Department of Clinical Sciences, Section for Psychiatry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
PLoS One. 2013 Apr 23;8(4):e62354. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062354. Print 2013.
Despite several lines of evidence from preclinical and post-mortem studies suggesting that inflammation is involved in Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), no previous studies have measured peripheral indices of inflammation in MSA patients.
We measured C-reactive protein, interleukin (IL)-6, soluble IL-2 receptor and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α in blood samples from MSA patients (n = 14) and healthy controls (n = 40).
IL-6 and TNF-α were significantly elevated in MSA patients compared to healthy controls. After controlling for the potentially confounding effects of age, gender, and somatic co-morbidities, a diagnosis of MSA was still significantly associated with high levels of TNF-α. Higher TNF-α levels were associated with less severe motor symptoms and earlier disease stage.
Our findings are in line with the hypothesis that inflammation might be involved at an early stage of MSA pathophysiology.
尽管来自临床前和尸检研究的数条证据表明炎症参与了多系统萎缩(MSA),但之前没有研究测量过 MSA 患者的外周炎症指标。
我们测量了 MSA 患者(n=14)和健康对照组(n=40)的血液样本中的 C 反应蛋白、白细胞介素(IL)-6、可溶性 IL-2 受体和肿瘤坏死因子(TNF)-α。
与健康对照组相比,MSA 患者的 IL-6 和 TNF-α 显著升高。在控制年龄、性别和躯体合并症等潜在混杂因素的影响后,MSA 的诊断仍与高水平的 TNF-α显著相关。较高的 TNF-α水平与较轻的运动症状和更早的疾病阶段相关。
我们的发现与炎症可能在 MSA 病理生理学的早期阶段发生的假设一致。