Neuroinflammation and protein aggregation co-localize across the spectrum of frontotemporal dementia
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry(2022)
摘要
Frontotemporal dementia is clinically and neuropathologically heterogeneous, but each major phenotype has been associated with both aggregation of misfolded protein and neuroinflammation. We used positron emission tomography, with [11C]PK-11195 to measure activated microglia, and [18F]AV-1451 to quantify the burden of Tau or TDP-43, in 31 patients with frontotemporal dementia (10 behavioural variant, 11 semantic variant and 10 non-fluent variant) and 15 matched controls, to test the hypothesis that neuroinflamma- tion co-localises with pathological protein aggregation.Analyses included: (1) region-of-interest binding potentials; (2) pairwise correlation across regions between ligands; (3) principal component analysis of each ligand distribution and (4) multivariate classification of binding distributions.The analyses converged in showing (a) significant differences in [11C]PK-11195 binding between each patient group and controls in frontotemporal regions; (b) a strong positive correlation between [11C] PK-11195 and [18F]AV-1451 binding in all disease groups, across widespread cortical regions. Thesein vivoresults were confirmed bypost mortemimmunohistochemistry in 12 brains. In addition, we found (c) distinct distributional patterns of [11C]PK-11195 binding associated with different frontotemporal dementia syndromes, that supported more accurate classification of participants than [18F]AV-1451.Neuroinflammation may be important in shaping the clinical and neuropathological patterns of fronto- temporal dementia, and be a target for disease-modification.richard.bevanjones@doctors.org.uk
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