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Increased serum levels of CD95 in Alzheimer's disease
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Germany. elke.richartz@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
|March 15, 2002
Abstract:
There is growing evidence for a role of apoptosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent findings suggest an increased susceptibility of lymphocytes to apoptosis in AD. To prove the hypothesis of systemic alterations in the apoptotic balance in AD, serum and cerebrospinal fluid levels of soluble CD95, which is known to mediate apoptosis, were measured. In the serum, AD patients exhibited significantly higher levels of CD95 than the controls (p = 0.017), suggesting an involvement of peripheral markers in AD.