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Insulin and insulin-like growth factor expression and function deteriorate with progression of Alzheimer’s disease: Link to brain reductions in acetylcholine
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Reduced glucose utilization and energy metabolism occur early in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and correlate with impaired cognition. Glucose utilization and energy metabolism are regulated by insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), and correspondingly, studies have shown that cognitive impairment may be improved by glucose or insulin administration. Recently, we demonstrated significantly reduced levels of insulin and IGF-I polypeptide genes and their corresponding receptors in advanced AD relative to aged control brains. The abnormalities in gene expression were accompanied by impaired survival signaling downstream through PI3 kinase-Akt. The present work characterizes the abnormalities in insulin and IGF gene expression and receptor binding in brains with different Braak stage severities of AD. Realtime quantitative RT-PCR analysis of frontal lobe tissue demonstrated that increasing AD Braak Stage was associated with progressively reduced levels of mRNA corresponding to insulin, IGF-I, and IGF-II polypeptides and their receptors, tau, which is regulated by insulin and IGF-I, and the Hu D neuronal RNA binding protein. In contrast, progressively increased levels of amyloid beta protein precursor (AbetaPP), glial fibrillary acidic protein, and the IBA1/AIF1 microglial mRNA transcripts were detected with increasing AD Braak Stage. Impairments in growth factor and growth factor receptor expression and function were associated with increasing AD Braak stage dependent reductions in insulin, IGF-I, and IGF-II receptor binding, ATP levels, and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) expression. Further studies demonstrated that: 1) ChAT expression increases with insulin or IGF-I stimulation; 2) ChAT is expressed in insulin and IGF-I receptor-positive cortical neurons; and 3) ChAT co-localization in insulin or IGF-I receptor-positive neurons is reduced in AD. Together, these data provide further evidence that AD represents a neuro-endocrine disorder that resembles a unique form of diabetes mellitus (? Type 3) and progresses with severity of neurodegeneration.
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“Brain insulin signaling declines with age (Frolich et al., 1998; , 1999; Hoyer, 1998; Rivera et al., 2005), the primary risk factor for AD.”
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“levels of brain insulin and insulin receptors (IRs) are lower in AD (Frolich et al., 1998; Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“Compared to age-matched controls, patients with memory impairment had lower CSF insulin, impaired insulin-like signal transduction, insufficient brain insulin and insulin-like growth factor I expression and function, 44 and impaired glucose metabolism.”
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“Generally, insulin regulates glucose metabolism, whereas IGF-I exhibits the features of trophic factors (Cole and Frautschy, 2007; Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“In recent years, it has been accepted that AD is also a degenerative metabolic disease where the brain glucose uptake and utilization are impaired (Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“The progressive declines in brain expression of genes and proteins required for insulin signaling as well as evidence for increased insulin resistance with severity of AD led to the concept that AD is a form of brain diabetes mellitus, that is, type 3 diabetes [6,7].”
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“In the current study, the expression and functionality of insulin and its receptor were found to be depleted significantly in the ICV-STZ model, which might be the outcome of reduced acetylcholine level in the brain (Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“For instance, a brain that lost the ability to respond to glucose, insulin and/ or insulin-like growth factor (IGF), can easily suffer neuronal loss (Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“In previous studies, we used this approach to characterize cell loss and cell type shifts associated with disease states [30,35,36].”
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“tylcholine esterase did not change (Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“Systems with impaired insulin signaling pathways have demonstrated inhibition of acetylcholine biosynthesis and subsequently have incurred debilitating effects on neuronal plasticity [173, 174].”
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“Postmortem LOAD brains reveal a progressive decline in insulin and IR, as well as IGF and IGF-I receptor, mRNA levels (Rivera et al., 2005).”
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“On the other hand, consideration should be given to the rapidly growing literature supporting roles for insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-linked metabolic derangements, stress, and neuroinflammatory responses as mediators of AD and DLBD/Parkinson’s disease (PD; Mattson et al., 1999; Blass et al., 2002; Rive…”
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“Post-mortem studies have shown reduced IGF-I gene expression in AD brains (158, 159), and this was accompanied by resistance to signaling through the IGF-I receptor (158, 159).”
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“Recent evidence suggests that Alzheimer’s disease may be a brain specific form of diabetes [8].”
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“It has been reported that mRNA levels of IGF-1 were significantly decreased in the brain of severe AD patients, whereas serum IGF-1 levels were increased in early stages of the disease (Rivera et al., 2005; Vardy et al., 2007).”
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“These abnormalities were negatively correlated with global cognition and memory scores regardless of Aβ and Tau levels [16], suggesting that brain insulin resistance contributes to cognitive impairment independently from AD neuropathology [15].”
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“As neurodegenerative diseases progress, the insulin gene and the expression of IRS decrease significantly, establishing brain IR (Rivera et al., 2005; Sędzikowska and Szablewski, 2021).”
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Pharmacological Approaches Using Diabetic Drugs Repurposed for Alzheimer’s Disease
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“Additionally, studies have indicated that brain insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) resistance both play a large role in the development of AD [70,71], earning it the name type 3 diabetes.”
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Conquering Insulin Network Dysfunctions in Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Are We Today?
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“In AD, progressive declines in frontal and temporal lobe expression of all three trophic factors and their corresponding receptors correlate with Braak Stage severity of neurodegeneration [15], indicating that impaired insulin signaling is not the only neuroendocrine target in need of remediation.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rivera, E. J., Goldin, A., Fulmer, N., Tavares, R., Wands, J. R., & de la Monte, S. M.
- Affiliations
- Brown University (US)
- Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
- ORCID
- Wands, Jack R.
- Venue
- Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-12-05
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 247-268
- ISSN
- 1387-2877 (ISSN-L)
- 1875-8908
- OpenAlex
- W1718410121
- Cited by
- 723
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 46 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 43 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 51 · 2013: 42 · 2012: 43
- FWCI
- 8.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Alzheimer s Disease (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA12458, AA-02666, AA11931)
- National Institute on Aging (P50 AG05128, P50AG005128)
- National Center for Research Resources (P20RR 15578, P20RR015578)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, insulin
- MeSH terms
- Acetylcholine, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Alzheimer Disease, Apolipoproteins E, Brain, Choline O-Acetyltransferase, Cognition Disorders, Female, Genotype, Glucose, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Male, RNA, Messenger, Gene Expression, Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, tau Proteins, DNA Primers, Disease Progression, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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