Neurofilament proteins as biomarkers to monitor neurological diseases and the efficacy of therapies

A Yuan, RA Nixon - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuronal injury have the potential to improve
diagnostic accuracy, disease monitoring, prognosis, and measure treatment efficacy …

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 …

Advances in Molecular Psychiatry – March 2023: mitochondrial function, stress, neuroinflammation – bipolar disorder, psychosis, and Alzheimer's disease

J Licinio, ML Wong - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
In this issue of Molecular Psychiatry, we have multiple articles that present exciting
advances. Mitochondrial dysfunction is a topic that we are highlighting, and it is addressed …

Improving Alzheimer's disease diagnosis with multi-modal PET embedding features by a 3D multi-task MLP-mixer neural network

ZC Zhang, X Zhao, G Dong… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) or florbetapir (AV45)
has been proved effective in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. However, the expensive …

Magnetic resonance imaging in animal models of Alzheimer's disease amyloidosis

R Ni - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Amyloid-beta (Aβ) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
Aberrant Aβ accumulation induces neuroinflammation, cerebrovascular alterations, and …

Brain network decoupling with increased serum neurofilament and reduced cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease

MD Wheelock, JF Strain, P Mansfield, JC Tu… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neurofilament light chain, a putative measure of neuronal damage, is measurable in blood
and CSF and is predictive of cognitive function in individuals with Alzheimer's disease …

Convergent and distinct neural structural and functional patterns of mild cognitive impairment: a multimodal meta-analysis

C Yang, X Gao, N Liu, H Sun, Q Gong, L Yao… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a transitional stage between normal aging
and Alzheimer's disease. Numerous voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and resting-state fMRI …

Cerebral amyloid‐β load is associated with neurodegeneration and gliosis: Mediation by p‐tau and interactions with risk factors early in the Alzheimer's continuum

G Salvadó, M Milà‐Alomà, M Shekari… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The association between cerebral amyloid‐β accumulation and downstream
CSF biomarkers is not fully understood, particularly in asymptomatic stages. Methods In 318 …

Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament dynamic profiles predict cognitive progression in individuals with de novo Parkinson's disease

ZH Sheng, LZ Ma, JY Liu, YN Ou, B Zhao… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Neurofilament light chain protein (NfL) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) reflects the
severity of neurodegeneration, with its altered concentrations discovered in Parkinson's …

Preclinical in vivo longitudinal assessment of KG207-M as a disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease therapeutic

MS Kang, M Shin, J Ottoy, AA Aliaga… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In vivo biomarker abnormalities provide measures to monitor therapeutic interventions
targeting amyloid-β pathology as well as its effects on downstream processes associated …