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Normal aging, motor neurone disease, and Alzheimer's disease are characterized by cortical changes in inflammatory cytokines

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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 100, Issue 2, Pages 653-669

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24996

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease; cytokine; fibroblast growth factor 2; human; motor neurone disease; postmortem; RRID; AB_221448; RRID; AB_2636877; RRID; AB_2732856; RRID; AB_2732857; RRID; AB_2811722; RRID; AB_354307; RRID; AB_869005; RRID; SCR_002865

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  1. University of Adelaide HDR scholarship
  2. Macquarie University

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The study found that healthy aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases have different cortical inflammatory signatures, with healthy aging associated with decreased levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines and AD/MND patients associated with increased levels of specific cytokines.
The role of increased brain inflammation in the development of neurodegenerative diseases is unclear. Here, we have compared cytokine changes in normal aging, motor neurone disease (MND), and Alzheimer's disease (AD). After an initial analysis, six candidate cytokines, interleukin (IL)- 4, 5, 6, 10, macrophage inhibitory protein (MIP)-1 alpha, and fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-2, showing greatest changes were assayed in postmortem frozen human superior frontal gyri (n = 12) of AD patients, aging and young adult controls along with the precentral gyrus (n = 12) of MND patients. Healthy aging was associated with decreased anti-inflammatory IL-10 and FGF-2 levels. AD prefrontal cortex was associated with increased levels of IL-4, IL-5, and FGF-2, with the largest increase seen for FGF-2. Notwithstanding differences in the specific frontal lobe gyrus sampled, MND patients' primary motor cortex (precentral gyrus) was associated with increased levels of IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and FGF-2 compared to the aging prefrontal cortex (superior frontal gyrus). Immunocytochemistry showed that FGF-2 is expressed in neurons, astrocytes, and microglia in normal aging prefrontal cortex, AD prefrontal cortex, and MND motor cortex. We report that healthy aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases have different cortical inflammatory signatures that are characterized by increased levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines and call into question the view that increased inflammation underlies the development of age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

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