Cited by 144Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatmentsNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

3D Culture Method for Alzheimer's Disease Modeling Reveals Interleukin-4 Rescues Aβ42-Induced Loss of Human Neural Stem Cell Plasticity

Open access
Papadimitriou, Christos, Celikkaya, Hilal, Cosacak, Mehmet I., Mashkaryan, Violeta, Bray, Laura, Bhattarai, Prabesh, Brandt, Kerstin, Hollak, Heike +12 more·2018·Developmental Cell

Published version of a preprint

Abstract

Neural stem cells (NSCs) constitute an endogenous reservoir for neurons that could potentially be harnessed for regenerative therapies in disease contexts such as neurodegeneration. However, in Alzheimer's disease (AD), NSCs lose plasticity and thus possible regenerative capacity. We investigate how NSCs lose their plasticity in AD by using starPEG-heparin-based hydrogels to establish a reductionist 3D cell-instructive neuro-microenvironment that promotes the proliferative and neurogenic ability of primary and induced human NSCs. We find that administration of AD-associated Amyloid-β42 causes classical neuropathology and hampers NSC plasticity by inducing kynurenic acid (KYNA) production. Interleukin-4 restores NSC proliferative and neurogenic ability by suppressing the KYNA-producing enzyme Kynurenine aminotransferase (KAT2), which is upregulated in APP/PS1dE9 mouse model of AD and in postmortem human AD brains. Thus, our culture system enables a reductionist investigation of regulation of human NSC plasticity for the identification of potential therapeutic targets for intervention in AD.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.06.005

Cites

116 of 116 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Aβ42 is responsible for the loss of neural plasticity, similar to that observed in Alzheimer's disease.

    “They demonstrated that Aβ42 was responsible for the loss of neural plasticity, similar to that observed in AD (Figure 2B).”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Papadimitriou, C., Celikkaya, H., Cosacak, M. I., Mashkaryan, V., Bray, L., Bhattarai, P., Brandt, K., Hollak, H., Chen, X., He, S., Antos, C. L., Lin, W., Thomas, A. K., Dahl, A., Kurth, T., Friedrichs, J., Zhang, Y., Freudenberg, U., Werner, C., & Kizil, C.
Affiliations
  • Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (DE)
  • Queensland University of Technology (AU)
  • ShanghaiTech University (CN)
  • Center for Molecular Bioengineering (DE)
  • Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials (DE)
Venue
Developmental Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-07
Volume
46
Issue
1
Pages
85-101.e8
ISSN
1534-5807 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2811290140
Cited by
143
References
116
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
5.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Developmental Cell (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DZNE Pub (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Helmholtz Association (VH-NG-1021)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (AN797/4–1, CRC-TR67, KI1524/10, KI1524/11, KI1524/6, SFB655)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (–310117)
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, neural stem cells, amyloid-beta 42, IL-4, kynurenic acid, 3D cell culture, neurogenesis, APP/PS1 mice, regenerative therapy
MeSH terms
Cell Plasticity, Adult, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Transaminases, Animals, Brain, Cells, Cultured, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Humans, Kynurenic Acid, Male, Mice, Transgenic, Middle Aged, Neurons, Transcriptional Activation, Interleukin-4, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Cell Proliferation, Mice, Neurogenesis, Young Adult, Neural Stem Cells

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review