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ArticleScientific reports2020

Live Neuron High-Content Screening Reveals Synaptotoxic Activity in Alzheimer Mouse Model Homogenates.

Hao Jiang, Thomas J Esparza, Terrance T Kummer, Haining Zhong, Jens Rettig, David L Brody

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Hao JiangDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8111, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA.
Thomas J EsparzaDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8111, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA.
Terrance T KummerDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8111, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA.
Haining ZhongVollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, Oregon, 97239, USA.
Jens RettigDepartment of Physiology, Saarland University, Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine (CIPMM), Building 48, Homburg, 66421, Germany.
David L BrodyDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8111, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA. David.brody@usuhs.edu.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · USWashington University in St. Louis · USSaarland University · DEVollum Institute · US

Funding

Multiplex imaging of neuronal activity and signaling dynamics underlying learning in discrete amygdala circuits of behaving mice.R01NS104944 · NINDS · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI LI, BO, MAO, TIANYI · 2018 to 2022
$5.0M
Cell-Specific Visualization of Endogenous ProteinsRF1MH120119 · NIMH · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI MAO, TIANYI, ZHONG, HAINING · 2019 to 2019
$2.8M
Fluorescence labeling of PSD-95 at endogenous levels for single cell imagingR21NS084315 · NINDS · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHONG, HAINING · 2014 to 2015
$424k
Unbiased High Content Screening for Novel Synaptotoxic Substances in Human Alzheimer's Disease Brain LysatesR21NS102983 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KUMMER, TERRANCE T · 2017 to 2018
$419k
BLRD VA I01 BX005204NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH120119NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104944NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS084315NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS102983
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate quantification of synaptic changes is essential for understanding the molecular mechanisms of synaptogenesis, synaptic plasticity, and synaptic toxicity. Here we demonstrate a robust high-content imaging method for the assessment of synaptic changes and apply the method to brain homogenates from an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. Our method uses serial imaging of endogenous fluorescent labeled presynaptic VAMP2 and postsynaptic PSD95 in long-term cultured live primary neurons in 96 well microplates, and uses automatic image analysis to quantify the number of colocalized mature synaptic puncta for the assessment of synaptic changes in live neurons. As a control, we demonstrated that our synaptic puncta assay is at least 10-fold more sensitive to the toxic effects of glutamate than the MTT assay. Using our assay, we have compared synaptotoxic activities in size-exclusion chromatography fractioned protein samples from 3xTg-AD mouse model brain homogenates. Multiple synaptotoxic activities were found in high and low molecular weight fractions. Amyloid-beta immunodepletion alleviated some but not all of the synaptotoxic activities. Although the biochemical entities responsible for the synaptotoxic activities have yet to be determined, these proof-of-concept results demonstrate that this novel assay may have many potential mechanistic and therapeutic applications.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDisks Large Homolog 4 ProteinMiceMice, KnockoutNeuronsVesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 2Amyloid beta-PeptidesDisks Large Homolog 4 ProteinDlg4 protein, mouseVesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 2vesicle-associated membrane protein 2, mouse

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