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Improved NMDA Receptor Activation by the Secreted Amyloid-Protein Precursor-α in Healthy Aging: A Role for D-Serine?

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DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415542

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amyloid protein precursor; hippocampus; electrophysiology; glutamate; synaptic plasticity; long-term potentiation; serine racemase

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This study found that adding sAPP alpha significantly increased the activation of NMDAR in aged mice and rescued the deficit of long-term potentiation in these mice. The improvement of NMDAR in adult mice was also significantly increased with a higher concentration of sAPP alpha, but this effect was reduced in transgenic mice lacking the synthesizing enzyme serine racemase.
Impaired activation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptors (NMDAR) by D-serine is linked to cognitive aging. Whether this deregulation may be used to initiate pharmacological strategies has yet to be considered. To this end, we performed electrophysiological extracellular recordings at CA3/CA1 synapses in hippocampal slices from young and aged mice. We show that 0.1 nM of the soluble N-terminal recombinant fragment of the secreted amyloid-protein precursor-alpha (sAPP alpha) added in the bath significantly increased NMDAR activation in aged but not adult mice without impacting basal synaptic transmission. In addition, sAPP alpha rescued the age-related deficit of theta-burst-induced long-term potentiation. Significant NMDAR improvement occurred in adult mice when sAPP alpha was raised to 1 nM, and this effect was drastically reduced in transgenic mice deprived of D-serine through genetic deletion of the synthesizing enzyme serine racemase. Altogether, these results emphasize the interest to consider sAPP alpha treatment targeting D-serine-dependent NMDAR deregulation to alleviate cognitive aging.

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