Transformation of non-neuritic into neuritic plaques during AD progression drives cortical spread of tau pathology via regenerative failure
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Published:2023-12-01
Issue:1
Volume:11
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ISSN:2051-5960
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Container-title:Acta Neuropathologica Communications
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language:en
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Short-container-title:acta neuropathol commun
Author:
Tsering Wangchen, Hery Gabriela P., Phillips Jennifer L., Lolo Kiara, Bathe Tim, Villareal Jonathan A., Ruan Isabelle Y., Prokop StefanORCID
Abstract
AbstractExtracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and intracellular aggregates of tau protein in form of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The exact mechanism how these two protein aggregates interact in AD is still a matter of debate. Neuritic plaques (NP), a subset of Aβ plaques containing dystrophic neurites (DN), are suggested to be unique to AD and might play a role in the interaction of Aβ and tau. Quantifying NP and non-NP in postmortem brain specimens from patients with increasing severity of AD neuropathological changes (ADNC), we demonstrate that the total number of Aβ plaques and NP increase, while the number of non-NP stagnates. Furthermore, investigating the correlation between NP and NFT, we identified unexpected brain region-specific differences when comparing cases with increasingly more severe ADNC. In neocortical regions NFT counts increase in parallel with NP counts during the progression of ADNC, while this correlation is not observed in hippocampus. These data support the notion that non-NP are transformed into NP during the progression of ADNC and indicate that NP might drive cortical NFT formation. Next, using spatial transcriptomics, we analyzed the gene expression profile of the microenvironment around non-NP and NP. We identified an upregulation of neuronal systems and Ca-dependent event pathways around NP compared to non-NP. We speculate that the upregulation of these transcripts may hint at a compensatory mechanism underlying NP formation. Our studies suggest that the transformation of non-NP to NP is a key event in ADNC progression and points to regenerative failure as a potential driving force of this process.
Funder
National Institute on Aging
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience,Neurology (clinical),Pathology and Forensic Medicine
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