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Dr. J. James Frost

Loose Ends of the Alzheimer Disease Enigma

Updated: May 10



It begins to tie together several loose ends of the Alzheimer Disease enigma. The prevailing amyloid hypothesis posits that Aβ plaques are the major cause of AD. Indeed, two recent anti-amyloid drugs have been approved by the FDA – yet, with small, possibly insignificant, clinical benefit.




Other causative factors, including tau protein and inflammation via microglia activation, are drawing evermore increasing attention. The current article adds to the mix yet another hot scientific topic: the gut microbiome. The investigators demonstrate the relationship between the gut microbiota, tau, and brain inflammation in a mouse tauopathy model expressing ApoE3 and ApoE4. Strikingly, antibiotic manipulation of the gut microbiota resulted in a notable reduction in tau pathology and neurodegeneration, including milder hippocampal atrophy compared to controls and reduced phosphorylated tau protein. Short-chain fatty acids are suggested to mediate the sequence from neuroinflammation to neurodegeneration.


Is the human gut microbiota the central unexpected factor in Azheimer disease? Only time and newly focussed research will tell. PET imaging of tau, Aβ, and activated microglia can play an ever increasing role in this new endeavor as human gut microbiota manipulations and treatments are investigated. One wonders whether PET molecular imaging of the gut microbiome could be developed in this ever intriguing effort to solve the Azheimer disease problem.


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