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NATURE
Volume 451, Issue 7179, Pages 720-U5Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature06616
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG008487, P50 AG005134, R01 AG008487-20, P30 AG062421] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [P30 DK056341-08, P30 DK056341, P30 DK056341-07] Funding Source: Medline
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Senile plaques accumulate over the course of decades in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. A fundamental tenet of the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease is that the deposition of amyloid-beta precedes and induces the neuronal abnormalities that underlie dementia(1). This idea has been challenged, however, by the suggestion that alterations in axonal trafficking and morphological abnormalities precede and lead to senile plaques(2). The role of microglia in accelerating or retarding these processes has been uncertain. To investigate the temporal relation between plaque formation and the changes in local neuritic architecture, we used longitudinal in vivo multiphoton microscopy to sequentially image young APPswe/ PS1d9xYFP ( B6C3-YFP) transgenic mice(3). Here we show that plaques form extraordinarily quickly, over 24 h. Within 1-2 days of a new plaque's appearance, microglia are activated and recruited to the site. Progressive neuritic changes ensue, leading to increasingly dysmorphic neurites over the next days to weeks. These data establish plaques as a critical mediator of neuritic pathology.
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