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MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
Volume 25, Issue 11, Pages 2932-2941Publisher
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DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0375-7
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- NIA NIH HHS [RF1 AG054057, R01 AG017917] Funding Source: Medline
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Cortical iron has been shown to be elevated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the impact of the directly measured iron on the clinical syndrome has not been assessed. We investigated the association between post-mortem iron levels with the clinical and pathological diagnosis of AD, its severity, and the rate of cognitive decline in the 12 years prior to death in subjects from the Memory and Aging Project (n=209). Iron was elevated (beta [SE]=9.7 [2.6]; P=3.0x10(-4)) in the inferior temporal cortex only in subjects who were diagnosed with clinical AD during life and had a diagnosis of AD confirmed post-mortem by standardized criteria. Although iron was weakly associated with the extent of proteinopathy in tissue with AD neuropathology, it was strongly associated with the rate of cognitive decline (e.g., global cognition: beta [SE]=-0.040 [0.005], P=1.6x10(-14)). Thus, cortical iron might act to propel cognitive deterioration upon the underlying proteinopathy of AD, possibly by inducing oxidative stress or ferroptotic cell death, or may be related to an inflammatory response.
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