ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2019
Altered bile acid profile associates with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease-An emerging role for gut microbiome.
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- Microbiota-derived metabolite signatures in Alzheimer's disease across the cognitive aging continuum: a human-focused systematic review and evidence-weighted knowledge graph.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Pooled it
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- Risk of Dementia After Cholecystectomy in Older Adults: A Nationwide Retrospective Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Observational
- The Tryptophan-Kynurenine Pathway as a Key Mediator of the Gut-Brain Axis in Depression and Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Alzheimer's Disease in the Era of Geroscience: Mechanisms, Biomarkers, and Therapeutic Prospects.Cells · 2026Review
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- Microbiota-gut-brain axis and bile acids-driven neuromodulation.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- The Gut-Immune-Brain Axis in Aging: Integrating Immunosenescence, Inflammaging, and Neuroinflammation for Precision Medicine.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Bile acids in Alzheimer's disease: a double-edged sword in gut-liver-brain signaling and neurodegeneration.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Review
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37 authors at 20 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
introductionIncreasing evidence suggests a role for the gut microbiome in central nervous system disorders and a specific role for the gut-brain axis in neurodegeneration. Bile acids (BAs), products of cholesterol metabolism and clearance, are produced in the liver and are further metabolized by gut bacteria. They have major regulatory and signaling functions and seem dysregulated in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
methodsSerum levels of 15 primary and secondary BAs and their conjugated forms were measured in 1464 subjects including 370 cognitively normal older adults, 284 with early mild cognitive impairment, 505 with late mild cognitive impairment, and 305 AD cases enrolled in the AD Neuroimaging Initiative. We assessed associations of BA profiles including selected ratios with diagnosis, cognition, and AD-related genetic variants, adjusting for confounders and multiple testing.
resultsIn AD compared to cognitively normal older adults, we observed significantly lower serum concentrations of a primary BA (cholic acid [CA]) and increased levels of the bacterially produced, secondary BA, deoxycholic acid, and its glycine and taurine conjugated forms. An increased ratio of deoxycholic acid:CA, which reflects 7α-dehydroxylation of CA by gut bacteria, strongly associated with cognitive decline, a finding replicated in serum and brain samples in the Rush Religious Orders and Memory and Aging Project. Several genetic variants in immune response-related genes implicated in AD showed associations with BA profiles. DISCUSSION: We report for the first time an association between altered BA profile, genetic variants implicated in AD, and cognitive changes in disease using a large multicenter study. These findings warrant further investigation of gut dysbiosis and possible role of gut-liver-brain axis in the pathogenesis of AD.
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