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- Boza-Serrano, A., et al.
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Galectin-3 is elevated in CSF and is associated with A beta deposits and tau aggregates in brain tissue in Alzheimer's disease
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In: Acta Neuropathologica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0001-6322 .- 1432-0533.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is a beta-galactosidase binding protein involved in microglial activation in the central nervous system (CNS). We previously demonstrated the crucial deleterious role of Gal-3 in microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Under AD conditions, Gal-3 is primarily expressed by microglial cells clustered around A beta plaques in both human and mouse brain, and knocking out Gal-3 reduces AD pathology in AD-model mice. To further unravel the importance of Gal-3-associated inflammation in AD, we aimed to investigate the Gal-3 inflammatory response in the AD continuum. First, we measured Gal-3 levels in neocortical and hippocampal tissue from early-onset AD patients, including genetic and sporadic cases. We found that Gal-3 levels were significantly higher in both cortex and hippocampus in AD subjects. Immunohistochemistry revealed that Gal-3+ microglial cells were associated with amyloid plaques of a larger size and more irregular shape and with neurons containing tau-inclusions. We then analyzed the levels of Gal-3 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from AD patients (n=119) compared to control individuals (n= 36). CSF Gal-3 levels were elevated in AD patients compared to controls and more strongly correlated with tau (p-Tau181 and t-tau) and synaptic markers (GAP-43 and neurogranin) than with amyloid-beta. Lastly, principal component analysis (PCA) of AD biomarkers revealed that CSF Gal-3 clustered and associated with other CSF neuroinflammatory markers, including sTREM-2, GFAP, and YKL-40. This neuroinflammatory component was more highly expressed in the CSF from amyloid-beta positive (A+), CSF p-Tau181 positive (T+), and biomarker neurodegeneration positive/negative (N+/-) (A + T +N+/-) groups compared to the A + T-N- group. Overall, Gal-3 stands out as a key pathological biomarker of AD pathology that is measurable in CSF and, therefore, a potential target for disease-modifying therapies involving the neuroinflammatory response.
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- Lazarevic, Vladimir, et al.
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Incidence and prognostic significance of karyotypic subgroups in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia: the Swedish population-based experience
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In: Blood Cancer Journal. - London, United Kingdom : Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option B / Nature Publishing Group. - 2044-5385. ; 4:e188
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Swedish population-based acute myeloid leukemia registry contains data from 3251 patients (excluding acute promyelocytic leukemia) diagnosed between 1997 and 2006. Informative cytogenetic data from 1893 patients were retrospectively added, including 1054 patients aged between 60 and 79 years. Clonal abnormalities were found in 57% of the informative karyotypes. Karyotypic patterns differed by age: t(8; 21), inv(16) and t(11q23) were more common in younger patients, whereas loss of 5q, 7q and 17p, monosomal karyotype (MK) and complex karyotypes were more common in older patients. Loss of 5q, 7q and 17p often occurred together within MK. Patients with greater than= 5 chromosome abnormalities had worse overall survival than those with fewer abnormalities or normal karyotype in all age groups. Loss of 5q, 7q and/or 17p had, in contrast to MK, a further negative impact on survival. Multivariable Cox regression analyses on risk factors in patients less than80 years with cytogenetic abnormalities and intensive treatment revealed that age and performance status had the most significant impact on survival (both Pless than0.001), followed by sex (P = 0.0135) and a karyotype including - 7/del(7q) (P = 0.048).
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- Wennstrom, M, et al.
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Analysis of intermodulation distortion in log-normal shadowed WLAN channels
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In: ELECTRONICS LETTERS. - : IEE-INST ELEC ENG. - 0013-5194. ; 36:9, s. 833-834
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In wireless local area network systems using multicarrier modulation, intermodulation distortion (IMD) occurs due to the nonlinear transmission amplifier and the non-constant envelope of the transmitted signals. A closed form expression is presented for t
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