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Mechanism of amyloid removal in patients with Alzheimer disease treated with gantenerumab

Ostrowitzki, Susanne·2012·Archives of Neurology

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BACKGROUND: Gantenerumab is a fully human anti-Aβ monoclonal antibody in clinical development for the treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether treatment with gantenerumab leads to a measurable reduction in the level of Aβ amyloid in the brain and to elucidate the mechanism of amyloid reduction. DESIGN: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, ascending-dose positron emission tomographic study. Additionally, ex vivo studies of human brain slices from an independent sample of patients who had AD were performed. SETTING: Three university medical centers. PATIENTS: Patients with mild-to-moderate AD. INTERVENTION: Two consecutive cohorts of patients received 2 to 7 infusions of intravenous gantenerumab (60 or 200 mg) or placebo every 4 weeks. Brain slices from patients who had AD were coincubated with gantenerumab at increasing concentrations and with human microglial cells. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Percent change in the ratio of regional carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B retention in vivo and semiquantitative assessment of gantenerumab-induced phagocytosis ex vivo. RESULTS: Sixteen patients with end-of-treatment positron emission tomographic scans were included in the analysis. The mean (95% CI) percent change from baseline difference relative to placebo (n = 4) in cortical brain amyloid level was -15.6% (95% CI, -42.7 to 11.6) for the 60-mg group (n = 6) and -35.7% (95% CI, -63.5 to -7.9) for the 200-mg group (n = 6). Two patients in the 200-mg group showed transient and focal areas of inflammation or vasogenic edema on magnetic resonance imaging scans at sites with the highest level of amyloid reduction. Gantenerumab induced phagocytosis of human amyloid in a dose-dependent manner ex vivo. CONCLUSION: Gantenerumab treatment resulted in a dose-dependent reduction in brain amyloid level, possibly through an effector cell-mediated mechanism of action.

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  • Gantenerumab can disassemble and degrade amyloid plaques by recruiting microglia and activating phagocytosis.

    “This antibody can disassemble and degrade amyloid plaques by recruiting microglia and activating phagocytosis [71,72].”
  • Several anti-Aβ monoclonal antibodies tested in clinical trials in AD patients significantly reduce load of fibrillar Aβ as demonstrated using PET Aβ imaging.

    “Several anti-Aβ monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been tested in clinical trials in AD patients and were found to significantly reduce load of fibrillar Aβ as demonstrated using PET Aβ imaging [5–8].”

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Authors
Ostrowitzki, S.
Affiliations
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (CH)
Corresponding author
Ostrowitzki, Susanne
Venue
Archives of Neurology
Published
2012-02-01
Volume
69
Issue
2
Pages
198
ISSN
0003-9942 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2118753807
Cited by
431
References
19
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FWCI
25.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Keywords
gantenerumab, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid-beta, anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies, phagocytosis, microglia, Pittsburgh compound B, dose-dependent effects, vasogenic edema
MeSH terms
Aged, Alzheimer Disease, Aniline Compounds, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Brain Chemistry, Cell Count, Double-Blind Method, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Immunoglobulin G, Injections, Intravenous, Male, Middle Aged, Phagocytosis, Thiazoles, Cohort Studies, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Microglia, Sample Size, Radiopharmaceuticals, Alzheimer Vaccines, Positron-Emission Tomography, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized

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