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Differential effects of chronic immunosuppression on behavioral, epigenetic, and Alzheimer's disease-associated markers in 3xTg-AD mice

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ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13195-020-00745-9

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Alzheimer's disease; 3xTg-AD mice; Autoimmunity; Cyclophosphamide; T lymphocytes; Autoantibodies; Amyloid-beta; Tau; BDNF; Histone variants; Sex

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  1. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [PJT-149031]
  2. Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)

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Immunosuppression in 3xTg-AD mice prevented certain AD pathology features in males and maintained AD-like phenotype in females. This suggests a potential key role of autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of AD.
Background Circulating autoantibodies and sex-dependent discrepancy in prevalence are unexplained phenomena of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using the 3xTg-AD mouse model, we reported that adult males show early manifestations of systemic autoimmunity, increased emotional reactivity, enhanced expression of the histone variant macroH2A1 in the cerebral cortex, and loss of plaque/tangle pathology. Conversely, adult females display less severe autoimmunity and retain their AD-like phenotype. This study examines the link between immunity and other traits of the current 3xTg-AD model. Methods Young 3xTg-AD and wild-type mice drank a sucrose-laced 0.4 mg/ml solution of the immunosuppressant cyclophosphamide on weekends for 5 months. After behavioral phenotyping at 2 and 6 months of age, we assessed organ mass, serologic markers of autoimmunity, molecular markers of early AD pathology, and expression of genes associated with neurodegeneration. Results Chronic immunosuppression prevented hematocrit drop and reduced soluble A beta in 3xTg-AD males while normalizing the expression of histone variant macroH2A1 in 3xTg-AD females. This treatment also reduced hepatosplenomegaly, lowered autoantibody levels, and increased the effector T cell population while decreasing the proportion of regulatory T cells in both sexes. Exposure to cyclophosphamide, however, neither prevented reduced brain mass and BDNF expression nor normalized increased tau and anxiety-related behaviors. Conclusion The results suggest that systemic autoimmunity increases soluble A beta production and affects transcriptional regulation of macroH2A1 in a sex-related manner. Despite the complexity of multisystem interactions, 3xTg-AD mice can be a useful in vivo model for exploring the regulatory role of autoimmunity in the etiology of AD-like neurodegenerative disorders.

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