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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2024

Integrative Single-Plaque Analysis Reveals Signature Aβ and Lipid Profiles in the Alzheimer's Brain.

Thomas Enzlein, Tammaryn Lashley, Denis Abu Sammour, Carsten Hopf, Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 authors.

Thomas EnzleinCenter for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Paul-Wittsack Str. 10, Mannheim 68163, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1789-4090
Tammaryn LashleyDepartment of Neurodegenerative Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, U.K.
Denis Abu SammourCenter for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Paul-Wittsack Str. 10, Mannheim 68163, Germany.
Carsten HopfCenter for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Paul-Wittsack Str. 10, Mannheim 68163, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0802-6451
Lucía Chávez-GutiérrezKU Leuven-VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, VIB, Leuven 3000, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8239-559X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) initiates molecular and cellular cascades that lead to Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, amyloid deposition does not invariably lead to dementia. Amyloid-positive but cognitively unaffected (AP-CU) individuals present widespread amyloid pathology, suggesting that molecular signatures more complex than the total amyloid burden are required to better differentiate AD from AP-CU cases. Motivated by the essential role of Aβ and the key lipid involvement in AD pathogenesis, we applied multimodal mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) and machine learning (ML) to investigate amyloid plaque heterogeneity, regarding Aβ and lipid composition, in AP-CU versus AD brain samples at the single-plaque level. Instead of focusing on a population mean, our analytical approach allowed the investigation of large populations of plaques at the single-plaque level. We found that different (sub)populations of amyloid plaques, differing in Aβ and lipid composition, coexist in the brain samples studied. The integration of MSI data with ML-based feature extraction further revealed that plaque-associated gangliosides GM2 and GM1, as well as Aβ

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesBrainLipidsAgedHumansMachine LearningPlaque, AmyloidAmyloid beta-PeptidesLipids

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PMID38830618
PMCPMC11190877

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