Author:
Jung Cha-Gyun,Kato Reiko,Zhou Chunyu,Abdelhamid Mona,Shaaban Esraa Ibrahim A.,Yamashita Hitoshi,Michikawa Makoto
Abstract
AbstractGlobal warming is a serious public health threat to people worldwide. High body temperature is one of the important risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the body temperature of AD patients has been found to be significantly higher than that of elderly control subjects. However, the effects of high body temperature on cognitive function and AD pathologies have not been completely elucidated. We report here that Tg2576 mice housed at a high ambient temperature of 30 °C for 13 months showed an increase in the body temperature, which is accompanied by memory impairment and an enhancement of amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) generation through the upregulation of β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) level and decrease in the level of an Aβ-degrading enzyme, neprilysin (NEP) in the brain, compared with those of Tg2576 mice at 23 °C. High body temperature also increased the levels of heat shock proteins (HSPs), stress-stimulated kinases such as JNK, and total tau, leading to the enhancement of tau phosphorylation at 30 °C. Taken together, our findings suggest that high body temperature exacerbates cognitive function and AD pathologies, which provides a mechanistic insight for its prevention.
Funder
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C
MEXT-Supported program for Strategic Research Foundation at private universities
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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