Researchers at the National Institutes of Health detected abnormal proteins in ... Finally, the team examined cerebrospinal fluid from patients with ALS/FTD spectrum disorders and identified ...

Normal results are reported when no immunoglobulin proteins, called oligoclonal bands, are found in your cerebrospinal fluid. It is abnormal when there are more than two oligoclonal bands ...

Expert Rev Proteomics. 2008;5(2):249-262. Similar to the potential ALS biomarkers reported in serum and plasma, many of the CSF-based studies utilize small subject numbers within the sample groups ...

The results showed that patients with amyloid values of over 7.1 in their CSF had PET scans that mostly did not pick up anything abnormal—meaning they tested negative for Alzheimer's.