Noradrenergic sympathetic sprouting and cholinergic reinnervation maintains non-amyloidogenic processing of AβPP.
Noradrenergic sympathetic sprouting and cholinergic reinnervation maintains non-amyloidogenic processing of AβPP.
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DOI:
10.3233/jad-130608
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发表时间:
2014
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
McMahon LL
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作者:
Nelson AR;Kolasa K;McMahon LL
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, hyperphosphorylated tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and cholinergic dysfunction. Cholinergic degeneration can be mimicked in rats by lesioning cholinergic neurons in medial septum. Hippocampal cholinergic denervation disrupts retrograde transport of nerve growth factor (NGF), leading to its accumulation, which subsequently triggers sprouting of noradrenergic sympathetic fibers from the superior cervical ganglia into hippocampus. Previously we reported that coincident with noradrenergic sprouting is the partial reinnervation of hippocampus with cholinergic fibers, and the maintenance of a M1 mAChR dependent long-term depression at CA3-CA1 synapses that is lost in the absence of sprouting. These findings suggest that sympathetic sprouting and the accompanying cholinergic reinnervation maintains M1 mAChR function. Interestingly, noradrenergic sympathetic and cholinergic sprouting have been demonstrated in AD postmortem human brain. Furthermore, M1 mAChRs have been a recent focus as a therapeutic target for AD given their role in cognition and non-amyloidogenic processing of amyloid beta-protein precursor (AβPP). Here we tested the hypothesis that noradrenergic sympathetic sprouting and the associated increase in cholinergic innervation maintains non-amyloidogenic AβPP processing that is dependent upon M1 mAChRs. Also, we investigated the effect of intrahippocampal Aβ42 infusion on noradrenergic sympathetic and cholinergic sprouting. We found that Aβ42 is not only toxic to central cholinergic fibers innervating hippocampus but prevents and reverses noradrenergic sympathetic sprouting and the accompanying cholinergic reinnervation. These findings reiterate the clinical implications of sprouting as an innate compensatory mechanism and emphasize the importance of M1 mAChRs as an AD therapeutic target.
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
McCoy, P. A.;McMahon, L. L.
通讯作者:
McMahon, L. L.