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  1. Genetic Architecture of Plasma Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in the Amish 2026-10-19
  2. Elevation in Plasma p-tau217 Concentrations Among Blood Donors: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study 2026-09-24
  3. A Harmonized Visual Reading Framework for Tau PET Staging in Alzheimer Disease 2026-09-21

Studies

738 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 52
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 50
  • JAMA neurology 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 24
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 22

231 journals in all.

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  1. Microglial Reactivity Correlates with Presynaptic Loss Independent of β-Amyloid and Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2024-02-14 Tau biomarkers

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 (TREM2) and progranulin (PGRN) are critical regulators of microglia activation and can be detected in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  2. Tau accumulation and its spatial progression across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain Communications 2024-02-07 Laboratory science

    This study tracked tau PET scans over time in over 800 people across the Alzheimer's spectrum and found that while tau broadly follows the classic 'Braak stage' spreading pattern, the exact regions affected vary a lot from person to person, especially as disease progresses.

  3. Plasma p-tau181 as an outcome and predictor of multidomain intervention effects: a secondary analysis of a randomised, controlled, dementia prevention trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2024-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    It is unknown whether multidomain interventions, which might preserve late-life cognition, affect Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  4. Amyloid and Tau Prediction of Cognitive and Functional Decline in Unimpaired Older Individuals: Longitudinal Data from the A4 and LEARN Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024-01-01 Biomarkers

    In a large cohort of cognitively unimpaired individuals enrolled in a Phase 3 clinical trial and companion observational study, these findings confirm that higher baseline levels of amyloid and tau markers are associated with increased rates of cognitive decline and progression to functional impairment.

  5. ApoE4 and Connectivity-Mediated Spreading of Tau Pathology at Lower Amyloid Levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-12-01 Biomarkers

    The mean (SD) age was 73.9 (7.35) years among the 237 ADNI participants and 70.2 (9.7) years among the 130 Avid-A05 participants.

  6. Exploratory Tau Biomarker Results From a Multiple Ascending-Dose Study of BIIB080 in Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-12-01 Treatments

    In this randomized clinical trial, BIIB080 reduced tau biomarkers, including CSF t-tau, CSF p-tau181, and tau PET, which is associated with cognitive decline, in participants with mild AD.

  7. Tau Oligomer-Containing Synapse Elimination by Microglia and Astrocytes in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-11-01 Biomarkers

    Of 40 included participants (mean [SD] age at death, 88 [8] years; 21 [52%] male), 19 had early-stage dementia with Braak stages III to IV, 13 had resilient brains with similar Braak stages III to IV, and 8 had no dementia (Braak stages 0-II).

  8. Combined Connectomics, MAPT Gene Expression, and Amyloid Deposition to Explain Regional Tau Deposition in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    Across 3 study samples, combining the functional connectome and molecular properties substantially enhanced the explanatory power compared to single modalities, providing a valuable tool to explain regional susceptibility to tau deposition in AD.

  9. Neuroprotection elicited by taurine in sporadic Alzheimer-like disease: benefits on memory and control of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus of rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Molecular and cellular biochemistry 2023-10-24 Biomarkers

    This study aimed to analyze whether taurine has a nootropic effect on short-term and long-term memory in a model of sporadic dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT).

  10. Neurodegenerative Disease Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annual review of pathology 2023-10-13 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are a diverse group of progressive and fatal neurodegenerative diseases characterized by aberrant tau inclusions in the central nervous system.

  11. Increased Medial Temporal Tau Positron Emission Tomography Uptake in the Absence of Amyloid-β Positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    An increased tau positron emission tomography (PET) signal in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) has been observed in older individuals in the absence of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology.

  12. Association of Plasma Phosphorylated Tau With the Response to Neflamapimod Treatment in Patients With Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2023-09-01 Treatments

    In a proportion of patients, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) copathology, which is linked to accelerated cognitive decline and more extensive cortical atrophy.

  13. A two-step workflow based on plasma p-tau217 to screen for amyloid β positivity with further confirmatory testing only in uncertain cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Nature Aging 2023-08-31 Biomarkers

    Cost-effective strategies for identifying amyloid-β (Aβ) positivity in patients with cognitive impairment are urgently needed with recent approvals of anti-Aβ immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Elevated amyloid beta peptides and total tau in cerebrospinal fluid in individuals with Creatine transporter deficiency

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Molecular genetics and metabolism reports 2023-08-21 Tau biomarkers

    Creatine transporter deficiency (CTD) is a rare X-linked disorder of creatine transport caused by pathogenic variants in SLC6A8 (Xq28).

  15. Tau and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: interplay mechanisms and clinical translation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2023-07-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) contributes to most cases of dementia.

  16. CSF MTBR-tau243 is a specific biomarker of tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Nature medicine 2023-07-13 Biomarkers

    Aggregated insoluble tau is one of two defining features of Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Correlation between insulin-degrading enzyme versus total tau and selected cytokines in patients with Alzheimer´s disease compared to non-demented controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neuro endocrinology letters 2023-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    It has been increasingly recognized that the pathological progress of Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is connected to metabolic function and inflammation.

  18. Biochemical analyses of tau and other neuronal markers in the submandibular gland and frontal cortex across stages of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2023-06-16 Tau biomarkers

    Hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau is hypothesized to lead to the development of neurofibrillary tangles in select brain regions during normal aging and in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  19. The Use of Tau PET to Stage Alzheimer Disease According to the Braak Staging Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2023-06-15 Brain scans and imaging

    The database search returned 262 results, and after assessment for eligibility, 21 studies were selected.

  20. Comparison of Group-Level and Individualized Brain Regions for Measuring Change in Longitudinal Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Longitudinal tau positron emission tomography (PET) is a relevant outcome in clinical trials evaluating disease-modifying therapies in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  21. Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2023-05-29 Laboratory science

    An unresolved question for the understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology is why a significant percentage of amyloid-β (Aβ)-positive cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals do not develop detectable downstream tau pathology and, consequently, clinical deterioration.

  22. Preanalytical stability of plasma/serum brain-derived tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-26 Tau biomarkers

    We investigated the effects of matrix type and reagent batch changes on diagnostic performances and longitudinal trajectories of brain-derived tau (BD-tau).

  23. Association of Age at Menopause and Hormone Therapy Use With Tau and β-Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In this study, females exhibited higher tau compared with age-matched males, particularly in the setting of elevated Aβ.

  24. Of 386 participants, 199 (52%) were female, and the mean (SD) age was 68 (8) years.

  25. Soluble pathogenic tau enters brain vascular endothelial cells and drives cellular senescence and brain microvascular dysfunction in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-04-25 Disease mechanisms

    Vascular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) may constitute a therapeutically addressable biological pathway underlying dementia.

  26. Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer's disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2023-04-24 Genetics

    Tau plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology, and accumulating evidence suggests that lowering tau may reduce this pathology.

  27. Head-to-head comparison of 10 plasma phospho-tau assays in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We found that the mass spectrometry-based p-tau217 (p-tau217WashU) exhibited significantly better performance than all other plasma p-tau biomarkers when detecting abnormal Aβ status [area under curve (AUC) = 0.947; Pdiff 0.09), but higher compared with AUC of p-tau231UGOT, p-tau181Lilly, p-tau181UGOT, p-tau181Fuji and p-tau181Splex (AUCrange 0.642-0.813; Pdiff ≤ 0.029).

  28. Plasma phospho-tau in Alzheimer's disease: towards diagnostic and therapeutic trial applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-03-16 Caregiving

    As the leading cause of dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major burden on affected individuals, their families and caregivers, and healthcare systems.

  29. Association of Phosphorylated Tau Biomarkers With Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography vs Tau Positron Emission Tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-02-01 Biomarkers

    For all 4 phosphorylation sites assessed in CSF, p-tau was significantly more closely associated with amyloid-PET values than tau-PET values (p-tau181 difference, 13%; 95% CI, 3%-22%; P = .006; p-tau217 difference, 11%; 95% CI, 3%-20%; P = .003; p-tau231 difference, 15%; 95% CI, 5%-22%; P Conclusions and relevance Results of this cross-sectional study of 2 observational cohorts suggest that the p-tau abnormality as an early event in AD pathogenesis was associated with amyloid-β accumulation and highlights the need for careful interpretation of p-tau biomarkers in the context of the amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration, or A/T/(N), framework.

  30. Focused Ultrasound-mediated Liquid Biopsy in a Tauopathy Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Radiology 2023-01-31 Biomarkers

    In the 2-month-old mice, sonobiopsy significantly increased the normalized levels of plasma p-tau species compared with the conventional blood-based liquid biopsy (p-tau-181-to-mouse tau [m-tau] ratio: 1.7-fold increase, P = .006; p-tau-231-to-m-tau ratio: 1.4-fold increase, P = .048).

  31. Sex Differences in the Associations of Obesity with Tau, Amyloid PET, and Cognitive Outcomes in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Cross-Sectional A4 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023-01-01 Biomarkers

    This study found that in preclinical AD, overweight and obesity were associated with better verbal memory in women, whereas obesity was associated with worse global cognition among men.

  32. Global neuropathologic severity of Alzheimer's disease and locus coeruleus vulnerability influences plasma phosphorylated tau levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-12-27 Digital health tools

    Higher soluble plasma p-tau levels may be the result of an intersection between insoluble deposits of amyloid-β and tau accumulation in brain, and may be associated with locus coeruleus degeneration.

  33. CSF P-Tau181 and Other Biomarkers in Patients With Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2022-12-14 Biomarkers

    CSF p-tau181 was increased in patients with NIID without amyloid accumulation.

  34. Tau-PET is superior to phospho-tau when predicting cognitive decline in symptomatic AD patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Baseline tau-PET and a composite baseline cognitive score were the strongest independent predictors of cognitive decline.

  35. Differential roles of Aβ42/40, p-tau231 and p-tau217 for Alzheimer’s trial selection and disease monitoring

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2022-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers indicative of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology are altered in both preclinical and symptomatic stages of the disease.

  36. Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 and p-tau181 Predict Long-Term Clinical Progression in a Cohort with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2022-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Previous studies reported the value of blood-based biomarkers in predicting Alzheimer disease (AD) progression among individuals with different disease stages.

  37. Microglial activation protects against accumulation of tau aggregates in nondemented individuals with underlying Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-11-28 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The role of microglia in tau accumulation is currently unclear but could provide an important insight into the mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) 1 .

  38. Plasma p-tau181/Aβ1-42 ratio predicts Aβ-PET status and correlates with CSF-p-tau181/Aβ1-42 and future cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-11-25 Tau biomarkers

    The p-tau181/Aβ 1-42 ratio showed the best prediction of Aβ-PET across all participants (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.905, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.86-0.95) and in CN (AUC = 0.873; 0.80-0.94), and symptomatic (AUC = 0.908; 0.82-1.00) adults.

  39. Amyloid and tau PET-positive cognitively unimpaired individuals are at high risk for future cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Nature medicine 2022-11-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    A major unanswered question in the dementia field is whether cognitively unimpaired individuals who harbor both Alzheimer's disease neuropathological hallmarks (that is, amyloid-β plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles) can preserve their cognition over time or are destined to decline.

  40. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau at Threonine 181 and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Preclinical and Prodromal Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-02 Tau biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated tau at threonine 181 (p-tau181), a well-validated marker of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathologic change, could be a more efficient way to diagnose AD than invasive or expensive biomarkers requiring CSF or PET.

  41. Phosphorylated Tau in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-10-25 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in elderly people.

  42. Characterization of the Tau Interactome in Human Brain Reveals Isoform-Dependent Interaction with 14-3-3 Family Proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. eNeuro 2022-10-18 Tau biomarkers

    Tau phosphorylation and aggregation is the final common pathway for neuronal toxicity across multiple neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration.

  43. Diagnostic value of plasma p-tau181, NfL, and GFAP in a clinical setting cohort of prevalent neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-10-12 Biomarkers

    Plasma GFAP alone differentiates AD from FTD and neurodegenerative dementias from HC but with lower accuracy than p-tau181 and NfL.

  44. Association of Amyloid Reduction After Donanemab Treatment With Tau Pathology and Clinical Outcomes: The TRAILBLAZER-ALZ Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-10-01 Treatments

    The primary study randomized 272 participants (mean [SD] age, 75.2 [5.5] years; 145 female participants [53.3%]).

  45. Among 580 participants (PREVENT-AD, 128; HABS, 153; AIBL, 48; Knight ADRC, 251), mean (SD) age ranged from 67 (5) to 76 (6) years across cohorts, with between 55% (137/251) and 74% (95/128) female participants.

  46. Impact of Amyloid and Tau PET on Changes in Diagnosis and Patient Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2022-09-29 Biomarkers

    The combination of amyloid and tau PETs was associated with changes in management and diagnosis of MCI and dementia, and the second-generation tau PET has a strong impact on the changes in diagnosis and management in memory clinics.

  47. Focal amyloid and asymmetric tau in an imaging-to-autopsy case of clinical primary progressive aphasia with Alzheimer disease neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2022-08-09 Biomarkers

    Quantification of in vivo amyloid and tau PET imaging relationships with postmortem measurements are critical for validating the sensitivity and specificity imaging biomarkers across clinical phenotypes with Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change (ADNC).

  48. Detection of Brain Tau Pathology in Down Syndrome Using Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-08-01 Biomarkers

    Among 300 participants with DS and a control group of 37 non-DS siblings, mean (SD) age was 45.0 (10.1) years, and 167 (49.6%) were men.

  49. Clinical Spectrum of Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-07-14 Digital health tools

    Tauopathies are both clinical and pathological heterogeneous disorders characterized by neuronal and/or glial accumulation of misfolded tau protein.

  50. Sex differences in plasma p-tau181 associations with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers, cognitive decline, and clinical progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-06-29 Long-term cohort studies

    Studies have shown that women on the Alzheimer's disease (AD) continuum have more pathological tau in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), than men.

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