Evaluation of Metabolic and Synaptic Dysfunction Hypotheses of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): A Meta-Analysis of CSF Markers

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is currently incurable and a majority of investigational drugs have failed clinical trials. One explanation for this failure may be the invalidity of hypotheses focus-ing on amyloid to explain AD pathogenesis. Recently, hypotheses which are centered on synaptic and met-abolic dysfunction are increasingly implicated in AD. Objective: Evaluate AD hypotheses by comparing neurotransmitter and metabolite marker concentrations in normal versus AD CSF. Methods: Meta-analysis allows for statistical comparison of pooled, existing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) marker data extracted from multiple publications, to obtain a more reliable estimate of concentrations. This method also provides a unique opportunity to rapidly validate AD hypotheses using the resulting CSF con-centration data. Hubmed, Pubmed and Google Scholar were comprehensively searched for published Eng-lish articles, without date restrictions, for the keywords “AD”, “CSF”, and “human” plus markers selected for synaptic and metabolic pathways. Synaptic markers were acetylcholine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glutamine, and glycine. Metabolic markers were glutathione, glucose, lactate, pyruvate, and 8 other amino acids. Only studies that measured markers in AD and controls (Ctl), provided means, standard er-rors/deviation, and subject numbers were included. Data were extracted by six authors and reviewed by two others for accuracy. Data were pooled using ratio of means (RoM of AD/Ctl) and random effects meta-analysis using Cochrane Collaboration’s Review Manager software. Results: Of the 435 identified publications, after exclusion and removal of duplicates, 35 articles were in-cluded comprising a total of 605 AD patients and 585 controls. The following markers of synaptic and met-abolic pathways were significantly changed in AD/controls: acetylcholine (RoM 0.36, 95% CI 0.24-0.53, p<0.00001), GABA (0.74, 0.58-0.94, p<0.01), pyruvate (0.48, 0.24-0.94, p=0.03), glutathione (1.11, 1.01-1.21, p=0.03), alanine (1.10, 0.98-1.23, p=0.09), and lower levels of significance for lactate (1.2, 1.00-1.47, p=0.05). Of note, CSF glucose and glutamate levels in AD were not significantly different than that of the controls. Conclusion: This study provides proof of concept for the use of meta-analysis validation of AD hypothe-ses, specifically via robust evidence for the cholinergic hypothesis of AD. Our data disagree with the other synaptic hypotheses of glutamate excitotoxicity and GABAergic resistance to neurodegeneration, given ob-served unchanged glutamate levels and decreased GABA levels. With regards to metabolic hypotheses, the data supported upregulation of anaerobic glycolysis, pentose phosphate pathway (glutathione), and anaple-rosis of the tricarboxylic acid cycle using glutamate. Future applications of meta-analysis indicate the pos-sibility of further in silico evaluation and generation of novel hypotheses in the AD field.

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