Association between cerebrospinal fluid and plasma neurodegeneration biomarkers with brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

作者：Pereira Joana B^*; Westman Eric; Hansson Oskar

来源：Neurobiology of Aging, 2017, 58(7): 14-29.

DOI：10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.06.002

• Neurofilament light
• Neurogranin
• Tau
• Cortical thickness
• Subcortical volumes

The aggregation and deposition of amyloid-beta (A beta) peptides into plaques is an early event in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is followed by different aspects of neurodegeneration that can be measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or plasma using neurofilament light (NFL), neurogranin (Ng), total Tau (T-Tau), and phosphorylated tau (P-Tau) levels. The relationship between these biomarkers and regional brain atrophy across the different stages of AD remains largely unexplored. In this study, we assessed whether NFL, Ng, T-Tau, and P-Tau levels in CSF and NFL in plasma are associated with cortical thinning and subcortical volume loss in cognitively normal, mild cognitive impairment, and AD subjects with and without A beta pathology. Our main findings showed that CSF NFL levels were associated with brain atrophy in all groups, but plasma NFL only correlated with atrophy in symptomatic cases. In contrast, Ng was associated with regional brain atrophy only in individuals with A beta pathology. Altogether, our main findings suggest that Ng is strongly associated with A beta pathology, whereas NFL is more unspecific.

• 出版日期2017-10