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Selective disruption of synaptic NMDA receptors of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit in Aβ pathology

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العنوان: Selective disruption of synaptic NMDA receptors of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit in Aβ pathology
المؤلفون: Rocio Alfaro-Ruiz, Alejandro Martín-Belmonte, Carolina Aguado, Ana Esther Moreno-Martínez, Yugo Fukazawa, Rafael Luján
المصدر: Biological Research, Vol 57, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2024)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Biology (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Alzheimer´s disease, Hippocampus, NMDA receptors, Immunohistochemistry, Electron microscopy, Freeze-fracture, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
الوصف: Abstract Synaptic dysfunction is an early feature in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis and a major morphological correlate of memory deficits. Given the main synaptic location of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs), their dysregulation has been implicated in these pathological effects. Here, to detect possible alterations in the expression and synaptic localisation of the GluN1 subunit in the brain of amyloidogenic APP/PS1 mice, we employed histoblot and SDS-digested freeze-fracture replica labelling (SDS-FRL) techniques. Histoblots showed that GluN1 expression was significantly reduced in the hippocampus in a layer-dependent manner, in the cortex and the caudate putamen of APP/PS1 transgenic mice at 12 months of age but was unaltered at 1 and 6 months. Using quantitative SDS-FRL, we unravelled the molecular organisation of GluN1 in seven excitatory synapse populations at a high spatial resolution in the CA1 and CA3 fields and the DG of the hippocampus in 12-month-old APP/PS1 mice. In the CA1 field, the labelling density for GluN1 in the excitatory synapses established on spines and interneurons, was significantly reduced in APP/PS1 mice compared to age-matched wild-type mice in the stratum lacunosum-moleculare but unaltered in the stratum radiatum. In the CA3 field, synaptic GluN1 was reduced in mossy fibre-CA3 pyramidal cell synapses but unaltered in the A/C-CA3 pyramidal cell synapses. In the DG, the density of GluN1 in granule cell-perforant pathway synapses was reduced in APP/PS1 mice. Altogether, our findings provide evidence of specific alterations of synaptic GluN1 in the trisynaptic circuit of the hippocampus in Aβ pathology. This differential vulnerability in the disruption of NMDARs may be involved in the mechanisms causing abnormal network activity of the hippocampal circuit and cognitive impairment characteristic of APP/PS1 mice.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0717-6287
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/0717-6287
DOI: 10.1186/s40659-024-00537-7
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/dc5e597fa919457eaabb9d675def2f90
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.5e597fa919457eaabb9d675def2f90
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:07176287
DOI:10.1186/s40659-024-00537-7