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Global N-Acetylaspartate in Normal Subjects, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Glodzik, Lidia and Sollberger, Marc and Gass, Achim and Gokhale, Amit and Rusinek, Henry and Babb, James S. and Hirsch, Jochen G. and Amann, Michael and Monsch, Andreas U. and Gonen, Oded. (2015) Global N-Acetylaspartate in Normal Subjects, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Patients. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 43 (3). pp. 939-947.

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Abstract

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediary state on the way to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Little is known about whole brain concentration of the neuronal marker, N-acetylaspartate (NAA) in MCI patients.; To test the hypothesis that since MCI and AD are both neurodegenerative, quantification of the NAA in their whole brain (WBNAA) could differentiate them from cognitively-intact matched controls.; Proton MR spectroscopy to quantify the WBNAA was applied to 197 subjects (86 females) 72.6 ± 8.4 years old (mean ± standard deviation). Of these, 102 were cognitively intact, 42 diagnosed as MCI, and 53 as probable AD. Their WBNAA amounts were converted into absolute concentration by dividing with the brain volume segmented from the MRI that also yielded the fractional brain volume (fBPV), an atrophy metric.; WBNAA concentration of MCI and AD patients (10.5 ± 3.0 and 10.1 ± 2.9 mM) were not significantly different (p = 0.85). They were, however, highly significantly 25-29% lower than the 14.1 ± 2.4 mM of normal matched controls (p < 10-4). The fBPV of MCI and AD patients (72.9 ± 4.9 and 69.9 ± 4.7%) differed significantly from each other (4%, p = 0.02) and both were significantly lower than the 74.6 ± 4.4% of normal elderly (2%, p = 0.003 for MCI; 6%, p < 10-4 for AD). ROC curve analysis has shown WBNAA to have 70.5% sensitivity and 84.3% specificity to differentiate MCI or AD patients from normal elderly versus just 68.4 and 65.7% for fBPV.; Low WBNAA in MCI patients compared with cognitively normal contemporaries may indicate early neuronal damage accumulation and supports the notion of MCI as an early stage of AD. It also suggests WBNAA as a potential marker of early AD pathology.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Geriatrie > Geriatrie (Kressig)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Geriatrie > Geriatrie (Kressig)
07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie
07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Ehemalige Einheiten Psychologie > Molecular Neuroscience (Papassotiropoulos)
UniBasel Contributors:Monsch, Andreas U. U
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:IOS Press
ISSN:1387-2877
e-ISSN:1875-8908
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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