Imaging neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias : Recent advances and future directions

Copyright © 2015 The Alzheimer's Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved..

Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Huntington's disease (HD) are the main neurodegenerative causes of dementia. Causes and mechanisms of these diseases remain elusive. Neuroinflammation is increasingly emerging as an important pathological factor in their development. Positron emission tomography (PET) using [11C]PK11195 represents a method of visualizing the microglial component of neuroinflammation via the translocator protein (TSPO) and we discuss the valuable insights this has yielded in neurodegenerative diseases. We discuss the limitations of this method and the development of second generation TSPO PET ligands which hope to overcome these limitations. We also discuss other methods of visualizing neuroinflammation and review the state of current dementia treatments targeted at neuroinflammation. It is our view that a multimodal investigation into neuroinflammation in AD, Parkinson's disease dementia, FTD and HD will yield valuable pathological insights which will usefully inform development of therapeutic targets and biomarkers.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 11(2015), 9 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 1110-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Varley, James [VerfasserIn]
Brooks, David J [VerfasserIn]
Edison, Paul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alzheimer's disease
Dementia
Journal Article
MRI
Microglial activation
Neurodegenerative disease
Neuroinflammation
PET
Radiopharmaceuticals
Review
TSPO

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Date Completed 21.06.2016

Date Revised 29.01.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jalz.2014.08.105

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM244041156