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ReviewAlzheimer's research & therapy2013

Multiplex biomarkers in blood.

Veer Bala Gupta, Ramani Sundaram, Ralph N Martins

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Review in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Extracellular RNAs as Messengers and Early Biomarkers in Neurodegeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  10. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Definition, natural history, and diagnostic criteria.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Veer Bala GuptaCentre of Excellence for Alzheimer's disease Research & Care, School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, 6027 Australia.
Ramani SundaramCentre for Ageing and Alzheimer's, Nightingales, Bangalore, 560043 India.
Ralph N MartinsCentre of Excellence for Alzheimer's disease Research & Care, School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, 6027 Australia ; Sir James McCusker Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit (Hollywood Private Hospital), Perth, WA, 6009 Australia ; Suite 22, Hollywood Medical Centre, 85 Monash Ave, Nedlands, WA, 6009 Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in the field of blood biomarker discovery will help in identifying Alzheimer's disease in its preclinical stage, allowing treatment to be initiated before irreversible damage occurs. This review discusses some recent past and current approaches being taken by researchers in the field. Individual blood biomarkers have been unsuccessful in defining the disease pathology, progression and thus diagnosis. This directs to the need for discovering a multiplex panel of blood biomarkers as a promising approach with high sensitivity and specificity for early diagnosis. However, it is a great challenge to standardize a worldwide blood biomarker panel due to the innate differences in the population tested, nature of the samples and methods utilised in different studies across the globe. We highlight several issues that result in the lack of reproducibility in this field of research currently faced by researchers. Several important measures are summarized towards the end of the review that can be taken to minimize the variability among various centres.

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PMID23795953
PMCPMC3707019

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