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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2025

Correlations of blood and brain NMR metabolomics with Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

Franz Knörnschild, Ella J Zhang, Rajshree Ghosh Biswas, Marta Kobus, Jiashang Chen, Jonathan X Zhou, Angela Rao, Joseph Sun, Xiaoyu Wang, Wei Li and 6 more

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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

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  5. A seven-year longitudinal study of the Alzheimer's disease blood metabolome.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Franz Knörnschild *Departments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-6437-9774
Ella J Zhang *Departments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-3102-3788
Rajshree Ghosh Biswas *Departments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Marta KobusDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1290-0626
Jiashang ChenDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jonathan X ZhouDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-7114-7857
Angela RaoDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Joseph SunDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Xiaoyu WangDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Wei LiDepartment of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Isabella H MutiDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Piet HabbelCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Johannes NowakSRH Poliklinik Gera GmbH, Radiology Gotha, Gotha, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3595-8951
Zhongcong XieDepartment of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0720-1759
Yiying ZhangDepartment of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. yzhang37@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8416-8393
Leo L ChengDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. leocheng@hsph.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5975-5406

Funding

Metabolomic characterization of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease under anesthesia- surgery stimuliR01AG070257 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI JENKINS, BRUCE G, XIE, ZHONGCONG · 2021 to 2025
$3.9M
Novel metabolomic contrast probes for human lung cancer characterizationR01CA273010 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FARRAR, CHRISTIAN T · 2022 to 2025
$3.3M
Phosphorylated Tau as Biomarkers of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder in Older AdultsR21AG081763 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ZHANG, YIYING · 2023 to 2024
$480k
Microbiome Dysbiosis and Postoperative Delirium PathogenesisR21AG065606 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHEN, SHIQIAN, ZHANG, YIYING · 2020 to 2020
$459k
Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada) MFE194064NCI NIH HHS R01 CA273010NIA NIH HHS R01 AG070257NIA NIH HHS R21 AG065606NIA NIH HHS R21 AG081763U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) AG070257U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) CA273010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, progressive neurodegenerative disorder, impacting millions of geriatric patients globally. Unfortunately, AD can only be diagnosed post-mortem, through the analysis of autopsied brain tissue in human patients. This renders early detection and countering disease progression difficult. As AD progresses, the metabolomic profile of the brain and other organs can change. These alterations can be detected in peripheral systems (i.e., blood) such that biomarkers of the disease can be identified and monitored with minimal invasion. In this work, High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning (HRMAS) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is used to correlate biochemical changes in mouse brain tissues, from the cortex and hippocampus, with blood plasma. Ten micrograms of each brain tissue and ten microliters of blood plasma were obtained from 5XFAD Tg AD mice models (n = 15, 8 female, 7 male) and female C57/BL6 wild-type mice (n = 8). Spectral regions-of-interest (ROI, n = 51) were identified, and 121 potential metabolites were assigned using the Human Metabolome Database and tabulated according to their trends (increase/decrease, false discovery rate significance). This work identified several metabolites that impact glucose oxidation (lactic acid, pyruvate, glucose-6-phosphate), allude to oxidative stress resulting in brain dysfunction (L-cysteine, galactitol, propionic acid), as well as those interacting with other neural pathways (taurine, dimethylamine). This work also suggests correlated metabolomic changes within blood plasma, proposing an avenue for biomarker detection, ideally leading to improved patient diagnosis and prognosis in the future.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBrainCerebral CortexHippocampusMetabolomeMetabolomicsAnimalsBiomarkersDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicBiomarkers

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PMID40102403
PMCPMC11920067

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