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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Qiu, Hongyana; 1 | Zhong, Rujiab; 1 | Liu, Huia | Zhang, Fengb | Li, Songb | Le, Weidonga; b; *
Affiliations: [a] Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China | [b] The Center for Translational Research on Neurological Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, P.R. China
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Weidong Le, Department of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, P.R. China. Tel./Fax: +86 411 88135850; E-mail: [email protected].
Note: [1] These authors contribute equally to this work.
Abstract: Recently, there is an increasing concern over the association between sleep disorders and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Clinical observations have reported that chronic sleep deprivation (SD) may serve as a risk factor for AD. However, the pathological evidence for this assumption is still lacking. In the present study, we examined the potential impacts of chronic SD on learning-memory and AD-related pathologies in AβPPswe/PS1 ΔE9 transgenic (TG) mice and their wild-type (WT) littermates. Results indicated that mice (both TG and WT) exposed to 2-month SD showed an altered amyloid-β protein precursor processing, an elevated level of phosphorylated tau protein, and impaired cognitive performance as compared to non-sleep deprivation (NSD) controls. Moreover, the SD-treated TG mice exhibited more amyloid-β1-42 production and developed more senile plaques in the cortex and hippocampus than NSD-treated TG mice. In addition, SD caused a striking neuronal mitochondrial damage, caspase cascade activation, and neuronal apoptosis in the hippocampus of both TG and WT mice. More importantly, all these behavioral, neuropathological, and biochemical changes induced by chronic SD were long lasting and were irreversible during a 3-month normal housing condition. Collectively, these results indicate that chronic SD impairs learning and memory, exacerbates AD pathologies, and aggravates the mitochondria-mediated neuronal apoptosis in a long-lasting manner. Our findings provide important experimental evidence to prove that chronic SD is a risk factor for AD.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-β, apoptosis, chronic sleep deprivation, mitochondria, phosphorylated tau protein, senile plaques
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-150774
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 669-685, 2016
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