Journal
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE REPORTS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 479-493Publisher
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/ADR-200238
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; APOE; Braak stage; human brain; incretins; insulin resistance; leptin; multiplex ELISA; neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation
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- National Institutes of Health [AA-011431, AA02 4018, AA-019072, AA-024092, HD-078515]
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Background: Brain insulin resistance and deficiency are well-recognized abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and likely mediators of impaired energy metabolism. Since apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a major risk factor for late-onset AD, it was of interest to examine its potential contribution to altered insulin-linked signaling networks in the brain. Objective: The main goal was to evaluate the independent and interactive contributions of AD severity and APOE epsilon 4 dose on brain expression of insulin-related polypeptides and inflammatory mediators of metabolic dysfunction. Methods: Postmortem fresh frozen frontal lobe tissue from banked cases with known APOE genotypes and different AD Braak stages were used to measure insulin network polypeptide immunoreactivity with a commercial multiplex enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Results: Significant AD Braak stage and APOE genotype-related abnormalities in insulin, C-peptide, gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), leptin, ghrelin, glucagon, resistin, and plasminogen activator inhibitor1 (PAI-1) were detected. The main factors inhibiting polypeptide expression and promoting neuro-inflammatory responses included AD Braak stage and APOE epsilon 4/epsilon 4 rather than epsilon 3/epsilon 4. Conclusion: This study demonstrates an expanded role for impaired expression of insulin-related network polypeptides as well as neuroinflammatory mediators of brain insulin resistance in AD pathogenesis and progression. In addition, the findings show that APOE has independent and additive effects on these aberrations in brain polypeptide expression, but the impact is decidedly greater for APOE epsilon 4/epsilon 4 than epsilon 3/epsilon 4.
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