[HTML][HTML] Association of short-term cognitive decline and MCI-to-AD dementia conversion with CSF, MRI, amyloid-and 18F-FDG-PET imaging

…, J Verhaeghe, E De Roeck, H Struyfs, C Somers… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 - Elsevier
Disease-modifying treatment trials are increasingly advanced to the prodromal or preclinical
phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and inclusion criteria are based on biomarkers rather …

[HTML][HTML] The cerebrospinal fluid Aβ 1–42/Aβ 1–40 ratio improves concordance with amyloid-PET for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a clinical setting

E Niemantsverdriet, J Ottoy, C Somers… - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Background: Evidence suggests that the concordance between amyloid-PET and cerebrospinal
fluid (CSF) amyloid-ß (Aß) increases when the CSF Aß1–42/Aß1–40 ratio is used as …

Associating Alzheimer's disease pathology with its cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

C Bridel, C Somers, A Sieben, A Rozemuller… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer’s disease CSF biomarkers 42 amino acid long amyloid-β peptide (Aβ 1–42 ),
total tau protein (T-tau), and tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau 181 ) are …

A decade of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in Belgium

C Somers, H Struyfs, J Goossens… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
During the past ten years, over 5,000 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were analyzed at
the Reference Center for Biological Markers of Dementia (BIODEM), UAntwerp, for core …

[HTML][HTML] Neurogranin as biomarker in CSF is non-specific to Alzheimer's disease dementia

EAJ Willemse, A Sieben, C Somers, Y Vermeiren… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
We aimed to evaluate the specificity of neurogranin (Ng) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a
dementia cohort. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Ng was measured (ELISA) in two independent …

Validation of the semiquantitative static SUVR method for 18F-AV45 PET by pharmacokinetic modeling with an arterial input function

…, E Niemantsverdriet, L Wyffels, C Somers… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
Increased brain uptake of 18 F-AV45 visualized by PET is a key biomarker for Alzheimer
disease (AD). The SUV ratio (SUVR) is widely used for quantification, but is subject to variability …

[HTML][HTML] No added diagnostic value of non-phosphorylated tau fraction (p-taurel) in CSF as a biomarker for differential dementia diagnosis

…, H Struyfs, E Niemantsverdriet, C Somers… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2017 - Springer
Background The Alzheimer’s disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers Aβ 1–42 , t-tau,
and p-tau 181 overlap with other diseases. New tau modifications or epitopes, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of the Erlangen score algorithm for differential dementia diagnosis in autopsy-confirmed subjects

C Somers, P Lewczuk, A Sieben… - Journal of …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Background: Despite decades of research on the optimization of the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
disease (AD), its biomarkerbased diagnosis is being hampered by the lack of …

Selecting Aβ isoforms for an Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker panel

C Somers, J Goossens, S Engelborghs… - Biomarkers in …, 2017 - Future Medicine
Although the core cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers amyloid-β (Aβ 1–42
) and tau show a high diagnostic accuracy, there are still limitations due to overlap in the …

[PDF][PDF] Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for differential dementia diagnosis: limitations and opportunities

C Somers - 2018 - repository.uantwerpen.be
Over the last couple of decades, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been studied
thoroughly for their potential to closely reflect neuropathological processes in the brain. To date…