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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Dissecting the involvement of tropomyosin-related kinase A and p75 neurotrophin receptor signaling in NGF deficit-induced neurodegeneration.

Simona Capsoni, Cecilia Tiveron, Domenico Vignone, Gianluca Amato, Antonino Cattaneo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simona CapsoniEuropean Brain Research Institute, 00143 Rome, Italy.
Cecilia Tiveron
Domenico Vignone
Gianluca Amato
Antonino Cattaneo
European Brain Research Institute · IT

Funding

Telethon GGP05234
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NGF, the principal neurotrophic factor for basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs), has been correlated to Alzheimer's disease (AD) because of the selective vulnerability of BFCNs in AD. These correlative links do not substantiate a comprehensive cause-effect mechanism connecting NGF deficit to overall AD neurodegeneration. A demonstration that neutralizing NGF activity could have consequences beyond a direct interference with the cholinergic system came from studies in the AD11 mouse model, in which the expression of a highly specific anti-NGF antibody determines a neurodegeneration that encompasses several features of human AD. Because the transgenic antibody binds to mature NGF much more strongly than to proNGF and prevents binding of mature NGF to the tropomyosin-related kinase A (TrkA) receptor and to p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR), we postulated that neurodegeneration in AD11 mice is provoked by an imbalance of proNGF/NGF signaling and, consequently, of TrkA/p75NTR signaling. To test this hypothesis, in this study we characterize the phenotype of two lines of transgenic mice, one in which TrkA signaling is inhibited by neutralizing anti-TrkA antibodies and a second one in which anti-NGF mice were crossed to p75NTR(exonIII(-/-)) mice to abrogate p75NTR signaling. TrkA neutralization determines a strong cholinergic deficit and the appearance of beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) but no tau-related pathology. In contrast, abrogating p75NTR signaling determines a full rescue of the cholinergic and Abeta phenotype of anti-NGF mice, but tau hyperphosphorylation is exacerbated. Thus, we demonstrate that inhibiting TrkA signaling activates Abeta accumulation and that different streams of AD neurodegeneration are related in complex ways to TrkA versus p75NTR signaling.

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Age FactorsAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalBlotting, WesternBrainFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred StrainsMice, KnockoutMice, TransgenicAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntibodies, MonoclonalNerve Growth FactorReceptor, Nerve Growth FactorReceptor, trkAtau Proteins

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PMID20566851
PMCPMC2901482
OpenAlexW2056973257

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