Alzheimer's disease beyond amyloid: Can the repetitive failures of amyloid-targeted therapeutics inform future approaches to dementia drug discovery?

K Mullane, M Williams - Biochemical pharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) therapeutics based on the amyloid hypothesis have repeatedly
failed in clinical trials. Together with numerous reports that amyloid is present in brains from …

[HTML][HTML] Management of traumatic brain injury: from present to future

R Crupi, M Cordaro, S Cuzzocrea, D Impellizzeri - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
TBI (traumatic brain injury) is a major cause of death among youth in industrialized societies.
Brain damage following traumatic injury is a result of direct and indirect mechanisms; …

Blood plasma phosphorylated-tau isoforms track CNS change in Alzheimer's disease

NR Barthélemy, K Horie, C Sato… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Highly sensitive and specific plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have the
potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in the clinic and facilitate research studies including …

Rapid optofluidic detection of biomarkers for traumatic brain injury via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

JJS Rickard, V Di-Pietro, DJ Smith, DJ Davies… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Current technologies for the point-of-care diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) lack
sensitivity, require specialist handling or involve complicated and costly procedures. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating brain injury exosomal proteins following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: temporal profile, outcome prediction and therapy implications

S Mondello, VA Guedes, C Lai, E Czeiter, K Amrein… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Brain injury exosomal proteins are promising blood biomarker candidates in traumatic brain
injury (TBI). A better understanding of their role in the diagnosis, characterization, and …

Blood biomarkers of traumatic brain injury and cognitive impairment in older veterans

CB Peltz, K Kenney, J Gill, R Diaz-Arrastia… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To determine whether blood-based biomarkers can differentiate older veterans
with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI) and cognitive impairment (CogI). Methods We …

Multi-dimensional mapping of brain-derived extracellular vesicle microRNA biomarker for traumatic brain injury diagnostics

J Ko, M Hemphill, Z Yang, K Beard, E Sewell… - Journal of …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
The diagnosis and prognosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is complicated by variability in
the type and severity of injuries and the multiple endophenotypes that describe each …

Clinical applications of extracellular vesicles in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury

K Beard, DF Meaney, D Issadore - Journal of neurotrauma, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as key mediators of cell-cell communication
during homeostasis and in pathology. Central nervous system (CNS)-derived EVs contain …

[HTML][HTML] The role of blood biomarkers for magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis of traumatic brain injury

JK Yue, PS Upadhyayula, LN Avalos, H Deng… - Medicina, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: The annual global incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is
over 10 million. An estimated 29% of TBI patients with negative computed tomography (CT−) …

Markers in status epilepticus prognosis

A Alkhachroum, CA Der-Nigoghossian… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurologic emergency with high morbidity and mortality. The
assessment of a patient's prognosis is crucial in making treatment decisions. In this review …