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ArticleNeurobiology of disease2011

Hippocampal dysregulation of synaptic plasticity-associated proteins with age-related cognitive decline.

Heather D VanGuilder, Julie A Farley, Han Yan, Colleen A Van Kirk, Matthew Mitschelen, William E Sonntag, Willard M Freeman

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Article in Neurobiology of disease, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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80citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Heather D VanGuilderPenn State College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Hershey Center for Applied Research, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Julie A Farley
Han Yan
Colleen A Van Kirk
Matthew Mitschelen
William E Sonntag
Willard M Freeman
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

STRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR CHANGES WITH AGEP01AG011370 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SONNTAG, WILLIAM EDMUND · 1995 to 2010
$10.7M
Cognitive Decline & Protein Expression Profiles in AgingR01AG026607 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI SONNTAG, WILLIAM EDMUND · 2007 to 2011
$1.8M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG011370NIA NIH HHS #P01AG11370NIA NIH HHS #R01AG026607NIA NIH HHS R01 AG026607
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related cognitive decline occurs without frank neurodegeneration and is the most common cause of memory impairment in aging individuals. With increasing longevity, cognitive deficits, especially in hippocampus-dependent memory processes, are increasing in prevalence. Nevertheless, the neurobiological basis of age-related cognitive decline remains unknown. While concerted efforts have led to the identification of neurobiological changes with aging, few age-related alterations have been definitively correlated to behavioral measures of cognitive decline. In this work, adult (12 months) and aged (28 months) rats were categorized by Morris water maze performance as Adult cognitively Intact, Aged cognitively Intact or Aged cognitively Impaired, and protein expression was examined in hippocampal synaptosome preparations. Previously described differences in synaptic expression of neurotransmission-associated proteins (Dnm1, Hpca, Stx1, Syn1, Syn2, Syp, SNAP25, VAMP2 and 14-3-3 eta, gamma, and zeta) were confirmed between Adult and Aged rats, with no further dysregulation associated with cognitive impairment. Proteins related to synaptic structural stability (MAP2, drebrin, Nogo-A) and activity-dependent signaling (PSD-95, 14-3-3θ, CaMKIIα) were up- and down-regulated, respectively, with cognitive impairment but were not altered with increasing age. Localization of MAP2, PSD-95, and CaMKIIα demonstrated protein expression alterations throughout the hippocampus. The altered expression of activity- and structural stability-associated proteins suggests that impaired synaptic plasticity is a distinct phenomenon that occurs with age-related cognitive decline, and demonstrates that cognitive decline is not simply an exacerbation of the aging phenotype.

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AnimalsCognition DisordersDisease Models, AnimalHippocampusMaleMemory DisordersNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronal PlasticityPresynaptic TerminalsRatsRats, Inbred BNRats, Inbred F344SynaptosomesNerve Tissue Proteins

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PMID21440628
PMCPMC3096728
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