Peripheral molecular messages – cytokines and stress hormones – in the context of cognitive aging phenotypes: healthy ageing/depression/dementia

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Over last years, the world’s aging populations are rising rapidly, and the phenotypes of cognitive insufficiency, such as old age, depression and dementia, are increasing. Search for approaches to discrimination between such phenotypes is extremely relevant. Current studies present compelling evidence of the key role of immune system (its peripheral compartment), and the stress response system in physiological brain health. Therefore, assessment of complex interactions between immune and neuroendocrine systems may be an effective way to differentiate between depression and early stages of dementia in elderly people. Our purpose was to reveal peripheral molecular messages, e.g., cytokines and stress hormones, in the context of cognitive impairment phenotypes: healthy old age/old age depression/dementia. Eighty elderly people were included into groups as follows: “Healthy ageing”, “Dementia”, “Depression”. Levels of certain cytokines: IL-6, IL-1β, TNFα, IFNγ, IL-10, and stress hormones (cortisol, ACTH, dopamine, noradrenaline, and adrenaline) were determined in blood plasma by ELISA. The intergroup differences were evaluated by the Kruskal-Wallis test with Conover-Inman post-hoc pairwise comparisons. For differential diagnostics between the groups of elderly people with varying grades of cognitive impairment, we used linear canonical discriminant analysis performed on the ranks. It has been shown that cognitive insufficiency phenotypes—old age depression and dementia—differ from the healthy ageing phenotype with their high peripheral levels of TNFα cytokine and low levels of IL-1β. The differences between depression in elderly and dementia included lower level of IL-10 in depression (lower than in “Healthy ageing”), and high IL-6 in dementia (compared to “Healthy ageing”). Evaluation of the hypothalamic-pituitary and sympatho-adreno-medullary axes hormones showed hyporesponsiveness of hypothalamic-pituitary axis, regardless of cognitive insufficiency phenotypes, along with activation of sympatho-adreno-medullary axis, i.e., high dopamine level in old age depression with dementia, and high adrenaline level in dementia, than in depression of elderly phenotype and healthy ageing. Such significant differences in the levels of molecular messages, i.e., cytokines and stress hormones among the old age person groups, enabled diagnostic efficacy of 87.5% to differentiate cognitive phenotypes of aging: healthy ageing, old age depression, and dementia.

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A. L. Burmistrova

Chelyabinsk State University

Email: burmal@csu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6462-9500

 PhD, MD (Medicine), Professor, Head, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and General Biology, Faculty of Biology 

454001, Russian Federation, Chelyabinsk, Bratiev Kashirinykh str., 129

Russian Federation

M. E. Cazaux

Chelyabinsk State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: kholodilina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5683-0597

Postgraduate Student, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and General Biology, Faculty of Biology 

454001, Russian Federation, Chelyabinsk, Bratiev Kashirinykh str., 129

Phone: 7 (919) 402-11-20 

Russian Federation

A. S. Alekseeva

Chelyabinsk State University

Email: 96_anya@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2524-8569

Postgraduate Student, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and General Biology, Faculty of Biology 

454001, Russian Federation, Chelyabinsk, Bratiev Kashirinykh str., 129

Russian Federation

Yu. Yu. Filippova

Chelyabinsk State University

Email: julse@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5041-6440

PhD (Biology), Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and General Biology, Faculty of Biology 

454001, Russian Federation, Chelyabinsk, Bratiev Kashirinykh str., 129

Russian Federation

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