Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Parkinson's disease with freezing of gait: an exploratory analysis

Autor: J.C. Howell, J.L. McKay, Jaime M. Hatcher-Martin, W.T. Hu, A F Pybus, Felicia C. Goldstein, L Wood, Stewart A. Factor, Barbara Sommerfeld
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: NPJ Parkinson's Disease
npj Parkinson's Disease, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
ISSN: 2373-8057
Popis: We explore the association between three Alzheimer’s disease-related and ten inflammation-related CSF markers and freezing of gait (FOG) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The study population includes PD patients with FOG (PD-FOG, N = 12), without FOG (PD-NoFOG, N = 19), and healthy controls (HC, N = 12). Age and PD duration are not significantly different between groups. After adjusting for covariates and multiple comparisons, the anti-inflammatory marker, fractalkine, is significantly decreased in the PD groups compared to HC (P = 0.002), and further decreased in PD-FOG compared to PD-NoFOG (P = 0.007). The Alzheimer’s disease-related protein, Aβ42, is increased in PD-FOG compared to PD-NoFOG and HC (P = 0.001). Group differences obtained in individual biomarker analyses are confirmed with multivariate discriminant partial least squares regression (P
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