Cited by 412Gut microbiota and healthAlzheimer's disease research and treatmentsDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Alzheimer’s disease microbiome is associated with dysregulation of the anti-inflammatory p-glycoprotein pathway

Open access
Haran, John P., Bhattarai, Shakti K., Foley, Sage E., Dutta, Protiva, Ward, Doyle V., Bucci, Vanni, McCormick, Beth A.·2019·mBio

Abstract

Studies of the intestinal microbiome and AD have demonstrated associations with microbiome composition at the genus level among matched cohorts. We move this body of literature forward by more deeply investigating microbiome composition via metagenomics and by comparing AD patients against those without dementia and with other dementia types. We also exploit machine learning approaches that combine both metagenomic and clinical data. Finally, our functional studies using stool samples from elders demonstrate how the c microbiome of AD elders can affect intestinal health via dysregulation of the P-glycoprotein pathway. P-glycoprotein dysregulation contributes directly to inflammatory disorders of the intestine. Since AD has been long thought to be linked to chronic bacterial infections as a possible etiology, our findings therefore fill a gap in knowledge in the field of AD research by identifying a nexus between the microbiome, loss of intestinal homeostasis, and inflammation that may underlie this neurodegenerative disorder.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1128/mbio.00632-19

Cites

67 of 67 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The AppNL-F and AppNL-G-F alleles impact the gut microbiome in ways that link to cognitive performance.

    “Collectively, these results suggest that the AppNL-F and AppNL-G-F alleles impact the gut microbiome in ways that link to cognitive performance, and support the hypothesis that AD risk alleles may elicit their impact on cognition at least in part by altering the microbiome’s contribution to neurophysiology49–52.”

    From Integrated analysis of behavioral, epigenetic, and gut microbiome analyses in AppNL-G-F, AppNL-F, and wild type mice (2021) · cites this paper as [52]

    The Results section reports that gut microbiome composition distinguishes older adults with Alzheimer’s disease from those without dementia, supporting a general microbiome–dementia association. It does not examine the AppNL-F or AppNL-G-F alleles or show that those alleles alter the microbiome in ways linked to cognitive performance. (LLM, conf=0.81)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • AD risk alleles may elicit their impact on cognition at least in part by altering the microbiome's contribution to neurophysiology.

    “Collectively, these results suggest that the AppNL-F and AppNL-G-F alleles impact the gut microbiome in ways that link to cognitive performance, and support the hypothesis that AD risk alleles may elicit their impact on cognition at least in part by altering the microbiome’s contribution to neurophysiology49–52.”

    From Integrated analysis of behavioral, epigenetic, and gut microbiome analyses in AppNL-G-F, AppNL-F, and wild type mice (2021) · cites this paper as [52]

    The Introduction and Discussion link the gut microbiome to Alzheimer’s disease and describe a possible pathway through intestinal inflammation, supporting the broad microbiome–neurophysiology hypothesis. But the paper compares elders by dementia status; it does not show that AD risk alleles alter the microbiome or that allele-driven changes affect cognitive performance. (LLM, conf=0.84)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Recent studies have shown dramatic changes in the GM of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and schizophrenia.

    “Furthermore, recent studies have shown dramatic changes in the GM of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and schizophrenia (73–77).”
  • A relevant contribution of gut microbiota is not restricted to neuroinflammatory and psychiatric disorders but also extends to brain development.

    “Moreover, a relevant contribution of gut microbiota is not only restricted to neuroinflammatory and psychiatric disorders (23–32) but also to brain development (13).”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Haran, J. P., Bhattarai, S. K., Foley, S. E., Dutta, P., Ward, D. V., Bucci, V., & McCormick, B. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (US)
Corresponding author
Haran, John P.
Venue
mBio
Published
2019-06-25
Volume
10
Issue
3
ISSN
  • 2150-7511 (ISSN-L)
  • 2161-2129
OpenAlex
W2944552216
Cited by
412
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 45 · 2025: 62 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 74 · 2022: 77 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 5
FWCI
14.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • mBio (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network (American Medical Association) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1R15AI112985-01A1)
  • National Science Foundation (1458347)
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK056754)
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute on Aging (1R03AG056356-01, 1K23AG057790-01A1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, gut microbiota, P-glycoprotein, anti-inflammatory pathways, intestinal inflammation, intestinal homeostasis, chronic bacterial infection, dementia, metagenomics, machine learning, older adults, gut-brain axis
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Machine Learning, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Bacteria, Dementia, Epithelial Cells, Feces, Female, Homeostasis, Humans, Inflammation, Intestines, Male, Prospective Studies, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Metagenomics, Dysbiosis

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review