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Neuroinflammation predicts disease progression in progressive supranuclear palsy
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  • Published on: 20 April 2021
    Treatment for patients with progressive supranuclear palsy

    Malpetti et al. examined neuroinflammation in subcortical regions for predicting clinical progression in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (1). Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied for the analysis, and neuroinflammation and tau burden in the brainstem and cerebellum significantly correlated with the subsequent annual rate of change in the score of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale. Namely, PCA-derived [11C]PK11195 positron emission tomography (PET) markers of neuroinflammation and tau pathology significantly correlated with regional brain volume, but MRI volumes alone did not predict the clinical progression. I present some information with special reference to treatment strategies.

    As there are no modifiable lifestyle factors to suppress progression of PSP (2), keeping quality of life by symptom-controlling medications has been recommended. Morgan et al. reported that symptomatic medications, most often for parkinsonism and depression, were prescribed for 87% of patients with PSP, whose satisfaction was poor in most cases (3). Although there have been no effective neuroprotective therapies and/or disease-modifying agents for patients with tauopathies and synucleinopathies, Jabbari et al. recently identified that genetic variation at the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) locus was significantly associated with survival in PSP, which might be based on the effect of long noncoding RNA on LRRK2 expression (4). As LRRK2 is associ...

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