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Plasma pNfH levels differentiate SBMA from ALS

Lombardi, V; Bombaci, A; Zampedri, L; Lu, C-H; Malik, B; Zetterberg, H; Heslegrave, AJ; ... Fratta, P; + view all (2019) Plasma pNfH levels differentiate SBMA from ALS. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 10.1136/jnnp-2019-320624. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), known as Kennedy disease (KD), is a slowly progressive adult-onset X-linked neuromuscular disorder with no effective treatment. It is characterised by progressive limb and bulbar muscle weakness, associated with metabolic and endocrine alterations.1 2 SBMA is caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat in exon 1 of the androgen receptor (AR) gene; more than 37 repeats are pathogenic.1 While the genetic test is diagnostic, biomarkers would aid the initial differential diagnosis, and furthermore, there is a strong need for disease activity and progression markers to inform effective clinical trials design. Neurofilaments (Nfs), both light and heavy chains, are now becoming a widely accepted marker of neuronal damage and a prognostic biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disease.3–7 Recently, plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) levels were unexpectedly found not to be raised in patients with SBMA.8 This finding supports other lines of evidence, including an increase in plasma muscle damage markers, myopathic changes in biopsies and a series of genetic experiments in mouse models, that point to a primary myopathic involvement in SBMA.2 9 10 We here used the highly sensitive single molecule array (SIMOA) platform to investigate plasma levels of phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain (pNfH), another well-established marker of neuronal damage, in patients with SBMA and in a rodent model of disease.

Type: Article
Title: Plasma pNfH levels differentiate SBMA from ALS
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2019-320624
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2019-320624
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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 > Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
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/10086441
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