Transitioning from cerebrospinal fluid to blood tests to facilitate diagnosis and disease monitoring in Alzheimer's disease

DOT Alawode, AJ Heslegrave… - Journal of internal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly prevalent worldwide, and disease‐modifying
treatments may soon be at hand; hence, now, more than ever, there is a need to develop …

The potential of blood neurofilament light as a marker of neurodegeneration for Alzheimer's disease

Y Jung, JS Damoiseaux - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Over the past several years, there has been a surge in blood biomarker studies examining
the value of plasma or serum neurofilament light (NfL) as a biomarker of neurodegeneration …

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 …

Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)

NS McKay, BA Gordon, RC Hornbeck, A Dincer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) is an international
collaboration studying autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD). ADAD arises from …

Bundle-specific associations between white matter microstructure and Aβ and tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

A Pichet Binette, G Theaud, F Rheault, M Roy… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Beta-amyloid (Aβ) and tau proteins, the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD),
are believed to spread through connected regions of the brain. Combining diffusion imaging …

Significance of blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: sensitivity, specificity and potential for clinical use

C d'Abramo, L D'adamio, L Giliberto - Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, affecting more than 5 million
Americans, with steadily increasing mortality and incredible socio-economic burden. Not …

Association of chronic kidney disease with plasma NfL and other biomarkers of neurodegeneration: the H70 birth cohort study in Gothenburg

A Dittrich, NJ Ashton, H Zetterberg, K Blennow… - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Studies associate chronic kidney disease (CKD) with
neurodegeneration. This study investigated the relationship between kidney function, blood …

Plasma NfL is associated with the APOE ε4 allele, brain imaging measurements of neurodegeneration, and lower recall memory scores in cognitively unimpaired late …

M Malek-Ahmadi, Y Su, V Ghisays, J Luo… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Plasma neurofilament light (NfL) is an indicator of neurodegeneration
and/or neuroaxonal injury in persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and a wide range of …

High serum neurofilament associates with diffuse white matter damage in MS

M Saraste, S Bezukladova, M Matilainen… - Neurology …, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To evaluate to which extent serum neurofilament light chain (NfL) increase is
related to diffusion tensor imaging–MRI measurable diffuse normal-appearing white matter …

Neurofilaments–Small proteins of physiological significance and predictive power for future neurodegeneration and cognitive decline across the life span

J Elmers, LS Colzato, K Akgün, T Ziemssen… - Ageing Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurofilaments (NFs) are not only important for axonal integrity and nerve conduction in
large myelinated axons but they are also thought to be crucial for receptor and synaptic …