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The Knight ADRC has supported many investigators at Washington University and at other institutions over the years. We wish to avoid the situation where two investigators study the same research question to avoid duplication of effort and potential conflict. To determine if your topic has already been studied with our resources, please search our database. If you find that your topic or a related topic has been submitted, you may wish to contact the investigator to inquire about their findings to determine how you might proceed. You may wish to collaborate or modify your request to avoid overlap. The results below reflect requests made since online requests have been accepted. As such, not all fields will have data as certain information, such as aims, were not collected until recently. If an entry has been assigned an ID number (e.g. T1004), the full request has been submitted and is either approved, disapproved or in process. If an entry has no ID number, then it represents a submission that has not yet been reviewed. Search terms are applied across an entire requests application including variables not displayed below. A more specific, detailed search may yield better results depending upon your needs.


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Investigator: Nicolas Barthelemy

Project Title: CSF MTBR-tau243: a fluid biomarker to track tau pathology across the AD continuum

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2120

Aim 1: Validation of novel AD fluid biomarkers to track tau tangles in brain

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Investigator: Matthew Pase

Project Title: Comparing plasma neuroinflammatory markers between 16 fasting and 16 non-fasting patient samples

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2117

Aim 1: To compare plasma neuroinflammatory markers between fasting and non-fasting patient samples. We will measure levels of YKL-40, GFAP, and sCD14 in fasting and non-fasting samples obtained from 8 healthy controls and 8 dementia patients (16 participants, 32 samples total).

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Investigator: Ynagyang Song

Project Title: Associatinos between life-span cognitive reserve and subtypes of Neuropsychological performance, Structural Brain Changes

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2119

Aim 1: aim to examine whether life-span cognitive conserve is associated with subtypes of cognitive trajectories and brain structure

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Investigator: P. De Jager, D. Bennett

Project Title: AMP AD diverse brain profiling project

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2118

Aim 1: Generate bulk RNAseq profile from BA9, anterior caudate, and superior temporal gyrus

Aim 2: Generate Whole Genome Sequence Data frpm BA9

Aim 3: Generate TMT-based shotgun proteomic profile of BA9

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Investigator: Konrad Talbot

Project Title: Treating Alzheimer�s Disease by Reducing Brain Insulin Resistance with Incretin Receptor Agonists

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2116

Aim 1: To quantify insulin responsiveness of the hippocampal formation (HF) from normal, MCI, and AD cases, test signaling responses of the HF from those cases to 1 and 10 nM insulin using an ex vivo insulin stimulation method validated for postmortem cases with PMIs less than 14 hours.

Aim 2: To test the ability of antidiabetics known as incretin receptor agonists (IRAs) to reduce known insulin resistance in the HF from MCI and AD cases by comparing the insulin responsiveness of the HF from such cases with or without IRA pretreatment using the ex vivo insulin stimulation method.

Aim 3: To test biochemical changes induced by IRAs that may account for their ability to reduce insulin resistance in the HF from MCI and AD cases based on preliminary data from ex vivo insulin stimulation experiments.

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Investigator: Erin H. Norris

Project Title: Investigation of a prothrombotic state in AD patient plasma: Monitoring plasma contact system activation in AD pathophysiology

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T1306-B

Aim 1: Analysis of plasma contact system activation from large cohort of age- and sex-matched individuals diagnosed as non-demented (ND) or AD.

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Investigator: Suzanne Schindler

Project Title: A blood test for symptomatic Alzheimer disease: Part 2

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2111

Aim 1: Completion of fasting plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 dataset.

Aim 2: Comparison of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 in fasted and non-fasted samples.

Aim 3: Expansion of dataset with non-fasted plasma with prioritization of samples from racial minorities.

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Investigator: Yuna Ayala

Project Title: Determining the mechanism of TDP-43 aggregate seeding and propagation

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2112

Aim 1: Measure the seeding activity of human brain-derived pathological TDP-43 using different in vitro assays

Aim 2: Generate a model of TDP-43 aggregate seeding and propagation in vivo

Aim 3: Determine the role of TDP-43 aggregate seed origin and propagation pattern in neurodegeneration in a mouse model

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Investigator: Carlos Cruchaga

Project Title: Single cell and spatial transcriptomics of Alzheimer�s Disease brains

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2110

Aim 1: Aim 1: To study the cell type-specific transcriptomic changes in AD brains

Aim 2: Aim 2: To perform spatial transcriptomic analyses.

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Investigator: Wesley Horton

Project Title: Inflammatory Markers for Early Detection and Subtyping of Neurodegenerative and Mood Disorders Tissue Request to Washington University ADRC

Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Request ID: T2109

Aim 1: Determine the relationship of inflammatory markers in CSF and Plasma to clinical observations [Biomarker Signature Development]

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