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CELL REPORTS
Volume 37, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110158
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In neurodegenerative diseases, non-neuronal responses have been recognized as important players in disease progression. Through single-cell RNA sequencing in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, distinct transcriptional states were identified in oligodendrocytes and the impact of Trem2 deletion on microglial responses was explored, highlighting the complex interplay between different cell types in Alzheimer's disease pathology.
Non-neuronal responses in neurodegenerative disease have received increasing attention as important contributors to disease pathogenesis and progression. Here we utilize single-cell RNA sequencing to broadly profile 13 cell types in three different mouse models of Alzheimer disease (AD), capturing the effects of tau-only, amyloid-only, or combined tau-amyloid pathology. We highlight microglia, oligodendrocyte, astrocyte, and T cell responses and compare them across these models. Notably, we identify two distinct transcriptional states for oligodendrocytes emerging differentially across disease models, and we determine their spatial distribution. Furthermore, we explore the impact of Trem2 deletion in the context of combined pathology. Trem2 knockout mice exhibit severely blunted microglial responses to combined tau and amyloid pathology, but responses from non-microglial cell types (oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and T cells) are relatively unchanged. These results delineate core transcriptional states that are engaged in response to AD pathology, and how they are influenced by a key AD risk gene, Trem2.
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