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JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
Volume 136, Issue 4, Pages 815-825Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13413
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; astrocyte; microglia; neural stem cells; neuroinflammation; TLR4
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- Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [81201502, 81200934, 81470351, 81571655]
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Inflammatory processes are considered to play an important role in the progression of neurodegenerative changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD). A number of studies have reported that inflammatory processes are highly correlated with cognitive deficits in AD-like mice. Transplantation of neural stem cells (NSCs) has been considered as a potential new therapy for the treatment of AD because of its effects in improving cognitive ability. However, NSCs have not been evaluated for their protective effects against inflammatory changes in AD. Here, we injected NSCs into amyloid precursor protein (APP)/PS1 transgenic mice to analyse cognitive function and to measure glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ionized calcium-binding adaptor molecule-1 (Iba-1) and toll-like receptors 4(TLR4) activation. We also quantified TLR-4 pathway-related agents, A concentration and the levels of proinflammatory mediators. Our results showed that in NSC-injected APP/PS1 mice, activation of GFAP, Iba-1, TLR4 and TLR4 pathway-related agents (MyD88, TRIF, P38 MAPK and NF-B P65) were significantly decreased with decreased expression of proinflammatory mediators (IL-1, IL-6, TNF- and PGE2). These changes were associated with the amelioration of cognitive deficits, but no difference was found in A concentration. Our results provide novel evidence that NSC transplantation in APP/PS1 mice significantly improved cognitive deficits and was accompanied by the attenuation of inflammatory injury via suppression of glial and TLR4-mediated inflammatory pathway activation. Our data indicate that these pathways may potentially be important therapeutic targets to prevent or delay AD.
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