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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 24, 期 7, 页码 1923-1934出版社
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05069.x
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Alzheimer's disease; Borna disease virus; cytokines; microglia
Amyloid plaques, one of the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, and their main constituent, the amyloid beta-peptide (A beta), are triggers of the activation of innate inflammatory mechanisms involving the activation of microglia. To dissect the effects of a non-A beta-specific microglial activation on the A beta metabolism, we employed a viral infection-based model. Transgenic mice expressing a mutated form of the human amyloid precursor protein (Tg2576) were used. In preceding experiments, 2-week-old transgenic mice and non-transgenic littermates were infected intracerebrally with the neurotropic Borna disease virus and investigated at 2, 4 and 14 weeks post-infection. The Borna disease virus-inoculated mice showed a persisting, subclinical infection of cortical and limbic brain areas characterized by slight T-cell infiltrates, expression of cytokines and a massive microglial activation in the hippocampus and neocortex. Viral-induced effects reached their peak at 4 weeks post-infection. In 14-month-old Tg2576 mice, characterized by the deposition of diffuse and dense-core amyloid plaques in cortical brain regions, Borna disease virus-induced microglial activation in the vicinity of A beta deposits was used to investigate the influence of a local inflammatory response on these deposits. At 4 weeks post-infection, histometric analyses employing A beta immunohistochemistry revealed a decrease of the cortical and hippocampal A beta-immunopositive area. This overall decrease was accompanied by a decrease of parenchymal thioflavin-S-positive amyloid deposits and an increase of such deposits in the walls of cerebral vessels, which indicates that the elicitation of a non-A beta-specific microglial activation may contribute to a reduction of A beta in the brain parenchyma.
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