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No added diagnostic value of non-phosphorylated tau fraction (p-taurel) in CSF as a biomarker for differential dementia diagnosis

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Title
No added diagnostic value of non-phosphorylated tau fraction (p-taurel) in CSF as a biomarker for differential dementia diagnosis
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Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13195-017-0275-5
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Joery Goossens, Maria Bjerke, Hanne Struyfs, Ellis Niemantsverdriet, Charisse Somers, Tobi Van den Bossche, Sara Van Mossevelde, Bart De Vil, Anne Sieben, Jean-Jacques Martin, Patrick Cras, Johan Goeman, Peter Paul De Deyn, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Julie van der Zee, Sebastiaan Engelborghs

Abstract

The Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers Aβ1-42, t-tau, and p-tau181 overlap with other diseases. New tau modifications or epitopes, such as the non-phosphorylated tau fraction (p-taurel), may improve differential dementia diagnosis. The goal of this study is to investigate if p-taurel can improve the diagnostic performance of the AD CSF biomarker panel for differential dementia diagnosis. The study population consisted of 45 AD, 45 frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), 45 dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and 21 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) patients, and 20 cognitively healthy controls. A substantial subset of the patients was pathology-confirmed. CSF levels of Aβ1-42, t-tau, p-tau181, and p-taurel were determined with commercially available single-analyte enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. Diagnostic performance was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses, and area under the curve (AUC) values were compared using DeLong tests. The diagnostic performance of single markers as well as biomarker ratios was determined for each pairwise comparison of different dementia groups and controls. The addition of p-taurel to the AD biomarker panel decreased its diagnostic performance when discriminating non-AD, FTLD, and DLB from AD. As a single marker, p-taurel increased the diagnostic performance for CJD. No significant difference was found in AUC values with the addition of p-taurel when differentiating between AD or non-AD dementias and controls. The addition of p-taurel to the AD CSF biomarker panel failed to improve differentiation between AD and non-AD dementias.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Other 6 14%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 7 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 23%
Neuroscience 8 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 11 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2020.
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#8
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