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A trial of gantenerumab or solanezumab in dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease

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Salloway, Stephen, Farlow, Martin, McDade, Eric, Clifford, David B., Wang, Guoqiao, Llibre-Guerra, Jorge J., Hitchcock, Janice M., Mills, Susan L. +62 more·2021·Nature Medicine

Abstract

Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD) causes predictable biological changes decades before the onset of clinical symptoms, enabling testing of interventions in the asymptomatic and symptomatic stages to delay or slow disease progression. We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-arm trial of gantenerumab or solanezumab in participants with DIAD across asymptomatic and symptomatic disease stages. Mutation carriers were assigned 3:1 to either drug or placebo and received treatment for 4-7 years. The primary outcome was a cognitive end point; secondary outcomes included clinical, cognitive, imaging and fluid biomarker measures. Fifty-two participants carrying a mutation were assigned to receive gantenerumab, 52 solanezumab and 40 placebo. Both drugs engaged their Aβ targets but neither demonstrated a beneficial effect on cognitive measures compared to controls. The solanezumab-treated group showed a greater cognitive decline on some measures and did not show benefits on downstream biomarkers. Gantenerumab significantly reduced amyloid plaques, cerebrospinal fluid total tau, and phospho-tau181 and attenuated increases of neurofilament light chain. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities edema was observed in 19.2% (3 out of 11 were mildly symptomatic) of the gantenerumab group, 2.5% of the placebo group and 0% of the solanezumab group. Gantenerumab and solanezumab did not slow cognitive decline in symptomatic DIAD. The asymptomatic groups showed no cognitive decline; symptomatic participants had declined before reaching the target doses.

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  • Prevention trials in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease have been helped by fluid and molecular PET biomarkers that measure treatment-related changes in AD pathology and neurodegeneration.

    “Prevention trials in DIAD have also been facilitated by fluid and molecular PET imaging biomarkers that allow for the measurement of treatment-related changes in AD pathologies and neurodegeneration.8”
  • Two articles reported the results of NCT03887455, and the other two reported the results of NCT01760005.

    “Two articles reported the results of NCT03887455 [43, 84], and the other two reported the results of NCT01760005 [53, 83].”
  • Both trials NCT03887455 and NCT01760005 had an overall low risk of bias.

    “Both trials (NCT03887455 and NCT01760005) had a overall low risk of bias [43, 53, 83, 84].”
  • In the DIAN-TU-001 trial, gantenerumab significantly reduced amyloid plaques, CSF total tau, and phospho-tau181 and attenuated increases in neurofilament light chain.

    “whereas gantenerumab significantly reduced amyloid plaques, CSF total tau, and phospho-tau181 and attenuated increases in neurofilament light chain [53].”
  • In the DIAN-TU-001 trial, solanezumab treatment did not exert any beneficial effects on downstream biomarkers.

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Salloway, S., Farlow, M., McDade, E., Clifford, D. B., Wang, G., Llibre-Guerra, J. J., Hitchcock, J. M., Mills, S. L., Santacruz, A. M., Aschenbrenner, A. J., Hassenstab, J., Benzinger, T. L. S., Gordon, B. A., Fagan, A. M., Coalier, K. A., Cruchaga, C., Goate, A. A., Perrin, R. J., Xiong, C., Li, Y., Morris, J. C., Snider, B. J., Mummery, C., Surti, G. M., Hannequin, D., Wallon, D., Berman, S. B., Lah, J. J., Jimenez-Velazquez, I. Z., Roberson, E. D., van Dyck, C. H., Honig, L. S., Sánchez-Valle, R., Brooks, W. S., Gauthier, S., Galasko, D. R., Masters, C. L., Brosch, J. R., Hsiung, G.-Y. R., Jayadev, S., Formaglio, M., Masellis, M., Clarnette, R., Pariente, J., Dubois, B., Pasquier, F., Jack, C. R., Koeppe, R., Snyder, P. J., Aisen, P. S., Thomas, R. G., Berry, S. M., Wendelberger, B. A., Andersen, S. W., Holdridge, K. C., Mintun, M. A., Yaari, R., Sims, J. R., Baudler, M., Delmar, P., Doody, R. S., Fontoura, P., Giacobino, C., Kerchner, G. A., Bateman, R. J., the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network–Trials Unit, Formaglio, M., Mills, S. L., Pariente, J., & van Dyck, C. H.
Affiliations
  • Brown University (US)
  • Indiana University School of Medicine (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University College London (GB)
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen (FR)
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
  • Emory University (US)
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • McGill University (CA)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (CA)
  • The University of Western Australia (AU)
  • Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (FR)
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille (FR)
  • Mayo Clinic (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • University of Rhode Island (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • Berry Consultants, LLC (United States) (US)
  • Eli Lilly (United States) (US)
  • F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (CH)
  • Hospices Civils de Lyon (FR)
Corresponding author
Bateman, Randall J.
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2021-06-21
Volume
27
Issue
7
Pages
1187-1196
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W3176983361
Cited by
359
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 25 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 74 · 2023: 79 · 2022: 96 · 2021: 13
FWCI
41.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U01AG042791, U01AG042791-S1, R01AG046179, R01AG053267-S1, U19AG032438)
  • Alzheimer’s Association
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
Keywords
gantenerumab, solanezumab, cognitive decline, amyloid plaques, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, tau protein, neurofilament light chain, amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, asymptomatic mutation carriers, early intervention
MeSH terms
Adult, Alzheimer Disease, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Placebos, Biomarkers, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Disease Progression, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized

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