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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

712 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 124
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 54
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 47
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 37
  • medRxiv 29

196 journals in all.

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  1. Translating blood biomarkers into clinical practice for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges and perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-23 Biomarkers

    Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical practice is urgent with advances in AD treatment.

  2. Longitudinal changes in Alzheimer's-related plasma biomarkers and brain amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40${{\rm A}\beta }_{42}/{{\rm A}\beta }_{40}$ may begin declining decades prior to brain amyloid accumulation, whereas p-tau ratios, GFAP, and NfL increase closer in time.

  3. Design and feasibility of an Alzheimer's disease blood test study in a diverse community-based population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-19 Biomarkers

    Of the 859 participants enrolled in this ongoing study, 20.6% self-identified as Black or African American.

  4. Detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in its preclinical stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-05-18 Treatments

    Longitudinal multimodal biomarker studies reveal that the continuum of Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes a long latent phase, referred to as preclinical AD, which precedes the onset of symptoms by decades.

  5. CSF Aβ40 Levels Do Not Correlate with the Clinical Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2023-05-15 Biomarkers

    Participants were classified as hyposecretors (n = 22, median Aβ40 5,870.500 pg/mL, interquartile range [IQR] 1,431), normosecretors (n = 47, median Aβ40 10,817 pg/mL, IQR 3,622), and hypersecretors (n = 7, 19,767 pg/mL, IQR 3,088).

  6. Preanalytical stability of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-05-12 Biomarkers

    Phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181), phosphorylated tau 231 (p-tau231), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) concentrations were unchanged both when stored at +4°C and +18°C. Amyloid-β 40 (Aβ40) and amyloid-β 42 (Aβ42) concentrations were stable for 24 h at +4°C but declined when stored at +18°C for longer than 6 h. This decline did not affect the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio.

  7. Plasma Aβ biomarker for early diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease - a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Danish medical journal 2023-05-10 Biomarkers

    A total of 17 articles were identified. Plasma Aβ42/40 ratio was inversely correlated with aPET positivity r = -0.48 (95% confidence interval (CI): -0.65--0.31).

  8. GFAP as a Potential Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Cells 2023-05-04 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers have been considered tools for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Available Assays, Recent Developments, and Implications for Clinical Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-05-03 Biomarkers

    Recently, low-sensitive plasma assays have been replaced by new ultra-sensitive assays such as single molecule enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Simoa), the Mesoscale Discovery (MSD) platform, and immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (IP-MS) with higher accuracy in the determination of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Higher plasma β-synuclein indicates early synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-27 Biomarkers

    Plasma β-synuclein levels were higher in preclinical AD and even higher in MCI and AD dementia.

  11. Mass spectrometric simultaneous quantification of tau species in plasma shows differential associations with amyloid and tau pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-04-27 Biomarkers

    Blood phosphorylated tau (p-tau) biomarkers, at differing sites, demonstrate high accuracy to detect Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Equivalence of plasma p-tau217 with cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-20 Biomarkers

    Plasma and CSF p-tau 217 had equivalent diagnostic performance for biomarker-defined AD.

  13. Plasma ATN(I) classification and precision pharmacology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-20 Biomarkers

    Evaluating potential therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) depends on use of biomarkers for appropriate subject selection and monitoring disease progression.

  14. A glycan epitope correlates with tau in serum and predicts progression to Alzheimer's disease in combination with APOE4 allele status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-12 Biomarkers

    Bisecting N-acetylglucosamine correlated with tau levels (p < 0.0001).

  15. Plasma p-tau181 and p-tau217 in discriminating PART, AD and other key neuropathologies in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2023-04-09 Biomarkers

    We examined whether plasma p-tau181 and p-tau217 are specific biomarkers of pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Plasma phosphorylated tau 181 predicts amyloid status and conversion to dementia stage dependent on renal function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2023-04-03 Biomarkers

    Plasma P-tau181 effectively detects Aβ+ status and conversion to dementia, confirming the value of this blood biomarker for the management of AD.

  17. Nanosensor-Driven Detection of Neuron-Derived Exosomal Aβ 42 with Graphene Electrolyte-Gated Transistor for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Analytical chemistry 2023-03-21 Biomarkers

    Blood-based tests have sparked tremendous attention in non-invasive early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a most prevalent neurodegenerative malady worldwide.

  18. The clinical application of optimized AT(N) classification in Alzheimer's clinical syndrome (ACS) and non-ACS conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-03-17 Biomarkers

    We aimed to assess the utility of AT(N) classification in clinical practice.

  19. Effect of renal function on the diagnostic performance of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-03-15 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/40 was a robust biomarker for AD which was not affected by renal function.

  20. CSF tau phosphorylation occupancies at T217 and T205 represent improved biomarkers of amyloid and tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-03-13 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β peptide (Aβ)42/Aβ40 and the concentration of tau phosphorylated at site 181 (p-tau181) are well-established biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Specific associations between plasma biomarkers and postmortem amyloid plaque and tau tangle loads

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2023-03-13 Biomarkers

    Several promising plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease have been recently developed, but their neuropathological correlates have not yet been fully determined.

  22. Clinical performance and head-to-head comparison of CSF p-tau235 with p-tau181, p-tau217 and p-tau231 in two memory clinic cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-03-10 Biomarkers

    High CSF p-tau235 levels were strongly associated with CSF amyloidosis regardless of the clinical diagnosis, being significantly increased in MCI Aβ+ and dementia Aβ+ when compared with all other Aβ- groups (Paris cohort: P ˂0.0001 for all; BIODEGMAR cohort: P ˂0.05 for all).

  23. Protein fibril length in cerebrospinal fluid is increased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Communications biology 2023-03-08 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) associated proteins exist in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  24. Plasma biomarkers identify older adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in a real-world population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-03-06 Biomarkers

    Abnormal plasma Aβ42/40 ratio identified older adult groups with lower memory scores, higher dementia risks, and higher ADRD biomarker levels, with potential implications for population screening.

  25. Acceptability and feasibility of plasma phosphorylated-tau181 in two memory services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2023-03 Biomarkers

    Twenty-nine participants' plasma p-tau181 samples were included (mean age 74 SD 8.5, 65% female).

  26. Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease-type neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Biomarkers

    Recent studies suggest that blood total-tau originates principally from peripheral, non-brain sources.

  27. Plasma biomarker profiles in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Biomarkers

    Emerging plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease might be non-invasive tools to trace early Alzheimer's disease-related abnormalities such as the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptides, neurofibrillary tau tangles, glial activation and neurodegeneration.

  28. Differences between ante mortem Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in predicting neuropathology at autopsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-02-25 Tau biomarkers

    Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta (Aβ)42/phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181 showed excellent performance in differentiating autopsy-confirmed AD and predicting the risk of neuropathological changes in early and late clinical stages.

  29. The dynamics of plasma biomarkers across the Alzheimer's continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-02-08 Biomarkers

    This study is the first to delineate the trajectories of plasma biomarkers throughout the Alzheimer's continuum in the Chinese population, providing important implications for future trials targeting plasma GFAP to facilitate AD prevention and treatment.

  30. BACE1 influences clinical manifestations and central inflammation in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2023-01-24 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative and inflammatory processes influence the clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS).

  31. Impact of pre-analytical sample handling factors on plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2023-01-23 Biomarkers

    An unmet need exists for reliable plasma biomarkers of amyloid pathology, in the clinical laboratory setting, to streamline diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Robustness of CSF Aβ42/40 and Aβ42/P-tau181 measured using fully automated immunoassays to detect AD-related outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-01-21 Biomarkers

    For Aβ42/Aβ40, cutoffs across cohorts were <0.059 (BioFINDER), <0.057 (ADNI), and <0.058 (UCSF).

  33. APOE differentially moderates cerebrospinal fluid and plasma phosphorylated tau181 associations with multi-domain cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-01-18 Genetics

    Biofluid markers of phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau181) are increasingly popular for the detection of early Alzheimer's pathologic changes.

  34. Plasma biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders: ready for prime time?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current opinion in psychiatry 2023-01-16 Biomarkers

    Recent findings Plasma biomarkers have significantly improved our understanding of ADRD time-course, risk factors, diagnosis and prognosis.

  35. Assessment of Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Different Stages of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-01-08 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the primary type of dementia, followed by frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  36. Blood Biomarkers Discriminate Cerebral Amyloid Status and Cognitive Diagnosis when Collected with ACD-A Anticoagulant

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2023 Biomarkers

    Plasma AB42/40 had the highest AUC (0.833, 95% C.I. 0.767-0.899) at a cut-point of 0.0706 for discriminating between the two cerebral amyloid groups (sensitivity 76%, specificity 78.5%).

  37. Diagnostic Biomarkers of Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease: An Overview of Tests for Clinical Practice in the United States and Europe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023-01-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid and tau biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease are widely recognized diagnostic tools for the identification of Alzheimer's disease pathology antemortem and are recommended by the most recent clinical and research guidelines.

  38. Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease with Blood Test; Tempting but Challenging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular and cellular medicine 2023 Biomarkers

    The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has led to a health crisis.

  39. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: Associations with Aβ-PET, neurodegeneration, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-28 Biomarkers

    Our findings support a role for plasma GFAP as a clinical biomarker of Aβ-related astrocyte reactivity that is associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration.

  40. 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.

  41. Plasma p-tau217 predicts in vivo brain pathology and cognition in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-26 Biomarkers

    Carriers had higher plasma p-tau217 levels than non-carriers.

  42. Recent diagnostic techniques for the detection of Alzheimer's disease: a short review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Irish journal of medical science 2022-12-16 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurological condition that affects millions of individuals around the world and for which there are few effective therapies.

  43. Evaluation of blood-based, extracellular vesicles as biomarkers for aging-related TDP-43 pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-12-15 Brain tissue and pathology

    TDP-43 was significantly elevated in plasma ADEVs derived from autopsy confirmed LATE-NC subjects, with or without comorbid AD pathology.

  44. Is plasma amyloid-β 1-42/1-40 a better biomarker for Alzheimer's disease than AβX-42/X-40?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2022-12-03 Biomarkers

    The median Aβ1-42/1-40 ratio was 20.86% lower in amyloid-positive subjects than in the amyloid-negative group, while the median AβX-42/X-40 ratio was only 15.56% lower.

  45. 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).

  46. β-Synuclein as a candidate blood biomarker for synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-30 Biomarkers

    Synaptic degeneration is an early event closely associated with the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in iNPH: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-11-28 Tau biomarkers

    Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a neurological syndrome characterized by the clinical triad of gait disorder, cognitive impairment and urinary incontinence.

  48. Multi-platform proteomic analysis of Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid and plasma reveals network biomarkers associated with proteostasis and the matrisome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-17 Genetics

    Robust and accessible biomarkers that can capture the heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease and its diverse pathological processes are urgently needed.

  49. Performance of a fully-automated Lumipulse plasma phospho-tau181 assay for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-12 Biomarkers

    This fully-automated and available blood-based biomarker assay therefore may be useful for early detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment monitoring of AD.

  50. Plasma and CSF biomarkers in a memory clinic: Head-to-head comparison of phosphorylated tau immunoassays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-11-12 Biomarkers

    Several plasma p-tau biomarkers can be used in a specialized memory clinic as a stand-alone biomarker to detect biologically-defined AD.

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