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ArticleJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2017

Rat brain glucose transporter-2, insulin receptor and glial expression are acute targets of intracerebroventricular streptozotocin: risk factors for sporadic Alzheimer's disease?

A Knezovic, A Loncar, J Homolak, U Smailovic, J Osmanovic Barilar, L Ganoci, N Bozina, P Riederer, Melita Salkovic-Petrisic

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Article in Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

A KnezovicDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia.
A LoncarDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia.
J HomolakDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia.
U SmailovicDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia.
J Osmanovic BarilarDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia.
L GanociDepartment of Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
N BozinaDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia.
P RiedererCentre of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Melita Salkovic-PetrisicDepartment of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia. melitas@mef.hr.
University of Zagreb · HRUniversity Hospital Centre Zagreb · HRUniversitätsklinikum Würzburg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulated evidence suggests that the insulin-resistant brain state and cerebral glucose hypometabolism might be the cause, rather than the consequence, of the neurodegeneration found in a sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD). We have explored whether the insulin receptor (IR) and the glucose transporter-2 (GLUT2), used here as their markers, are the early targets of intracerebroventricularly (icv) administered streptozotocin (STZ) in an STZ-icv rat model of sAD, and whether their changes are associated with the STZ-induced neuroinflammation. The expression of IR, GLUT2 and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was measured by immunofluorescence and western blot analysis in the parietal (PC) and the temporal (TC) cortex, in the hippocampus (HPC) and the hypothalamus. One hour after the STZ-icv administration (1.5 mg/kg), the GFAP immunoreactivity was significantly increased in all four regions, thus indicating the wide spread neuroinflammation, pronounced in the PC and the HPC. Changes in the GLUT2 (increment) and the IR (decrement) expression were mild in the areas close to the site of the STZ injection/release but pronounced in the ependymal lining cells of the third ventricle, thus indicating the possible metabolic implications. These results, together with the finding of the GLUT2-IR co-expression, and also the neuronal IR expression in PC, TC and HPC, indicate that the cerebral GLUT2 and IR should be further explored as the possible sAD etiopathogenic factors. It should be further clarified whether their alterations are the effect of a direct STZ-icv toxicity or they are triggered in a response to STZ-icv induced neuroinflammation.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAnimalsBrainDisease Models, AnimalGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinGlucose Transporter Type 2InflammationMaleNeurogliaNeuroimmunomodulationRats, WistarReceptor, InsulinRisk FactorsStreptozocinTime FactorsGfap protein, ratGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinGlucose Transporter Type 2Receptor, InsulinSlc2a2 protein, ratStreptozocinAlzheimer’s diseaseGlucose transporter 2Insulin receptorStreptozotocin

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