Cerebrospinal fluid tau protein levels in demented and nondemented alcoholics

Yu Ichi Morikawa, Hiroyuki Arai, Sachio Matsushita, Motoichiro Kato, Susumu Higuchi, Masakazu Miura, Hisako Kawakami, Makoto Higuchi, Nobuyuki Okamura, Manabu Tashiro, Toshifumi Matsui, Hidetada Sasaki

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The tau protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF-tau) were examined in 27 patients with alcohol dependence (20 demented and 7 nondemented), 36 age and dementia severity-matched patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 23 age-matched normal control subjects. The CSF-tau levels in the demented alcoholic group (alcohol-induced organic brain disorders, 25.4 ± 10.2 pg/ml) was significantly lower (p < 0.0001) than that in the AD group (96.1 ± 53.3 pg/ml), but not significantly different from that in the nondemented alcoholics (18.1 ± 10.2 pg/ml) or the controls (19.2 ± 12.9 pg/ml). Using a 44.9 pg/ml as a cut-off value (mean + 2 SD of the normal control group), only one patient with alcohol-induced organic brain disorders exceeded the value, whereas 3 of 36 of the AD group showed CSF-tau levels less than this level. These findings suggest that alcohol-induced organic brain disorders are a group of dementias that are characterized by normal CSF-tau levels, and that the CSF examination for tau in combination with other clinical findings may help in differentiating alcohol-induced organic brain disorders from AD.

本文言語English
ページ(範囲)575-577
ページ数3
ジャーナルAlcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
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DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 1999 4月

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 医学(その他)
  • 毒物学
  • 精神医学および精神衛生

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