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Limited Alzheimer-type neurodegeneration in experimental obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Moroz, Natalie, Tong, Ming, Longato, Lisa, Xu, Haiyan, de la Monte, Suzanne M.·2008·Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with brain insulin resistance and insulin deficiency, whereas Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with peripheral insulin resistance. This study assesses the degree to which T2DM causes AD-type neurodegeneration. In a C57BL/6 mouse model of obesity and T2DM, we characterized the histopathology, gene expression, and insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-receptor binding in temporal lobe. High fat diet (HFD) feeding for 16 weeks doubled mean body weight, caused T2DM, and marginally reduced mean brain weight. These effects were associated with significantly increased levels of tau, IGF-I receptor, insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1), IRS-4, ubiquitin, glial fibrillary acidic protein, and 4-hydroxynonenol, and decreased expression of beta-actin. HFD feeding also caused brain insulin resistance manifested by reduced BMAX for insulin receptor binding, and modestly increased brain insulin gene expression. However, HFD-fed mouse brains did not exhibit AD histopathology, increases in amyloid-beta or phospho-tau, or impairments in IGF signaling or acetylcholine homeostasis. Obesity and T2DM cause brain atrophy with insulin resistance, oxidative stress, and cytoskeleton degradation, but the absence of many features that typify AD suggests that obesity and T2DM may contribute to, but are not sufficient to cause AD.

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  • Insulin resistance, a hallmark of diabetes, develops in Alzheimer's brains.

    “Recent evidence suggests that insulin resistance, a hallmark of diabetes, develops in Alzheimer’s brains (, 2000; Craft et al., 1999; de la Monte, 2009; Moroz et al., 2008; Pedersen and Flynn, 2004; Razay and Wilcock, 1994; Watson and Craft, 2003).”

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Authors
Moroz, N., Tong, M., Longato, L., Xu, H., & de la Monte, S. M.
Affiliations
  • Brown University (US)
  • Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Clinical Neuroscience, Divisions of Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, and the Liver Research Center, Rhode Island Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Venue
Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
Published
2008-08-26
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
29-44
ISSN
  • 1387-2877 (ISSN-L)
  • 1875-8908
OpenAlex
W157753509
Cited by
151
References
71
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FWCI
7.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Charles H. Hood Foundation
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • National Institutes of Health (AA-02169, AA02666, AA-11431, 5r01aa011431-26)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA-02666, R01-AA011431, K24 AA016126, AA-12908, AA-02169, AA-16126, AA11431, R56AA011431, R01AA012908, R37AA002666, R37AA011431, R01AA002666)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes
MeSH terms
Actins, Aldehydes, Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Atrophy, Brain, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, Insulin Resistance, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Nerve Degeneration, Obesity, RNA, Messenger, Gene Expression, Amyloid beta-Peptides, DNA Primers, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Ubiquitin, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Mice, Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins

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