McGinnity Colm J, Riaño Barros Daniela A, Guedj Eric, Girard Nadine, Symeon Christopher, Walker Helen, Barrington Sally F, Summers Mary, Pitkanen Mervi, Rahman Yusof
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' PET Centre, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Front Neurosci. 2021 Jun 17;15:664525. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.664525. eCollection 2021.
We retrospectively examined the relationship between blood biomarkers, in particular the historical mean phenylalanine to tyrosine (Phe:Tyr) ratio, and cerebral glucose metabolism. We hypothesized that the historical mean Phe:Tyr ratio would be more predictive of cerebral glucose metabolism than the phenylalanine (Phe) level alone. We performed a retrospective case series analysis involving 11 adult classical phenylketonuria/hyperphenylalaninemia patients under the care of an Inherited Metabolic & Neuropsychiatry Clinic who had complained of memory problems, collating casenote data from blood biochemistry, and clinical [F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography ([F]FDG PET). The Phe:Tyr ratio was calculated for individual blood samples and summarized as historical mean Phe:Tyr ratio (Phe:Tyr) and historical standard deviation in Phe:Tyr ratio (SD-Phe:Tyr), for each patient. Visual analyses of [F]FDG PET revealed heterogeneous patterns of glucose hypometabolism for eight patients. [F]FDG PET standardized uptake was negatively correlated with Phe in a large cluster with peak localized to right superior parietal gyrus. Even larger clusters of negative correlation that encompassed most of the brain, with frontal peaks, were observed with Phe:Tyr, and SD-Phe:Tyr. Our case series analysis provides further evidence for the association between blood biomarkers, and cerebral glucose hypometabolism. Mean historical blood Phe:Tyr ratio, and its standard deviation over time, appear to be more indicative of global cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with memory problems than Phe.
我们回顾性研究了血液生物标志物,特别是历史平均苯丙氨酸与酪氨酸(Phe:Tyr)比值,与脑葡萄糖代谢之间的关系。我们假设,历史平均Phe:Tyr比值比单独的苯丙氨酸(Phe)水平更能预测脑葡萄糖代谢。我们进行了一项回顾性病例系列分析,纳入了11例在遗传性代谢与神经精神病诊所接受治疗、主诉有记忆问题的成年经典苯丙酮尿症/高苯丙氨酸血症患者,整理了血液生化和临床[F]氟脱氧葡萄糖正电子发射断层扫描([F]FDG PET)的病例记录数据。计算每个血样的Phe:Tyr比值,并汇总为每位患者的历史平均Phe:Tyr比值(Phe:Tyr)和Phe:Tyr比值的历史标准差(SD-Phe:Tyr)。对[F]FDG PET的视觉分析显示,8例患者存在葡萄糖代谢减低的异质性模式。在一个大的簇中,[F]FDG PET标准化摄取值与Phe呈负相关,峰值位于右侧顶上小叶。在Phe:Tyr和SD-Phe:Tyr中观察到更大的负相关簇,涵盖大脑大部分区域,峰值位于额叶。我们的病例系列分析为血液生物标志物与脑葡萄糖代谢减低之间的关联提供了进一步证据。对于有记忆问题的患者,历史平均血液Phe:Tyr比值及其随时间的标准差似乎比Phe更能反映整体脑葡萄糖代谢。