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Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska, Emeritus Professor Elaine Perry

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Abstract

More than 750,000 of the UK population suffer from some form of cognitive impairment and dementia. Of these, 5-20 will have Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB). Clinico-pathological studies have shown that it is the low frequency of DLB clinical core features that makes the DLB diagnosis hardly recognisable during life, and easily misdiagnosed for other forms of dementia. This has an impact on the treatment and long-term care of the affected subjects. Having a biochemical test, based on quantification of a specific DLB biomarker within Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) could be an effective diagnostic method to improve the differential diagnosis. Although some of the investigated DLB CSF biomarkers are well within the clinical criteria for sensitivity and specificity (> 90), they all seem to be confounded by the contradictory data for each of the major groups of biomarkers ( α-synuclein, tau and amyloid proteins). However, a combination of CSF measures appear to emerge, that may well be able to differentiate DLB from other dementias: α-synuclein reduction in early DLB, a correlation between CSF α-synuclein and Aβ42 measures (characteristic for DLB only), and t-tau and p-tau181 profile (differentiating AD from DLB). Copyright © 2010 Elizabeta B. Mukaetova-Ladinska et al.


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Author(s): Mukaetova-Ladinska E, Monteith R, Perry E

Publication type: Review

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Year: 2010

Print publication date: 01/01/2010

ISSN (electronic): 2090-0252

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/536538

DOI: 10.4061/2010/536538


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