TY - JOUR
T1 - Serum Levels of Progranulin Do Not Reflect Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels in Neurodegenerative Disease
AU - Wilke, Carlo
AU - Gillardon, Frank
AU - Deuschle, Christian
AU - Dubois, Evelyn
AU - Hobert, Markus A
AU - Müller vom Hagen, Jennifer
AU - Krüger, Stefanie
AU - Biskup, Saskia
AU - Blauwendraat, Cornelis
AU - Hruscha, Michael
AU - Kaeser, Stephan A
AU - Heutink, Peter
AU - Maetzler, Walter
AU - Synofzik, Matthis
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Altered progranulin levels play a major role in neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's dementia (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), even in the absence of GRN mutations. Increasing progranulin levels could hereby provide a novel treatment strategy. However, knowledge on progranulin regulation in neurodegenerative diseases remains limited. We here demonstrate that cerebrospinal fluid progranulin levels do not correlate with its serum levels in AD, FTD and ALS, indicating a differential regulation of its central and peripheral levels in neurodegeneration. Blood progranulin levels thus do not reliably predict central nervous progranulin levels and their response to future progranulin-increasing therapeutics.
AB - Altered progranulin levels play a major role in neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's dementia (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), even in the absence of GRN mutations. Increasing progranulin levels could hereby provide a novel treatment strategy. However, knowledge on progranulin regulation in neurodegenerative diseases remains limited. We here demonstrate that cerebrospinal fluid progranulin levels do not correlate with its serum levels in AD, FTD and ALS, indicating a differential regulation of its central and peripheral levels in neurodegeneration. Blood progranulin levels thus do not reliably predict central nervous progranulin levels and their response to future progranulin-increasing therapeutics.
U2 - 10.2174/1567205013666160314151247
DO - 10.2174/1567205013666160314151247
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 26971930
SN - 1567-2050
VL - 13
SP - 654
EP - 662
JO - Current Alzheimer Research
JF - Current Alzheimer Research
IS - 6
ER -