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CROSS-SECTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ALBUMIN GLYCATION STATE IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND PLASMA FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PATIENTS
M. Costa, A. Mestre, R. Horrillo, A. M. Ortiz, A. Pérez, A. Ruiz, M. Boada, S. Grancha
J Prev Alz Dis 2019;6(2):139-143
We determined albumin post-translational modifications (PTMs) by mass spectrometry (MS) in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 31 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients (with 27 samples of paired plasma-CSF from the same patients). Results were cross-sectionally compared with healthy controls. For percentage of relative intensity of glycated isoforms, plasma albumin was globally more glycated in AD patients than in healthy controls (P<0.01). MS results in plasma were confirmed by a quantitative enzymatic assay (Lucica GA-L) for albumin early-glycation detection. In CSF there were no global glycation differences detected by MS, although a different pattern of glycated isoforms was observed. Oxidized+glycated and cysteinylated+glycated isoforms were increased in both plasma and CSF of AD patients in comparison with healthy controls (P<0.001). Furthermore, AD patients showed higher glycation in plasma than in CSF (P<0.01). Our data support the role of glycation and oxidative stress in AD.
CITATION:
M. Costa ; A. Mestre ; R. Horrillo ; A. M. Ortiz ; A. Pérez ; A. Ruiz ; M. Boada ; S. Grancha (2018): Cross-Sectional Characterization of Albumin Glycation State in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma from Alzheimer’s Disease Patients. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (JPAD). http://dx.doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2018.48