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ArticleBrain communications2026

Distinct brain extracellular vesicle microRNA profiles differ in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Joseph Morgan, Toby Aarons, Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Gemma Lace

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Article in Brain communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Joseph MorganTranslational Medicine Laboratory, Biomedical Research and Innovations Centre, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4NT, United Kingdom.
Toby AaronsTranslational Medicine Laboratory, Biomedical Research and Innovations Centre, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4NT, United Kingdom.
Arijit MukhopadhyayTranslational Medicine Laboratory, Biomedical Research and Innovations Centre, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4NT, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1089-7179
Gemma LaceTranslational Medicine Laboratory, Biomedical Research and Innovations Centre, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4NT, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4819-3625

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Abstract

Dementia is a syndrome caused by various diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with an estimated global prevalence of 60 million individuals. Recently, therapeutic development in the dementia field has accelerated, with the introduction of monoclonal antibody therapeutics such as Lecanemab and Donanemab. However, AD and FTD patients are still either diagnosed too late to benefit from available therapies or are misdiagnosed due to the clinical overlap between dementia subgroups making therapeutic intervention challenging. This highlights a real need to improve early diagnostic tools of neurodegenerative disease (ND) biomarkers. A potential source of such biomarkers come from small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), groups of cell-derived, lipid-bound assemblies with the capability to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and known to carry pathogenic proteins associated with AD and FTD. A known cargo of sEVs is microRNA (miRNA), regulatory molecules that post-transcriptionally silence gene expression including transcripts of autophagic systems, processes which dysfunction in dementia-causing diseases leading to toxic aggregate build-up, causing neurodegeneration. The targeting of functional machineries in macroautophagy (MA) and chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) by different miRNA may vary between AD and FTD mutations, leading to potential biomarkers of disease being highlighted. Through isolating sEVs from the frontal cortex of post-mortem brain tissue of AD, FTD-

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