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Role of toll-like receptor signalling in A uptake and clearance

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Tahara, K., Kim, H.-D., Jin, J.-J., Maxwell, J. A., Li, L., Fukuchi, K.-i.·2006·Brain

Abstract

Deposits of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in neuritic plaques and cerebral vessels are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Fibrillar Abeta deposits are closely associated with inflammatory responses such as activated microglia in brain with this disease. Increasing lines of evidence support the hypothesis that activated microglia, innate immune cells in the CNS, play a pivotal role in the progression of the disease: either clearing Abeta deposits by phagocytic activity or releasing cytotoxic substances and pro-inflammatory cytokines. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of pattern-recognition receptors in the innate immune system. Exogenous and endogenous TLR ligands activate microglia. To investigate the role of TLR4 in the amyloidogenesis in vivo, we determined the amounts of cerebral Abeta in Alzheimer's disease mouse models with different genotypes of TLR4 using three distinct methods. We show that mouse models (Mo/Hu APPswe PS1dE9 mice) homozygous for a destructive mutation of TLR4 (Tlr(Lps-d)/Tlr(Lps-d)) had increases in diffuse and fibrillar Abeta deposits by immunocytochemistry, fibrillar Abeta deposits by thioflavine-S staining and buffer-soluble and insoluble Abeta by ELISA in the cerebrum, as compared with TLR4 wild-type mouse models. Although the differences in these parameters were less significant, mouse models heterozygous for the mutation (Tlr(Lps-d)/) showed co-dominant phenotypes. Consistent with these observations in vivo, cultured microglia d…

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Authors
Tahara, K., Kim, H.-D., Jin, J.-J., Maxwell, J. A., Li, L., & Fukuchi, K.-I.
Affiliations
  • Peoria campus of the University of Illinois System (US)
  • University of Alabama (US)
Corresponding author
Tahara, K.
Venue
Brain
Published
2006-09-29
Volume
129
Issue
11
Pages
3006-3019
ISSN
  • 0006-8950 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-2156
OpenAlex
W2155965284
Cited by
493
References
12
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FWCI
13.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Brain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Hewlett-Packard Development Company
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (R21AG025949, AG025949)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS 43947, R01NS043947)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
Keywords
TLR4, amyloid-beta, Alzheimer's disease, microglia, amyloid clearance, innate immunity, APP/PS1 mice, TLR9 ligands, TLR2 ligands, neuroinflammation, therapeutic target
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Brain, Cells, Cultured, Disease Models, Animal, Genotype, Ligands, Mutation, Peptide Fragments, Blotting, Western, Signal Transduction, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Microglia, Toll-Like Receptor 4, Toll-Like Receptor 9, Mice, Presenilin-1

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