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Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions

Amyloid-β oligomers (AβO) have been proposed as neurotoxins in the synaptic dysfunction that precedes Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Human and animal model studies report that senile plaques contain a halo of AβO molecules surrounding these plaques. A far smaller number of oligomers are distributed w...

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Autor principal: Trumbore, Conrad N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IOS Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30223395
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-171080
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description Amyloid-β oligomers (AβO) have been proposed as neurotoxins in the synaptic dysfunction that precedes Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Human and animal model studies report that senile plaques contain a halo of AβO molecules surrounding these plaques. A far smaller number of oligomers are distributed widely in plaque-free regions. It has been suggested that oligomers migrate from halos to nearby synapses and are incorporated into both pre- and postsynaptic terminals. These two types of oligomers have two different toxicities when extracted and injected in animal models. This paper proposes a shear-energy based explanation for the data in these studies. Shear hypotheses in the preceding three papers in this series are applied to suggest how the hydrodynamics and resulting shear patterns explain the spatial distribution of both AβO types, the apparent synapse loss in the vicinity of plaque particles, and possible reasons for the differing toxicities. A shear-based mechanism is proposed for the preferential migration of locally shear-excited Aβ molecules into the synaptic cleft. It is proposed that high energy laminar shear generated by the forced diversion of interstitial fluid around the flow-impeding plaque particle is responsible for the formation of AβOs around the plaque. It is suggested that in plaque-free regions, a different type of AβO with different toxicity is generated by lower energy shear flow around synapses, depositing AβO within the synapse from either the neuron membrane surface or by prion-like seeding within the synaptic cleft by locally-sheared Aβ molecules near the synapse entry.
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spelling pubmed-62945942018-12-18 Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions Trumbore, Conrad N. J Alzheimers Dis Hypothesis Amyloid-β oligomers (AβO) have been proposed as neurotoxins in the synaptic dysfunction that precedes Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Human and animal model studies report that senile plaques contain a halo of AβO molecules surrounding these plaques. A far smaller number of oligomers are distributed widely in plaque-free regions. It has been suggested that oligomers migrate from halos to nearby synapses and are incorporated into both pre- and postsynaptic terminals. These two types of oligomers have two different toxicities when extracted and injected in animal models. This paper proposes a shear-energy based explanation for the data in these studies. Shear hypotheses in the preceding three papers in this series are applied to suggest how the hydrodynamics and resulting shear patterns explain the spatial distribution of both AβO types, the apparent synapse loss in the vicinity of plaque particles, and possible reasons for the differing toxicities. A shear-based mechanism is proposed for the preferential migration of locally shear-excited Aβ molecules into the synaptic cleft. It is proposed that high energy laminar shear generated by the forced diversion of interstitial fluid around the flow-impeding plaque particle is responsible for the formation of AβOs around the plaque. It is suggested that in plaque-free regions, a different type of AβO with different toxicity is generated by lower energy shear flow around synapses, depositing AβO within the synapse from either the neuron membrane surface or by prion-like seeding within the synaptic cleft by locally-sheared Aβ molecules near the synapse entry. IOS Press 2018-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6294594/ /pubmed/30223395 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-171080 Text en © 2018 – IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions
title Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions
title_full Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions
title_fullStr Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions
title_full_unstemmed Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions
title_short Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions
title_sort shear-induced amyloid formation in the brain: iv. effects on synapses surrounding senile plaque and in plaque-free regions
topic Hypothesis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30223395
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-171080
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