (P < .001, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.79) similarly to CSF tau and CSF P-tau and was negatively correlated with cognition in AD.

  24. Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease utilizing amyloid and tau as fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Experimental & molecular medicine 2019-05-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Current technological advancements in clinical and research settings have permitted a more intensive and comprehensive understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Aβ and tau structure-based biomarkers for a blood- and CSF-based two-step recruitment strategy to identify patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-03-12 Biomarkers

    The primary Aβ-based blood biomarker funnels individuals with suspected AD for subsequent validation of the diagnosis by structure-based combined analysis of the CSF biomarkers Aβ and tau.

  26. Associations between baseline amyloid, sex, and APOE on subsequent tau accumulation in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-03-07 Tau biomarkers

    We investigated the effect of baseline Aβ, sex, and APOE on longitudinal tau accumulation in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in clinically normal older adults.

  27. The added value of Aβ42/Aβ40 in the CSF signature for routine diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2019-03-04 Biomarkers

    The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) signature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes abnormal levels of amyloid-β 1-42 (Aβ42), total tau (t-Tau) and phosphorylated tau (p-Tau).

  28. 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.

  29. Increased plasma neurofilament light chain concentration correlates with severity of post-mortem neurofibrillary tangle pathology and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2019-01-09 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and widespread neuronal loss in the brain.

  30. 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.

  31. A Fragment of S38AA is a Novel Plasma Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease without a cure.

  32. Blood-based systems biology biomarkers for next-generation clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2019 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD)-a complex disease showing multiple pathomechanistic alterations-is triggered by nonlinear dynamic interactions of genetic/epigenetic and environmental risk factors, which, ultimately, converge into a biologically heterogeneous disease.

  33. Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β (Aβ)42 and tau are biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the effects of other neurodegenerative processes on these biomarkers remain unclear.

  34. Revisiting the Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Profile in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: The Bologna Pro-Hydro Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been extensively investigated in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) with the aim of a better differential diagnosis, but the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying CSF biomarker changes and the relationship between biomarker levels and clinical variables are still a matter of debate.

  35. Antemortem CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio predicts Alzheimer's disease pathology better than Aβ42 in rapidly progressive dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2018-12-14 Biomarkers

    The score reflecting the severity of Aβ pathology showed a better correlation with ln(Aβ42/Aβ40) (R 2 = 0.506, β = -0.713, P < 0.001) than with ln(Aβ42) (R 2 = 0.206, β = -0.458, P < 0.001), which was confirmed after adjusting for covariates.

  36. Learnings about the complexity of extracellular tau aid development of a blood-based screen for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-11-09 Biomarkers

    The forms of tau in CSF and plasma are distinct, but in each specimen type, the levels of certain fragments are increased in AD.

  37. 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.

  38. 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.

  39. Abnormal CSF amyloid-β42 and tau levels in hip fracture patients without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PloS one 2018-09-25 Biomarkers

    Among the hip fracture patients, 88.6% of the cognitively normal (Clinical Dementia Rating-CDR 0; n = 70) and 98.8% with mild cognitive impairment (CDR 0.5; n = 81) fell in the abnormal biomarker categories by the A/T/N classification.

  40. Non-beta-amyloid/tau cerebrospinal fluid markers inform staging and progression in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-09-25 Tau biomarkers

    Three biomarkers were identified to differ among the AD stages, including neurofilament light chain (NfL; p < 0.001), fatty acid binding protein 3 (Fabp3; p < 0.001), and interleukin (IL)-10 (p = 0.033).

  41. Longitudinal cognitive and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2018-09-14 Biomarkers

    These longitudinal estimates clarify the sequence and temporal dynamics of presymptomatic pathologic changes in autosomal dominant AD, information critical to a better understanding of the disease.

  42. 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.

  43. Biomarkers of dementia in obstructive sleep apnea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Sleep medicine reviews 2018-08-13 Risk factors

    Epidemiologic and mechanistic evidence is increasingly supporting the notion that obstructive sleep apnea is a risk factor for dementia.

  44. Stability of blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease over multiple freeze-thaw cycles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-07-02 Biomarkers

    Up to four freeze-thaw cycles do not influence single molecule array blood biomarkers of neurofilament light chain, total tau, or Aβ 42 , with at most minor reductions in Aβ 40 .

  45. Loss of white matter integrity reflects tau accumulation in Alzheimer disease defined regions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2018-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Our cohort was composed of 59 cognitively normal participants and 10 cognitively impaired individuals.

  46. Raman Spectroscopy to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies in Blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2018-06-14 Biomarkers

    Accurate identification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is still of major clinical importance considering the current lack of noninvasive and low-cost diagnostic approaches.

  47. Relevance of Aβ42/40 Ratio for Detection of Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Clinical Routine: The PLM R Scale

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-05-28 Biomarkers

    Nine hundred and four participants (342 AD and 562 NAD) were studied; 400 in Mtp-1 and 504 in Mtp-2.

  48. Amyloid blood biomarker detects Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2018-05-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently incurable, but there is general agreement that a minimally invasive blood biomarker for screening in preclinical stages would be crucial for future therapy.

  49. 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).

  50. 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.

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