Journal
BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1630, Issue -, Pages 225-240Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.11.007
Keywords
American football; Cognitive decline; Traumatic brain injury; Blood-brain barrier; Serum markers
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health [R01NS078307, R01NS43284, R41MH093302, R21NS077236, R42MH093302, UH3TR000491, R21HD057256]
- American Heart Association [13SDG13950015]
- Brain Behavior Research Foundation
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R21HD057256] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES [UH3TR000491, UH2TR000491] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R42MH093302, R41MH093302] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS043284, R21NS077236, R01NS078307] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [P30AG013846] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Repetitive traumatic brain injury (rTBI) is one of the major risk factors for the abnormal deposition of phosphorylated tau (PT) in the brain and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) affect the limbic system, but no comparative studies on PT distribution in TLE and CTE are available. It is also unclear whether PT pathology results from repeated head hits (rTBI). These gaps prevent a thorough understanding of the pathogenesis and clinical significance of PT, limiting our ability to develop preventative and therapeutic interventions. We quantified PT in TLE and CTE to unveil whether a history of rTBI is a prerequisite for PT accumulation in the brain. Six postmortem CTE (mean 73.3 years) and age matched control samples were compared to 19 surgically resected TLE brain specimens (4 months-58 years; mean 27.6 years). No history of TBI was present in TLE or control; all CTE patients had a history of rTBI. TLE and GTE brain displayed increased levels of PT as revealed by immunohistochemistry. No age-dependent changes were noted, as PT was present as early as 4 months after birth. In TLE and GTE, cortical neurons, perivascular regions around penetrating pial vessels and meninges were immunopositive for PT; white matter tracts also displayed robust expression of extracellular PT organized in bundles parallel to venules. Microscopically, there were extensive tau-immunoreactive neuronal, astrocytic and degenerating neurites throughout the brain. In GTE perivascular tangles were most prominent. Overall, significant differences in staining intensities were found between GTE and control (P<0.01) but not between GTE and TLE (P=0.08). pS199 tau analysis showed that GTE had the most high molecular weight tangle-associated tau, whereas epileptic brain contained low molecular weight tau. Tau deposition may not be specific to rTBI since TLE recapitulated most of the pathological features of GTE. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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