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Newest in this topic

  1. Equivalence of Plasma and Serum for Clinical Measurement of p-tau217: Comparative Analyses of Four Blood-Based Assays 2025-07-01
  2. Correlation of serum complement factor 5a level with inflammatory response and cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer's disease of different severity 2023-09-07
  3. Cerebral Aβ deposition precedes reduced cerebrospinal fluid and serum Aβ42/Aβ40 ratios in the AppNL-F/NL-F knock-in mouse model of Alzheimer's disease 2023-03-25

Studies

14 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2009 to 2025

Top journals

  • BMC neurology 2
  • PloS one 2
  • Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 1
  • Annals of clinical and translational neurology 1

11 journals in all.

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  1. Equivalence of Plasma and Serum for Clinical Measurement of p-tau217: Comparative Analyses of Four Blood-Based Assays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2025-07-01 Biomarkers

    Phosphorylated tau (p-tau) 217 is a promising blood biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Serum C5a level increased with AD severity, and its expression was positively correlated with serum pro-inflammatory factor levels, and negatively correlated with cognitive function.

  3. Cerebral Aβ deposition precedes reduced cerebrospinal fluid and serum Aβ42/Aβ40 ratios in the AppNL-F/NL-F knock-in mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-03-25 Biomarkers

    Our findings suggest a temporal sequence of events in App NL-F/NL-F knock-in mice, in which initial deposition of Aβ aggregates in the brain is followed by a decline of the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio in CSF and serum once the cerebral Aβ pathology becomes significant.

  4. Expression relationship and significance of NEAT1 and miR-27a-3p in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. BMC neurology 2022-06-03 Biomarkers

    The MMSE score, MoCA score, serum miR-27a-3p level, cerebrospinal fluid miR-27a-3p, Aβ42 levels and Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio of AD patients in mild group and moderate-to-severe group were all lower than those in the control group, and the moderate-to-severe group were lower than the mild group (all P < 0.05);the serum NEAT1 level, SUVR, and cerebrospinal fluid NEAT1 and BACE1 levels were higher than those in the control group, and the moderate-to-severe group were higher than the mild group (all P < 0.05).

  5. Profiling of Serum Exosome MiRNA Reveals the Potential of a MiRNA Panel as Diagnostic Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2021-02-24 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the older adults.

  6. Diagnostic Utility of Selected Serum Dementia Biomarkers: Amyloid β-40, Amyloid β-42, Tau Protein, and YKL-40: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2020-10-27 Biomarkers

    Insufficient amyloid marker test repeatability may result either from imperfection of the used laboratorial techniques or inadequate selection of control groups with their comorbidities.

  7. Association of serum Apolipoprotein B with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2020-09-10 Biomarkers

    This study is the first to find protective associations of serum ApoB with CSF AD core biomarkers, especially in SCD individuals.

  8. Correlations between serum and CSF pNfH levels in ALS, FTD and controls: a comparison of three analytical approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2019-09-01 Biomarkers

    Serum levels also correlated strongly with CSF levels for Simoa-based measurements (both ϱ = 0.62).

  9. Protein signature in cerebrospinal fluid and serum of Alzheimer's disease patients: The case of apolipoprotein A-1 proteoforms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2017-06-19 Biomarkers

    In the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) total tau (T-tau), tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau181), and the 42 amino acid isoform of alpha β-amyloid (Aβ) are well established surrogate CSF markers.

  10. Diagnostic utility of VEGF and soluble CD40L levels in serum of Alzheimer's patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2015-12-17 Biomarkers

    We identified the feasibility of a blood-based biomarker approach in AD diagnostics though the results warrant validation in large-scale studies.

  11. Serum insulin-like growth factor-I and amyloid beta protein in Alzheimer's disease: relationship with cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2015-10-06 Biomarkers

    The results, specifically that lower serum IGF-I was associated with cognitive impairment, suggest that metabolism of IGF-I may be involved in the pathogenesis of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Serum NGAL is Associated with Distinct Plasma Amyloid-β Peptides According to the Clinical Diagnosis of Dementia in Down Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    Serum NGAL levels are increased in DS and associated with distinct species of Aβ depending on the progression of dementia as diagnosed by baseline and follow-up clinical assessments.

  13. An enzyme-generated fragment of tau measured in serum shows an inverse correlation to cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2013-05-22 Biomarkers

    Based on the hypothesis that tau is cleaved proteolytically and then released into the blood, we here provide evidence for the presence of an ADAM10-generated tau fragment (Tau-A) in serum.

  14. Serum amyloid beta protein in young and elderly depression: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2009-12-01 Biomarkers

    Serum Abeta40/42 ratio was significantly higher in MDD patients than in controls, and this difference was seen for both elderly and young subjects.

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