Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in clinical practice and trials

O Hansson, K Blennow, H Zetterberg, J Dage - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Blood-based biomarkers hold great promise to revolutionize the diagnostic and prognostic
work-up of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical practice. This is very timely, considering the …

Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup

CR Jack Jr, JS Andrews, TG Beach… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association convened three
separate work groups in 2011 and single work groups in 2012 and 2018 to create …

Highly accurate blood test for Alzheimer's disease is similar or superior to clinical cerebrospinal fluid tests

NR Barthélemy, G Salvadó, SE Schindler, Y He… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
With the emergence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) disease-modifying therapies, identifying
patients who could benefit from these treatments becomes critical. In this study, we …

Recent advances in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms, clinical trials and new drug development strategies

J Zhang, Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Xia, J Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) stands as the predominant form of dementia, presenting significant
and escalating global challenges. Its etiology is intricate and diverse, stemming from a …

Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: Current state and future use in a transformed global healthcare landscape

H Hampel, Y Hu, J Cummings, S Mattke, T Iwatsubo… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Timely detection of the pathophysiological changes and cognitive impairment caused by
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly pressing because of the advent of biomarker …

The Alzheimer's Association appropriate use recommendations for blood biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

O Hansson, RM Edelmayer, AL Boxer… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Blood‐based markers (BBMs) have recently shown promise to revolutionize the diagnostic
and prognostic work‐up of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as to improve the design of …

Diagnostic accuracy of a plasma phosphorylated tau 217 immunoassay for Alzheimer disease pathology

NJ Ashton, WS Brum, G Di Molfetta, AL Benedet… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Phosphorylated tau (p-tau) is a specific blood biomarker for Alzheimer disease
(AD) pathology, with p-tau217 considered to have the most utility. However, availability of p …

A two-step workflow based on plasma p-tau217 to screen for amyloid β positivity with further confirmatory testing only in uncertain cases

WS Brum, NC Cullen, S Janelidze, NJ Ashton… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
Cost-effective strategies for identifying amyloid-β (Aβ) positivity in patients with cognitive
impairment are urgently needed with recent approvals of anti-Aβ immunotherapies for …

Anti-amyloid antibody therapies in Alzheimer's disease

R Perneczky, F Jessen, T Grimmer, J Levin, A Flöel… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
After years of failed attempts to develop a disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's
disease, consistent evidence in support of clinical efficacy was finally presented for a …