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- Title
Increased inflammation in BA21 brain tissue from African Americans with Alzheimer's disease.
- Authors
Ferguson, Sherry A.; Varma, Vijayalakshmi; Sloper, Daniel; Panos, John J.; Sarkar, Sumit
- Abstract
Chronic neuroinflammation is strongly associated with AD and altered peripheral and central levels of chemokines and cytokines have been frequently described in those with AD. Given the increasing evidence of ethnicity-related differences in AD, it was of interest to determine if those altered chemokine and cytokine levels are ethnicity-related. Because African Americans exhibit a higher incidence of AD and increased symptom severity, we explored chemokine and cytokine concentrations in post-mortem brain tissue from the BA21 region of African Americans and Caucasians with AD using multiplex assays. IL-1β, MIG, TRAIL, and FADD levels were significantly increased in African Americans while levels of IL-3 and IL-8 were significantly decreased. Those effects did not interact with gender; however, overall levels of CCL25, CCL26 and CX3CL1 were significantly decreased in women. The NLRP3 inflammasome is thought to be critically involved in AD. Increased activation of this inflammasome in African Americans is consistent with the current results.
- Subjects
ALZHEIMER'S disease; AFRICAN Americans; ENCEPHALITIS
- Publication
Metabolic Brain Disease, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
0885-7490
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11011-019-00512-2