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Neuronal Enriched Extracellular Vesicle miR-122-5p as a Potential Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease.

Kumudu Subasinghe, Courtney Hall, Megan Rowe, Zhengyang Zhou, Robert Barber, Nicole Phillips

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Article in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  4. Extracellular Vesicles in Tauopathies: Mechanisms and Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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6 authors.

Kumudu SubasingheDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, UNT Health, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9429-1993
Courtney HallDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Megan RoweDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, UNT Health, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5962-1229
Zhengyang ZhouDepartment of Population and Community Health, College of Public Health, UNT Health, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
Robert BarberDepartment of Family Medicine & Manipulative Medicine, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, UNT Health, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6857-0286
Nicole PhillipsDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, UNT Health, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.

Funding

Training in the Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer's DiseaseT32AG020494 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR · PI ROBERT Clinton BARBER, NATHALIE SUMIEN · 2002 to 2026
$6.9M
NIA NIH HHS T32 AG020494NIH HHS 2T32AG020494-25Texas Alzheimer's Research and Care Consortium under the direction of the Texas Council on AD and Related Disorder N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and is often prefaced by mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Detection of AD-related changes via blood-based biomarkers would enable critical therapeutic interventions early in disease progression. Neuronal enriched extracellular vesicle (NEEV) miRNAs regulate peripheral genes as a response to early AD brain changes and hence may have biomarker potential. Plasma NEEVs were captured from plasma samples of Mexican Americans (MAs) and Non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs) using an antibody against the neuronal surface marker CD171. miRNAs isolated from NEEVs were sequenced and analyzed using miRDeep2/DEseq2 and QIAGEN RNA-seq portal for differential expression between cognitively impaired (CI) and cognitively unimpaired controls. hsa-miR-122-5p was significantly underrepresented in the CI group in both MAs and NHWs compared to the healthy control. Other population-specific miRNAs (MAs: hsa-miR-26a-5p, hsa-let-7f-5p, and hsa-miR-139-5p, NHWs: hsa-miR-133a-3p, hsa-miR-125b-5p, and hsa-miR-100-5p) identified may have biomarker potential in AD precision medicine. Some of these differentially expressed miRNAs were associated with key AD-related comorbidities such as APOE genotype, age, and metabolic burden and were predicted to target genes within NF-κB -regulated inflammatory pathways. Together, these findings suggest that dysregulated miRNA networks may serve as a mechanistic link between comorbidity burden and AD-related neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.

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Alzheimer DiseaseExtracellular VesiclesMicroRNAsNeuronsAgedAged, 80 and overBiomarkersCase-Control StudiesCognitive DysfunctionFemaleHumansMaleBiomarkersMicroRNAsMIRN122 microRNA, humanAlzheimer’s disease (AD)Cognitive Impairment (CI)Extracellular Vesicles (EVs)Mexican Americans (MAs)MicroRNA (miRNA)Neuronal Enriched Extracellular Vesicles (NEEVs)Non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs)

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PMCPMC12651308

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