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Blood-based Aβ42 increases in the earliest pre-pathological stage before decreasing with progressive amyloid pathology in preclinical models and human subjects: opening new avenues for prevention
Acta Neuropathol. 2022 Jul 7. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02458-9.
Pablo Botella Lucena # 1, Sarah Vanherle # 1, Chritica Lodder # 1, Manuel Gutiérrez de Ravé 1, Ilie-Cosmin Stancu 1, Ivo Lambrichts 1, Riet Vangheluwe 2, Rose Bruffaerts 1 3 4 5, Ilse Dewachter 6
Abstract:
Blood-based (BB) biomarkers for Aβ and tau can indicate pathological processes in the brain, in the early pathological, even pre-symptomatic stages in Alzheimer's disease...We performed...longitudinal analysis and with analysis of age-related changes in a small cohort of human subjects...in human samples, BB-Aβ42 concentrations were significantly higher in old (> 60 years) compared to young (< 50 years) subjects, as well as to age-matched AD patients, further supporting age-dependent increase of Aβ42 concentrations in the earliest pre-pathological phase, before amyloid pathology. Also BB-Aβ40 concentrations were found to increase in the earliest pre-pathological phase both in preclinical models and human subjects, while subsequent significantly decreasing concentrations in the pathological phase were characteristic for BB-Aβ42...Our data thereby identify a novel critical window for prevention, using BB-Aβ as marker for accumulating Aβ in the brain, in the earliest pre-pathological stage, opening new avenues for personalized early preventive strategies against AD, even before amyloid pathology develops.
PMID: 35796870
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