Neuroinflammation occurs in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain, and plays a role in neurodegeneration. The main aim of this study was to determine how treatments with exogenous apolipoprotein E (ApoE2, E3 and E4 isoforms), a genetic risk factor for AD, affects the amyloid-β (Aβ) induced inflammatory response in vitro in astrocytes. Recombinant, lipid-free ApoE4 was found not to affect Aβ-induced inflammation in rat astrocytes, while ApoE2 showed a protective effect. Mouse cells expressing human ApoE isoforms, which have similar lipidation and modification to native human ApoE, showed ApoE4 promoting inflammation, and no ApoE2 protective effect upon Aβ treatment. A Protein/DNA array was used to screen 345 transcription factors in rat astrocytes treated with Aβ and/or ApoE isoforms, in order to determine which contribute to the observed ApoE2 protection. Some candidates were validated by Western Blot or EMSA and/or by inhibition or activation. The findings suggest ApoE isoforms differentially regulate Aβ-induced inflammation, and multiple signalling pathways are involved in the process.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/23581 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Dorey, Evan J |
| Contributors | Zhang, Wandong |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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