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Published in final edited form as: Mol Neurobiol. 2019 Aug 5;57(1):469–491. doi: 10.1007/s12035-019-01698-3

Table 1.

Reports of alteration of NfL concentration in various brain disorders.

Diseases Material Detection Method Cut-Off or Control (pg/mL) Disease (pg/mL) Model Sample Citation
ALS CSF ELISA 3819 9427 Human 220 [22]
Serum Single Molecule Array 49 125 Human 44 [23]
Serum ELISA 159 179 Human 149 [24]
CSF ELISA 1838 4700 Human 190 [25]
CSF, Serum ELISA 6802, 255 2,300, 128 Human 135 [26]
CSF ELISA 1843.52 5741.51 Human 94 [27]
Blood ELISA 63 424 Human 125 [28]
CSF ELISA 1431 2521 Human 150 [29]
CSF ECL 201.8 7388 Human 76 [30]
CSF, Serum ELISA 663, 30 7118, 97 Human 65 [31]
CSF, Serum ECL 466.5, 22 7304, 90 Human 56 [32]
CSF ELISA 2140 8160 Human 37 [33]
CSF ELISA 2399 9285 Human 37 [34]
CSF ELISA 2200 >2200 Human 242 [35]
MS Serum ELISA 36.26 45.33 Human 74 [36]
CSF, Serum ELISA 205, 10.5 925, 19.1 Human 286 [37]
CSF ELISA 1287 1900 Human 59 [38]
CSF ELISA 364 1468 Human 43 [39]
CSF ELISA 212 895 Human 41 [40]
CSF ELISA 29.6 43.4 Human 142 [41]
CSF, Serum ECL NA,1.3 9, 811 Human 31 [42]
Serum ECL 7.9 24.1 Human 100 [43]
CSF ELISA 10 26 Human 63 [44]
CSF ELISA 128.3 435.2 Human 47 [46]
CSF ELISA 1500 2500 Human 47 [47]
CSF ELISA 125 265 Human 60 [48]
CSF ELISA 125 1727 Human 66 [49]
CSF ELISA 350 1300 Human 92 [50]
CSF, Serum Single Molecule Array 341, 8.2 1475, 17 Human 39 [51]
AD Plasma ECL 34.7 43 Human 187 [45]
Plasma ELISA 25.7 49.1 Human 58 [52]
CSF ELISA 1296 10255 In vivo (Mouse) - [53]
CSF ELISA - 12–24 fold Human 30 [54]
CSF ELISA 77.7 228.9 Human 93 [55]
Plasma Single Molecule Array 17.8 32.9 Human 119 [56]
serum Ultrasensitive immunoassay 6.1 23.2 Human 48 [57]
Dementia CSF ELISA 981 2557 Human 41 [58]
CSF ELISA 1197.1 5966.9 Human 103 [59]
CSF ELISA 250 844 Human 34 [60]
CSF ELISA 860 1380 Human 103 [61]
CSF ELISA 125 410 Human 24 [62]
CSF ELISA 250 780 Human 53 [63]
CSF ELISA 5 16.9 Human 46 [64]
CSF ELISA 390 510 Human 17 [65]
CSF RT-QuIC 1632 8908 Human 103 [66]
CSF and serum ELISA 804 6762 Human 126 [67]
Serum ELISA 19.6 57.8 Human 34 [68]
Serum and CSF ECL 17, NA 56, 2948 Human 74 [69]
CSF ELISA 974 3168 Human 361 [70]
Serum Single Molecule Array 14.5 296 Human 45 [71
CSF ELISA, Western Blotting 1167 1857 Human 77 [72]
CSF ELISA 686.5 2473 Human 16 [73]
PD Plasma Single Molecule Array 17.8 23.3 Human 23 [74]
CSF Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry Not mentioned Not mentioned Human 26 [75]
CSF and serum ELISA 887 896 Human 244 [76]
CSF ELISA 619 915 Human 32 [77]
CSF ELISA 5.2/33.4 1503 Human 31 [78]
Stroke Serum ELISA 100> <200 Human 196 [79]
Serum ECL 16 211.2 Human 615 [80]
Serum ECL 34.59 73.45 Human 79 [81]
Blood ECL 46.3 108.9 Human 49 [82]
HD CSF, Blood ECL 17.04, 13.79 491.1, 121.3 In vivo (Mouse) - [83]
Spinal cord injury Serum ECL 5 21 Human 23 [84]
Traumatic brain injury Serum ELISA 13 196 Human 72 [85]
Repeated serum sampling and ventricular CSF ELISA 31 400 Human 182 [86]
Serum ELISA 9 22 Human 49 [87]
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Plasma Single Molecule Array 14 26 Human 75 [88]
DNA Western Blotting, RT-PCR - In vivo (Mouse) - [89]
Motor neurons PCR, GFP fluorescence, Cofractionation assay, immunoprecipitation assay and western blot - In vivo (Mouse) - [90]
SW13Vim SW13Vim+ cell lines* Western blotting, Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy - - Human - [91]
SW13Vim SW13Vim+ cell lines* Western blotting, Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy - - Human - [92]
Bipolar disorder CSF ELISA 359 480 Human 133 [93]
CSF ELISA 232> 395 Human 77 [94]
CSF ELISA 254 485 Human 82 [95]
*

SW13 has two subtypes including SW13(vim-) which expresses neither BRG1 nor Brm, SW13(vim+) which does express both.