ReviewCellular and molecular neurobiology2016
The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow as a Biomarker of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease.
Review in Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05396287 (The Impact of Cerebral Anatomical Variations on Cerebrovascular Reactivity), which is not on this map. Cited by 120 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Impact of Cerebral Anatomical Variations on Cerebrovascular Reactivity
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120 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 211 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dynamic cerebral autoregulation in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors on Cerebral Perfusion and Cognition: A Systematic Review.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Pooled it
- A phase 2A/B randomized trial of metabolic modulators intranasal insulin and empagliflozin for MCI and early AD.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Trial
- The effect of physical exercise on cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer's disease.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Trial
- Reduced Retinal Perfusion With Preserved Microvascular Network Density in Early Alzheimer's Disease: A Multimodal Imaging Study.Translational vision science & technology · 2026Article
- Unraveling the Pathophysiological Link Between ALS and SCA: The Role of Ischemic Cerebral Vascular Dissection and the Efficacy of Endovascular Therapy.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Article
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- Imaging markers of neuroinflammation in aging and Alzheimer's disease and related dementia: A comprehensive review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
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- Two-Photon Microscopy Functional Assays for Serial Imaging of Brain Microvessels and the Neurovascular Unit Through Disease Progression.Current protocols · 2025Article
- Nitric oxide is not responsible for initial sensory-induced neurovascular coupling response in the barrel cortex of lightly anesthetized mice.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
- Association of a DASH diet and magnetoencephalography in dementia-free adults with different risk levels of Alzheimer's disease.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Sex-Specific Adaptations in Alzheimer's Disease and Ischemic Stroke: A Longitudinal Study in Male and Female APPLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Research progress in predicting the conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease via multimodal MRI and artificial intelligence.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
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- Tension at the gate: sensing mechanical forces at the blood-brain barrier in health and disease.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2024Review
- Vascular Function and Ion Channels in Alzheimer's Disease.Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) · 2024Review
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Abstract
There is accumulating evidence suggesting that changes in brain perfusion are present long before the clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), perhaps even before amyloid-β accumulation or brain atrophy. This evidence, consistent with the vascular hypothesis of AD, implicates cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the pathogenesis of AD and suggests its utility as a biomarker of preclinical AD. The extended preclinical phase of AD holds particular significance for disease modification, as treatment would likely be most effective in this early asymptomatic stage of disease. This highlights the importance of identifying reliable and accurate biomarkers of AD that can differentiate normal aging from preclinical AD prior to clinical symptom manifestation. Cerebral perfusion, as measured by arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL-MRI), has been shown to distinguish between normal controls and adults with AD. In addition to demonstrating diagnostic utility, CBF has shown usefulness as a tool for identifying those who are at risk for AD and for predicting subtle cognitive decline and conversion to mild cognitive impairment and AD. Taken together, this evidence not only implicates CBF as a useful biomarker for tracking disease severity and progression, but also suggests that ASL-measured CBF may be useful for identifying candidates for future AD treatment trials, especially in the preclinical, asymptomatic phases of the disease.
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