A meta-analysis investigating the relationship between inflammation in autoimmune disease, elevated CRP, and the risk of dementia

J Cooper, Y Pastorello, M Slevin - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) represents the most common type of dementia and is becoming a
steadily increasing challenge for health systems globally. Inflammation is develo** as the …

C-reactive protein: the most familiar stranger

SR Ji, SH Zhang, Y Chang, HY Li, MY Wang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - journals.aai.org
C-reactive protein (CRP) is a highly conserved pentraxin with pattern recognition receptor–
like activities. However, despite being used widely as a clinical marker of inflammation, the …

Vascular injury is associated with repetitive head impacts and tau pathology in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

D Kirsch, A Shah, E Dixon, H Kelley… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease linked to repetitive
head impacts (RHI) and characterized by perivascular hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) …

Monomeric C-reactive protein: current perspectives for utilization and inclusion as a prognostic indicator and therapeutic target

M Slevin, N Heidari, L Azamfirei - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Monomeric C-reactive protein (mCRP), once thought to be a figment of the imagination and
whose biological activity was ascribed to its sodium azide preservative, has now …

Monomeric C‐reactive protein: a novel biomarker predicting neurodegenerative disease and vascular dysfunction

Y Pastorello, RO Carare, C Banescu… - Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Circulating C‐reactive protein (pCRP) concentrations rise dramatically during both acute
(eg, following stroke) or chronic infection and disease (eg, autoimmune conditions such as …

Transcranial Electromagnetic Treatment Stops Alzheimer's Disease Cognitive Decline over a 2½-Year Period: A Pilot Study

G Arendash, H Abulaban, S Steen, R Andel, Y Wang… - Medicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: There is currently no therapeutic that can stop or reverse the progressive
memory impairment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, we recently published that 2 …

Evidence of genetic overlap and causal relationships between blood-based biochemical traits and human cortical anatomy

DJ Kiltschewskij, WR Reay, MJ Cairns - Translational Psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia are commonly associated with structural brain
alterations affecting the cortex. Recent genetic evidence suggests circulating metabolites …

Monomeric C-reactive protein as a biomarker for major depressive disorder

MG Hornick, LA Potempa - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation has been postulated to be a key factor in the pathogenesis of major
depressive disorder (MDD). With this is mind, there has been a wave of research looking …

Pentameric C-reactive protein is a better prognostic biomarker and remains elevated for longer than monomeric CRP in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

FR Hopkins, J Nordgren, R Fernandez-Botran… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The differing roles of the pentameric (p) and monomeric (m) C-reactive protein (CRP)
isoforms in viral diseases are not fully understood, which was apparent during the COVID-19 …

Structurally altered, not wild-type, pentameric C-reactive protein inhibits formation of amyloid-β fibrils

DN Ngwa, A Agrawal - The Journal of Immunology, 2022 - journals.aai.org
The structure of wild-type pentameric C-reactive protein (CRP) is stabilized by two calcium
ions that are required for the binding of CRP to its ligand phosphocholine. CRP in its …