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ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2017

Increased hippocampal activation in ApoE-4 carriers and non-carriers with amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

Tammy T Tran, Caroline L Speck, Aparna Pisupati, Michela Gallagher, Arnold Bakker

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Article in NeuroImage. Clinical, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tammy T TranDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States.
Caroline L SpeckDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States.
Aparna PisupatiDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States.
Michela GallagherDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States.
Arnold BakkerDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States.
Johns Hopkins University · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

'T V ASSESSMENT - MEMORY DISORDERED PATIENTS'P50AG005146 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HUGANIR, RICHARD L · 1985 to 2019
$37.6M
PHASE II/III trial for Slowing Progression in Mild Cognitive ImpairmentR01AG048349 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ALBERT, MARILYN S., GALLAGHER, MICHELA · 2015 to 2021
$7.6M
Research Training in Age-Related Cognitive DisordersT32AG027668 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MARILYN S. ALBERT · 2007 to 2026
$6.3M
Bridging cognitive aging in rodents to man using fMRI in amnestic MCIRC2AG036419 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GALLAGHER, MICHELA · 2009 to 2010
$1.3M
NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005146NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048349NIA NIH HHS RC2 AG036419NIA NIH HHS T32 AG027668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increased fMRI activation in the hippocampus is recognized as a signature characteristic of the amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previous work has localized this increased activation to the dentate gyrus/CA3 subregion of the hippocampus and showed a correlation with memory impairments in those patients. Increased hippocampal activation has also been reported in carriers of the ApoE-4 allelic variation independently of mild cognitive impairment although these findings were not localized to a hippocampal subregion. To assess the ApoE-4 contribution to increased hippocampal fMRI activation, patients with aMCI genotyped for ApoE-4 status and healthy age-matched control participants completed a high-resolution fMRI scan while performing a memory task designed to tax hippocampal subregion specific functions. Consistent with previous reports, patients with aMCI showed increased hippocampal activation in the left dentate gyrus/CA3 region of the hippocampus as well as memory task errors attributable to this subregion. However, this increased fMRI activation in the hippocampus did not differ between ApoE-4 carriers and ApoE-4 non-carriers and the proportion of memory errors attributable to dentate gyrus/CA3 function did not differ between ApoE-4 carriers and ApoE-4 non-carriers. These results indicate that increased fMRI activation of the hippocampus observed in patients with aMCI is independent of ApoE-4 status and that ApoE-4 does not contribute to the dysfunctional hippocampal activation or the memory errors attributable to this subregion in these patients.

Indexed as

Apolipoprotein E4AgedAged, 80 and overAmnesiaCA3 Region, HippocampalCognitive DysfunctionDentate GyrusFemaleHeterozygoteHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedApolipoprotein E4

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PMID28070483
PMCPMC5217770
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