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 …

The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised

GB Frisoni, D Altomare, DR Thal, F Ribaldi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The current conceptualization of Alzheimer disease (AD) is driven by the amyloid
hypothesis, in which a deterministic chain of events leads from amyloid deposition and then …

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

B Bellaver, G Povala, PCL Ferreira, JP Ferrari-Souza… - Nature medicine, 2023‏ - nature.com
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) …

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 …

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

TK Karikari, NJ Ashton, G Brinkmalm… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 …

Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

O Hansson - Nature medicine, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases are needed to improve the diagnostic workup in
the clinic but also to facilitate the development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying …

Microglial activation and tau propagate jointly across Braak stages

TA Pascoal, AL Benedet, NJ Ashton, MS Kang… - Nature medicine, 2021‏ - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests that microglial activation is involved in the
spread of tau tangles over the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested the …

Biomarker-based staging of Alzheimer disease: rationale and clinical applications

J Therriault, SE Schindler, G Salvadó… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Disease staging, whereby the spatial extent and load of brain pathology are used to
estimate the severity of Alzheimer disease (AD), is pivotal to the gold-standard …

Biomarker modeling of Alzheimer's disease using PET-based Braak staging

J Therriault, TA Pascoal, FZ Lussier, C Tissot… - Nature aging, 2022‏ - nature.com
Gold-standard diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relies on histopathological staging
systems. Using the topographical information from [18F] MK6240 tau positron-emission …

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

NJ Ashton, TA Pascoal, TK Karikari, AL Benedet… - Acta …, 2021‏ - Springer
The quantification of phosphorylated tau in biofluids, either cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or
plasma, has shown great promise in detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology …