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Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and proximity to diagnosis in preclinical familial Alzheimer's disease.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2012
Ringman John M, Coppola Giovanni, Elashoff David, Rodriguez-Agudelo Yaneth, Medina Luis D, Gylys Karen, Cummings Jeffrey L, Cole Greg M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Biological markers of utility in tracking Alzheimer's disease (AD) during the presymptomatic prodromal phase are important for prevention studies. Changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of 42-amino-acid β-amyloid (Aβ(42)), total tau protein (t-tau) and phosphorylated tau at residue 181 (p-tau(181)) during this state are incompletely characterized. METHODS: We measured CSF markers in 13...
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