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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Oxidative Phosphorylation Is Dysregulated Within the Basocortical Circuit in a 6-month old Mouse Model of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease.

Melissa J Alldred, Sang Han Lee, Grace E Stutzmann, Stephen D Ginsberg

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Melissa J AlldredCenter for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, United States.
Sang Han LeeCenter for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, United States.
Grace E StutzmannCenter for Neurodegenerative Disease and Therapeutics, Discipline of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL, United States.
Stephen D GinsbergCenter for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, United States.
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research · USNew York University · USRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science · US

Funding

Uncovering Alzheimer's disease risk mechanisms through neuron-specific analysis of autophagy and endosomal-lysosomal functionP01AG017617 · NIA · NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES · PI NIXON, RALPH A. · 2000 to 2021
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TAU, AB, SYNUCLEIN AND NITRATIVE/OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN MCIP01AG014449 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH · PI COUNTS, SCOTT E · 1997 to 2024
$39.7M
Neuropathology and inflammation in a nonhuman primate model of insulin resistance/metabolic syndromeR01AG085572 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI STEPHEN D GINSBERG, PETER J HAVEL · 2024 to 2026
$3.8M
Cellular and Molecular Medial Temporal Lobe Pathology in Elderly PreMCI subjectsR01AG043375 · NIA · ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER · PI GINSBERG, STEPHEN D, MUFSON, ELLIOTT JAY · 2013 to 2017
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Tau pathology in Down syndrome and Alzheimer'sRF1AG061566 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI GRANHOLM-BENTLEY, ANN-CHARLOTTE ESTHER, MARGITTAI, MARTIN · 2019 to 2019
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Pathogenic consequences of altered insulin signaling in the diabetic brain.R56AG052524 · NIA · NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES · PI GINSBERG, STEPHEN D, MATHEWS, PAUL M · 2018 to 2018
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NIA NIH HHS P01 AG014449NIA NIH HHS P01 AG017617NIA NIH HHS R01 AG043375NIA NIH HHS R01 AG085572NIA NIH HHS R56 AG052524NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG061566
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Down syndrome (DS) is the primary genetic cause of intellectual disability (ID), which is due to the triplication of human chromosome 21 (HSA21). In addition to ID, HSA21 trisomy results in a number of neurological and physiological pathologies in individuals with DS, including progressive cognitive dysfunction and learning and memory deficits which worsen with age. Further exacerbating neurological dysfunction associated with DS is the concomitant basal forebrain cholinergic neuron (BFCN) degeneration and onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in early mid-life. Recent single population RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis in the Ts65Dn mouse model of DS, specifically the medial septal cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain (BF), revealed the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway was significantly impacted, with a large subset of genes within this pathway being downregulated. We further queried oxidative phosphorylation pathway dysregulation in Ts65Dn mice by examining genes and encoded proteins within brain regions comprising the basocortical system at the start of BFCN degeneration (6 months of age). In select Ts65Dn mice we demonstrate significant deficits in gene and/or encoded protein levels of Complex I-V of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway in the BF. In the frontal cortex (Fr Ctx) these complexes had concomitant alterations in select gene expression but not of the proteins queried from Complex I-V, suggesting that defects at this time point in the BF are more severe and occur prior to cortical dysfunction within the basocortical circuit. We propose dysregulation within mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation complexes is an early marker of cognitive decline onset and specifically linked to BFCN degeneration that may propagate pathology throughout cortical memory and executive function circuits in DS and AD.

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Alzheimer’s diseasebasal forebrainDown syndromeoxidative phosphorylationselective vulnerability

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