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Impact of Plasma p-tau181 on Cognition, Motor Phenotypes, and Disease Course in ALS.

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Authors: Elisabeth Kasper1,2, Annaliis Lehto1,2,3, Nina Nordmann1, Oliver Peters4,5, Julian Hellmann4,6,7, Josef Priller4,8,9,10, Eike Jakob Spruth4,8, Gabor C Petzold11,12, Ina Vogt11, Patrick Weydt11,13, Sarah Bernsen11,13, Elisabeth Dinter14,15, Björn Falkenburger14,15, René Günther14,15, Emrah Düzel16,17,18, Wenzel Glanz16,17, Matthis Synofzik19,20, Lukas Beichert19,20, Annika Spottke11,13, Michael Wagner11,21
and 6 other authorsFrederic Brosseron11, Matthias C Schmid11,22, Anja Schneider11,21, Stefan Teipel2,23, Johannes Prudlo1,2, Andreas Hermann2,3
23 affiliations
  1. Department of Neurology, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany
  2. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
  3. Translational Neurodegeneration Section “Albrecht Kossel”, Department of Neurology, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany
  4. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
  5. Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin‐Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
  6. Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  7. ECRC Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  8. Neuropsychiatry and Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  9. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, and German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Munich, Germany
  10. University of Edinburgh and UK DRI, Edinburgh, UK
  11. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
  12. Department of Vascular Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  13. Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  14. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Dresden, Germany
  15. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  16. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
  17. Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto‐von‐Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  18. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
  19. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
  20. Division of Translational Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Center of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
  21. Department for Cognitive Disorders and Old Age Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  22. Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  23. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany
Journal: Annals of clinical and translational neurology, volume 13, issue 8, pages 1711-1718
Dates: received 19 March 2026; accepted 15 April 2026; published online 4 May 2026; in print August 2026
Type: Brief report · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1002/acn3.70423 · PMID 42080410 · PMCID PMC13395029 · OpenAlex W7160094497
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: code on request
Categories: other (modality), human (organism), other condition (population), Alzheimer's / dementia (population), clinical / translational (subfield)
Methods: Statistics
Keywords: Alzheimer disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, plasma p‐tau181
MeSH: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis*, Cognitive Dysfunction*, Frontotemporal Dementia*, tau Proteins*, Aged, Biomarkers, Disease Progression, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Neurofilament Proteins, Phosphorylation (* major topic)
Topic: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (Neurology, Medicine), according to OpenAlex
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 21 references in the paper

Abstract

Phosphorylated tau181 (p‐tau181), an Alzheimer's disease biomarker, was recently evaluated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We investigated plasma p‐tau181 in 202 ALS/ALS‐FTD patients and 94 healthy controls, assessing cognitive performance, motor function, and longitudinal dynamics. Plasma p‐tau181 and NfL were significantly elevated in ALS, with p‐tau181 increasing over 1 year while NfL remained stable. Neither marker correlated with cognitive performance, and only NfL was associated with disease severity and progression. Plasma p‐tau181 was higher in patients with predominant lower motor neuron involvement. The results indicate that p‐tau181 reflects peripheral processes in ALS, providing a complementary, mechanistically distinct biomarker from NfL.

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This paper

Kasper, E., Lehto, A., Nordmann, N., Peters, O., Hellmann, J., Priller, J., Spruth, E. J., Petzold, G. C., Vogt, I., Weydt, P., Bernsen, S., Dinter, E., Falkenburger, B., Günther, R., Düzel, E., Glanz, W., Synofzik, M., Beichert, L., Spottke, A., . . . Hermann, A. (2026). Impact of Plasma p-tau181 on Cognition, Motor Phenotypes, and Disease Course in ALS. Annals of clinical and translational neurology, 13(8), 1711-1718. https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70423

BibTeX

@article{kasper2026impact,
author = {Kasper, Elisabeth and Lehto, Annaliis and Nordmann, Nina and Peters, Oliver and Hellmann, Julian and Priller, Josef and Spruth, Eike Jakob and Petzold, Gabor C and Vogt, Ina and Weydt, Patrick and Bernsen, Sarah and Dinter, Elisabeth and Falkenburger, Björn and Günther, René and Düzel, Emrah and Glanz, Wenzel and Synofzik, Matthis and Beichert, Lukas and Spottke, Annika and Wagner, Michael and Brosseron, Frederic and Schmid, Matthias C and Schneider, Anja and Teipel, Stefan and Prudlo, Johannes and Hermann, Andreas},
title = {{Impact of Plasma p-tau181 on Cognition, Motor Phenotypes, and Disease Course in ALS}},
journal = {Annals of clinical and translational neurology},
year = {2026},
month = may,
volume = {13},
number = {8},
pages = {1711--1718},
publisher = {Wiley},
issn = {2328-9503},
doi = {10.1002/acn3.70423},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70423},
pmid = {42080410},
pmcid = {PMC13395029}
}

RIS

TY - JOUR
AU - Kasper, Elisabeth
AU - Lehto, Annaliis
AU - Nordmann, Nina
AU - Peters, Oliver
AU - Hellmann, Julian
AU - Priller, Josef
AU - Spruth, Eike Jakob
AU - Petzold, Gabor C
AU - Vogt, Ina
AU - Weydt, Patrick
AU - Bernsen, Sarah
AU - Dinter, Elisabeth
AU - Falkenburger, Björn
AU - Günther, René
AU - Düzel, Emrah
AU - Glanz, Wenzel
AU - Synofzik, Matthis
AU - Beichert, Lukas
AU - Spottke, Annika
AU - Wagner, Michael
AU - Brosseron, Frederic
AU - Schmid, Matthias C
AU - Schneider, Anja
AU - Teipel, Stefan
AU - Prudlo, Johannes
AU - Hermann, Andreas
TI - Impact of Plasma p-tau181 on Cognition, Motor Phenotypes, and Disease Course in ALS
T2 - Annals of clinical and translational neurology
J2 - Ann Clin Transl Neurol
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/05/04
VL - 13
IS - 8
SP - 1711
EP - 1718
SN - 2328-9503
PB - Wiley
DO - 10.1002/acn3.70423
UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70423
LA - en
ER -

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