Introduction: Multiple immunity biomarkers have been suggested as tracers of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration. This study aimed to verify findings in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) subjects from the network of the European, Innovative Medicines Initiative-funded project AETIONOMY.Methods: A total of 227 samples from the studies/centres AETIONOMY, ICEBERG, and IDIBAPS were used to analyse 21 selected immunity biomarkers in CSF. Results were compared to data of an independent cohort of 399 subjects previously published.Results: Immunity markers were predominantly and reproducibly associated with pathological levels of tau isoforms, but also with amyloid levels, aging, sex, APOE genotype, and center-specific factors.Discussion: Immunity biomarker levels in CSF reflect molecular and cellular pathology rather than diagnosis in neurodegenerative disorders. Assay standardization and stratification for age and other covariates could improve the power of such markers in clinical applications or intervention studies targeting immune responses in neurodegeneration.
This study shows the importance of the psychological impact of the storm as observed clinically by health workers who intervened in the field during the aftermath of Xynthia. It confirms that administrative databases can be used to show a health impact of a disaster even at a local level. This is one more step in the direction of a comprehensive strategy of collecting information to allow the assessment of the health impact of an extreme event, the detection of vulnerable populations, and the orientation of the short-, mid- and long-term public health response.
AP, MG, JCT and YLB supervised this work. JCT, YLB, MR, MG and AP contributed to design the experiment. AM and MG contributed to sample handling and collection and sample biobanking. MG achieved endocrine phenotyping and curation. CC and JM performed metabolomic analyses. FXL, BL and AP performed statistical analyses. CC did an expert-based assignment of putative biomarkers. AP performed the data interpretation and wrote the manuscript. JCT, YLB, MG, MR, CC, FXL and BL revised the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.
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