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Ashish Kumar1, Mitu Sharma1, Yixin Su1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
Introduction:
Blood-based biomarkers are essential for early detection, monitoring, and therapeutic development in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia (ADRD), but current assays lack brain cell specificity and sensitivity to low-abundant proteins.
Method:
We isolated the following brain cell-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEV) from the plasma of individuals with normal cognition (CN), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or ADRD: neurons (NDE), astrocytes (ADE), microglia (MDE), oligodendrocytes (ODE), pericytes (PDE), and endothelial cells (EDE). Using NULISAseq, we profiled 122 proteins, spanning AD pathology, neurodegeneration, and neuroinflammation.
Results:
sEV proteomes showed distinct brain cell-type-specific signatures. MCI exhibited early dysregulation of neuroprotective, inflammatory, and vascular markers in NDE, MDE, and ODE. ADRD displayed broader alteration tau, amyloid, neuroinflammation, vascular dysfunction, and synaptic loss across multiple sEV populations.
Discussion:
Combining NULISAseq with brain cell-derived plasma sEV enables the detection of multicellular molecular changes in ADRD, supporting their use as a minimally invasive platform for biomarker discovery.
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