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ArticleNeurobiology of disease2024

Senolytic therapy preserves blood-brain barrier integrity and promotes microglia homeostasis in a tauopathy model.

Minmin Yao, Zhiliang Wei, Jonathan Scharff Nielsen, Yuxiao Ouyang, Aaron Kakazu, Haitong Wang, Lida Du, Ruoxuan Li, Tiffany Chu, Susanna Scafidi and 3 more

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Article in Neurobiology of disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Minmin YaoDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Zhiliang WeiThe Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jonathan Scharff NielsenThe Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Yuxiao OuyangDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Aaron KakazuDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Haitong WangDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Lida DuDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Ruoxuan LiDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Tiffany ChuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Susanna ScafidiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Hanzhang LuThe Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Manisha AggarwalThe Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Wenzhen DuanDivision of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: wduan2@jhmi.edu.

Funding

Advanced MRI biomarkers in HD mouse models translatable to humans: nature history and response to therapeuticsR01NS124084 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DUAN, WENZHEN · 2022 to 2025
$2.6M
Pathophysiological mechanisms of hypoperfusion in mouse models of Alzheimer?s disease and small vessel diseaseR01AG081932 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Zhiliang Wei · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
Huntington's Disease biomarkers and therapeuticsR01NS082338 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DUAN, WENZHEN · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
Emerging role of glymphatic clearance in Huntington's diseaseR01NS127344 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Wenzhen Duan, JIadi Xu · 2023 to 2026
$2.0M
Imaging platform and computational HARDI atlas of the human hippocampusR01AG057991 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI AGGARWAL, MANISHA · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
Mechanisms of metabolic adaptation after traumatic brain injuryR01NS111230 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SCAFIDI, SUSANNA · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
Blood-brain barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: from humans to animal modelsR01AG071515 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Hanzhang Lu · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
Characterization and validation of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) as a biomarker of vascular dementia in mouse modelsR21NS119960 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WEI, ZHILIANG · 2021 to 2021
$465k
Developing HTS assays for identifying NLK activators to target Huntington's diseaseR21NS135139 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DUAN, WENZHEN · 2023 to 2023
$450k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular senescence, characterized by expressing the cell cycle inhibitory proteins, is evident in driving age-related diseases. Senescent cells play a crucial role in the initiation and progression of tau-mediated pathology, suggesting that targeting cell senescence offers a therapeutic potential for treating tauopathy associated diseases. This study focuses on identifying non-invasive biomarkers and validating their responses to a well-characterized senolytic therapy combining dasatinib and quercetin (D + Q), in a widely used tauopathy mouse model, PS19. We employed human-translatable MRI measures, including water extraction with phase-contrast arterial spin tagging (WEPCAST) MRI, T2 relaxation under spin tagging (TRUST), longitudinally assessed brain physiology and high-resolution structural MRI evaluated the brain regional volumes in PS19 mice. Our data reveal increased BBB permeability, decreased oxygen extraction fraction, and brain atrophy in 9-month-old PS19 mice compared to their littermate controls. (D + Q) treatment effectively preserves BBB integrity, rescues cerebral oxygen hypometabolism, attenuates brain atrophy, and alleviates tau hyperphosphorylation in PS19 mice. Mechanistically, D + Q treatment induces a shift of microglia from a disease-associated to a homeostatic state, reducing a senescence-like microglial phenotype marked by increased p16/Ink4a. D + Q-treated PS19 mice exhibit enhanced cue-associated cognitive performance in the tracing fear conditioning test compared to the vehicle-treated littermates, implying improved cognitive function by D + Q treatment. Our results pave the way for application of senolytic treatment as well as these noninvasive MRI biomarkers in clinical trials in tauopathy associated neurological disorders.

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Blood-Brain BarrierDasatinibDisease Models, AnimalHomeostasisMicrogliaTauopathiesAnimalsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiceMice, TransgenicQuercetinSenotherapeuticsDasatinibQuercetinSenotherapeuticsBlood-brain barrierMicrogliaMRISenescenceSenolytic therapyTau

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PMID39437971
PMCPMC11600427

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