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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 413-416Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05652.x
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CD11c; chimeric mice; diphtheria toxin receptor; glatiramer acetate; inflammation; neurodegeneration
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We have recently shown that the ability of microglia to effectively fight off aggregated beta-amyloid plaque formation and cognitive loss in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (Tg-AD), is augmented in response to T-cell-based immunization, using glatiramer acetate (GA). The immunization increases incidence of local CD11c(+) dendritic-like cells. It is unclear, however, whether these dendritic cells are derived from resident microglia or from the bone marrow. To determine the origin of this dendritic-cell population, we used chimeric mice whose bone marrow-derived cells express a transgene that allows the cells to be specifically ablated by diphtheria toxin. We show here that T-cell-based immunization of these mice, using GA, induced the recruitment of bone marrow-derived dendritic cells. Depletion of the dendritic cells by systemic injection of diphtheria toxin resulted in significantly increased formation of amyloid plaques. Thus, recruitment of bone marrow-derived dendritic cells evidently plays a role in reducing plaque formation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
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