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Hermann Esselmann is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, with a significant focus on psychiatry and mental health, physiology, neurology, molecular biology, and critical care and intensive care medicine.

Their publication record includes topics such as:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders

Esselmann's recent papers highlight their involvement in neurodegenerative and autoimmune neurological research. Selected recent publications include:

  • Autoantibody-associated psychiatric symptoms and syndromes in adults: A narrative review and proposed diagnostic approach, 2020, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • Clinical reporting following the quantification of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: An international overview, 2021, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Is plasma amyloid-β 1-42/1-40 a better biomarker for Alzheimer's disease than AβX-42/X-40?, 2022, Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
  • Identification of risk factors for delirium, cognitive decline, and dementia after cardiac surgery (FINDERI-find delirium risk factors): a study protocol of a prospective observational study, 2022, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
  • Detection and quantification of Aβ−3-40 (APP669-711) in cerebrospinal fluid, 2022, Journal of Neurochemistry

The primary venues where Esselmann publishes include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Journal of Neural Transmission
  • The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

Esselmann frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Jens Wiltfang
  • Niels Hansen
  • Bárbara Morgado
  • Jonathan Vogelgsang
  • Björn H. Schott

Their research contributions cover a wide array of medically relevant topics focusing heavily on neurodegenerative diseases, cognitive impairments, and related immune mechanisms. This multidisciplinary approach bridges clinical and laboratory investigations within the fields of psychiatry, neurology, and intensive care medicine.

Best Publications

  • The mechanism of γ-Secretase dysfunction in familial Alzheimer disease

    Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez;Leen Bammens;Iryna Benilova;Annelies Vandersteen;Annelies Vandersteen

  • Presenilin clinical mutations can affect gamma-secretase activity by different mechanisms.

    Mostafa Bentahir;Omar Nyabi;Jan Verhamme;Alexandra Tolia

  • Neurochemical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia by CSF Aβ42, Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio and total tau

    Piotr Lewczuk;Hermann Esselmann;Markus Otto;Juan Manuel Maler

  • γ-Secretase Heterogeneity in the Aph1 Subunit: Relevance for Alzheimer's Disease

    Lutgarde Serneels;Jérôme Van Biervliet;Katleen Craessaerts;Tim Dejaegere

  • Amyloid beta peptide ratio 42/40 but not A beta 42 correlates with phospho-Tau in patients with low- and high-CSF A beta 40 load.

    Jens Wiltfang;Hermann Esselmann;Mirko Bibl;Michael Hüll

  • Highly conserved and disease‐specific patterns of carboxyterminally truncated Aβ peptides 1–37/38/39 in addition to 1–40/42 in Alzheimer's disease and in patients with chronic neuroinflammation

    J. Wiltfang;H. Esselmann;M. Bibl;A. Smirnov

  • CSF amyloid-β-peptides in Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia

    Mirko Bibl;Brit Mollenhauer;Hermann Esselmann;Piotr Lewczuk

  • Decreased β-amyloid1-42 in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    M. Otto;H. Esselmann;W. Schulz-Schaeffer;M. Neumann

  • Effect of Sample Collection Tubes on Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentrations of Tau Proteins and Amyloid β Peptides

    Piotr Lewczuk;Georg Beck;Hermann Esselmann;Ralf Bruckmoser

  • Combined CSF tau, p-tau181 and amyloid-β 38/40/42 for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease

    Volker Welge;Oliver Fiege;Piotr Lewczuk;Brit Mollenhauer

  • Soluble amyloid precursor proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid as novel potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter study.

    P Lewczuk;H Kamrowski-Kruck;O Peters;I Heuser

  • Elevation of beta-amyloid peptide 2-42 in sporadic and familial Alzheimer's disease and its generation in PS1 knockout cells.

    Jens Wiltfang;Hermann Esselmann;Philippe Cupers;Manuela Neumann

  • Consensus Paper of the WFSBP Task Force on Biological Markers of Dementia: The role of CSF and blood analysis in the early and differential diagnosis of dementia

    J Wiltfang;P Lewczuk;P Riederer;E Grünblatt

  • Tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 181 in CSF as a neurochemical biomarker in Alzheimer's disease: original data and review of the literature.

    Piotr Lewczuk;Hermann Esselmann;Mirko Bibl;Georg Beck

  • Retrieval of the Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein from the endosome to the TGN is S655 phosphorylation state-dependent and retromer-mediated

    Sandra I. Vieira;Sandra Rebelo;Hermann Esselmann;Jens Wiltfang

  • International quality control survey of neurochemical dementia diagnostics

    Piotr Lewczuk;Georg Beck;Oliver Ganslandt;Hermann Esselmann

  • Amyloid beta peptide 1–40 enhances the action of Toll‐like receptor‐2 and ‐4 agonists but antagonizes Toll‐like receptor‐9‐induced inflammation in primary mouse microglial cell cultures

    Miriam Lotz;Sandra Ebert;Hermann Esselmann;Asparouh I. Iliev

  • The amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide pattern in cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease: evidence of a novel carboxyterminally elongated Aβ peptide

    Piotr Lewczuk;Hermann Esselmann;Markus Meyer;Volker Wollscheid

  • Presenilin-1 L166P Mutant Human Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Neurons Exhibit Partial Loss of γ-Secretase Activity in Endogenous Amyloid-β Generation

    Philipp Koch;Irfan Y. Tamboli;Jerome Mertens;Patrick Wunderlich

  • Cerebrospinal fluid amyloid β peptide patterns in Alzheimer's disease patients and nondemented controls depend on sample pretreatment: Indication of carrier‐mediated epitope masking of amyloid β peptides

    Mirko Bibl;Hermann Esselmann;Markus Otto;Piotr Lewczuk

  • Polymeric Complements to the Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker β-Amyloid Isoforms Aβ1–40 and Aβ1–42 for Blood Serum Analysis under Denaturing Conditions

    Javier L. Urraca;Carla S. A. Aureliano;Eric Schillinger;Hermann Esselmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Brit Mollenhauer
Brit Mollenhauer University of Göttingen
Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen
Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Hugo Vanderstichele
Hugo Vanderstichele Fujirebio (Belgium)
Robert Perneczky
Robert Perneczky Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Hayrettin Tumani
Hayrettin Tumani University of Ulm
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Jean-Louis Viovy
Jean-Louis Viovy Institute Curie

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