ArticleNeurology2018
Clinical value of neurofilament and phospho-tau/tau ratio in the frontotemporal dementia spectrum.
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- A framework for translating tauopathy therapeutics: Drug discovery to clinical trials.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Review
- P-tau217 as a Reliable Blood-Based Marker of Alzheimer's Disease.Biomedicines · 2024Review
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- Communicative impairment and its neural correlates in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Exploring the significance of caspase-cleaved tau in tauopathies and as a complementary pathology to phospho-tau in Alzheimer's disease: implications for biomarker development and therapeutic targeting.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2024Review
- Neuropathological hints from CSF and serum biomarkers in corticobasal syndrome (CBS): a systematic review.Neurological research and practice · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the clinical value of neurofilament light chain (NfL) and the phospho-tau/total tau ratio (p/t-tau) across the entire frontotemporal dementia (FTD) spectrum in a large, well-defined cohort.
methodsCSF NfL and p/t-tau levels were studied in 361 patients with FTD: 179 behavioral variant FTD, 17 FTD with motor neuron disease (FTD-MND), 36 semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (PPA), 19 nonfluent variant PPA, 4 logopenic variant PPA (lvPPA), 42 corticobasal syndrome, and 64 progressive supranuclear palsy. Forty-five cognitively healthy controls were also included. Definite pathology was known in 68 patients (49 frontotemporal lobar degeneration [FTLD]-TDP, 18 FTLD-tau, 1 FTLD-FUS).
resultsNfL was higher in all diagnoses, except lvPPA (n = 4), than in controls, equally elevated in behavioral variant FTD, semantic variant PPA, nonfluent variant PPA, and corticobasal syndrome, and highest in FTD-MND. The p/t-tau was lower in all clinical groups, except lvPPA, than in controls and lowest in FTD-MND. NfL did not discriminate between TDP and tau pathology, while the p/t-tau ratio had a good specificity (76%) and moderate sensitivity (67%). Both high NfL and low p/t-tau were associated with poor survival (hazard ratio on tertiles 1.7 for NfL, 0.7 for p/t-tau).
conclusionNfL and p/t-tau similarly discriminated FTD from controls, but not between clinical subtypes, apart from FTD-MND. Both markers predicted survival and are promising monitoring biomarkers for clinical trials. Of note, p/t-tau, but not NfL, was specific to discriminate TDP from tau pathology in vivo. CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE: This study provides Class III evidence that for patients with cognitive issues, CSF NfL and p/t-tau levels discriminate between those with and without FTD spectrum disorders.
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