Westwood, S;
Liu, B;
Baird, AL;
Anand, S;
Nevado-Holgado, AJ;
Newby, D;
Pikkarainen, M;
... Lovestone, S; + view all
(2017)
The influence of insulin resistance on cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s pathology.
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
, 9
(1)
, Article 31. 10.1186/s13195-017-0258-6.
Preview |
Text
Zetterberg_The influence of insulin resistance on cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's pathology_VoR.pdf - Published Version Download (809kB) | Preview |
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Insulin resistance (IR) has previously been associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD), although the relationship between IR and AD is not yet clear. Here, we examined the influence of IR on AD using plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers related to IR and AD in cognitively healthy men. We also aimed to characterise the shared protein signatures between IR and AD. METHODS: Fifty-eight cognitively healthy men, 28 IR and 30 non-IR (age and APOE ε4 matched), were drawn from the Metabolic Syndrome in Men study in Kuopio, Finland. CSF AD biomarkers (amyloid β-peptide (Aβ), total tau and tau phosphorylated at the Thr181 epitope) were examined with respect to IR. Targeted proteomics using ELISA and Luminex xMAP assays were performed to assess the influence of IR on previously identified CSF and plasma protein biomarker candidates of AD pathology. Furthermore, CSF and plasma SOMAscan was performed to discover proteins that associate with IR and CSF AD biomarkers. RESULTS: CSF AD biomarkers did not differ between IR and non-IR groups, although plasma insulin correlated with CSF Aβ/tau across the whole cohort. In total, 200 CSF and 487 plasma proteins were differentially expressed between IR and non-IR subjects, and significantly enriched pathways, many of which have been previously implicated in AD, were identified. CSF and plasma proteins significantly associated with CSF AD biomarkers were also discovered, and those sensitive to both IR and AD were identified. CONCLUSIONS: These data indicate that IR is not directly related to the level of CSF AD pathology in cognitively healthy men. Proteins that associated with both AD and IR are potential markers indicative of shared pathology.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The influence of insulin resistance on cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s pathology |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13195-017-0258-6 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-017-0258-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer’s disease, Plasma biomarkers, Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, Proteomics, Diabetes mellitus, Insulin resistance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056844 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
