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TitleNeurons Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells of Patients with Down Syndrome Reproduce Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease Type Pathology in vitro.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsDashinimaev, EB, Artyuhov, AS, Bolshakov, AP, Vorotelyak, EA, Vasiliev, AV
JournalJ Alzheimers Dis
Volume56
Issue2
Pagination835-847
Date Published2017
ISSN1875-8908
Abstract

People with Down syndrome (DS) are at high risk of developing pathology similar to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Modeling of this pathology in vitro may be useful for studying this phenomenon. In this study, we analyzed three different cultures of neural cells carrying trisomy of chromosome 21, which were generated by directed differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). We report here that in vitro generated DS neural cells have abnormal metabolism of amyloid-β (Aβ) manifested by increased secretion and accumulation of Aβ granules of Aβ42 pathological isoform with upregulated expression of the APP gene. Additionally, we found increased expression levels of genes that are considered to be associated with AD (BACE2, RCAN1, ETS2, TMED10), as compared to healthy controls. Thus, the neural cells generated from induced pluripotent stem cells with DS reproduce initial cellular signs of AD-type pathology and can be useful tools for modeling and studying this variant of AD in vitro.

DOI10.3233/JAD-160945
Alternate JournalJ. Alzheimers Dis.
PubMed ID28059787
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