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Alpha-synuclein RT-QuIC in the CSF of patients with alpha-synucleinopathies

  • Graham Fairfoul
  • , Lynne I McGuire
  • , Suvankar Pal
  • , James W Ironside
  • , Juliane Neumann
  • , Sharon Christie
  • , Catherine Joachim
  • , Margaret Esiri
  • , Samuel G Evetts
  • , Michal Rolinski
  • , Fahd Baig
  • , Claudio Ruffmann
  • , Richard Wade-Martins
  • , Michele T M Hu
  • , Laura Parkkinen
  • , Alison J E Green

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Abstract

We have developed a novel real-time quaking-induced conversion RT-QuIC-based assay to detect alpha-synuclein aggregation in brain and cerebrospinal fluid from dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease patients. This assay can detect alpha-synuclein aggregation in Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease cerebrospinal fluid with sensitivities of 92% and 95%, respectively, and with an overall specificity of 100% when compared to Alzheimer and control cerebrospinal fluid. Patients with neuropathologically confirmed tauopathies (progressive supranuclear palsy; corticobasal degeneration) gave negative results. These results suggest that RT-QuiC analysis of cerebrospinal fluid is potentially useful for the early clinical assessment of patients with alpha-synucleinopathies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)812-818
Number of pages7
JournalAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
Volume3
Issue number10
Early online date28 Aug 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2016

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