Oligomeric forms of amyloid-β protein in plasma as a potential blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

BACKGROUND: Soluble amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers are the major toxic substances associated with the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The ability to measure Aβ oligomer levels in the blood would provide simple and minimally invasive tools for AD diagnostics. In the present study, the recently developed Multimer Detection System (MDS) for AD, a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for measuring Aβ oligomers selectively, was used to detect Aβ oligomers in the plasma of patients with AD and healthy control individuals.

METHODS: Twenty-four patients with AD and 37 cognitively normal control individuals underwent extensive clinical evaluations as follows: blood sampling; detailed neuropsychological tests; brain magnetic resonance imaging; cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measurement of Aβ42, phosphorylated tau protein (pTau), and total tau protein (tTau); and 11C-Pittsburgh compound B (PIB) positron emission tomography. Pearson's correlation analyses between the estimations of Aβ oligomer levels by MDS and other conventional AD biomarkers (CSF Aβ42, pTau, and tTau, as well as PIB standardized uptake value ratio [PIB SUVR]) were conducted. ROC analyses were used to compare the diagnostic performance of each biomarker.

RESULTS: The plasma levels of Aβ oligomers by MDS were higher in patients with AD than in normal control individuals, and they correlated well with conventional AD biomarkers (levels of Aβ oligomers by MDS vs. CSF Aβ42, r = -0.443; PIB SUVR, r = 0.430; CSF pTau, r = 0.530; CSF tTau, r = 0.604). The sensitivity and specificity of detecting plasma Aβ oligomers by MDS for differentiating AD from the normal controls were 78.3% and 86.5%, respectively. The AUC for plasma Aβ oligomers by MDS was 0.844, which was not significantly different from the AUC of other biomarkers (p = 0.250).

CONCLUSIONS: Plasma levels of Aβ oligomers could be assessed using MDS, which might be a simple, noninvasive, and accessible assay for evaluating brain amyloid deposition related to AD pathology.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Alzheimer's research & therapy - 9(2017), 1 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 98

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Min Jeong [VerfasserIn]
Yi, SangHak [VerfasserIn]
Han, Jee-Young [VerfasserIn]
Park, So Young [VerfasserIn]
Jang, Jae-Won [VerfasserIn]
Chun, In Kook [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Sang Eun [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Byoung Sub [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Gwang Je [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Ji Sun [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Kuntaek [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Sung Min [VerfasserIn]
Park, Young Ho [VerfasserIn]
Youn, Young Chul [VerfasserIn]
An, Seong Soo A [VerfasserIn]
Kim, SangYun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2-(4'-(methylamino)phenyl)-6-hydroxybenzothiazole
Alzheimer’s disease
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Amyloid beta-protein (1-42)
Amyloid-β protein
Aniline Compounds
Benzothiazoles
Biomarker
Journal Article
Oligomer
Peptide Fragments
Tau Proteins
Thiazoles

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Date Completed 23.07.2018

Date Revised 09.04.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13195-017-0324-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM279107307