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ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

PET Neuroimaging of Alzheimer's Disease: Radiotracers and Their Utility in Clinical Research.

Weiqi Bao, Fang Xie, Chuantao Zuo, Yihui Guan, Yiyun Henry Huang

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Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Weiqi BaoPET Center, Huanshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Fang XiePET Center, Huanshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Chuantao ZuoPET Center, Huanshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Yihui GuanPET Center, Huanshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Yiyun Henry HuangDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, PET Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Validation of Fluorine-18 radioligand for PET imaging of synaptic density in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG065474 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HUANG, YIYUN HENRY, VAN DYCK, CHRISTOPHER H · 2020 to 2024
$3.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIA NIH HHS R01 AG065474
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the leading cause of senile dementia, is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of people worldwide and exerting tremendous socioeconomic burden on all societies. Although definitive diagnosis of AD is often made in the presence of clinical manifestations in late stages, it is now universally believed that AD is a continuum of disease commencing from the preclinical stage with typical neuropathological alterations appearing decades prior to its first symptom, to the prodromal stage with slight symptoms of amnesia (amnestic mild cognitive impairment, aMCI), and then to the terminal stage with extensive loss of basic cognitive functions, i.e., AD-dementia. Positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers have been developed in a search to meet the increasing clinical need of early detection and treatment monitoring for AD, with reference to the pathophysiological targets in Alzheimer's brain. These include the pathological aggregations of misfolded proteins such as β-amyloid (Aβ) plagues and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), impaired neurotransmitter system, neuroinflammation, as well as deficient synaptic vesicles and glucose utilization. In this article we survey the various PET radiotracers available for AD imaging and discuss their clinical applications especially in terms of early detection and cognitive relevance.

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Alzheimer's diseaseclinical researchneuroimagingPETradiotracer

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PMID34025386
PMCPMC8134674

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