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Antemortem basal forebrain atrophy in pure limbic TAR DNA-binding protein 43 pathology compared with pure Alzheimer pathology

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
卷 29, 期 5, 页码 1394-1401

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ene.15270

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AD pathology; autopsy; cholinergic deficit; imaging signature; limbic TDP-43; MRI

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  1. Miguel Servetprogram [CP19/00031]
  2. Instituto de Salud Carlos III --lFondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional [PI20/00613]
  3. Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [01KX2130]

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This study compared the atrophy of the cholinergic basal forebrain in cases with limbic TDP-43 pathology and pure Alzheimer disease (AD) using MRI. The findings suggest that the atrophy of the cholinergic basal forebrain is similarly pronounced in both TDP-43 and AD cases, indicating a potential need for clinical trials of cholinesterase inhibitors in amyloid-negative cases with amnestic dementia and an imaging signature of TDP-43 pathology.
Background and purpose Currently, the extent of cholinergic basal forebrain atrophy in relatively pure limbic TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) pathology compared with relatively pure Alzheimer disease (AD) is unclear. Methods We compared antemortem magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based atrophy of the basal forebrain and medial and lateral temporal lobe volumes between 10 autopsy cases with limbic TDP-43 pathology and 33 cases with AD pathology on postmortem neuropathologic examination from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative cohort. For reference, we studied MRI volumes from cognitively healthy, amyloid positron emission tomography-negative subjects (n = 145). Group differences were assessed using Bayesian analysis of covariance. In addition, we assessed brain-wide regional volume changes using partial least squares regression (PLSR). Results We found extreme evidence (Bayes factor [BF](01) > 600) for a smaller basal forebrain volume in both TDP-43 and AD cases compared with amyloid-negative controls, and moderate evidence (BF01 = 4.9) that basal forebrain volume was not larger in TDP-43 than in AD cases. The ratio of hippocampus to lateral temporal lobe volumes discriminated between TDP-43 and AD cases with an accuracy of 0.78. PLSR showed higher gray matter in lateral temporal lobes and cingulate and precuneus, and reduced gray matter in precentral and postcentral gyri and hippocampus in TDP-43 compared with AD cases. Conclusions Atrophy of the cholinergic basal forebrain appears to be similarly pronounced in cases with limbic TDP-43 pathology as in AD. This suggests that a clinical trial of the efficacy of cholinesterase inhibitors in amyloid-negative cases with amnestic dementia and an imaging signature of TDP-43 pathology may be warranted.

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