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CELLS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells11030436
Keywords
extracellular vesicles; autopsy; Alzheimer's disease; mixed pathology; exosomes; neuron-derived extracellular vesicles
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The hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology are senile plaques containing amyloid-beta (A beta) and neurofibrillary tangles containing hyperphosphorylated tau. Additional pathologies often co-exist, whereas multiple pathogenic mechanisms are involved in AD, especially synaptic degeneration, which necessitate the need for synaptic integrity-related biomarkers alongside A beta- and tau-related biomarkers. Plasma neuron-derived Extracellular Vesicles (NDEVs) provide biomarkers related to A beta and tau and synaptic degeneration. Higher levels of NDEV A beta(42) were consistently associated with better cognitive status, memory, fluency, working memory, and executive function. Higher levels of NDEV synaptic integrity-related biomarkers were associated with better performance on executive function tasks. Our findings support the hypothesis that releasing A beta(42)-laden NDEVs may be an adaptive mechanism in AD.
The hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology are senile plaques containing amyloid-beta (A beta) and neurofibrillary tangles containing hyperphosphorylated tau. Additional pathologies often co-exist, whereas multiple pathogenic mechanisms are involved in AD, especially synaptic degeneration, which necessitate the need for synaptic integrity-related biomarkers alongside A beta- and tau-related biomarkers. Plasma neuron-derived Extracellular Vesicles EVs (NDEVs) provide biomarkers related to A beta and tau and synaptic degeneration. Here, to further establish the latter as a liquid biopsy for AD, we examined their relationship with ante-mortem cognition in pathologically-confirmed AD cases. We immunoprecipitated NDEVs by targeting neuronal marker L1CAM from ante-mortem plasma samples from 61 autopsy-confirmed cases of pure AD or AD with additional pathologies and measured A beta(42), p181-Tau, total Tau, synaptophysin, synaptopodin and three canonical EV markers, CD63, CD81 and CD9. Higher NDEV A beta(42) levels were consistently associated with better cognitive status, memory, fluency, working memory and executive function. Higher levels of NDEV synaptic integrity-related biomarkers were associated with better performance on executive function tasks. Our findings motivate the hypothesis that releasing A beta(42)-laden NDEVs may be an adaptive mechanism in AD.
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