Granulin mutation drives brain damage and reorganization from preclinical to symptomatic FTLD

Borroni, Barbara, Alberici, Antonella, Cercignani, Mara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-2456, Premi, Enrico, Serra, Laura, Cerini, Carlo, Cosseddu, Maura, Pettenati, Carla, Turla, Marinella, Archetti, Silvana, Gasparotti, Roberto, Caltagirone, Carlo, Padovani, Alessandro and Bozzali, Marco 2012. Granulin mutation drives brain damage and reorganization from preclinical to symptomatic FTLD. Neurobiology of Aging 33 (10) , pp. 2506-2520. 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.10.031

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Abstract

Granulin (GRN) mutations have been identified as a major cause of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) by haploinsufficiency mechanism, although their effects on brain tissue dysfunction and damage still remain to be clarified. In this study, we investigated the pattern of neuroimaging abnormalities in FTLD patients, carriers and noncarriers of GRN Thr272fs mutation, and in presymptomatic carriers. We assessed regional gray matter (GM) atrophy, and resting (RS)-functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The functional connectivity maps of the salience (SN) and the default mode (DMN) networks were considered. Frontotemporal gray matter atrophy was found in all FTLD patients (more remarkably in those GRN Thr272fs carriers), but not in presymptomatic carriers. Functional connectivity within the SN was reduced in all FTLD patients (again more remarkably in those mutation carriers), while it was enhanced in the DMN. Conversely, presymptomatic carriers showed increased connectivity in the SN, with no changes in the DMN. Our findings suggest that compensatory mechanisms of brain plasticity are present in GRN-related FTLD, but with different patterns at a preclinical and symptomatic disease stage.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0197-4580
Date of Acceptance:	25 October 2011
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139505

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