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ArticleToxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology2015

Cyclic Ozone Exposure Induces Gender-Dependent Neuropathology and Memory Decline in an Animal Model of Alzheimer's Disease.

Hasina Akhter, Carol Ballinger, Nianjun Liu, Thomas van Groen, Edward M Postlethwait, Rui-Ming Liu

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Article in Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Age- and ApoE Genotype-Dependent Transcriptomic Responses to OInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Peripheral HMGB1 is linked to OAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  11. Cyclic ONeurobiology of aging · 2019
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  13. PMToxicology research · 2019
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  15. Aging Exacerbates Neuroinflammatory Outcomes Induced by Acute Ozone Exposure.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2018
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  18. Serum amyloid A: an ozone-induced circulating factor with potentially important functions in the lung-brain axis.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2017
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  19. Acute Ozone-Induced Pulmonary and Systemic Metabolic Effects Are Diminished in Adrenalectomized Rats.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hasina Akhter*Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
Carol Ballinger*Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
Nianjun LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health.
Thomas van GroenDepartment of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, and.
Edward M Postlethwait*Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
Rui-Ming Liu*Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 rliu@uab.edu.
Center for Environmental Health · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Project 4 - Dosimetry Modeling and Interspecies ExtrapolationP01ES011617 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI POSTLETHWAIT, EDWARD M · 2003 to 2010
$11.5M
UAB Neuroscience Core CenterP30NS047466 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI STANDAERT, DAVID G. · 2005 to 2019
$8.5M
Glutathione and Lung FibrosisR01HL088141 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI LIU, RUI-MING · 2008 to 2011
$1.4M
Ozone, apoE4, aging, and Alzheimer's diseaseR21AG046701 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI LIU, RUI-MING · 2013 to 2015
$424k
NHLBI NIH HHS HL088141NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL088141NIA NIH HHS R21 AG046701NIA NIH HHS R21AG046701NIEHS NIH HHS P01 ES011617NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS47466
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of dementia in the elderly. Although early-onset (familial) AD is attributed to gene mutations, the cause for late-onset (sporadic) AD, which accounts for 95% of AD cases, is unknown. In this study, we show that exposure of 6-week-old amyloid beta precursor protein (APP)/presenilin (PS1) overexpressing mice, a well-established animal model of AD, and nontransgenic littermates to a cyclic O3 exposure protocol, which mimics environmental exposure episodes, accelerated learning/memory function loss in male APP/PS1 mice but not in female APP/PS1 mice or nontransgenic littermates. Female APP/PS1 mice had higher brain levels of amyloid beta peptide (Aβ42) and Aβ40, compared with male APP/PS1 mice; O3 exposure, however, had no significant effect on brain Aβ load in either male or female mice. Our results further show that male APP/PS1 mice had lower levels of antioxidants (glutathione and ascorbate) and experienced augmented induction of NADPH oxidases, lipid peroxidation, and neuronal apoptosis upon O3 exposure, compared with female APP/PS1 mice. No significant effect of O3 on any of these parameters was detected in nontransgenic littermates. In vitro studies further show that 4-hydroxynonenal, a lipid peroxidation product which was increased in the plasma and cortex/hippocampus of O3-exposed male APP/PS1 mice, induced neuroblastoma cell apoptosis. Together, the results suggest that O3 exposure per se may not cause AD but can synergize with genetic risk factors to accelerate the pathophysiology of AD in genetically predisposed populations. The results also suggest that males may be more sensitive to O3-induced neuropathophysiology than females due to lower levels of antioxidants.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsAntioxidantsApoptosisBrain ChemistryFemaleLipid PeroxidationMaleMemory DisordersMiceNADPH OxidasesNervous System DiseasesNeuronsOzonePeptide FragmentsAmyloid beta-Peptidesamyloid beta-protein (1-40)AntioxidantsNADPH OxidasesOzonePeptide FragmentsPresenilinsAlzheimer’s diseasegenderoxidative stressozone

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PMID26116027
PMCPMC4607745
OpenAlexW2299525597

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