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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 677-686Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.03.016
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Alzheimer's disease; apolipoprotein E (apoE); dendritic plasticity; hippocampus; parvalbumin
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The apolipoprotein E genetic polymorphism, exerts a well described influence on Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, although the pathogenetic mechanism is still not clear. Increasing evidence points to a diminished neuroplasticity in apolipoprotein E epsilon 4-allele carriers. But, alternatively or additionally, developmental differences in dendritic geometry may be associated with the polymorphism. We morphometrically examined the dendritic ramification of CA1 Parvalbumin-positive GABAergic hippocampal neurons (n = 571) in matched pairs of aged non-demented individuals with different apolipoprotein E genotype. We chose Parvalbumin-positive interneurons since they lack potentially confounding AD-like cytoskeletal changes. To minimize the risk of transneuronal dendritic changes due to significant deafferentation we focused on non-demented individuals. In this chosen paradigm, neither the disease-associated apolipoprotein E e4-allele nor the apolipoprotein E epsilon 2-allele had a significant impact on dendritic shape when compared to the most common allelic variant apolipoprotein E epsilon 3/3. At least with respect to the studied cell type, the data suggest that the apolipoprotein E polymorphism, does not modulate the original formation of dendrites in vivo, contrary to conclusions drawn from in vitro studies on neurite outgrowth. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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