期刊
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 59, 期 3, 页码 1882-1895出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-021-02613-5
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; FTY720; Sphingosine-1-phosphate; Inflammation
资金
- IReL Consortium
- Health Research Board of Ireland
This study demonstrates that fingolimod may be a potential multimodal therapeutic for Alzheimer's disease, as it can reverse deficits in spatial working memory, alleviate inflammation in the brain, and reduce tau and APP levels in key brain regions.
Therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have largely focused on the regulation of amyloid pathology while those targeting tau pathology, and inflammatory mechanisms are less explored. In this regard, drugs with multimodal and concurrent targeting of A beta, tau, and inflammatory processes may offer advantages. Here, we investigate one such candidate drug in the triple transgenic 3xTg-AD mouse model of AD, namely the disease-modifying oral neuroimmunomodulatory therapeutic used in patients with multiple sclerosis, called fingolimod. In this study, administration of fingolimod was initiated after behavioral symptoms are known to emerge, at 6 months of age. Treatment continued to 12 months when behavioral tests were performed and thereafter histological and biochemical analysis was conducted on postmortem tissue. The results demonstrate that fingolimod reverses deficits in spatial working memory at 8 and 12 months of age as measured by novel object location and Morris water maze tests. Inflammation in the brain is alleviated as demonstrated by reduced Iba1-positive and CD3-positive cell number, less ramified microglial morphology, and improved cytokine profile. Finally, treatment with fingolimod was shown to reduce phosphorylated tau and APP levels in the hippocampus and cortex. These results highlight the potential of fingolimod as a multimodal therapeutic for the treatment of AD.
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