Abstract
Semantic dementia (SD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with impaired vocabulary that progresses to memory impairment. Post-mortem immunohistochemical analysis is the current reliable method of differentiating TDP-43 deposits in cortical tissue; no means of antemortem diagnosis exists in biofluids, let alone in plasma. Here the multimer detection system (MDS) was used to quantify the oligomeric TDP-43 (o-TDP-43) concentrations in plasma of Korean SD patients (n=16, 6 male, 10 female, ages 59-87). The o-TDP-43 concentrations were compared with the total TDP-43 (t-TDP-43) concentrations quantified through conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Only MDS showed a significant increase in o-TDP-43 concentrations in the plasma of patients with SD compared to other neurodegenerative disorders and normal controls (p<0.05). Based on these results, o-TDP-43 concentrations through the application of MDS may be a useful plasma biomarker in SD-FTD (frontotemporal dementia) diagnosis.
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