Thursday, December 22, 2022

Blood RNA transcripts reveal similar and differential alterations in fundamental cellular processes in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

Carol J. Huseby, Elaine Delvaux, Danielle L. Brokaw, Paul D. Coleman; Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2022; DOI: 10.1002/alz.12880 

 We report that transcripts of the blood transcriptome selected for each of the neurodegenerative diseases represent fundamental biological cell processes including transcription regulation, degranulation, immune response, protein synthesis, apoptosis, cytoskeletal components, ubiquitylation/proteasome, and mitochondrial complexes that are also affected in the brain and reveal common themes across six neurodegenerative diseases.