TY - JOUR
AU - Göschel, Laura
AU - Dell Orco, Andrea
AU - Fillmer, Ariane
AU - Aydin, Semiha
AU - Ittermann, Bernd
AU - Riemann, Layla
AU - Lehmann, Sylvain
AU - Cano, Stefan
AU - Melin, Jeanette
AU - Pendrill, Leslie
AU - Hoede, Patty L
AU - Teunissen, Charlotte E
AU - Schwarz, Claudia
AU - Grittner, Ulrike
AU - Körtvelyessy, Peter
AU - Flöel, Agnes
TI - Plasma p-tau181 and GFAP reflect 7T MR-derived changes in Alzheimer's disease: A longitudinal study of structural and functional MRI and MRS.
JO - Alzheimer's and dementia
VL - 20
IS - 12
SN - 1552-5260
CY - Hoboken, NJ
PB - Wiley
M1 - DZNE-2025-00017
SP - 8684 - 8699
PY - 2024
AB - Associations between longitudinal changes of plasma biomarkers and cerebral magnetic resonance (MR)-derived measurements in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain unclear.In a study population (n = 127) of healthy older adults and patients within the AD continuum, we examined associations between longitudinal plasma amyloid beta 42/40 ratio, tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau181), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), and 7T structural and functional MR imaging and spectroscopy using linear mixed models.Increases in both p-tau181 and GFAP showed the strongest associations to 7T MR-derived measurements, particularly with decreasing parietal cortical thickness, decreasing connectivity of the salience network, and increasing neuroinflammation as determined by MR spectroscopy (MRS) myo-inositol.Both plasma p-tau181 and GFAP appear to reflect disease progression, as indicated by 7T MR-derived brain changes which are not limited to areas known to be affected by tau pathology and neuroinflammation measured by MRS myo-inositol, respectively.This study leverages high-resolution 7T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR spectroscopy (MRS) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) plasma biomarker insights. Tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau181) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) showed the largest changes over time, particularly in the AD group. p-tau181 and GFAP are robust in reflecting 7T MR-based changes in AD. The strongest associations were for frontal/parietal MR changes and MRS neuroinflammation.
KW - Humans
KW - Alzheimer Disease: blood
KW - Alzheimer Disease: pathology
KW - Alzheimer Disease: diagnostic imaging
KW - tau Proteins: blood
KW - Female
KW - Longitudinal Studies
KW - Male
KW - Aged
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW - Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein: blood
KW - Biomarkers: blood
KW - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
KW - Brain: diagnostic imaging
KW - Brain: pathology
KW - Amyloid beta-Peptides: blood
KW - Phosphorylation
KW - Disease Progression
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Neurofilament Proteins: blood
KW - 7 Tesla (Other)
KW - Alzheimer's disease (Other)
KW - NeuroMET Memory Metric (Other)
KW - amyloid beta 42/40 (Other)
KW - blood‐based biomarkers (Other)
KW - functional magnetic resonance imaging (Other)
KW - glial fibrillary acidic protein (Other)
KW - magnetic resonance imaging (Other)
KW - magnetic resonance spectroscopy (Other)
KW - memory (Other)
KW - mild cognitive impairment (Other)
KW - neurofilament light chain (Other)
KW - plasma biomarkers (Other)
KW - subjective cognitive decline (Other)
KW - tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (Other)
KW - tau Proteins (NLM Chemicals)
KW - Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (NLM Chemicals)
KW - Biomarkers (NLM Chemicals)
KW - Amyloid beta-Peptides (NLM Chemicals)
KW - GFAP protein, human (NLM Chemicals)
KW - Neurofilament Proteins (NLM Chemicals)
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - pmid:39558898
C2 - pmc:PMC11667506
DO - DOI:10.1002/alz.14318
UR - https://pub.dzne.de/record/274036
ER -