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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2011

Altered neuroinflammatory, arachidonic acid cascade and synaptic markers in postmortem Alzheimer's disease brain.

J S Rao, S I Rapoport, H-W Kim

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 40 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J S RaoBrain Physiology and Metabolism Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. HTUjrao@mail.nih.gov
S I Rapoport
H-W Kim
National Institute on Aging · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

A Natonal Resource for Postmortem Brain ResearchR24MH068855 · NIMH · MC LEAN HOSPITAL (BELMONT, MA) · PI BENES, FRANCINE M. · 2003 to 2012
$14.8M
Lipids in Human Brain DiseaseZIAAG000428 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI RAPOPORT, STANLEY I. · 2009 to 2016
$2.6M
Intramural NIH HHSNIMH NIH HHS R24 MH068855NIMH NIH HHS R24MH068855
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. A recent positron emission tomography imaging study demonstrated upregulated brain arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism in AD patients. Further, a mouse model of AD shows an increase in AA-releasing cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)) in brain, and a reduction in cPLA(2) activity ameliorated cognitive deficits. These observations led us to hypothesize that there is an upregulation of AA cascade and neuroinflammatory markers in the brain of AD patients. To test this hypothesis, we measured protein and mRNA levels of AA cascade, neuroinflammatory and synaptic markers in postmortem frontal cortex from 10 AD patients and 10 age-matched controls. Consistent with our hypothesis, AD frontal cortex showed significant increases in protein and mRNA levels of cPLA(2)-IVA, secretory sPLA(2)-IIA, cyclooxygenase-1 and -2, membrane prostaglandin (PG) synthase-1 and lipoxygenase-12 and -15. Calcium-independent iPLA(2)-VIA and cytosolic PGE(2) synthase were decreased. In addition, interleukin-1β, tumor necrosis factor-α, glial fibrillary acidic protein and CD11b were increased. AD postmortem brain also showed signs of cellular injury, including decreased synaptophysin and drebrin, pre- and postsynaptic markers. These results indicate that increased AA cascade and inflammatory markers could contribute to AD pathology. Altered brain AA cascade enzymes could be considered therapeutic targets for future drug development.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseArachidonic AcidBiomarkersBrainFemaleHumansInflammation MediatorsMaleMiddle AgedNeural PathwaysNeuropeptidesSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionUp-RegulationArachidonic AcidBiomarkersdrebrinsInflammation MediatorsNeuropeptides

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PMID22832605
PMCPMC3309508
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