期刊
NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
卷 62, 期 -, 页码 62-72出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2013.09.005
关键词
Cortical; Glutamatergic; Neuron; Human; Pluripotent; Stem cell; Amyloid beta; Alzheimer's disease; In vitro model
资金
- CIRM Award [TG2-01164]
- CIRM grant [RT2-02022]
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is among the most prevalent forms of dementia affecting the aging population, and pharmacological therapies to date have not been successful in preventing disease progression. Future therapeutic efforts may benefit from the development of models that enable basic investigation of early disease pathology. In particular, disease-relevant models based on human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) may be promising approaches to assess the impact of neurotoxic agents in AD on specific neuronal populations and thereby facilitate the development of novel interventions to avert early disease mechanisms. We implemented an efficient paradigm to convert hPSCs into enriched populations of cortical glutamatergic neurons emerging from dorsal fore-brain neural progenitors, aided by modulating Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling. Since AD is generally known to be toxic to glutamatergic circuits, we exposed glutamatergic neurons derived from hESCs to an oligomeric prefibrillar forms of A beta known as globulomers, which have shown strong correlation with the level of cognitive deficits in AD. Administration of such A beta oligomers yielded signs of the disease, including cell culture age-dependent binding of A beta and cell death in the glutamatergic populations. Furthermore, consistent with previous findings in postmortem human AD brain, A beta-induced toxicity was selective for glutamatergic rather than GABAeric neurons present in our cultures. This in vitro model of cortical glutamatergic neurons thus offers a system for future mechanistic investigation and therapeutic development for AD pathology using human cell types specifically affected by this disease. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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