Zidong Li, Lu Miao, Tianyi Zhang, Aline M Thomas, Shen Li
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Abstract
Background and purpose: The aim was to investigate the causal relationships of inflammatory cytokines and serum metabolites in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD).
Methods: Bidirectional Mendelian randomization was first conducted to screen inflammatory cytokines and serum metabolites that were associated with imaging features of CSVD, including white matter hyperintensities, recent small subcortical infarcts, cortical cerebral microinfarcts, cerebral microbleeds, lacunes and enlarged perivascular spaces. Sensitivity analyses were performed to evaluate the robustness and pleiotropy of these results. Subsequently, inflammatory cytokines and serum metabolites that were associated with CSVD were subjected to functional enrichment. Finally, mediation analysis was employed to investigate whether inflammatory cytokines or serum metabolites acted as an intermediary for the other in their causal relationship with CSVD.
Results: Of the inflammatory cytokines, five were risk factors (e.g., tumour-necrosis-factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) and five (e.g., fibroblast growth factor 19) were protective factors for CSVD. Eleven serum metabolites that increased CSVD risk and 13 metabolites that decreased CSVD risk were also identified. The majority of these markers of CSVD susceptibility were lipid metabolites. Natural killer cell receptor sub-type 2B4 was determined to act as a mediating factor of an unidentified metabolite for the enlargement of perivascular spaces.
Conclusion: Several inflammatory cytokines and serum metabolites had causal relationships with imaging features of CSVD. A natural killer cell receptor mediated in part the promotional effect of a metabolite on perivascular space enlargement.
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The European Journal of Neurology is the official journal of the European Academy of Neurology and covers all areas of clinical and basic research in neurology, including pre-clinical research of immediate translational value for new potential treatments. Emphasis is placed on major diseases of large clinical and socio-economic importance (dementia, stroke, epilepsy, headache, multiple sclerosis, movement disorders, and infectious diseases).