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ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2024

Alzheimer's disease and inflammatory biomarkers positively correlate in plasma in the UK-ADRC cohort.

Kate E Foley, Zachary Winder, Tiffany L Sudduth, Barbara J Martin, Peter T Nelson, Gregory A Jicha, Jordan P Harp, Erica M Weekman, Donna M Wilcock

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Article in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2024. 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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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Challenge-based ex vivo immune profiling reveals stimulus-dependent peripheral immune reprogramming in Alzheimer's disease.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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  5. Inflammation profiles in Alzheimer's disease relate to cognition and neurodegeneration.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  7. Plasma inflammatory biomarker profiles across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum in the Bio-Hermes cohort.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  18. Circulating Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kate E FoleySanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5110-238X
Zachary WinderDepartment of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Tiffany L SudduthSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Barbara J MartinSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Peter T NelsonSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Gregory A JichaSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Jordan P HarpSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Erica M WeekmanSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Donna M WilcockSanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3388-1564
University of Kentucky · US

Funding

University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterP30AG072946 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI LINDA J VAN ELDIK · 2021 to 2026
$23.5M
Training in Translational Research in Alzheimer's and Related Dementias (TRIAD)T32AG078110 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI Michael Paul Murphy, LINDA J VAN ELDIK · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072946NIA NIH HHS T32 AG078110NIH HHS P30AG072946NIH HHS T32AG078110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionProtein-based plasma assays provide hope for improving accessibility and specificity of molecular diagnostics to diagnose dementia.

methodsPlasma was obtained from participants (N = 837) in our community-based University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research Center cohort. We evaluated six Alzheimer's disease (AD)- and neurodegeneration-related (Aβ40, Aβ42, Aβ42/40, p-tau181, total tau, and NfLight) and five inflammatory biomarkers (TNF𝛼, IL6, IL8, IL10, and GFAP) using the SIMOA-based protein assay platform. Statistics were performed to assess correlations.

resultsOur large cohort reflects previous plasma biomarker findings. Relationships between biomarkers to understand AD-inflammatory biomarker correlations showed significant associations between AD and inflammatory biomarkers suggesting peripheral inflammatory interactions with increasing AD pathology. Biomarker associations parsed out by clinical diagnosis (normal, MCI, and dementia) reveal changes in strength of the correlations across the cognitive continuum. DISCUSSION: Unique AD-inflammatory biomarker correlations in a community-based cohort reveal a new avenue for utilizing plasma-based biomarkers in the assessment of AD and related dementias. HIGHLIGHTS: Large community cohorts studying sex, age, and APOE genotype effects on biomarkers are few. It is unknown how biomarker-biomarker associations vary through aging and dementia. Six AD (Aβ40, Aβ42, Aβ42/40, p-tau181, total tau, and NfLight) and five inflammatory biomarkers (TNFα, IL6, IL8, IL10, and GFAP) were used to examine associations between biomarkers. Plasma biomarkers suggesting increasing cerebral AD pathology corresponded to increases in peripheral inflammatory markers, both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory. Strength of correlations, between pairs of classic AD and inflammatory plasma biomarker, changes throughout cognitive progression to dementia.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkersHumansInterleukin-10Interleukin-6Interleukin-8tau ProteinsUnited KingdomAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkersInterleukin-10Interleukin-6Interleukin-8tau ProteinsAlzheimer's diseaseamyloid betabiomarkerinflammationplasma

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PMID38011580
PMCPMC10917006
OpenAlexW4389070706

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