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A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease
Glial cells are essential to understand Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression, given their role in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. There is a need for reliable and easy to manipulate models that allow studying the mechanisms behind neuron and glia communication. Currently available models su...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9048896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35493929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.844534 |
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author | Luchena, Celia Zuazo-Ibarra, Jone Valero, Jorge Matute, Carlos Alberdi, Elena Capetillo-Zarate, Estibaliz |
author_facet | Luchena, Celia Zuazo-Ibarra, Jone Valero, Jorge Matute, Carlos Alberdi, Elena Capetillo-Zarate, Estibaliz |
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description | Glial cells are essential to understand Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression, given their role in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. There is a need for reliable and easy to manipulate models that allow studying the mechanisms behind neuron and glia communication. Currently available models such as co-cultures require complex methodologies and/or might not be affordable for all laboratories. With this in mind, we aimed to establish a straightforward in vitro setting with neurons and glial cells to study AD. We generated and optimized a 2D triple co-culture model with murine astrocytes, neurons and microglia, based on sequential seeding of each cell type. Immunofluorescence, western blot and ELISA techniques were used to characterize the effects of oligomeric Aβ (oAβ) in this model. We found that, in the triple co-culture, microglia increased the expression of anti-inflammatory marker Arginase I, and reduced pro-inflammatory iNOS and IL-1β, compared with microglia alone. Astrocytes reduced expression of pro-inflammatory A1 markers AMIGO2 and C3, and displayed a ramified morphology resembling physiological conditions. Anti-inflammatory marker TGF-β1 was also increased in the triple co-culture. Lastly, neurons increased post-synaptic markers, and developed more and longer branches than in individual primary cultures. Addition of oAβ in the triple co-culture reduced synaptic markers and increased CD11b in microglia, which are hallmarks of AD. Consequently, we developed a straightforward and reproducible triple co-cultured model, where cells resemble physiological conditions better than in individual primary cultures: microglia are less inflammatory, astrocytes are less reactive and neurons display a more mature morphology. Moreover, we are able to recapitulate Aβ-induced synaptic loss and CD11b increase. This model emerges as a powerful tool to study neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in the context of AD and other neurodegenerative diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-90488962022-04-29 A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease Luchena, Celia Zuazo-Ibarra, Jone Valero, Jorge Matute, Carlos Alberdi, Elena Capetillo-Zarate, Estibaliz Front Aging Neurosci Neuroscience Glial cells are essential to understand Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression, given their role in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. There is a need for reliable and easy to manipulate models that allow studying the mechanisms behind neuron and glia communication. Currently available models such as co-cultures require complex methodologies and/or might not be affordable for all laboratories. With this in mind, we aimed to establish a straightforward in vitro setting with neurons and glial cells to study AD. We generated and optimized a 2D triple co-culture model with murine astrocytes, neurons and microglia, based on sequential seeding of each cell type. Immunofluorescence, western blot and ELISA techniques were used to characterize the effects of oligomeric Aβ (oAβ) in this model. We found that, in the triple co-culture, microglia increased the expression of anti-inflammatory marker Arginase I, and reduced pro-inflammatory iNOS and IL-1β, compared with microglia alone. Astrocytes reduced expression of pro-inflammatory A1 markers AMIGO2 and C3, and displayed a ramified morphology resembling physiological conditions. Anti-inflammatory marker TGF-β1 was also increased in the triple co-culture. Lastly, neurons increased post-synaptic markers, and developed more and longer branches than in individual primary cultures. Addition of oAβ in the triple co-culture reduced synaptic markers and increased CD11b in microglia, which are hallmarks of AD. Consequently, we developed a straightforward and reproducible triple co-cultured model, where cells resemble physiological conditions better than in individual primary cultures: microglia are less inflammatory, astrocytes are less reactive and neurons display a more mature morphology. Moreover, we are able to recapitulate Aβ-induced synaptic loss and CD11b increase. This model emerges as a powerful tool to study neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in the context of AD and other neurodegenerative diseases. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9048896/ /pubmed/35493929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.844534 Text en Copyright © 2022 Luchena, Zuazo-Ibarra, Valero, Matute, Alberdi and Capetillo-Zarate. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Luchena, Celia Zuazo-Ibarra, Jone Valero, Jorge Matute, Carlos Alberdi, Elena Capetillo-Zarate, Estibaliz A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease |
title | A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease |
title_full | A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease |
title_fullStr | A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease |
title_short | A Neuron, Microglia, and Astrocyte Triple Co-culture Model to Study Alzheimer’s Disease |
title_sort | neuron, microglia, and astrocyte triple co-culture model to study alzheimer’s disease |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9048896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35493929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.844534 |
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