{"id":1043362,"date":"2012-08-12T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/towards-a-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:04:03","slug":"towards-a-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/towards-a-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease.php","title":{"rendered":"Towards a Blood Test for Alzheimer&#039;s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress towards a non-invasive test for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alzheimer's_disease\">Alzheimer's disease<\/a>: \"Reliability and failure to replicate initial results have been the biggest challenge in this field. We demonstrate here that it is possible to show consistent findings. ... [Researchers] measured the levels of 190 proteins in the blood of 600 study participants [including] healthy volunteers and those who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mild_cognitive_impairment\">mild cognitive impairment (MCI)<\/a>. MCI, often considered a harbinger for Alzheimer's disease, causes a slight but measurable decline in cognitive abilities. A subset of the 190 protein levels (17) were significantly different in people with MCI or Alzheimer's. When those markers were checked against data from 566 people participating in the multicenter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adni-info.org\" \/>Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative<\/a>, only four markers remained: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apolipoprotein_E\">apolipoprotein E<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain_natriuretic_peptide\">B-type natriuretic peptide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C-reactive_protein\">C-reactive protein<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pancreatic_polypeptide\">pancreatic polypeptide<\/a>. Changes in levels of these four proteins in blood also correlated with measurements from the same patients of the levels of proteins [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beta_amylo\">beta-amyloid<\/a>] in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerebrospinal_flu\">cerebrospinal fluid<\/a> that previously have been connected with Alzheimer's. The analysis grouped together people with MCI, who are at high risk of developing Alzheimer's, and full Alzheimer's. ... Though a blood test to identify underlying Alzheimer's disease is not quite ready for prime time given today's technology, we now have identified ways to make sure that a test will be reliable.\"<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-08\/eu-btf080912.php\">http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-08\/eu-btf080912.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm\">http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress towards a non-invasive test for Alzheimer's disease: \"Reliability and failure to replicate initial results have been the biggest challenge in this field. We demonstrate here that it is possible to show consistent findings. ... [Researchers] measured the levels of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/towards-a-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}