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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 1834-1841Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.01.013
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Alzheimer's disease; Tau; Phosphorylated tau; 14-3-3 protein; Neuron-specific enolase; Cerebrospinal fluid; Biomarker
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Laboratory markers have a prominent place among the diagnostic criteria for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). Here we investigate the capability of protein 14-3-3, total-tau (t-tau), threonin-181-phosphorylated tau (p-tau), and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) together with the prion protein gene genotype to discriminate patients with sCJD (n = 21) from neurological controls (n = 164) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients (n = 49). Low p-tau/t-tau ratio was the best single marker for sCJD with 90% specificity against neurological controls at 86% sensitivity whilst NSE was the least accurate with 79% sensitivity at 90% specificity. Many of the sCJD patients had extremely elevated t-tau values but normal values of the AD-marker p-tau. Protein 14-3-3 was very sensitive (95%) although the specificity was relatively low (75%). A combination of elevated t-tau concentration with the presence of 14-3-3 protein in CSF gave the best test specificity of 96% at 84% sensitivity. We conclude that the combination of more than one CSF marker for neurodegeneration can improve the diagnostic test accuracy for sCJD against neurological controls including patients with other dementias. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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