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ReviewEBioMedicine2024

Insights into the use of biomarkers in clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease.

Tharick A Pascoal, Cristiano S Aguzzoli, Firoza Z Lussier, Lucía Crivelli, Claudia K Suemoto, Juan Fortea, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Eduardo R Zimmer, Pamela C L Ferreira, Bruna Bellaver

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Review in EBioMedicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Anatomy of a Setback: A Taxonomy of Clinical Trial Failures in Alzheimer's Disease and Strategic Lessons for the Future.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  7. Dementia etiology classification using NULISA plasma biomarkers and machine learning.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  18. The active construction of past episodes.Translational neuroscience · 2026
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  20. Advances in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026
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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

10 authors.

Tharick A PascoalDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA; Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA. Electronic address: pascoalt@upmc.edu.
Cristiano S AguzzoliBrain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Firoza Z LussierDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Lucía CrivelliDepartment of Cognitive Neurology, Fleni, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Claudia K SuemotoDivision of Geriatrics, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
Juan ForteaSant Pau Memory Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Barcelona Down Medical Center, Fundació Catalana Síndrome de Down, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, CIBERNED, Madrid, Spain.
Pedro Rosa-NetoTranslational Neuroimaging Laboratory, McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, Douglas Research Institute McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada.
Eduardo R ZimmerBrain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90035-003, Brazil; Graduate Program in Biological Sciences, Biochemistry (PPGBioq), and Pharmacology and Therapeutics (PPGFT), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90035-003, Brazil.
Pamela C L FerreiraDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Bruna BellaverDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomarkers have been instrumental in population selection and disease monitoring in clinical trials of recently FDA-approved drugs targeting amyloid-β to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As new therapeutic strategies and biomarker techniques emerge, the importance of biomarkers in drug development is growing exponentially. In this emerging landscape, biomarkers are expected to serve a wide range of contexts of use in clinical trials focusing on AD and related dementias. The joint FDA-NIH BEST (Biomarkers, EndpointS, and other Tools) framework provides standardised terminology to facilitate communication among stakeholders in this increasingly complex field. This review explores various applications of biomarkers relevant to AD clinical trials, using the BEST resource as a reference. For simplicity, we predominantly provide contextual characterizations of biomarkers use from the perspective of drugs targeting amyloid-β and tau proteins. However, general definitions and concepts can be extrapolated to other targets.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersClinical Trials as TopicAmyloid beta-PeptidesHumanstau ProteinsAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkerstau ProteinsAlzheimer's diseaseBEST glossaryBiomarkersClinical trialsDisease-modifying therapies

Identifiers

PMID39366844
PMCPMC11663755

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