失智症
神经递质
神经科学
单胺类神经递质
功能磁共振成像
心理学
痴呆
生物
医学
血清素
内科学
疾病
受体
中枢神经系统
作者
Lisa Hahn,Simon B. Eickhoff,Karsten Mueller,Leonhard Schilbach,Henryk Barthel,Klaus Faßbender,Klaus Fließbach,Johannes Kornhuber,Johannes Prudlo,Matthis Synofzik,Jens Wiltfang,Janine Diehl‐Schmid,Markus Otto,Juergen Dukart,Matthias L. Schroeter
出处
期刊:eLife
[eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd.]
日期:2024-01-15
卷期号:13
摘要
Background: Aside to clinical changes, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is characterized by progressive structural and functional alterations in frontal and temporal regions. We examined if there is a selective vulnerability of specific neurotransmitter systems in bvFTD by evaluating the link between disease-related functional alterations and the spatial distribution of specific neurotransmitter systems and their underlying gene expression levels. Methods: Maps of fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) were derived as a measure of local activity from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging for 52 bvFTD patients (mean age = 61.5 ± 10.0 years; 14 females) and 22 healthy controls (HC) (mean age = 63.6 ± 11.9 years; 13 females). We tested if alterations of fALFF in patients co-localize with the non-pathological distribution of specific neurotransmitter systems and their coding mRNA gene expression. Furthermore, we evaluated if the strength of co-localization is associated with the observed clinical symptoms. Results: Patients displayed significantly reduced fALFF in frontotemporal and frontoparietal regions. These alterations co-localized with the distribution of serotonin (5-HT1b and 5-HT2a) and γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAa) receptors, the norepinephrine transporter (NET), and their encoding mRNA gene expression. The strength of co-localization with NET was associated with cognitive symptoms and disease severity of bvFTD. Conclusions: Local brain functional activity reductions in bvFTD followed the distribution of specific neurotransmitter systems indicating a selective vulnerability. These findings provide novel insight into the disease mechanisms underlying functional alterations. Our data-driven method opens the road to generate new hypotheses for pharmacological interventions in neurodegenerative diseases even beyond bvFTD. Funding: This study has been supported by the German Consortium for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; grant no. FKZ01GI1007A).
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