期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
卷 74, 期 3, 页码 1017-1025出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0741017.x
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Alzheimer's disease; cytokines; chemokines; amyloid beta; amylin; THP-1 cells; microglia
Activated microglia surrounding amyloid beta-containing senile plaques synthesize interleukin-l, an inflammatory cytokine that has been postulated to contribute to Alzheimer's disease pathology. Studies have demonstrated that amyloid beta treatment causes increased cytokine release in microglia and related cell cultures. The present work evaluates the specificity of this cellular response by comparing the effects of amyloid beta to that of amylin, another amyloidotic peptide. Both lipopolysaccharide-treated THP-1 monocytes and mouse microglia showed significant increases in mature interleukin-l beta release 48 h following amyloid beta or human amylin treatment, whereas nonfibrillar rat amylin had no effect on interleukin-lp production by THP-1 cells. Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated THP-1 cells treated with amyloid beta or amylin also showed increased release of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6, as well as the chemokines interleukin-8 and macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha and -1 beta, THP-1 cells incubated with fibrillar amyloid beta or amylin in the absence of lipopolysaccharide also showed significant increases of both interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha mRNA. Furthermore, treatment of THP-1 cells with amyloid fibrils resulted in an elevated expression of the immediate-early genes c-fos and junB. These studies provide further evidence that fibrillar amyloid peptides can induce signal transduction pathways that initiate an inflammatory response that is likely to contribute to Alzheimer's disease pathology.
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