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ArticleScientific reports2017

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is associated with inherent changes in bioenergetics profiles.

Kai-C Sonntag, Woo-In Ryu, Kristopher M Amirault, Ryan A Healy, Arthur J Siegel, Donna L McPhie, Brent Forester, Bruce M Cohen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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83citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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83 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 139 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kai-C SonntagDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. ksonntag@mclean.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7979-8171
Woo-In RyuDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Kristopher M AmiraultDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Ryan A HealyDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Arthur J SiegelInternal Medicine Department, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Donna L McPhieDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Brent ForesterDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Bruce M CohenDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Harvard University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Body-wide changes in bioenergetics, i.e., energy metabolism, occur in normal aging and disturbed bioenergetics may be an important contributing mechanism underlying late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). We investigated the bioenergetic profiles of fibroblasts from LOAD patients and healthy controls, as a function of age and disease. LOAD cells exhibited an impaired mitochondrial metabolic potential and an abnormal redox potential, associated with reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide metabolism and altered citric acid cycle activity, but not with disease-specific changes in mitochondrial mass, production of reactive oxygen species, transmembrane instability, or DNA deletions. LOAD fibroblasts demonstrated a shift in energy production to glycolysis, despite an inability to increase glucose uptake in response to IGF-1. The increase of glycolysis and the abnormal mitochondrial metabolic potential in LOAD appeared to be inherent, as they were disease- and not age-specific. Our findings support the hypothesis that impairment in multiple interacting components of bioenergetic metabolism may be a key mechanism contributing to the risk and pathophysiology of LOAD.

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Energy MetabolismAge FactorsAlzheimer DiseaseFibroblastsGlycolysisHumansMitochondriaOxidation-ReductionReactive Oxygen SpeciesReactive Oxygen Species

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PMID29070876
PMCPMC5656579
OpenAlexW2766930070

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