NPTX2 and Alzheimer disease: Recently, the chitinase family of inflammatory proteins, particularly chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1, YKL-40, or HC gp-39), chitinase 3-like 2 (CHI3L2 or YKL-39), and pentraxin II (NPTX2 or Narp), a member of the pentraxin family, has been associated with AD pathogenesis [21, 22].