CSF neurogranin or tau distinguish typical and atypical Alzheimer disease

Objective: To assess whether high levels of cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin are found in atypical as well as typical Alzheimer's disease.

Methods: Immunoassays were used to measure cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin in 114 participants including healthy controls (n = 27), biomarker-proven amnestic Alzheimer's disease (n = 68), and the atypical visual variant of Alzheimer's (n = 19) according to international criteria. CSF total-tau, Aβ42, and neurofilament light concentrations were investigated using commercially available assays. All affected individuals had T1-weighted volumetric MR images available for analysis of whole and regional brain volumes. Associations between neurogranin, brain volumes, total-tau, Aβ42, and neurofilament light were assessed.

Results: Median cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin concentrations were higher in typical and atypical Alzheimer's compared to controls (P < 0.001 and P = 0.005). Both neurogranin and total-tau concentrations, but not neurofilament light and Aβ42, were higher in typical Alzheimer's compared to atypical patients (P = 0.004 and P = 0.03). There were significant differences in the left hippocampus and right and left superior parietal lobules in atypical patients, which were larger (P = 0.03) and smaller (P = 0.001 and P < 0.001), respectively, compared to typical patients. We found no evidence of associations between neurogranin and brain volumes but a strong association with total-tau (P < 0.001) and a weaker association with neurofilament light (P = 0.005).

Interpretation: These results show significant differences in neurogranin and total-tau between typical and atypical patients, which may relate to factors other than disease topography. The differential relationships between neurogranin, total-tau and neurofilament light in the Alzheimer's variants, provide evidence for mechanistically distinct and coupled markers of neurodegeneration.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

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Annals of clinical and translational neurology - 5(2018), 2 vom: 19. Feb., Seite 162-171

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Englisch

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Wellington, Henrietta [VerfasserIn]
Paterson, Ross W [VerfasserIn]
Suárez-González, Aida [VerfasserIn]
Poole, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Frost, Chris [VerfasserIn]
Sjöbom, Ulrika [VerfasserIn]
Slattery, Catherine F [VerfasserIn]
Magdalinou, Nadia K [VerfasserIn]
Lehmann, Manja [VerfasserIn]
Portelius, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Fox, Nick C [VerfasserIn]
Blennow, Kaj [VerfasserIn]
Zetterberg, Henrik [VerfasserIn]
Schott, Jonathan M [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 06.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

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10.1002/acn3.518

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NLM281264449