Neurofilament Light Chain, Plasma

CPT: 83520
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Special Instructions

This test may exhibit interference when sample is collected from a person who is consuming a supplement with a high dose of biotin (also termed as vitamin B7 or B8, vitamin H, or coenzyme R). It is recommended to ask all patients who may be indicated for this test about biotin supplementation. Patients should be cautioned to stop biotin consumption at least 72 hours prior to the collection of a sample.


Expected Turnaround Time

1 - 3 days


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Neurofilament Light Chain White Paper


Specimen Requirements


Specimen

EDTA plasma


Volume

1 mL


Minimum Volume

0.7 mL (Note: This volume does not allow for repeat testing.)


Container

Lavender-top (EDTA) tube


Collection

Separate plasma and transfer specimen to a plastic transport tube.


Storage Instructions

Room temperature


Stability Requirements

Temperature

Period

Room temperature

14 days

Refrigerated

14 days

Frozen

14 days

Freeze/thaw cycles

Stable x3


Test Details


Use

This test is used for the measurement of the level of Neurofilament Light Chain in plasma.


Limitations

This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by Labcorp. It has not been cleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

There are significant variations in measured plasma NfL levels among different methods and labs. Care must be taken when interpreting results obtained in different studies.

Direct comparisons of absolute values can only be done on the same source fluid (plasma or serum).1

A rise in NfL is not specific for a specific disease factor and may be caused by both neurodegenerative diseases or a head impact during sports. Results should only be used in conjunction with other clinical information when evaluating patients with neurodegeneration. Due to a lack of specificity to a particular neurodegenerative disease, its role as a diagnostic marker is limited.

There are numerous demographic, life style, and comorbidity factors that potentially influence NfL levels in plasma. Variables such as exercise,2 blood volume, body mass index may impact measured plasma NfL levels.

NfL levels measured in the morning are more than 10% higher than those measured in the evening.3,4

Caution should be taken in interpreting NfL levels when disease treatment induced neurological complications that can potentially impact NfL levels.5,6

Plasma NfL levels can be decreased in patients with high immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels.

Higher concentrations of NfL may be found in persons with history of stroke, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, chronic kidney disease, pregnancy, and diabetes.

Lower concentrations of NfL may be found in individuals who are obese (BMI > or =30).


Methodology

Roche Diagnostics Electrochemiluminescence Immunoassay (ECLIA)


Reference Interval

See table.

Age (y)

(pg/mL)

0 to 4 y

<1.97

5 to 9 y

<1.64

10 to 14 y

<1.43

15 to 19 y

<1.60

20 to 29 y

<1.65

30 to 39 y

<1.88

40 to 49 y

<2.14

50 to 59 y

<3.79

60 to 69 y

<4.62

70 to 79 y

<7.65

>79 y

<11.56


Additional Information

Neurofilament proteins are protein polymers measuring 10 nm in diameter and many micrometers in length that, together with microtubules and microfilaments, form the neuronal cytoskeleton.7,8 These proteins are also prominent components of abnormal intra-neuronal aggregates in varied neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington disease (HD).9 Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is constantly released from neurons into the extracellular space and ultimately reaches the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) under physiological conditions. CSF NfL concentrations can increase in neurodegeneration and neuronal injury across a wide range of neurologic diseases. Plasma NfL (pNfL) levels in healthy individuals are about 2.5% of the levels in CSF and correlate highly with the concentrations in CSF.1,10-14 pNfL levels rise above normal in response to neuronal injury and neurodegeneration independent of cause.15

pNfL levels are increased in early relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) and have been shown to correlate with markers of disease severity.3,10,16-24 In some reports, pNfL has been able to detect MS disease activity earlier than routine MRI25 and before clinical MS onset of disease.17,26,27 In patients with confirmed relapsing or progressive MS, pNfL can predict short-term outcomes including clinical and cognitive performance10,17,22,28 as well as predicting long-term worsening and risk of developing progressive MS.29 Treatment with disease modifying therapy has been reported to be associated with lower pNfL levels compared to untreated individuals.10,17,18,25,30,31 Increased pNfL levels can indicate neurotoxicity after hematopoietic stem cell transplant in multiple sclerosis.5

The application of pNfL as a potential biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been extensively investigated.9,11,32-39 pNfL levels have been shown to be higher in patients with mild cognitive impairment and patients with AD compared with healthy controls.40,41 Moreover, higher pNfL levels have been associated with cognitive decline in non-dementia older adults.42 Elevated NfL levels have been associated with the presence of amyloid-beta plaques in pre-symptomatic individuals and with the load of tau in symptomatic patients.36 Increased pNfL levels have also been associated with AD progression independent of amyloid-beta.43 pNfL levels have been shown to correlate with Braak staging in AD44 and normal pNfL levels have been linked with resistance to PS1 familial AD in apolipoprotein E3 (APOE3) Christchurch mutation.45

In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), elevated pNfL levels have been observed up to 3.5 years before symptom onset with the extent to which the elevation of NfL occurs prior to symptoms related to the specific gene mutation causing the disease.46,47 Levels of NfL have been shown to have excellent diagnostic and prognostic performance for symptomatic patients with ALS.48-52

pNfL levels reflect cortical neurodegeneration from the very early stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) and have been shown to track the underlying pathological process leading to PD dementia.16,53-59 Higher baseline NfL levels were also associated with greater motor and cognitive decline after a follow-up period of 3 years in patients with PD.16,54,55 pNfL levels correlated with disease severity and levels reflect cortical neurodegeneration from the very early stages of PD.54 In advanced PD patients, pNfL concentrations are associated with motor function, cognitive decline and subclinical cardiac damage.60

In HD, pNfL levels were significantly higher in patients than in healthy controls and significantly higher in manifest HD than pre-manifest HD.61-63 Increased pNfL levels were found in young adult carriers of HD gene mutation approximately 24 years before the clinical onset of symptoms.64

In frontotemporal dementia (FD), pNfL levels were found to be significantly higher than in healthy controls with the elevations correlating with disease severity.65 Increased pNfL levels were observed 1 to 2 years before the clinical onset of symptoms in patients with FD.66 In patients diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), pNfL levels were found to be about 2-fold higher than in healthy controls with the elevations correlating with disease severity.67 pNfL levels were found to be a superior predictor of cognitive decline compared to age, sex and baseline severity variables in DLB.67 In patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy, pNfL levels were about 2-fold higher in patients than in healthy controls and levels correlated with disease severity.68-70 pNfL levels were also found to be significantly elevated in acquired peripheral neuropathy with levels that correlated not only with disease severity but also with outcome.71 pNfL levels also declined with remission.72

Increased levels of pNfL have been reported in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).73-77 pNfL levels are higher in all patients suffering from concussion compared to healthy controls. Sports-related concussion has specifically been associated with higher levels of pNfL.77

In the acute and post-acute phase after stroke, high pNfL levels are associated with poor clinical outcome and positively correlate with secondary neurodegeneration as assessed by MRI.78

Hereditary transthyretin-mediated (ATTRv) amyloidosis: NfL has been studied as a biomarker for the polyneuropathy (PN) caused by ATTRv amyloidosis. Plasma and serum NfL levels are increased in patients with the PN of ATTRv amyloidosis and have been demonstrated to correlate with disease severity.79-83 Treatment with therapeutics targeting ATTRv amyloidosis has been reported to decrease NfL levels significantly, while an increase was observed in placebo-treated patients.79,84


Footnotes

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3. Thebault S, Booth RA, Rush CA, MacLean H, Freedman MS. Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Measurement in MS: Hurdles to Clinical Translation. Front Neurosci. 2021 Mar 25;15:654942.33841093
4. Benedict C, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Cedernaes J. Effects of acute sleep loss on diurnal plasma dynamics of CNS health biomarkers in young men. Neurology. 2020 Mar 17;94(11):e1181-e1189.31915189
5. Thebault S, Lee H, Bose G, et al. Neurotoxicity after hematopoietic stem cell transplant in multiple sclerosis. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2020 May;7(5):767-775.32304358
6. Dalla Costa G, Martinelli V, Moiola L, et al. Serum neurofilaments increase at progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy onset in natalizumab-treated multiple sclerosis patients. Ann Neurol. 2019 Apr;85(4):606-610.30761586
7. Yuan A, Nixon RA. Neurofilament Proteins as Biomarkers to Monitor Neurological Diseases and the Efficacy of Therapies. Front Neurosci. 2021 Sep 27;15:689938.34646114
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19. Novakova L, Zetterberg H, Sundström P, et al. Monitoring disease activity in multiple sclerosis using serum neurofilament light protein. Neurology. 2017 Nov 28;89(22):2230-2237.29079686
20. Kuhle J, Barro C, Disanto G, et al. Serum neurofilament light chain in early relapsing remitting MS is increased and correlates with CSF levels and with MRI measures of disease severity. Mult Scler. 2016 Oct;22(12):1550-1559.26754800
21. Szilasiová J, Mikula P, Rosenberger J, et al. Plasma neurofilament light chain levels are predictors of disease activity in multiple sclerosis as measured by four-domain NEDA status, including brain volume loss. Mult Scler. 2021 Nov;27(13):2023-2030.33635154
22. Jakimovski D, Kuhle J, Ramanathan M, et al. Serum neurofilament light chain levels associations with gray matter pathology: a 5-year longitudinal study. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2019 Sep;6(9):1757-1770.31437387
23. Benkert P, Meier S, Schaedelin S, et al. Serum neurofilament light chain for individual prognostication of disease activity in people with multiple sclerosis: a retrospective modelling and validation study. Lancet Neurol. 2022 Mar;21(3):246-257.35182510
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25. Akgün K, Kretschmann N, Haase R, et al. Profiling individual clinical responses by high-frequency serum neurofilament assessment in MS. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2019 Apr 8;6(3):e555.31119188
26. Bjornevik K, Munger KL, Cortese M, et al. Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Levels in Patients With Presymptomatic Multiple Sclerosis. JAMA Neurol. 2020 Jan 1;77(1):58-64.31515562
27. van der Vuurst de Vries RM, Wong YYM, Mescheriakova JY, et al. High neurofilament levels are associated with clinically definite multiple sclerosis in children and adults with clinically isolated syndrome. Mult Scler. 2019 Jun;25(7):958-967.29774770
28. Filippi P, Vestenická V, Siarnik P, et al. Neurofilament light chain and MRI volume parameters as markers of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2020 Apr;41(1):17-26.32338853
29. Thebault S, Abdoli M, Fereshtehnejad SM, Terssier D, Tabard-Cossa V, Freedman MS. Serum neurofilament light chain predicts long term clinical outcomes in multiple sclerosis. Sci Rep. 2020 Jun 25;10(1):10381.32587320
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35. Preische O, Schultz SA, Apel A, et al. Serum neurofilament dynamics predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Nat Med. 2019 Feb;25(2):277-283.30664784
36. Benedet AL, Leuzy A, Pascoal TA, et al. Stage-specific links between plasma neurofilament light and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Brain. 2020;143(12):3793-3804.33210117
37. Sugarman MA, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, et al. A longitudinal examination of plasma neurofilament light and total tau for the clinical detection and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2020 Oct;94:60-70.32585491
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68. Sandelius Å, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, et al. Plasma neurofilament light chain concentration in the inherited peripheral neuropathies. Neurology. 2018 Feb 6;90(6):e518-e524.29321234
69. Millere E, Rots D, Simrén J, et al. Plasma neurofilament light chain as a potential biomarker in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Eur J Neurol. 2021 Mar;28(3):974-981.33340200
70. Rossor AM, Kapoor M, Wellington H, et al. A longitudinal and cross-sectional study of plasma neurofilament light chain concentration in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2022 Mar;27(1):50-57. Epub 2021 Dec 9.34851050
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72. Bischof A, Manigold T, Barro C, et al. Serum neurofilament light chain: a biomarker of neuronal injury in vasculitic neuropathy. Ann Rheum Dis. 2018 Jul;77(7):1093-1094.28743789
73. Nimer F, Thelin E, Nyström H, et al. Comparative Assessment of the Prognostic Value of Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain Injury Reveals an Independent Role for Serum Levels of Neurofilament Light. PLoS One. 2015 Jul 2;10(7):e0132177.26136237
74. Shahim P, Zetterberg H, Tegner Y, Blennow K. Serum neurofilament light as a biomarker for mild traumatic brain injury in contact sports. Neurology. 2017 May 9;88(19):1788-1794.28404801
75. Shahim P, Politis A, van der Merwe A, et al. Neurofilament light as a biomarker in traumatic brain injury. Neurology. 2020 Aug 11;95(6):e610-e622.32641538
76. Shahim P, Politis A, van der Merwe A, et al. Time course and diagnostic utility of NfL, tau, GFAP, and UCH-L1 in subacute and chronic TBI. Neurology. 2020 Aug 11;95(6):e623-e636.32641529
77. Karantali E, Kazis D, McKenna J, Chatzikonstantinou S, Petridis F, Mavroudis I. Neurofilament light chain in patients with a concussion or head impacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2022 Jun;48(3):1555-1567. Epub 2021 May 18.34003313
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79. Ticau S, Sridharan GV, Tsour S, et al. Neurofilament Light Chain as a Biomarker of Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis. Neurology. 2021 Jan 19;96(3):e412-e422.33087494
80. Kapoor M, Foiani M, Heslegrave A, et al. Plasma neurofilament light chain concentration is increased and correlates with the severity of neuropathy in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2019 Dec;24(4):314-319.31583784
81. Maia LF, Maceski A, Conceicao I, et al. Plasma neurofilament light chain: an early biomarker for hereditary ATTR amyloid polyneuropathy. Amyloid. 2020 Jun;27(2):97-102.31906707
82. Louwsma J, Brunger AF, Bijzet J, et al. Neurofilament light chain, a biomarker for polyneuropathy in systemic amyloidosis. Amyloid. 2021 Mar;28(1): 50-55.32883119
83. Luigetti M, Di Paolantonio A, Guglielmino V, et al. Neurofilament light chain as a disease severity biomarker in ATTRv: data from a single‑centre experience. Neurol Sci. 2022 Apr;43(4):2845-2848.35094171
84. Aldinc E, Polydefkis M, Nienhuis H, et al. NfL Levels Significantly Decrease in Response to Treatment with Patisiran or Vutrisiran in hATTR Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy. Abstract presented at 147th Annual meeting of the American Neurological Association (ANA); October 2022; Chicago, IL.

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140555 NfL, Plasma 101281-4 140556 NfL, Plasma pg/mL 101281-4

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