Hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases

DM Wilson, MR Cookson, L Van Den Bosch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of research have identified genetic factors and biochemical pathways involved in
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). We present evidence for the following eight hallmarks …

Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in clinical practice and trials

O Hansson, K Blennow, H Zetterberg, J Dage - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Blood-based biomarkers hold great promise to revolutionize the diagnostic and prognostic
work-up of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical practice. This is very timely, considering the …

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

NJ Ashton, S Janelidze, N Mattsson-Carlgren… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Blood biomarkers indicative of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology are altered in both
preclinical and symptomatic stages of the disease. Distinctive biomarkers may be optimal for …

Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: Current state and future use in a transformed global healthcare landscape

H Hampel, Y Hu, J Cummings, S Mattke, T Iwatsubo… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Timely detection of the pathophysiological changes and cognitive impairment caused by
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly pressing because of the advent of biomarker …

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

F Gonzalez-Ortiz, M Turton, PR Kac, D Smirnov… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Blood-based biomarkers for amyloid beta and phosphorylated tau show good diagnostic
accuracies and agreements with their corresponding CSF and neuroimaging biomarkers in …

Diagnostic accuracy of a plasma phosphorylated tau 217 immunoassay for Alzheimer disease pathology

NJ Ashton, WS Brum, G Di Molfetta, AL Benedet… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Phosphorylated tau (p-tau) is a specific blood biomarker for Alzheimer disease
(AD) pathology, with p-tau217 considered to have the most utility. However, availability of p …

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

WS Brum, NC Cullen, S Janelidze, NJ Ashton… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

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

F Gonzalez-Ortiz, PR Kac, WS Brum… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
As the leading cause of dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major burden on affected
individuals, their families and caregivers, and healthcare systems. Although AD can be …

The performance of plasma amyloid beta measurements in identifying amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease: a literature review

AL Brand, PE Lawler, JG Bollinger, Y Li… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2022 - Springer
The extracellular buildup of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques in the brain is a hallmark of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Detection of Aβ pathology is essential for AD diagnosis and for …

Plasma proteomic profiles predict future dementia in healthy adults

Y Guo, J You, Y Zhang, WS Liu, YY Huang, YR Zhang… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
The advent of proteomics offers an unprecedented opportunity to predict dementia onset.
We examined this in data from 52,645 adults without dementia in the UK Biobank, with 1,417 …