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MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 84, Issue 1-2, Pages 135-140Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00168-6
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aging; Alzheimer's disease; locus coeruleus; tyrosine hydroxylase; norepinephrine transporter; in situ; locus coeruleus lesion
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- NIA NIH HHS [AGO0503, AGO5136] Funding Source: Medline
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the loss of locus coeruleus (LC) noradrenergic neurons in Alzheimer's disease (AD), cerebrospinal fluid norepinephrine (NE) levels are normal or increased in AD. This paradox suggests compensatory upregulation of NE synthetic capacity or downregulation of the NE transporter (NET) in the remaining LC neurons. LC tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) mRNA expression in the LC was measured in AD subjects (,n=5) and in age and,gender. comparable,non-demented subjects (n=6). When AD subjects were divided into those still ambulatory prior to death (CDR 3/4) and those in a prolonged ivegetative' state prior to death (CDR 5), differences among groups became apparent at specific levels of the LC. In CDR 3/4 AD subjects there was increased TH mRNA expression per neuron compared to non-demented subjects in the caudal half of the LC. However, expression of NET mRNA in the same subjects was not significantly different at any level of the LC. These preliminary results suggest an upregulation of NE biosynthetic capacity in at least some LC neurons in AD prior to the very late stage of the disease. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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