Brendan P Lucey, Terry J Hicks, Jennifer S McLeland, Cristina D Toedebusch, Jill Boyd, Donald L Elbert, Bruce W Patterson, Jack Baty, John C Morris, Vitaliy Ovod, Kwasi G Mawuenyega, Randall J Bateman
Sleep disturbances are associated with future risk of Alzheimer disease. Disrupted sleep increases soluble amyloid β, suggesting a mechanism for sleep disturbances to increase Alzheimer disease risk. We tested this response in humans using indwelling lumbar catheters to serially sample cerebrospinal fluid while participants were sleep-deprived, treated with sodium oxybate, or allowed to sleep normally. All participants were infused with 13 C6 -leucine to measure amyloid β kinetics. We found that sleep deprivation increased overnight amyloid β38, amyloid β40, and amyloid β42 levels by 25 to 30% via increased overnight amyloid β production relative to sleeping controls...
January 2018: Annals of Neurology