[HTML][HTML] PET radiopharmaceuticals for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease diagnosis, the current and future landscape

BC Uzuegbunam, D Librizzi, B Hooshyar Yousefi - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ironically, population aging which is considered a public health success has been
accompanied by a myriad of new health challenges, which include neurodegenerative …

Positron emission tomography imaging with [18F] flortaucipir and postmortem assessment of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes

AS Fleisher, MJ Pontecorvo, MD Devous, M Lu… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Positron emission tomography (PET) may increase the diagnostic accuracy and
confirm the underlying neuropathologic changes of Alzheimer disease (AD). Objective To …

Molecular tools to detect alloforms of Aβ and Tau: Implications for multiplexing and multimodal diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

H Arora, M Ramesh, K Rajasekhar… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The advancements in the field of imaging and diagnostics have been benefitted by the
concurrent expansion of molecular probes space to monitor the diverse biological targets …

[HTML][HTML] Aβ plaques

LC Walker - Free neuropathology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aβ plaques are one of the two lesions in the brain that define the neuropathological
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Plaques are highly diverse structures; many of them …

Detecting earlier stages of amyloid deposition using PET in cognitively normal elderly adults

T Guo, SM Landau, WJ Jagust… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To examine the feasibility of using cross-sectional PET to identify cognitive
decliners among β-amyloid (Aβ)-negative cognitively normal (CN) elderly adults. Methods …

[HTML][HTML] Post-mortem analyses of PiB and flutemetamol in diffuse and cored amyloid-β plaques in Alzheimer's disease

MD Ikonomovic, CJ Buckley, EE Abrahamson… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Specificity and sensitivity of positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceuticals
targeting fibrillar amyloid-β (Aβ) deposits is high for detection of neuritic Aβ plaques, a …

Diffusion MRI biomarkers of white matter microstructure vary nonmonotonically with increasing cerebral amyloid deposition

JW Dong, IO Jelescu, B Ades-Aron, DS Novikov… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Beta amyloid (Aβ) accumulation is the earliest pathological marker of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), but early AD pathology also affects white matter (WM) integrity. We performed a cross …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a nanomolar affinity α-synuclein fibril imaging probe by ultra-high throughput in silico screening

JJ Ferrie, Z Lengyel-Zhand, B Janssen, MG Lougee… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Small molecules that bind with high affinity and specificity to fibrils of the α-synuclein (αS)
protein have the potential to serve as positron emission tomography (PET) imaging probes …

Fluorine-18: A radionuclide with diverse range of radiochemistry and synthesis strategies for target based PET diagnosis

NS Goud, RK Joshi, RD Bharath, P Kumar - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluorine-18 is one of the most widely used radionuclides for the production of
radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography (PET). The radiolabeling methods …

[HTML][HTML] Appropriate reference region selection of 18F-florbetaben and 18F-flutemetamol beta-amyloid PET expressed in Centiloid

SH Cho, YS Choe, S Park, YJ Kim, HJ Kim, H Jang… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Centiloid (CL) is a method for standardizing amyloid beta (Aβ) quantification through
different ligands and methods. To find the most appropriate reference region to reduce the …