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NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 1287-1297Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1023/B:NERE.0000023615.89699.63
Keywords
aging; Alzheimer's disease; angiogenesis; brain transcription; hippocampus; neuroinflammation; pentraxin; cellular phospholipase A2
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG18031] Funding Source: Medline
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While specific components of normal brain aging and Alzheimer's disease ( AD) appear to be genetically determined, it is not well understood whether AD is due to accelerated aging or if AD represents an independent disease entity superimposed upon senescence. Using gene expression pro. ling, significant alterations in brain-specific transcription patterns have been observed between AD and age-matched controls. In AD, although a general depression in brain genetic output has been reported, there are robust increases in the expression of potentially neuropathological genes. The data in this study show increases in the RNA abundance patterns for a stress-response, proinflammatory, apoptotic, and angiogenic gene family that occur during the transition from fetal to aged, and again during the transformation from aged to AD brain. Significantly upregulated RNAs include those encoding stress-induced factors (HSP70), transcriptional repressors (DAXX), pentraxins (SAP), proapoptosis factors (FAS and DAXX), and several inflammatory markers (betaAPP, CEX1, NF-IL6, NF-kappaBp100, cyclooxygenase-2, IL-1alpha and IL-1beta precursors and cPLA(2)). These findings support the hypothesis that there is a continuum of stress-related gene expression as the brain ages and an advancement of inflammatory, apoptotic, and angiogenic gene signaling that correlates with the transition to AD.
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