Tokuda, Takahiko and Salem, Sultan A. and Allsop, David and Mizuno, Toshiki and Nakagawa, Masanori and Qureshi, Mohamed M. and Locascio, Joseph J. and Schlossmacher, Michael G. and El-Agnaf, Omar (2006) Decreased α-synuclein in cerebrospinal fluid of aged individuals and subjects with Parkinson’s disease. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 349 (1). pp. 162-166. ISSN 0006-291X
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There is ample biochemical, pathological, and genetic evidence that the metabolism of -synuclein (-syn) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease (PD). To examine whether quantification of -syn in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is potentially informative in the diagnosis of PD, we developed a specific ELISA system and measured the concentration of -syn in CSF from 33 patients with PD (diagnosed according to UK PD Society Brain Bank criteria) and 38 control subjects including 9 neurologically healthy individuals. We found that PD patients had significantly lower -syn levels in their CSF than the control groups (p < 0.0001) even after adjusting for gender and age. Age was independently associated with lower -syn levels. Logistic regression analysis showed that reduction in CSF -syn served as a significant predictor of PD beyond age and gender alone (area under ROC curve, c = 0.882). Furthermore, we observed a close inverse correlation between -syn levels in CSF and assigned Hoehn and Yahr score in this cohort of 71 living subjects (p < 0.0001), even after adjusting for age. These findings identify in the quantification of -syn from CSF a potential laboratory marker to aid the clinical diagnosis of PD.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Parkinson disease ; Neurodegenerative diseases ; -Synuclein ; Cerebrospinal fluid ; ELISA ; Biomarker ; Diagnosis |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre Faculty of Health and Medicine > Biomedical & Life Sciences |
| ID Code: | 8840 |
| Deposited By: | Prof David Allsop |
| Deposited On: | 15 May 2008 11:47 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 18:27 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/8840 |
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