淀粉样蛋白(真菌学)
神经科学
磁共振成像
功能磁共振成像
β淀粉样蛋白
阿尔茨海默病
连接体
BETA(编程语言)
病理
心理学
医学
疾病
功能连接
计算机科学
放射科
程序设计语言
作者
Fardin Nabizadeh,Fardin Nabizadeh
标识
DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhae386
摘要
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta plaques initiated approximately 2 decades before the symptom onset followed by build-up and spreading of neurofibrillary tau aggregates. Although it has been suggested that the amyloid-beta amplifies tau spreading the observed spatial disparity called it into question. Yet, it is unclear how neocortical amyloid-beta remotely affects early pathological tau, triggering it to leave the early formation area, and how amyloid-beta facilitates tau aggregate spreading throughout cortical regions. I aimed to investigate how amyloid-beta can facilitate tau spreading through neuronal connections in the Alzheimer's disease pathological process by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging normative connectomes and longitudinal in vivo molecular imaging data. In total, the imaging data of 317 participants, including 173 amyloid-beta-negative non-demented and 144 amyloid-beta -positive non-demented participants, have entered the study from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Furthermore, normative resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging connectomes were used to model tau spreading through functional connections. It was observed that the amyloid-beta in regions with the highest deposition (amyloid-beta epicenter) is remotely associated with connectivity-based spreading of tau pathology. Moreover, amyloid-beta in regions that exhibit the highest tau pathology (tau epicenter) is associated with increased connectivity-based tau spreading to non-epicenter regions. The findings provide a further explanation for a long-standing question of how amyloid-beta can affect tau aggregate spreading through neuronal connections despite spatial incongruity. The results suggest that amyloid-beta pathology can remotely and locally facilitate connectivity-based spreading of tau aggregates.
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