Acute phase markers in CSF reveal inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease that intersect with pathology, APOE ε4, sex and age.
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Importance: The positron emission tomography (PET) tracer flortaucipir allows in vivo quantification of paired helical filament tau, a core neuropathological feature of Alzheimer disease (AD), but its diagnostic utility is unclear. Objective: To examine the discriminative accuracy of flortaucipir for AD vs non-AD neurodegenerative disorders. Design, Setting, and Participants: In this cross-sectional study, 719 participants
Read the articleAmyloid deposition and neurofibrillary degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease specifically affect discrete neuronal systems, but the underlying mechanisms that render some brain regions more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease pathology than others remain largely unknown. Here we studied molecular properties underlying these distinct regional vulnerabilities by analysing Alzheimer’s disease-typical neuroimaging patterns of amyloid deposition and neurodegeneration in
Read the articleOBJECTIVE: To measure CSF levels of biomarkers reflecting microglia and astrocytes activation, neuroinflammation, and cerebrovascular changes and study their associations with the core biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology (β-amyloid and tau), structural imaging correlates, and clinical disease progression over time. METHODS: The study included cognitively unimpaired elderly (n = 508), patients with mild
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OBJECTIVE: To compare PET imaging of tau pathology with CSF measurements (total tau and phosphorylated tau ) in terms of diagnostic performance for Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: We compared t-tau and p-tau and 18F-AV-1451 in 30 controls, 14 patients with prodromal AD, and 39 patients with Alzheimerdementia, recruited from the Swedish BioFINDER study. All
Read the articleINTRODUCTION: We studied whether fully automated Elecsys cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) immunoassay results were concordant with positron emission tomography (PET) and predicted clinical progression, even with cutoffs established in an independent cohort. METHODS: Cutoffs for Elecsys amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ), total tau/Aβ(1-42), and phosphorylated tau/Aβ(1-42) were defined against flutemetamol PET in Swedish BioFINDER (n = 277) and validated against florbetapir
Read the articleOBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of midlife lipid levels on Alzheimer brain pathology 20 years later in cognitively normal elderly individuals. METHODS: This is a longitudinal cohort study of 318 cognitively normal individuals with data on fasting lipid levels at midlife (mean age 54 years). Presence of β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau pathologies 20 years later
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The interactive effect of demographic and clinical factors on hippocampal volume: A multicohort study on 1958 cognitively normal individuals.
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Abstract Aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau is a major hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. In vivo imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) may offer important insights in pathophysiological mechanisms, diagnosis and disease progression. We describe different strategies for quantification of 18F-AV1451 (T807) tau binding, including models with blood sampling and non-invasive alternatives. METHODS:
Read the articleSee comment in PubMed Commons below, Neurology 2016 Oct 25;87(17):1827-1835. Epub 2016 Sep 30. Abstract OBJECTIVE: To test whether plasma tau is altered in Alzheimer disease (AD) and whether it is related to changes in cognition, CSF biomarkers of AD pathology (including β-amyloid and tau), brain atrophy, and brain metabolism. METHODS: This was
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Abstract BACKGROUND: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is difficult to diagnose accurately. The recently developed tau PET tracers may improve the diagnostic work-up of PSP. METHODS: Regional tau accumulation was studied using 18 F-AV-1451 PET in 11 patients with PSP and 11 age-matched healthy controls in the Swedish BioFinder study. RESULTS: 18 F-AV-1451 standard uptake volume
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Abstract Tau positron emission tomography ligands provide the novel possibility to image tau pathology in vivo However, little is known about how in vivo brain uptake of tau positron emission tomography ligands relates to tau aggregates observed post-mortem. We performed tau positron emission tomography imaging with (18)F-AV-1451 in three patients harbouring a p.R406W mutation in
Read the articleIn Parkinson’s disease (PD), pathological microstructural changes occur and such changes might be detected using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). However, it is unclear whether dMRI improves PD diagnosis or helps differentiating between phenotypes, such as postural instability gait difficulty (PIGD) and tremor dominant (TD) PD. We included 105 patients with PD and 44 healthy
Read the articleAuthor information 11 Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden 2 Memory Clinic, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden Oskar.Hansson@med.lu.se. 23 Experimental Dementia Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
Read the articleAbstract A clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is currently made on the basis of results from cognitive tests in combination with medical history and general clinical evaluation, but the peptide amyloid-beta (Aβ) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is increasingly used as a biomarker for amyloid pathology in clinical trials and in recently proposed revised clinical criteria
Read the articleAbstract BACKGROUND: Reduced cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentration of amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ1-42) reflects the presence of amyloidopathy in brains of subjects with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). OBJECTIVE: To qualify the use of Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 for improvement of standard operating procedures (SOP) for measurement of CSF Aβ with a focus on CSF collection, storage, and analysis. METHODS: Euroimmun ELISAs for
Read the articleAbstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder represented by the accumulation of intracellular tau protein and extracellular deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brain. The gene sortilin 1 (SORT1) has previously been associated with cardiovascular disease in gene association studies. It has also been proposed to be involved in AD pathogenesis through facilitating Aβ
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J Neurochem. 2016 Nov;139(4):651-658
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Implementation of amyloid biomarkers in clinical practice would be accelerated if such biomarkers could be measured in blood. We analyzed plasma levels of Aβ42 and Aβ40 in a cohort of 719 individuals (the Swedish BioFINDER study), including patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia and cognitively healthy elderly,
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INTRODUCTION: Inflammatory processes have previously been shown to influence cognition and progression of dementia. An involvement of interleukin (IL)-6 has in particular been suggested as altered levels of IL-6 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been found in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Also, an association between cognitive decline and levels of IL-6 in CSF have
Read the articlePURPOSE: Conventional motion and eddy-current correction, where each diffusion-weighted volume is registered to a non diffusion-weighted reference, suffers from poor accuracy for high b-value data. An alternative approach is to extrapolate reference volumes from low b-value data. We aim to compare the performance of conventional and extrapolation-based correction of diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) data, and
Read the articleAbstract It is unclear whether the distribution of tau pathology differs between cases with early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and sporadic AD. We present positron emission tomography (PET) data from a young patient with a presenilin-1 mutation (Thr116Asn). 18F-flutemetamol PET showed a distribution of amyloid-β fibrils similar to sporadic AD. However, the pattern of tau
Read the articleABSTRACT Cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β is thought to be the starting mechanism in Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid-β can be detected by analysis of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β42or amyloid positron emission tomography, but it is unknown if any of the methods can identify an abnormal amyloid accumulation prior to the other. Our aim was to determine whether cerebrospinal
Read the articleBACKGROUND: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) neuropathology is associated with neuroinflammation, but there are few useful biomarkers. Mutant variants of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) have recently been linked to late-onset AD and other neurodegenerative disorders. TREM2, a microglial receptor, is involved in innate immunity. A cleaved fragment, soluble TREM2 (sTREM2), is present in
Read the articleIntroduction Ascertainment of the pattern and temporal change of biomarkers in preclinical (asymptomatic) sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will increase knowledge about early pathogenesis and facilitate interventional therapeutic trials. Methods In this prospective longitudinal study, repeated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collections and cognitive evaluations were performed in cognitively healthy elderly individuals during a 9-year period. Results Low
Read the articleOBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of tau, phosphorylated tau, β-amyloid42 , α-synuclein, neurofilament light, and YKL-40 change over time and if changes correlate with motor progression and/or cognitive decline in patients with PD and controls. METHODS: We included 63 patients with PD (nondemented) and 21 neurologically
Read the articleAbstract Increased APP (amyloid precursor protein) processing causes β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but it is unclear if it also affects sporadic Aβ accumulation. We tested healthy controls and patients with mild cognitive symptoms (N=331) in the BioFINDER study, using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ40 as a surrogate for amyloidogenic APP processing.
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Background: We aimed to test whether in vivo levels of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) metabolites myo-inositol, N-acetyl-aspartate and choline are abnormal already during preclinical Alzheimer disease, relating these changes to amyloid and/or tau pathology, and functional connectivity. Methods: In this cross-sectional multi-center study (a subset of the prospective Swedish BioFINDER study) we included four groups,
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The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 allele is the strongest risk factor of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), however, the fluid concentrations of ApoE and its different isoforms (ApoE2, ApoE3 and ApoE4) in AD patients and among APOE genotypes (APOE ε2, ε3, ε4) remain controversial. Using a novel mass spectrometry-based method, we quantified total ApoE and specific ApoE isoform concentrations and potential associations
Read the articleBACKGROUND: Differential diagnosis of parkinsonian disorders is challenging because of overlapping symptoms, especially during early stages of disease. No validated biomarkers are available for early and accurate diagnosis of multiple system atrophy and other parkinsonian disorders. It has been reported that flt3 ligand levels in cerebrospinal fluid could clearly differentiate patients with Parkinson’s disease from
Read the articleBackground Phosphorylcholine is one of the major epitopes of oxidised low density lipoprotein. Low levels of IgM antibodies against phosphorylcholine (anti-PC) are associated with development of myocardial infarction and stroke. It has been shown that patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have significantly lower serum anti-PC levels compared to controls, suggesting that low levels
Read the articleIn a large multicentre sample of cognitively normal subjects, as a function of age, gender and APOE genotype, we studied the frequency of abnormal cerebrospinal fluid levels of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers including: total tau, phosphorylated tau and amyloid-β1-42. Fifteen cohorts from 12 different centres with either enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays or Luminex® measurements were selected for
Read the articleINTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to identify disease-specific changes of the thalamus, basal ganglia, pons, and midbrain in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and multiple system atrophy with predominant parkinsonism (MSA-P) using diffusion tensor imaging and volumetric analysis. METHODS: MRI diffusion and volumetric data were acquired in a derivation
Read the articleBACKGROUND: Large epidemiological prospective studies represent an important opportunity for investigating risk factors for rare diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here we describe the procedures we used for ascertaining PD cases in the EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study. METHODS: The following three-phase procedure was used: (1) elaboration of a NeuroEPIC4PD
Read the articleSmall vessel disease (SVD) and amyloid deposition may promote each other, with a potential association between SVD and altered production or clearance of β-amyloid (Aβ) a ecting its cleavage products. We investigated the relationship between SVD, multiple isoforms of Aβ in cerebrospinal uid (CSF) and cortical Aβ in 831 subjects with cognitive performance ranging from
Read the articleBACKGROUND: Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD)-related pathologies. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of the Translocase of the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane 40 homolog (TOMM40) variants in PD without dementia (PDND), PD with dementia (PDD) and in Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). METHODS: 248 individuals, including 92 PDND, 55 PDD,
Read the articleOBJECTIVE: Widespread implementation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in clinical settings requires improved accuracy for diagnosis of prodromal disease and for distinguishing AD from non-AD dementias. Novel and promising CSF biomarkers include neurogranin, a marker of synaptic degeneration, and YKL-40, a marker of neuroinflammation. METHODS: CSF neurogranin and YKL-40 were measured
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New biomarkers of algorithms may improve the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD. The present study aimed to determine whether Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios improve the diagnostic accuracy of AD during predementia and dementia stages in comparison to CSF Aβ42 alone. The study included three different cohorts comprising a total of
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Objective: To study biomarkers of angiogenesis in Parkinson’s disease (PD), and how these are associated with clinical characteristics, blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, and cerebrovascular disease. Methods: Thirty-eight elderly controls and 100 PD patients (82 without dementia and 18 with dementia) were included from the prospective Swedish BioFinder study. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were analyzed for the
Read the articleObjective To compare the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers and amyloid PET for diagnosing early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods From the BioFINDER study, we included 122 healthy elderly and 34 patients with mild cognitive impairment who developed AD dementia within 3 years (MCI-AD). Amyloid-β (Aβ) in 8 brain regions and globally was examined
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Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Brain. 2015 Sep;138(Pt 9):2701-15.
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Background: Arterial stiffness reflects the ageing processes in the vascular system and studies have shown an association between reduced cognitive function and cerebral small vessel disease. Small vessel disease can be visualized as white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and lacunar infarcts but also as cerebral microbleeds on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We aimed to investigate
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Objective: To investigate whether certain CSF biomarkers at baseline can predict future progression of motor symptoms and cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Methods: Patients and controls were recruited from hospitals in southern Sweden as part of the prospective and longitudinal Swedish BioFinder Study. In the present study, we included 42 patients with
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