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Increased neurofilament light chain blood levels in neurodegenerative neurological diseases

Gaiottino, J. and Norgren, N. and Dobson, R. and Topping, J. and Nissim, A. and Malaspina, A. and Bestwick, J. P. and Monsch, A. U. and Regeniter, A. and Lindberg, R. L. and Kappos, L. and Leppert, D. and Petzold, A. and Giovannoni, G. and Kuhle, J.. (2013) Increased neurofilament light chain blood levels in neurodegenerative neurological diseases. PLoS ONE, Vol. 8, H. 9 , e75091.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Neuronal damage is the morphological substrate of persisting neurological disability. Neurofilaments (Nf) are cytoskeletal proteins of neurons and their release into cerebrospinal fluid has shown encouraging results as a biomarker for neurodegeneration. This study aimed to validate the quantification of the Nf light chain (NfL) in blood samples, as a biofluid source easily accessible for longitudinal studies. METHODS: We developed and applied a highly sensitive electrochemiluminescence (ECL) based immunoassay for quantification of NfL in blood and CSF. RESULTS: Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (30.8 pg/ml, n=20), Guillain-Barre-syndrome (GBS) (79.4 pg/ml, n=19) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (95.4 pg/ml, n=46) had higher serum NfL values than a control group of neurological patients without evidence of structural CNS damage (control patients, CP) (4.4 pg/ml, n=68, p>0.0001 for each comparison, p=0.002 for AD patients) and healthy controls (HC) (3.3 pg/ml, n=67, p>0.0001). Similar differences were seen in corresponding CSF samples. CSF and serum levels correlated in AD (r=0.48, p=0.033), GBS (r=0.79, p>0.0001) and ALS (r=0.70, p>0.0001), but not in CP (r=0.11, p=0.3739). The sensitivity and specificity of serum NfL for separating ALS from healthy controls was 91.3% and 91.0%. CONCLUSIONS: We developed and validated a novel ECL based sandwich immunoassay for the NfL protein in serum (NfL(Umea47:3)); levels in ALS were more than 20-fold higher than in controls. Our data supports further longitudinal studies of serum NfL in neurodegenerative diseases as a potential biomarker of on-going disease progression, and as a potential surrogate to quantify effects of neuroprotective drugs in clinical trials.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Biomedizin > Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel > Clinical Neuroimmunology (Derfuss/Lindberg)
UniBasel Contributors:Lindberg Gasser, Raija L.P. and Kappos, Ludwig
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Public Library of Science
e-ISSN:1932-6203
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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