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Age-dependent decrease in glutamine synthetase expression in the hippocampal astroglia of the triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease mouse model: mechanism for deficient glutamatergic transmission?

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Title
Age-dependent decrease in glutamine synthetase expression in the hippocampal astroglia of the triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease mouse model: mechanism for deficient glutamatergic transmission?
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Molecular Neurodegeneration, July 2011
DOI 10.1186/1750-1326-6-55
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Markel Olabarria, Harun N Noristani, Alexei Verkhratsky, José J Rodríguez

Abstract

Astrocytes are fundamental for brain homeostasis and the progression and outcome of many neuropathologies including Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the triple transgenic mouse model of AD (3xTg-AD) generalised hippocampal astroglia atrophy precedes a restricted and specific β-amyloid (Aβ) plaque-related astrogliosis. Astrocytes are critical for CNS glutamatergic transmission being the principal elements of glutamate homeostasis through maintaining its synthesis, uptake and turnover via glutamate-glutamine shuttle. Glutamine synthetase (GS), which is specifically expressed in astrocytes, forms glutamine by an ATP-dependent amination of glutamate. Here, we report changes in GS astrocytic expression in two major cognitive areas of the hippocampus (the dentate gyrus, DG and the CA1) in 3xTg-AD animals aged between 9 and 18 months. We found a significant reduction in Nv (number of cell/mm3) of GS immunoreactive (GS-IR) astrocytes starting from 12 months (28.59%) of age in the DG, and sustained at 18 months (31.65%). CA1 decrease of GS-positive astrocytes Nv (33.26%) occurs at 18 months. This Nv reduction of GS-IR astrocytes is paralleled by a decrease in overall GS expression (determined by its optical density) that becomes significant at 18 months (21.61% and 19.68% in DG and CA1, respectively). GS-IR Nv changes are directly associated with the presence of Aβ deposits showing a decrease of 47.92% as opposed to 23.47% in areas free of Aβ. These changes in GS containing astrocytes and GS-immunoreactivity indicate AD-related impairments of glutamate homeostatic system, at the advanced and late stages of the disease, which may affect the efficacy of glutamatergic transmission in the diseased brain that may contribute to the cognitive deficiency.

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Germany 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 184 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 21%
Researcher 26 14%
Student > Master 26 14%
Student > Bachelor 26 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Other 27 14%
Unknown 35 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 58 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 2%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 47 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 September 2023.
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#2,912,405
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Outputs of similar age from Molecular Neurodegeneration
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