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ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2013

Decreased level of olfactory receptors in blood cells following traumatic brain injury and potential association with tauopathy.

Wei Zhao, Lap Ho, Merina Varghese, Shrishailam Yemul, Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Wayne Gordon, Lindsay Knable, Daniel Freire, Vahram Haroutunian, Giulio Maria Pasinetti

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Article in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Wei Zhao *Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Lap Ho *Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Merina VargheseDepartment of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Shrishailam YemulDepartment of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Kristen Dams-O'ConnorDepartment of Rehabilitation, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Wayne GordonDepartment of Rehabilitation, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Lindsay KnableDepartment of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Daniel FreireDepartment of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Vahram HaroutunianDepartment of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Giulio Maria PasinettiDepartment of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

VESICULAR LOCALIZATION AND FUNCTION OF PRESENILIN 1 FRAGMENTP50AG005138 · NIA · MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF NYU · PI SCHIMMING, CORBETT · 1985 to 2019
$37.9M
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF MICROVASCULAR CHANGES IN THE AGING BRAINP01AG002219 · NIA · MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF NYU · PI HAROUTUNIAN, VAHRAM · 1985 to 2009
$19.2M
MOUNT SINAI INSTITUTES FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCESUL1RR029887 · NCRR · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI SAMPSON, HUGH A · 2009 to 2011
$19.2M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR029887NCRR NIH HHS UL1RR029887NIA NIH HHS P01 AG002219NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005138
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults in the United States. In this study, we explored whether changes in the gene expression profile of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) may provide a clinically assessable "window" into the brain, reflecting molecular alterations following TBI that might contribute to the onset and progression of TBI clinical complications. We identified three olfactory receptor (OR) TBI biomarkers that are aberrantly down-regulated in PBMC specimens from TBI subjects. Down-regulation of these OR biomarkers in PBMC was correlated with the severity of brain injury and TBI-specific symptoms. A two- biomarker panel comprised of OR11H1 and OR4M1 provided the best criterion for segregating the TBI and control cases with 90% accuracy, 83.3% sensitivity, and 100% specificity. We found that the OR biomarkers are ectopically expressed in multiple brain regions, including the entorhinal-hippocampus system known to play an important role in memory formation and consolidation. Activation of OR4M1 led to attenuation of abnormal tau phosphorylation, possibly through JNK signaling pathway. Our results suggested that addition of the two-OR biomarker model to current diagnostic criteria may lead to improved TBI detection for clinical trials, and decreased expression of OR TBI biomarkers might be associated with TBI-induced tauopathy. Future studies exploring the physiological relevance of OR TBI biomarkers in the normal brain and in the brain following TBI will provide a better understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying TBI and insights into novel therapeutic targets for TBI.

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AdultBiomarkersBrain InjuriesCohort StudiesDown-RegulationFemaleHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearMaleMiddle AgedReceptors, OdorantTauopathiesYoung AdultBiomarkersReceptors, Odorant

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PMID23241557
PMCPMC3968322

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