Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Test -- Useful or Useless? According to a recent editorial, neurologists should be sharpening their lumbar puncture needles in order to obtain cerebrospinal ...

A test measuring proteins in spinal fluid may help support the diagnosis of MS, especially in patients whose disease is harder to diagnose.

Researchers from the MPI of Biochemistry and the Technical University of Munich have discovered new diagnostic markers for multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects 3 million people worldwide.

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Diagnostic testing of CSF for surrogate disease markers (i.e., 14-3-3 and total tau) assumes that the patient had a history of acute dementia but did not have several conditions that might compromise ...

The SPEAR UltraDetect ™ pTau 217 biomarker assay kit is a specialized tool for researching Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using plasma samples. The assay requires the SPEAR UltraDet ...

A 74-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with headache, fever, intermittent right-sided otorrhoea, and rhinorrhoea. Analysis of nasal discharge confirmed the presence of beta-2-transferrin. CT ...

In addition to brain imaging, laboratory analysis of cerebrospinal fluid is important for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, proteomic analysis of this fluid has revealed a set ...