Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: towards clinical implementation

CE Teunissen, IMW Verberk, EH Thijssen… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
For many years, blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease seemed unattainable, but
recent results have shown that they could become a reality. Convincing data generated with …

Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup

CR Jack Jr, JS Andrews, TG Beach… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association convened three
separate work groups in 2011 and single work groups in 2012 and 2018 to create …

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

K Horie, G Salvadó, NR Barthélemy, S Janelidze, Y Li… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Aggregated insoluble tau is one of two defining features of Alzheimer's disease. Because
clinical symptoms are strongly correlated with tau aggregates, drug development and …

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 …

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

R Ossenkoppele, A Pichet Binette, C Groot, R Smith… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
A major unanswered question in the dementia field is whether cognitively unimpaired
individuals who harbor both Alzheimer's disease neuropathological hallmarks (that is …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics define the natural history of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

ECB Johnson, S Bian, RU Haque, EK Carter… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology develops many years before the onset of cognitive
symptoms. Two pathological processes—aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide into …

Lecanemab in patients with early Alzheimer's disease: detailed results on biomarker, cognitive, and clinical effects from the randomized and open-label extension of …

E McDade, JL Cummings, S Dhadda… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Lecanemab, a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody that targets
soluble aggregated Aβ species (protofibrils), has demonstrated robust brain fibrillar amyloid …

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

R Ossenkoppele, R van der Kant… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Deposition of tau aggregates is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease
that is closely linked both spatially and temporally to emergence of neurodegeneration and …

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

S Janelidze, D Bali, NJ Ashton, NR Barthélemy… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plasma phospho-tau (p-tau) species have emerged as the most promising blood-based
biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Here, we performed a head-to-head comparison of p …