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JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 240-246Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2007.01.004
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Alzheimer's disease; lymphocytes; monocytes; amyloid precursor protein; amyloid-beta; flow cytometry
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG020948-03, R01 AG020948-02, R01 AG020948-01, R01 AG020948, R01 AG020948-04, R01 AG020948-05] Funding Source: Medline
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Alterations in the peripheral immune system are associated with dementia and the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease, but have yet to be studied early in the disease process. To test the hypothesis that the balance of immune cell phenotypes is disrupted in the early progression of memory deterioration, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy elderly controls were examined for the distribution of subpopulations of leukocytes (lymphocytes, granulocytes, and monocytes) and lymphocyte subtypes (helper/inducer and suppressor/cytotoxic T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes) in blood. MCI subjects had a significantly higher percentage of total lymphocytes and a lower percentage of granulocytes compared to elderly controls. Furthermore, the expression of cell surface amyloid precursor protein (APP) and intracellular amyloid-P peptide (AP) in lymphocytes and monocytes were determined. We found lymphocyte APP expression to be significantly increased in MCI subjects compared to controls. Our data indicate that changes in immunological parameters may be detected early in MCI, and an alteration of the immune response may precede clinical AD. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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