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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 394-406Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.07.011
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Alzheimer's disease; Protein kinase C; T-cell activation; Flow cytometry
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- Italian MIUR-COFIN
- Italian MIUR-CEA
- G. d' Annunzio University
- Italian MIUR-FIRB
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The protein kinase C (PKC) family of enzymes is a regulator of transmembrane signal transduction, and involvement of some PKC isoforms in T-cell activation has been demonstrated. Nevertheless, very little is known about their involvement in the Amyloid beta (A beta)-dependent molecular signals in the T lymphocytes of Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the involvement of PKC-alpha, PKC-delta and PKC-zeta expression and activity in the signaling machinery activated in A beta-reactive T cells, in adult healthy individuals, elderly healthy subjects, and from patients with AD. The results show that in peripheral T-cells from early AD patients, A beta(1-42) produced a distinct subpopulation highly expressing P-PKC-delta, while in severe AD patients the same treatment induced two distinct P-PKC-delta and P-PKC-zeta T-cell subpopulations. Such subpopulations were not noticeable following CD3/CD28 treatment of the same samples or after treatment of peripheral T cells from healthy adult or elderly subjects with A beta(1-42) or with CD3/CD28. We believe that these findings may be of help in possible attempts to develop further diagnostic strategies useful for the characterization of AD. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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