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Identification Of Plasma Lipid Biomarkers In Alzheimer's Disease, Rhona Creegan
Identification Of Plasma Lipid Biomarkers In Alzheimer's Disease, Rhona Creegan
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the commonest form of dementia, is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease which manifests clinically as a slow global decline in cognitive function, including deterioration of memory, reasoning, abstraction, language and emotional stability, culminating in a patient with end-stage disease, totally dependent on custodial care. With an ageing population, there is predicted to be a marked increase in the number of people diagnosed with AD in the coming decades, making this a significant challenge to socio-economic policy and aged care. Currently there is no cure for AD and while current therapies may temporarily ameliorate symptoms, death usually occurs …
Multiplex Biomarkers In Blood, Veer Bala Bala Gupta, Ramani Sundaram, Ralph N. Martins
Multiplex Biomarkers In Blood, Veer Bala Bala Gupta, Ramani Sundaram, Ralph N. Martins
Research outputs 2013
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 discusses some recent past and current approaches being taken by researchers in the field. Individual blood biomarkers have been unsuccessful in defining the disease pathology, progression and thus diagnosis. This directs to the need for discovering a multiplex panel of blood biomarkers as a promising approach with high sensitivity and specificity for early diagnosis. However, it is a great challenge to standardize a worldwide blood biomarker panel due to the innate …