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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. Quantitative detection of α-Synuclein and Tau oligomers and other aggregates by digital single particle counting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2022-06-02 Digital health tools

    The pathological hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases is the formation of toxic oligomers by proteins such as alpha-synuclein (aSyn) or microtubule-associated protein tau (Tau).

  2. Divergent Cortical Tau Positron Emission Tomography Patterns Among Patients With Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    This study suggests that early tau deposition may follow multiple trajectories during preclinical AD and may involve several cortical regions.

  3. Tau PET Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The advent of PET ligands that bind tau pathology has enabled the quantification and visualization of tau pathology in aging and in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  4. CSF phosphorylated tau as an indicator of subsequent tau accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-05-26 Biomarkers

    We evaluated the relationship between baseline CSF p-tau181 and the rate of tau PET change in the temporal meta-ROI and entorhinal cortex (ERC) and how it varied by amyloid level (CSF Aβ42 or amyloid PET) among 143 individuals from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging and Mayo Alzheimer Disease Research Center.

  5. Performance of plasma phosphorylated tau 181 and 217 in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2022-05-26 Tau biomarkers

    This study examined plasma phosphorylated tau 181 (P-tau181) and 217 (P-tau217) in 1,329 individuals aged 30-98 years from the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.

  6. Tau biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: towards implementation in clinical practice and trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2022-05-25 Getting a diagnosis

    Neuroimaging and biofluid tau markers hold potential for optimising such clinical trials by augmenting participant selection, providing evidence of target engagement, and monitoring treatment efficacy.

  7. Blood phospho-tau in Alzheimer disease: analysis, interpretation, and clinical utility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2022-05-18 Biomarkers

    Well-authenticated biomarkers can provide critical insights into the biological basis of Alzheimer disease (AD) to enable timely and accurate diagnosis, estimate future burden and support therapeutic trials.

  8. Plasma P-tau181 and P-tau217 in Patients With Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome With and Without Evidence of Alzheimer Disease Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-16 Biomarkers

    Aβ(+) patients with TES (N = 10), but not Aβ(-) TES, had significantly higher plasma P-tau levels than HC (P-tau181: p d = 1.34; P-tau217: p d = 1.59).

  9. Diagnostic and prognostic performance to detect Alzheimer's disease and clinical progression of a novel assay for plasma p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-05-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our results indicate good diagnostic and prognostic performance of the plasma p-tau217+ Janssen assay, similar to the p-tau217 Lilly assay.

  10. CSF Tau phosphorylation at Thr205 is associated with loss of white matter integrity in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2022-03-28 Tau biomarkers

    However, it remains unknown whether white matter (WM) decline due to AD is associated with specific Tau phosphorylation site(s).

  11. Association of BDNF Val66Met With Tau Hyperphosphorylation and Cognition in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-03-01 Biomarkers

    In DIAD, clinical disease stage and BDNF Met66 were associated with cognitive impairment and levels of site-specific tau phosphorylation.

  12. Molecular pathology and synaptic loss in primary tauopathies: an 18F-AV-1451 and 11C-UCB-J PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Brain regions with higher synaptic density are associated with a higher 18F-AV-1451 binding in progressive supranuclear palsy/corticobasal degeneration, but this association diminishes with disease severity.

  13. Biomarker-Based Prediction of Longitudinal Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-02-01 Biomarkers

    Of 343 participants, the mean (SD) age was 72.56 (7.24) years, and 157 (51.1%) were female.

  14. Association between single moderate to severe traumatic brain injury and long-term tauopathy in humans and preclinical animal models: a systematic narrative review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2022-01-31 Disease mechanisms

    Of 4,150 studies screened, 26 were eligible for inclusion, of which 17 were human studies, 8 were preclinical animal studies, and 1 included both human and preclinical animal studies.

  15. Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes associated with neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Cell 2022-01-20 Lewy body dementia

    Tau (MAPT) drives neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer disease (AD) and other tauopathies.

  16. Association of Plasma p-tau181 and p-tau231 Concentrations With Cognitive Decline in Patients With Probable Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease comorbid pathologic characteristics are common and are associated with more rapid cognitive decline in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB); therefore, it is anticipated that plasma p-tau concentrations may have utility in assessing cognitive impairment in individuals with this disorder.

  17. Comparison of plasma neurofilament light and total tau as neurodegeneration markers: associations with cognitive and neuroimaging outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-12-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Total tau protein (T-Tau) and neurofilament light chain (NfL) have emerged as candidate plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration, but studies have not compared how these biomarkers cross-sectionally or longitudinally associate with cognitive and neuroimaging measures.

  18. Plasma GFAP is an early marker of amyloid-β but not tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-12-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Although recent clinical trials targeting amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease have shown promising results, there is increasing evidence suggesting that understanding alternative disease pathways that interact with amyloid-β metabolism and amyloid pathology might be important to halt the clinical deterioration.

  19. Human Tau Isoforms and Proteolysis for Production of Toxic Tau Fragments in Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-10-21 Disease mechanisms

    The human tau protein is implicated in a wide range of neurodegenerative "tauopathy" diseases, consisting of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration which includes progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, Pick's disease, and FTLD-tau (frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism caused by MAPT mutations).

  20. Alzheimer's disease profiled by fluid and imaging markers: tau PET best predicts cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    For early detection of Alzheimer's disease, it is important to find biomarkers with predictive value for disease progression and clinical manifestations, such as cognitive decline.

  21. Early stages of tau pathology and its associations with functional connectivity, atrophy and memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In Alzheimer's disease, post-mortem studies have shown that the first cortical site where neurofibrillary tangles appear is the transentorhinal region, a subregion within the medial temporal lobe that largely overlaps with Brodmann area 35, and the entorhinal cortex.

  22. Structure-based classification of tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature 2021-09-29 Getting a diagnosis

    The ordered assembly of tau protein into filaments characterizes several neurodegenerative diseases, which are called tauopathies.

  23. Staging tau pathology with tau PET in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-09-18 Brain scans and imaging

    A biological research framework to define Alzheimer' disease with dichotomized biomarker measurement was proposed by National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA).

  24. Comparing the Clinical Utility and Diagnostic Performance of CSF P-Tau181, P-Tau217, and P-Tau231 Assays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-07 Biomarkers

    Although all p-tau variants increased across the AD continuum, p-tau217 Lilly showed the greatest dynamic range (13-fold increase vs 1.9-5.4-fold increase for other p-tau variants for AD dementia vs non-AD).

  25. Plasma p-tau181 Level Predicts Neurodegeneration and Progression to Alzheimer's Dementia: A Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2021-09-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma-based biomarkers would be potential biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) because they are more available and cost-effective than cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or neuroimaging.

  26. In this largely presymptomatic population, these results suggest subtle differences across plasma p-tau species and platforms for the prediction of amyloid and tau PET and magnetic resonance imaging measures of cerebrovascular and Alzheimer-related pathology.

  27. Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and phosphorylated tau 181 as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a retrospective diagnostic performance study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2021-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau181 were correlated (r=0·90, p diff =0·31) and in pathology-confirmed Alzheimer's disease (n=15, mean age 73 years [SD 12]) versus pathologically confirmed FTLD (n=68, mean age 67 years [SD 8]; AUC=0·96 [0·92-1·00] for p-tau217, AUC=0·91 [0·82-1·00] for p-tau181; p diff =0·22).

  28. Tau Isoform Profile in Essential Tremor Diverges From Other Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2021-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with essential tremor (ET) frequently develop concurrent dementia, which is often assumed to represent co-morbid Alzheimer disease (AD).

  29. Interaction of tau with HNRNPA2B1 and N6-methyladenosine RNA mediates the progression of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular cell 2021-08-27 Disease mechanisms

    The microtubule-associated protein tau oligomerizes, but the actions of oligomeric tau (oTau) are unknown.

  30. Microglial activation and tau propagate jointly across Braak stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Nature medicine 2021-08-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Compelling experimental evidence suggests that microglial activation is involved in the spread of tau tangles over the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. Tau-PET and in vivo Braak-staging as prognostic markers of future cognitive decline in cognitively normal to demented individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-08-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    In this longitudinal study, we included 396 cognitively normal to dementia subjects with 18 F-Florbetapir/ 18 F-Florbetaben-amyloid-PET, 18 F-Flortaucipir-tau-PET and ~ 2-year cognitive follow-up.

  32. Predictors of cognitive impairment in primary age-related tauopathy: an autopsy study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2021-08-05 Disease mechanisms

    Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) is a form of Alzheimer-type neurofibrillary degeneration occurring in the absence of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques.

  33. Longitudinal Association of Total Tau Concentrations and Physical Activity With Cognitive Decline in a Population Sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-08-02 Tau biomarkers

    New technology is convenient for measuring blood total tau concentrations and provides a unique and increased opportunity for early intervention to slow cognitive decline.

  34. Among 1431 participants, the mean (SD) age was 71.2 (8.8) years; 751 (52.5%) were male.

  35. Tau PET correlates with different Alzheimer's disease-related features compared to CSF and plasma p-tau biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2021-07-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    PET, CSF and plasma biomarkers of tau pathology may be differentially associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related demographic, cognitive, genetic and neuroimaging markers.

  36. Mouse closed head traumatic brain injury replicates the histological tau pathology pattern of human disease: characterization of a novel model and systematic review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2021-06-29 Disease mechanisms

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes one of the strongest environmental risk factors for several progressive neurodegenerative disorders of cognitive impairment and dementia that are characterized by the pathological accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau (p-Tau).

  37. Longitudinal plasma phosphorylated tau 181 tracks disease progression in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-06-12 Long-term cohort studies

    To assess plasma phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau181) as a progression biomarker in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we examined longitudinal plasma p-tau181 of 1184 participants (403 cognitively normal (CN), 560 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 221 with AD dementia) from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

  38. Activated microglia mitigate Aβ-associated tau seeding and spreading

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2021-06-08 TREM2 and immune genetics

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD) models, AD risk variants in the microglial-expressed TREM2 gene decrease Aβ plaque-associated microgliosis and increase neuritic dystrophy as well as plaque-associated seeding and spreading of tau aggregates.

  39. Prediction of future Alzheimer's disease dementia using plasma phospho-tau combined with other accessible measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature medicine 2021-05-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    A combination of plasma phospho-tau (P-tau) and other accessible biomarkers might provide accurate prediction about the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia.

  40. Soluble P-tau217 reflects amyloid and tau pathology and mediates the association of amyloid with tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2021-05-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by β-amyloid plaques and tau tangles.

  41. Direct Comparison of the Tau PET Tracers 18F-Flortaucipir and 18F-MK-6240 in Human Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2021-04-16 Biomarkers

    Overall visual ratings showed complete concordance between radiotracers for both the medial temporal lobe and the neocortex.

  42. Tau strains shape disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-04-08 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies consist of over 25 different neurodegenerative diseases that include argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and Pick's disease (PiD).

  43. Longitudinal Associations of Blood Phosphorylated Tau181 and Neurofilament Light Chain With Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-04-01 Biomarkers

    Exclusion criteria included any significant neurologic disorder other than suspected AD; presence of infection, infarction, or multiple lacunes as detected by magnetic resonance imaging; and any significant systemic condition that could lead to difficulty complying with the protocol.

  44. Sex-related Differences in Tau Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and the Effects of Hormone Therapy (HT)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2021-04-01 Biomarkers

    Regional sex-related differences in tau PET burden may contribute to the disparities in AD prevalence between males and females.

  45. A novel tau-based rhesus monkey model of Alzheimer's pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-18 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating condition with no effective treatments, with promising findings in rodents failing to translate into successful therapies for patients.

  46. Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments from Alzheimer's disease with PET ligand APN-1607

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-03-16 Disease mechanisms

    Tau and Aβ assemblies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be visualized in living subjects using positron emission tomography (PET).

  47. Association of Memory Impairment With Concomitant Tau Pathology in Patients With Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-24 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that the presence of objective memory impairment in patients with probable CAA could serve as a marker for underlying tau pathology.

  48. Distinct amyloid-β and tau-associated microglia profiles in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-02-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia and is characterized by abnormal extracellular aggregates of amyloid-β and intraneuronal hyperphosphorylated tau tangles and neuropil threads.

  49. Association of Digital Clock Drawing With PET Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-15 Brain scans and imaging

    DCTclock discriminates between diagnostic groups and improves upon traditional cognitive tests for detecting biomarkers of amyloid and tau pathology in CN older adults.

  50. Plasma p-tau231: a new biomarker for incipient Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-02-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Furthermore, plasma p-tau231 was significantly increased in amyloid-β PET quartiles 2-4, whereas CSF p-tau217 and plasma p-tau181 increased only at quartiles 3-4 and 4, respectively.

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