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Multicenter Study
. 2015;47(4):883-7.
doi: 10.3233/JAD-150420.

Increased CSF E-Selectin in Clinical Alzheimer's Disease without Altered CSF Aβ42 and Tau

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Multicenter Study

Increased CSF E-Selectin in Clinical Alzheimer's Disease without Altered CSF Aβ42 and Tau

Ge Li et al. J Alzheimers Dis. 2015.

Abstract

Clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically heterogeneous. In this multicenter cohort of 215 clinically diagnosed AD patients and 249 controls, E-selectin and vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VACM-1) were measured along with amyloid-β peptide 1-42 (Aβ42) and tau. We discovered that E-selectin, a biomarker of endothelial function/vascular injury, was inversely correlated with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau/Aβ42 ratio and significantly elevated in clinical AD patients without the typical AD CSF biomarker signature (i.e., low tau/Aβ42 ratio) compared to those with the signature. These findings suggest that E-selectin may be an objective biomarker related to vascular mechanisms contributing to dementia.

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; Aβ42; E-selectin; biomarkers; cerebrospinal fluid; cerebrovascular disease; tau; vascular cell adhesion molecule 1.

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