期刊
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
卷 64, 期 4, 页码 1307-1324出版社
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-180514
关键词
Aging; amyloid-beta; Genie; hippocampus; MAPT; neuropathology; oldest-old; ScanScope; SNAP
资金
- NIH [P30 AG028383, R01AG042419, R01AG042475]
Data from a large autopsy series were analyzed to address questions pertinent to primary age-related tauopathy (PART) and Alzheimer's disease (AD): what factors are associated with increased severity of neurofibrillary degeneration in brains that lack neuritic amyloid plaques?; is there an association between Apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles and PART pathologic severity independent of amyloid-beta (A beta ) deposits?; and, how do the stains used to detect plaques and tangles impact the experimental results? Neuropathologic data were evaluated from elderly research volunteers whose brain autopsies were performed at University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Center (UK-ADC; N = 145 subjects). All of the included subjects' brains lacked neuritic amyloid plaques according to the CERAD diagnostic criteria and the average final MMSE score before death was 26.8 +/- 4.6 stdev. The study incorporated evaluation of tissue with both silver histochemical stains and immunohistochemical stains to compare results; the immunohistochemical stains (A beta and phospho-tau) were scanned and quantified using digital pathologic methods Immunohistochemical stains provided important advantages over histochemical stains due to sensitivity and detectability via digital methods. When AD-type pathology was in its presumed earliest phases, neocortical parenchymal A beta deposits were associated with increased medial temporal lobe neurofibrillary tangles. The observation supports the NIA-AA consensus recommendation for neuropathologic diagnoses, because even these diffuse A beta deposits signal that AD pathobiologic mechanisms are occurring. Further, the data were most compatible with the hypothesis that the APOE epsilon 4 allele exerts its effect(s) via driving A beta deposition, i.e., an upstream influence, rather than being associated directly with A beta-independent PART pathology.
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