降低乙化对大脑损伤具有神经保护作用
Min-Kyoo Shin1, Edwin Vázquez-Rosa1, Yeojung Koh1
1Harrington Discovery Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Geriatric Psychiatry, GRECC, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center; Cleveland, OH, USA; Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Cell
|April 14, 2021
概括
创伤性脑损伤 (TBI) 触发了乙化,这是阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 的关键标志物. 针对这一过程可以预防TBI诱导的神经退行,并作为诊断生物标志物.
科学领域:
- 神经科学
- 生物化学
- 病理学
背景情况:
- 创伤性脑损伤 (TBI) 是阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 的重要危险因素.
- 这可能是神经退行性疾病的标志.
- 关联TBI与AD类病理的特定分子途径需要阐明.
研究的目的:
- 调查TBI诱导乙化的分子机制.
- 确定TBI诱导的乙烯化是否是一种潜在的治疗标.
- 探索TBI,乙烯和阿尔茨海默病进展之间的联系.
主要方法:
- 使用TBI的小鼠模型来检查tau乙化.
- 研究S-nitrosylated-GAPDH,Sirtuin1和p300/CBP在TBI诱导的乙烯化中的作用.
- 评估神经行为结果和测量大脑和血液中的ac-tau水平.
主要成果:
- 在人类AD大脑中发现的部位诱导tau乙化 (ac-tau).
- 通过非激活Sirtuin1和激活p300/ CBP,增加神经元活动,S- 基化- GAPDH调解了这一过程.
- 针对GAPDHS-化,p300/CBP或Sirtuin1的干预措施可以防止TBI诱导的神经退行和ac-tau积累.
- 发现AC-tau在TBI后的血液中积累.
- 在有TBI病史的患者中,AD大脑中的ac- tau增加进一步升高.
结论:
- 在阿尔茨海默病病理学中,TBI诱导了一种特定的乙烯化形式.
- 作为TBI的潜在治疗标和血液生物标志物,
- 药理上抑制p300/ CBP与AD和TBI的发病率降低有关.
- 这项研究突出了TBI和AD之间的潜在病理趋同.
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