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Peripheral biomarkers

This Peripheral biomarkers special series, published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, tackles the current issues surrounding the search to identify blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and discusses biomarker approaches that have already produced data that may help to advance the field.

This series of articles has not been sponsored. All articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer review process overseen by the Series Editor, with final decisions made by the Editors in Chief. The Series Editor and Editors in Chief declare no competing interests.

  1. Dementia is currently diagnosed based on clinical symptoms and signs, but significant brain damage has already occurred by the time a clinical diagnosis of dementia is made, and it is increasingly recognized t...

    Authors: Galit Weinstein and Sudha Seshadri
    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2014 6:6
  2. The clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) overlap with a number of other dementias and conclusive diagnosis is only achieved at autopsy. Accurate in-life diagnosis requires finding biomarkers suitable ...

    Authors: Noemí Esteras, Carolina Alquézar, Ana de la Encarnación, Alberto Villarejo, Félix Bermejo-Pareja and Ángeles Martín-Requero
    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2013 5:55
  3. Advances in the field of blood biomarker discovery will help in identifying Alzheimer's disease in its preclinical stage, allowing treatment to be initiated before irreversible damage occurs. This review discu...

    Authors: Veer Bala Gupta, Ramani Sundaram and Ralph N Martins
    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2013 5:31
  4. Peripheral biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD) have not been established. Given parallels between neuron and platelet biology, we hypothesized platelet membrane-associated protein changes may diffe...

    Authors: Laura E Donovan, Eric B Dammer, Duc M Duong, John J Hanfelt, Allan I Levey, Nicholas T Seyfried and James J Lah
    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2013 5:32

    The Correction to this article has been published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2021 13:102