Publication Date:
2009-03-03
Description:
Although senile plaques focally disrupt neuronal health, the functional response of astrocytes to Alzheimer's disease pathology is unknown. Using multiphoton fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy in vivo, we quantitatively imaged astrocytic calcium homeostasis in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Resting calcium was globally elevated in the astrocytic network, but was independent of proximity to individual plaques. Time-lapse imaging revealed that calcium transients in astrocytes were more frequent, synchronously coordinated across long distances, and uncoupled from neuronal activity. Furthermore, rare intercellular calcium waves were observed, but only in mice with amyloid-beta plaques, originating near plaques and spreading radially at least 200 micrometers. Thus, although neurotoxicity is observed near amyloid-beta deposits, there exists a more general astrocyte-based network response to focal pathology.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884172/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884172/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kuchibhotla, Kishore V -- Lattarulo, Carli R -- Hyman, Bradley T -- Bacskai, Brian J -- EB000768/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- F31 NS058075-02/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS580752/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG008487/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG008487-19/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB000768/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB000768-08/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- S10 RR025645/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Feb 27;323(5918):1211-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1169096.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology/Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, 114 16th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19251629" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alzheimer Disease/pathology/*physiopathology
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Amyloid beta-Peptides/analysis
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Animals
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Astrocytes/metabolism/pathology/*physiology
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Calcium/*metabolism
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*Calcium Signaling
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Disease Models, Animal
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Homeostasis
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Humans
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Mice
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Mice, Transgenic
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Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton
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Neurons/pathology/physiology
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Plaque, Amyloid/pathology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
