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Title: | Elevations in Serum Dickkopf-1 and Disease Progression in Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease | Authors: | Tay, Laura Leung, Bernard Yeo, Audrey Chan, Mark Lim, Wee Shiong |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Geriatrics & Gerontology Neurosciences Neurosciences & Neurology Dickkopf-1 mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer's disease disease progression inflammation WNT ANTAGONIST DICKKOPF-1 GROWTH-FACTOR-I DEMENTIA AGE INFLAMMATION PERFORMANCE POPULATION DIAGNOSIS DECLINE CHINESE |
Issue Date: | 15-Oct-2019 | Publisher: | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA | Citation: | Tay, Laura, Leung, Bernard, Yeo, Audrey, Chan, Mark, Lim, Wee Shiong (2019-10-15). Elevations in Serum Dickkopf-1 and Disease Progression in Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease. FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE 11. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2019.00278 | Abstract: | Background: Disruption of Wnt signaling has been implicated in dysfunctional synaptic plasticity, the degree of which correlates with Alzheimer’s disease severity. We sought to examine whether serum levels of Dickkopf-1 (Dkk-1), a Wnt antagonist, are associated with global disease progression in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild-to-moderate AD. Methods: We prospectively followed 88 older adults with MCI and mild-to-moderate AD attending a Memory Clinic. Cognitive performance, functional performance and neuropsychological symptoms were assessed at baseline and after 1 year. We reviewed neuroimaging for white matter changes and medial temporal atrophy, and performed ApoE genotyping at baseline. Serum Dkk-1 was assayed at baseline and 1 year, along with blood biomarkers of inflammation and endocrine dysfunction. We defined global disease progression (“progressors”) as an increase in Clinical Dementia Rating Sum-of-Boxes (CDR-SB) score by >2 points at 1 year. Results: Fifteen (17.0%) participants had global disease progression. At baseline, there was no difference in cognitive performance and neuropsychiatric symptoms between groups, although progressors were more impaired in instrumental activities of daily living (p = 0.008). Progressors had significantly greater deterioration in cognitive performance (p = 0.002), with significantly worse functional performance and more severe neuropsychiatric symptoms (p = 0.042) at follow-up. Serum inflammatory and endocrine biomarkers at baseline and 1 year were similar between progressors and non-progressors. Serum Dkk-1 had increased significantly from baseline amongst progressors, while non-progressors exhibited decremental Dkk-1 over time (Dkk-1change: 354.304 ± 670.467 vs. −173.582 ± 535.676 ng/ml, p = 0.001). Adjusting for age, gender and baseline cognitive performance, incremental Dkk-1 independently predicted global cognitive decline (p = 0.012). Conclusion: Our results suggest progressively dysfunctional Wnt signaling through Dkk-1 antagonism contributes to disease progression amongst older adults with MCI and mild-moderate AD. | Source Title: | FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/234337 | ISSN: | 1663-4365 | DOI: | 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00278 |
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