Vitamin E and enzymatic/oxidative stress-driven oxysterols in amnestic mild cognitive impairment subtypes and Alzheimer's disease |
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Authors: | Iuliano Luigi Monticolo Roberto Straface Giuseppe Spoletini Ilaria Gianni Walter Caltagirone Carlo Bossù Paola Spalletta Gianfranco |
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Institution: | Vascular Biology and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. |
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Abstract: | Oxidative stress,which contributes to neuronal damage, is thought to be a pathophysiologicalmechanism of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Markers of oxidative stress may appear early in the preclinical, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) phase of AD.We investigated the interaction among enzymatic-derived oxysterols (24S-hydroxycholesterol and 27-hydroxycholesterol), markers of oxidative stress, including free radical-related oxysterols (7 hydroxycholesterol and 7-ketocholesterol), and vitamin E in AD patients and two amnestic MCI subtypes, amnestic single-domain MCI (a-MCI) subjects, and multidomain MCI (md-MCI) subjects, compared to healthy control subjects (HC). The study included 37 patients with AD, 24 with a-MCI, 29 with md-MCI, and 24 HC. Plasma assessments were made using isotope dilution-mass spectrometry. Although we found no significant change in free radical- or enzymatic-derived oxysterol concentrations in AD or MCI patients, vitamin E levels corrected for cholesterol were reduced in AD patients compared to HC. Results suggest that AD patients have upregulated cerebral oxidative stress or a nutritional deficit of vitamin E. The oxysterols investigated here are not useful markers for diagnosing AD or MCI. |
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