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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2020

Use of Biomarkers in Ongoing Research Protocols on Alzheimer's Disease.

Marco Canevelli, Giulia Remoli, Ilaria Bacigalupo, Martina Valletta, Marco Toccaceli Blasi, Francesco Sciancalepore, Giuseppe Bruno, Matteo Cesari, Nicola Vanacore

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Marco CanevelliDepartment of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7333-6478
Giulia RemoliDepartment of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Ilaria BacigalupoNational Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Italian National Institute of Health, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Martina VallettaDepartment of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Marco Toccaceli BlasiDepartment of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1336-0932
Francesco SciancaleporeDepartment of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe BrunoDepartment of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Matteo CesariDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0348-3664
Nicola VanacoreNational Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Italian National Institute of Health, 00161 Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study aimed to describe and discuss the state of the art of biomarker use in ongoing Alzheimer's disease (AD) research. A review of 222 ongoing phase 1, 2, 3, and 4 protocols registered in the clinicaltrials.gov database was performed. All the trials (i) enrolling subjects with clinical disturbances and/or preclinical diagnoses falling within the AD continuum; and (ii) testing the efficacy and/or safety/tolerability of a therapeutic intervention, were analyzed. The use of biomarkers of amyloid deposition, tau pathology, and neurodegeneration among the eligibility criteria and/or study outcomes was assessed. Overall, 58.2% of ongoing interventional studies on AD adopt candidate biomarkers. They are mostly adopted by studies at the preliminary stages of the drug development process to explore the safety profile of novel therapies, and to provide evidence of target engagement and disease-modifying properties. The biologically supported selection of participants is mostly based on biomarkers of amyloid deposition, whereas the use of biomarkers as study outcomes mostly relies on markers of neurodegeneration. Biomarkers play an important role in the design and conduction of research protocols targeting AD. Nevertheless, their clinical validity, utility, and cost-effectiveness in the "real world" remain to be clarified.

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Alzheimer’s diseasebiomarkersclinical trialsdiagnostic researchdrug development

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PMID32722106
PMCPMC7564515

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