Neurofilaments as biomarkers in neurological disorders

M Khalil, CE Teunissen, M Otto, F Piehl… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Neuroaxonal damage is the pathological substrate of permanent disability in various
neurological disorders. Reliable quantification and longitudinal follow-up of such damage …

Diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light protein in neurology: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Bridel, WN Van Wieringen, H Zetterberg… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Neurofilament light protein (NfL) is elevated in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of a
number of neurological conditions compared with healthy controls (HC) and is a candidate …

Longitudinal analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with multiple sclerosis

K Bjornevik, M Cortese, BC Healy, J Kuhle, MJ Mina… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central
nervous system of unknown etiology. We tested the hypothesis that MS is caused by Epstein …

Serum neurofilament light: a biomarker of neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis

G Disanto, C Barro, P Benkert, Y Naegelin… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Neurofilament light chains (NfL) are unique to neuronal cells, are shed to the
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and are detectable at low concentrations in peripheral blood …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MA Van Es, O Hardiman, A Chio, A Al-Chalabi… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is characterised by the progressive loss of motor neurons in
the brain and spinal cord. This neurodegenerative syndrome shares pathobiological …

Serum neurofilament as a predictor of disease worsening and brain and spinal cord atrophy in multiple sclerosis

C Barro, P Benkert, G Disanto, C Tsagkas, M Amann… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Neuro-axonal injury is a key factor in the development of permanent disability in multiple
sclerosis. Neurofilament light chain in peripheral blood has recently emerged as a biofluid …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD): Revised diagnostic criteria

MJ Strong, S Abrahams, LH Goldstein… - … lateral sclerosis and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents the revised consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal
dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on an international research …

Blood neurofilament light: a critical review of its application to neurologic disease

C Barro, T Chitnis, HL Weiner - Annals of clinical and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Neuronal injury is a universal event that occurs in disease processes that affect both the
central and peripheral nervous systems. A blood biomarker linked to neuronal injury would …

Association of plasma neurofilament light with neurodegeneration in patients with Alzheimer disease

N Mattsson, U Andreasson, H Zetterberg… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Existing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or imaging (tau positron emission
tomography) biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD) are invasive or expensive. Biomarkers …

Neurofilaments and neurofilament proteins in health and disease

A Yuan, MV Rao, RA Nixon - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Neurofilaments (NFs) are unique among tissue-specific classes of intermediate filaments
(IFs) in being heteropolymers composed of four subunits (NF-L [neurofilament light]; NF-M …