Systemic inflammatory response and neuromuscular involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Ching-Hua Lu, Kezia Allen, Felicia Oei, Emanuela Leoni, Jens Kuhle, Timothy Tree, Pietro Fratta, Nikhil Sharma, Katie Sidle, Robin Howard, Richard Orrell, Mark Fish, Linda Greensmith, Neil Pearce, Valentina Gallo, Andrea Malaspina*

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Objective: To evaluate the combined blood expression of neuromuscular and inflammatory biomarkers as predictors of disease progression and prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Methods: Logistic regression adjusted for markers of the systemic inflammatory state and principal component analysis were carried out on plasma levels of creatine kinase (CK), ferritin, and 11 cytokines measured in 95 patients with ALS and 88 healthy controls. Levels of circulating biomarkers were used to study survival by Cox regression analysis and correlated with disease progression and neurofilament light chain (NfL) levels available from a previous study. Cytokines expression was also tested in blood samples longitudinally collected for up to 4 years from 59 patients with ALS.

Results: Significantly higher levels of CK, ferritin, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, and interleukin (IL)-1 beta, IL-2, IL-8, IL-12p70, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, and IL-13 and lower levels of interferon (IFN)-gamma were found in plasma samples from patients with ALS compared to controls. IL-6, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma were the most highly regulated markers when all explanatory variables were jointly analyzed. High ferritin and IL-2 levels were predictors of poor survival. IL-5 levels were positively correlated with CK, as was TNF-alpha with NfL. IL-6 was strongly associated with CRP levels and was the only marker showing increasing expression towards end-stage disease in the longitudinal analysis.

Conclusions: Neuromuscular pathology in ALS involves the systemic regulation of inflammatory markersmostly active on T-cell immune responses. Disease stratification based on the prognostic value of circulating inflammatory markers could improve clinical trials design in ALS.

Originele taal-2English
Artikelnummer244
Aantal pagina's11
TijdschriftNeurology-Neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation
Volume3
Nummer van het tijdschrift4
DOI's
StatusPublished - aug.-2016
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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