2024
Associations of Plasma Tau with Amyloid and Tau PET: Results from the Community-Based Framingham Heart Study
Ramos-Cejudo J, Scott M, Tanner J, Pase M, McGrath E, Ghosh S, Osorio R, Thibault E, Fakhri G, Johnson K, Beiser A, Seshadri S. Associations of Plasma Tau with Amyloid and Tau PET: Results from the Community-Based Framingham Heart Study. Journal Of Alzheimer's Disease 2024, 100: 487-494. PMID: 38875034, DOI: 10.3233/jad-231320.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCommunity-based Framingham Heart StudyFramingham Heart StudyHeart StudyCross-sectional associationsPlasma total tauMiddle-aged participantsRisk of ADCognitively healthy individualsCommunity-basedCompound B (PiB)-PETMiddle-agedPositive associationPlasma tauParticipantsTau-PETAssociationTotal tau levelsAD brain pathologyTotal-tauHealthy individualsAPOEe4Tau levelsBurdenRhinal cortexPrecuneus regions
2021
Locus coeruleus integrity as a proxy of initial tau burden: in vivo versus ex vivo observations
Jacobs H, Becker A, Kwong K, Engels N, Prokopiou P, Papp K, Properzi M, Hampton O, Sanchez J, Rentz D, Fakhri G, Normandin M, Bennett D, Sperling R, Johnson K. Locus coeruleus integrity as a proxy of initial tau burden: in vivo versus ex vivo observations. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2021, 17 DOI: 10.1002/alz.056391.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHarvard Aging Brain StudyMini-Mental State ExaminationLC integrityLocus coeruleusMini-Mental State Examination scoreNeuronal densityTangle densityLocus coeruleus integrityAging Brain StudyTau pathologyAlzheimer's diseaseAD-related processesVertex-wiseTemporal regionsBraak stageLC measurementsMini-MentalMCI/AD patientsState ExaminationBrain studiesPiB-PET imagingTau-PETPET measurementsPiB-PETTangle burden