Inflammatory proteins in plasma are associated with severity of Alzheimer's disease.

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Title: Inflammatory proteins in plasma are associated with severity of Alzheimer's disease.
Authors: Rufina Leung, Petroula Proitsi, Andrew Simmons, Katie Lunnon, Andreas Güntert, Deborah Kronenberg, Megan Pritchard, Magda Tsolaki, Patrizia Mecocci, Iwona Kloszewska, Bruno Vellas, Hilkka Soininen, Lars-Olaf Wahlund, Simon Lovestone
Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 6, p e64971 (2013)
Publisher Information: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013.
Publication Year: 2013
Collection: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
Subject Terms: Medicine, Science
More Details: Markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are being widely sought with a number of studies suggesting blood measures of inflammatory proteins as putative biomarkers. Here we report findings from a panel of 27 cytokines and related proteins in over 350 subjects with AD, subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and elderly normal controls where we also have measures of longitudinal change in cognition and baseline neuroimaging measures of atrophy. In this study, we identify five inflammatory proteins associated with evidence of atrophy on MR imaging data particularly in whole brain, ventricular and entorhinal cortex measures. In addition, we observed six analytes that showed significant change (over a period of one year) in people with fast cognitive decline compared to those with intermediate and slow decline. One of these (IL-10) was also associated with brain atrophy in AD. In conclusion, IL-10 was associated with both clinical and imaging evidence of severity of disease and might therefore have potential to act as biomarker of disease progression.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1932-6203
Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3677891?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064971
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/9192672a6f704feeb27c108bea89de8d
Accession Number: edsdoj.9192672a6f704feeb27c108bea89de8d
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0064971
Published in:PLoS ONE
Language:English