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Modulation of glucose metabolism and metabolic connectivity by ?-amyloid.


ABSTRACT: Glucose hypometabolism in the pre-clinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been primarily associated with the APOE ?4 genotype, rather than fibrillar ?-amyloid. In contrast, aberrant patterns of metabolic connectivity are more strongly related to ?-amyloid burden than APOE ?4 status. A major limitation of previous studies has been the dichotomous classification of subjects as amyloid-positive or amyloid-negative. Dichotomous treatment of a continuous variable, such as ?-amyloid, potentially obscures the true relationship with metabolism and reduces the power to detect significant changes in connectivity. In the present work, we assessed alterations of glucose metabolism and metabolic connectivity as continuous function of ?-amyloid burden using positron emission tomography scans from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative study. Modeling ?-amyloid as a continuous variable resulted in better model fits and improved power compared to the dichotomous model. Using this continuous model, we found that both APOE ?4 genotype and ?-amyloid burden are strongly associated with glucose hypometabolism at early stages of Alzheimer's disease. We also determined that the cumulative effects of ?-amyloid deposition result in a particular pattern of altered metabolic connectivity, which is characterized by global, synchronized hypometabolism at early stages of the disease process, followed by regionally heterogeneous, progressive hypometabolism.

SUBMITTER: Carbonell F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363668 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Modulation of glucose metabolism and metabolic connectivity by β-amyloid.

Carbonell Felix F   Zijdenbos Alex P AP   McLaren Donald G DG   Iturria-Medina Yasser Y   Bedell Barry J BJ  

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 20160614 12


Glucose hypometabolism in the pre-clinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been primarily associated with the APOE ɛ4 genotype, rather than fibrillar β-amyloid. In contrast, aberrant patterns of metabolic connectivity are more strongly related to β-amyloid burden than APOE ɛ4 status. A major limitation of previous studies has been the dichotomous classification of subjects as amyloid-positive or amyloid-negative. Dichotomous treatment of a continuous variable, such as β-amyloid, potentiall  ...[more]

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