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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Regional Differences in Neuroinflammation-Associated Gene Expression in the Brain of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Patients.

Aušrinė Areškevičiūtė, Thomas Litman, Helle Broholm, Linea C Melchior, Pia R Nielsen, Alison Green, Jens O Eriksen, Colin Smith, Eva L Lund

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Aušrinė AreškevičiūtėDepartment of Pathology, Danish Reference Center for Prion Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0202-9942
Thomas LitmanDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-6068-901X
Helle BroholmDepartment of Pathology, Danish Reference Center for Prion Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Linea C MelchiorDepartment of Pathology, Danish Reference Center for Prion Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Pia R NielsenDepartment of Surgical Pathology, Zealand University Hospital, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
Alison GreenNational Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK.
Jens O EriksenDepartment of Surgical Pathology, Zealand University Hospital, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
Colin SmithNational Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK.
Eva L LundDepartment of Pathology, Danish Reference Center for Prion Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Copenhagen University Hospital · DKUniversity of Edinburgh · GBZealand University Hospital · DKUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

Chief Scientist Office ETM/58Medical Research Council MR/J016071/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroinflammation is an essential part of neurodegeneration. Yet, the current understanding of neuroinflammation-associated molecular events in distinct brain regions of prion disease patients is insufficient to lay the ground for effective treatment strategies targeting this complex neuropathological process. To address this problem, we analyzed the expression of 800 neuroinflammation-associated genes to create a profile of biological processes taking place in the frontal cortex and cerebellum of patients who suffered from sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The analysis was performed using NanoString nCounter technology with human neuroinflammation panel+. The observed gene expression patterns were regionally and sub-regionally distinct, suggesting a variable neuroinflammatory response. Interestingly, the observed differences could not be explained by the molecular subtypes of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Furthermore, analyses of canonical pathways and upstream regulators based on differentially expressed genes indicated an overlap between biological processes taking place in different brain regions. This suggests that even smaller-scale spatial data reflecting subtle changes in brain cells' functional heterogeneity and their immediate pathologic microenvironments are needed to explain the observed differential gene expression in a greater detail.

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BiomarkersGene ExpressionAgedBrainCellular MicroenvironmentComputational BiologyCreutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeDisease SusceptibilityFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansMaleMiddle AgedTranscriptomeBiomarkersbiomarkersbrain microenvironmentCreutzfeldt–Jakob diseasegene expression analysisimmune responsemicroglianeuroinflammationprion diseaseregional pathogenesis

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PMID33375642
PMCPMC7795938
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