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ReviewNeurology and therapy2019

Critical Steps to be Taken into Consideration Before Quantification of β-Amyloid and Tau Isoforms in Blood can be Implemented in a Clinical Environment.

Hugo Marcel Vanderstichele, Charlotte E Teunissen, Eugeen Vanmechelen

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Review in Neurology and therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hugo Marcel VandersticheleBiomarkable, Ghent, Belgium. hugo.vanderstichele@biomarkable.be.
Charlotte E TeunissenAmsterdam University Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Eugeen VanmechelenKey4AD, Eke, Belgium.
Biomarker Technologies (China) · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review aims to document difficulties, limitations, and pitfalls when considering protein analysis in blood samples. It proposes an improved workflow for design, development, and validation of (immuno)assays for blood proteins, without providing reflections on a potential hypothesis of the origin of protein mismetabolism and deposition. There is a special focus on assay development for quantification of β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau in blood for diagnostic use or for integration in clinical trials in the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Indexed as

AssayBiomarker panelBloodTauValidationβ-Amyloid

Identifiers

PMID31833029
PMCPMC6908532
OpenAlexW2996093903

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Registered trials

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