Title | Reproducibility of Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid-Biomarker Measurements under Clinical Routine Conditions. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Vogelgsang, J, Wedekind, D, Bouter, C, Klafki, H-W, Wiltfang, J |
Journal | J Alzheimers Dis |
Volume | 62 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 203-212 |
Date Published | 2018 |
ISSN | 1875-8908 |
Abstract | Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is one of the key tools for the state-of-the-art differential diagnosis of dementias. Dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by elevated CSF levels of total Tau (tTau) and phospho-181-Tau (pTau) and low CSF amyloid-β42 (Aβ42). Discrepancies in the laboratory analysis of human materials are well known and much effort has been put into harmonization procedures. In this study, we measured CSF biomarkers of more than 100 patients obtained under clinical routine conditions in two different clinical laboratories. The CSF biomarker levels obtained from the two different sites were significantly correlated: R2 = 0.7129 (tTau, p |
DOI | 10.3233/JAD-170793 |
Alternate Journal | J. Alzheimers Dis. |
PubMed ID | 29439341 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC5817906 |