Regional Membrane Phospholipid Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease |
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Authors: | Prasad M. Renuka Lovell Mark A Yatin Mustafa Dhillon Harbhajan Markesbery William R. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0084;(2) Chemistry, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky;(3) Department of Surgery, Aging University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky;(4) Chemistry, Pathology, Neurology, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky |
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Abstract: | Regional levels of membrane phospholipids [phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylcholine (PC)] were measured in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and control subjects. The levels of PE-derived and PI-derived total fatty acids were significantly decreased in the hippocampus of AD subjects. Here significant decreases were found in PE-derived stearic, oleic and arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids, and in PI-derived oleic and arachidonic acids. In the inferior parietal lobule of AD subjects, significant decreases were found only in PE and those decreases were contributed by stearic, oleic and arachidonic acids. In the superior and middle temporal gyri and cerebellum of AD subjects, no significant decreases were found in PC-, PE- and PI-derived fatty acids. The decrease of PE and PI, which are rich in oxidizable arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids, but not of PC, which contains lesser amounts of these fatty acids, suggests a role for oxidative stress in the increased degradation of brain phospholipids in AD. |
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Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease phospholipids phosphatidylcholine phosphatidylethanolamine phosphatidylinositol free fatty acids |
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