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Controlled Cortical Impact Traumatic Brain Injury in 3xTg-AD Mice Causes Acute Intra-Axonal Amyloid- Accumulation and Independently Accelerates the Development of Tau Abnormalities

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Tran, H. T., LaFerla, F. M., Holtzman, D. M., Brody, D. L.·2011·Journal of Neuroscience

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized pathologically by progressive neuronal loss, extracellular plaques containing the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau proteins. Aβ is thought to act upstream of tau, affecting its phosphorylation and therefore aggregation state. One of the major risk factors for AD is traumatic brain injury (TBI). Acute intra-axonal Aβ and diffuse extracellular plaques occur in ∼30% of human subjects after severe TBI. Intra-axonal accumulations of tau but not tangle-like pathologies have also been found in these patients. Whether and how these acute accumulations contribute to subsequent AD development is not known, and the interaction between Aβ and tau in the setting of TBI has not been investigated. Here, we report that controlled cortical impact TBI in 3xTg-AD mice resulted in intra-axonal Aβ accumulations and increased phospho-tau immunoreactivity at 24 h and up to 7 d after TBI. Given these findings, we investigated the relationship between Aβ and tau pathologies after trauma in this model by systemic treatment of Compound E to inhibit γ-secretase activity, a proteolytic process required for Aβ production. Compound E treatment successfully blocked posttraumatic Aβ accumulation in these injured mice at both time points. However, tau pathology was not affected. Our data support a causal role for TBI in acceleration of AD-related pathologies and suggest that TBI may independently affect Aβ and tau abnormalities. Future studies will be required to assess the behavioral and long-term neurodegenerative consequences of these pathologies.

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  • Many animal studies show increased production and accumulation of amyloid precursor protein (APP), Aβ, and pathological tau following TBI.

    “Second, many animal studies show increased production and accumulation of amyloid precursor protein (APP), Aβ, and pathological tau following TBI (16, 21–28).”

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    The Results (page unavailable) show increased APP- and Aβ-stained axonal accumulations after TBI in 3xTg-AD mice, along with increased tau phosphorylation. This study therefore supports the sentence as one animal-study example, but it does not establish increased production of APP, Aβ, or tau after TBI. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Tran, H. T., LaFerla, F. M., Holtzman, D. M., & Brody, D. L.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
Venue
Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2011-06-29
Volume
31
Issue
26
Pages
9513-9525
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2029904352
Cited by
255
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Language
en
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  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
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  • Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Cure Alzheimer's Fund
  • National Institutes of Health (5k08ns049237-05)
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG013956, R37AG013956, AG13956, R01AG021982)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P30NS057105, R01NS065069, K08-NS049237)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Keywords
traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid-beta, tau phosphorylation, 3xTg-AD mice, controlled cortical impact, gamma-secretase inhibition, compound E, neurofibrillary tangles
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Analysis of Variance, Animals, Axons, Brain, Brain Injuries, Disease Models, Animal, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Immunohistochemistry, Mice, Transgenic, Blotting, Western, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Neurofibrillary Tangles, tau Proteins, Tauopathies, Mice

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