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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2025

Hippocampal iron patterns in aging and mild cognitive impairment.

Sonja M Kagerer, Laetitia Vionnet, Jiri M G van Bergen, Rafael Meyer, Anton F Gietl, Klaas P Pruessmann, Christoph Hock, Paul G Unschuld

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Sonja M KagererInstitute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
Laetitia VionnetInstitute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jiri M G van BergenInstitute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
Rafael MeyerInstitute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
Anton F GietlInstitute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
Klaas P PruessmannInstitute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christoph HockInstitute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
Paul G UnschuldDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Geneva (UniGE), Geneva, Switzerland.

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Introduction: The entorhinal cortex (EC)-hippocampus system is critical for memory and affected early in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cognitive dysfunction in AD is linked to neuropathological changes, including non-heme iron accumulation in vulnerable brain regions. This study characterized iron distribution in the EC-hippocampus system using ultra-high field (UHF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7 Tesla (T) in aging and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an AD at-risk state. Methods: 40 participants (mean age [SD] 69.2 [7.42] years; 12 mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 28 cognitively healthy controls (HC)) underwent UHF MRI at 7 T with turbo spin echo and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). Gray matter segmentation was performed using FreeSurfer software. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were calculated for hippocampal and EC measures. Results: ICCs for mean susceptibilities were 0.61 overall, 0.58 for HC, and 0.69 for MCI, with significant group differences between HC and MCI (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Discussion: Our findings suggest a higher coherence of non-heme iron distribution in MCI. An increasingly uniform distribution of iron in MCI could reflect a clinical continuum ranging from healthy aging to pathologic brain change and cognitive disorder. This highlights the potential of non-heme iron as a biomarker for early AD co-pathology.

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7 teslaentorhinal cortexhippocampus subfieldsironmild cognitive impairmentQSMreal-time field controlultra-high field MRI

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