Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22020907
Keywords
concussion; tau; adolescents; traumatic brain injury; CTE; microglia
Funding
- NIA NIH HHS [RF1 AG051506] Funding Source: Medline
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The study found that repetitive closed head injury (rCHI) did not accelerate tau pathology and did not worsen behavioral outcomes in adolescent mice. However, rCHI induced microgliosis in the cortex and hippocampus and astrocytosis in the corpus callosum of P301S mice by 40 days post-injury. There were no significant microgliosis or astrocytosis observed in age-matched WT mice or sham-injured P301S mice after rCHI.
Repetitive closed head injury (rCHI) is commonly encountered in young athletes engaged in contact and collision sports. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) including rCHI has been reported to be an important risk factor for several tauopathies in studies of adult humans and animals. However, the link between rCHI and the progression of tau pathology in adolescents remains to be elucidated. We evaluated whether rCHI can trigger the initial acceleration of pathological tau in adolescent mice and impact the long-term outcomes post-injury. To this end, we subjected adolescent transgenic mice expressing the P301S tau mutation to mild rCHI and assessed tau hyperphosphorylation, tangle formation, markers of neuroinflammation, and behavioral deficits at 40 days post rCHI. We report that rCHI did not accelerate tau pathology and did not worsen behavioral outcomes compared to control mice. However, rCHI induced cortical and hippocampal microgliosis and corpus callosum astrocytosis in P301S mice by 40 days post-injury. In contrast, we did not find significant microgliosis or astrocytosis after rCHI in age-matched WT mice or sham-injured P301S mice. Our data suggest that neuroinflammation precedes the development of Tau pathology in this rCHI model of adolescent repetitive mild TBI.
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