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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
卷 32, 期 5, 页码 805-815出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.9
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; atherosclerosis; dementia; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; vascular cognitive impairment
资金
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23300188] Funding Source: KAKEN
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and subcortical ischemic vascular dementia (SIVD) have overlapping pathologies and risk factors, but their underlying neurodegenerative mechanisms are basically different. We performed magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to study metabolite differences between the two diseases in vivo. The subjects were 31 patients with SIVD and 99 with AD. Additionally, 45 elderly subjects were recruited as controls. We measured N-acetylaspartate (NAA), glutamine and glutamate (Glx), and myoinositol (mins) concentration quantitatively using a 1.5-T MR scanner. N-acetylaspartate and Glx concentrations decreased in the hippocampus and cinguiate/precuneal cortices (PCC) in both AD and SIVD patients, and the NAA decrease in the hippocampus was more prominent in AD than in SIVD. Interestingly, the pattern of mins concentration changes differed between the two disorders; mins was increased in AD but not increased in SIVD. If one differentiates between AD and SIVD by the mins concentration in the hippocampus, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.95, suggesting a high potential for discrimination. Our results suggest that proton MRS can provide useful information to differentiate between AD and SIVD. The difference of mins concentrations in the hippocampus and PCC seems to reflect the different neurodegenerative mechanisms of the two disorders. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2012) 32, 805-815; doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2012.9; published online 8 February 2012
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