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Title: YKL40 in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: cerebrospinal fluid levels as a prognosis marker of disease progression
Author: Andrés Benito, Pol
Domínguez, Raúl
Colomina Soler, M. J. (María José)
Llorens Torres, Franc
Povedano, Mònica
Ferrer, Isidro (Ferrer Abizanda)
Keywords: Esclerosi lateral amiotròfica
Líquid cefalorraquidi
Medul·la espinal
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Cerebrospinal fluid
Spinal cord
Issue Date: 13-Sep-2018
Publisher: Impact Journals
Abstract: Abstract Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has variable clinical course and fatal outcome. Since inflammation plays a role in the pathogenesis of ALS, chitinase-3-like protein 1 or YKL40 has been assessed as putative biomarker of disease progression. YKL40 mRNA levels are increased in anterior horn of the spinal cord (P=0.004) in sporadic ALS (sALS) cases when compared with age-matched controls. These correlate with increased mRNA expression of microglial markers AIF1 and CD68 in the spinal cord in sALS (P=0.044 and P=0.000, respectively). YKL40 mRNA and protein expression had a tendency to increase in post-mortem frontal cortex area 8 (P=0.06 and P=0.08, respectively). Yet YKL40 immunoreactivity is restricted to a subpopulation of astrocytes in these regions. YKL40 protein levels, as revealed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), are significantly increased in the CSF in sALS (n=86) compared with age-matched controls (n=21) (P=0.045). Higher levels are found in patients with fast progression when compared with patients with slow and normal progression (P=0.008 and P=0.004, respectively), and correlates with ALS-FRS-R slope (P=0.000). Additionally, increased protein levels of neurofilament light chain (NF-L) are also found in sALS (P=0.000); highest values are found in patients with fast progression when compared with cases with slow and normal progression (P=0.005 and P=0.000, respectively), and also correlate with ALS-FRS-R slope (P=0.000). Pearson's correlation test linked positively the increased levels of YKL40 with increased NF-L levels (P=0.013). These data point to YKL40 and NF-L protein levels in the CSF as a good biomarker combination of disease progression in sALS.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101551
It is part of: Aging, 2018, vol. 10, num. 9, p. 2367-2382
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/139899
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101551
ISSN: 1945-4589
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