Article
Tau in cerebrospinal fluid: a potential diagnostic marker in Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Oct 1995
Arai H, Terajima M, Miura M, Higuchi S, Muramatsu T, Machida N, Seiki H, Takase S, Clark C M, Lee V M
Abstract excerpt
Cerebrospinal fluid from 70 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 96 patients with non-AD neurological diseases as well as 19 normal control subjects was surveyed by sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to quantitate levels of the microtubule-associated protein tau in cerebrospinal fluid. The tau level was significantly increased in AD patients as compared with that in patients with non-AD neurological...
Topics
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoproteins E
- Biomarkers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Middle Aged
- tau Proteins
