TABLE 3.
NfPs and fragments as biomarkers in conditions affecting nervous system.
| Conditions | Association of NF subunit level with |
Association of NF subunit level with |
References | |||||||
| NfL | pNfH (smi35) |
NfH (smi31 and others) |
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| B | C | B | C | B | C | Disease activity | Prognosis | Treatment response | ||
| Acute bacterial meningitis | + | Gronhoj et al., 2021 | ||||||||
| Anesthesia and surgery | + | Evered et al., 2018 | ||||||||
| Anorexia nervosa | + | Nilsson et al., 2019 | ||||||||
| Autoimmune encephalitis | + | + | yes | Kortvelyessy et al., 2018; Fominykh et al., 2019; Piepgras et al., 2021 | ||||||
| Brain metastasis and glioma | + | yes | yes | Hepner et al., 2019 | ||||||
| Cardiac arrest | + | yes | yes | Moseby-Knappe et al., 2019 | ||||||
| Cerebral small vessel disease | + | yes | yes | Egle et al., 2021; Qu et al., 2021 | ||||||
| Chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment | + | yes | Natori et al., 2015 | |||||||
| Chorea-acanthocytosis | + | yes | Peikert et al., 2020 | |||||||
| Diabetic neuropathy | + | Qiao et al., 2015 | ||||||||
| Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy | + | yes | Douglas-Escobar et al., 2010 | |||||||
| Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus | + | Jeppsson et al., 2013 | ||||||||
| Intrapartum asphyxia | + | yes | Toorell et al., 2018 | |||||||
| Mcleod syndrome | + | Peikert et al., 2020 | ||||||||
| Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes | + | yes | Zheng et al., 2021 | |||||||
| Mitochondrial encephalopathy | + | yes | yes | Sofou et al., 2019 | ||||||
| MOG-Abs-associated disorders | + | Sara et al., 2021 | ||||||||
| Neurosarcoidosis | + | + | Byg et al., 2021 | |||||||
| Peri/intraventricular hemorrhage | + | + | yes | yes | Goeral et al., 2021 | |||||
| Postoperative delirium | + | Casey et al., 2019 | ||||||||
| Preeclampsia | + | yes | yes | Evers et al., 2018 | ||||||
| Preterm infants | + | Depoorter et al., 2018 | ||||||||
| Sepsis-associated encephalopathy | + | yes | yes | Ehler et al., 2019 | ||||||
| Severe COVID-19 | + | Sutter et al., 2021 | ||||||||
| Thoracolumbar intervertebral disk herniation | + | yes | yes | Nishida et al., 2014 | ||||||
| Wilson’s disease | + | yes | Shribman et al., 2021 | |||||||
| X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy | + | yes | yes | Weinhofer et al., 2021 | ||||||
B, blood; C, CSF.