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Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Banerjee, G; Ambler, G; Keshavan, A; Paterson, RW; Foiani, MS; Toombs, J; Heslegrave, A; ... Werring, DJ; + view all (2020) Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease , 74 (4) pp. 1189-1201. 10.3233/JAD-191254. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is limited data on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in sporadic amyloid-β (Aβ) cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). OBJECTIVE: To determine the profile of biomarkers relevant to neurodegenerative disease in the CSF of patients with CAA. METHODS: We performed a detailed comparison of CSF markers, comparing patients with CAA, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and control (CS) participants, recruited from the Biomarkers and Outcomes in CAA (BOCAA) study, and a Specialist Cognitive Disorders Service. RESULTS: We included 10 CAA, 20 AD, and 10 CS participants (mean age 68.6, 62.5, and 62.2 years, respectively). In unadjusted analyses, CAA patients had a distinctive CSF biomarker profile, with significantly lower (p < 0.01) median concentrations of Aβ_{38}, Aβ_{40}, Aβ_{42}, sAβPPα, and sAβPPβ. CAA patients had higher levels of neurofilament light (NFL) than the CS group (p < 0.01), but there were no significant differences in CSF total tau, phospho-tau, soluble TREM2 (sTREM2), or neurogranin concentrations. AD patients had higher total tau, phospho-tau and neurogranin than CS and CAA groups. In age-adjusted analyses, differences for the CAA group remained for Aβ_{38}, Aβ_{40}, Aβ_{42}, and sAβPPβ. Comparing CAA patients with amyloid-PET positive (n = 5) and negative (n = 5) scans, PET positive individuals had lower (p < 0.05) concentrations of CSF Aβ_{42}, and higher total tau, phospho-tau, NFL, and neurogranin concentrations, consistent with an “AD-like” profile. CONCLUSION: CAA has a characteristic biomarker profile, suggestive of a global, rather than selective, accumulation of amyloid species; we also provide evidence of different phenotypes according to amyloid-PET positivity. Further replication and validation of these preliminary findings in larger cohorts is needed.

Type: Article
Title: Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-191254
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-191254
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 – IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. This article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-β , biomarkers, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, cerebrospinal fluid
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090867
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