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Cerebrospinal fluid from Alzheimer's disease patients promotes tau aggregation in transgenic mice

Skachokova, Zhiva and Martinisi, Alfonso and Flach, Martin and Sprenger, Frederik and Naegelin, Yvonne and Steiner-Monard, Viviane and Sollberger, Marc and Monsch, Andreas U. and Goedert, Michel and Tolnay, Markus and Winkler, David T.. (2019) Cerebrospinal fluid from Alzheimer's disease patients promotes tau aggregation in transgenic mice. Acta neuropathologica communications, 7 (1). p. 72.

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Abstract

Tau is a microtubule stabilizing protein that forms aggregates in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Tau derived from AD patients' brains induces tau aggregation in a prion-like manner when injected into susceptible mouse models.Here we investigated whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collected from patients diagnosed with probable AD or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) likely due to AD harbors a prion-like tau seeding potential. CSF was injected intrahippocampally into young P301S tau transgenic mice. CSF obtained from AD or MCI patients increased hippocampal tau hyperphosphorylation and tau tangle formation in these mice at 4 months post-seeding. Tau pathology was also accentuated in the contralateral hippocampus, and in anterior and posterior directions, indicative of spreading.We provide first evidence for in vivo prion-like properties of AD patients' CSF, accelerating tau pathology in susceptible tau transgenic mice. This demonstrates that biologically active tau seeds reach the CSF compartment in AD. Further studies may help to evaluate strain specific properties of CSF derived tau bioseeds, and to assess their diagnostic potential. What do you want to do ? New mail Copy
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Geriatrie > Geriatrie (Kressig)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Geriatrie > Geriatrie (Kressig)
07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie
07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Ehemalige Einheiten Psychologie > Molecular Neuroscience (Papassotiropoulos)
UniBasel Contributors:Monsch, Andreas U. U
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:BioMed Central
ISSN:2051-5960
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Last Modified:21 Dec 2020 09:58
Deposited On:21 Dec 2020 09:58

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