Journal
NEUROMOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 555-570Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12017-017-8469-3
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Alzheimer's disease; Neuroinflammation; Amyloidogenesis; Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF] - Korea government (MSIP) (MRC) [2017R1A5A2015541]
- Functional Districts of the Science Belt support program, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by an excessive accumulation of amyloid-beta (A beta) fibrils within the brain. We tested the anti-inflammatory and anti-amyloidogenic effects of (E)-2-methoxy-4-(3-(4-methoxyphenyl) prop-1-en-1-yl) phenol (MMPP), a selective signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) inhibitor. We examined whether MMPP (5 mg/kg in drinking water for 1 month) prevents amyloidogenesis and cognitive impairment on AD model mice induced by intraperitoneal LPS (250 mu g/kg daily 7 times) injections. Additionally, we investigated the anti-neuroinflammatory and anti-amyloidogenic effect of MMPP (1, 5, and 10 mu g/mL) in LPS (1 mu g/mL)-treated cultured astrocytes and microglial BV-2 cells. MMPP treatment reduced LPS-induced memory loss. This memory recovery effect was associated with the reduction of LPS-induced inflammatory proteins; cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) as well as activation of microglial cells and astrocytes in the brain. Furthermore, MMPP reduced LPS-induced beta-secretase and A beta generation. In in vitro study, LPS-induced expression of inflammatory proteins and amyloidogenic proteins was decreased in microglial BV-2 cells and cultured astrocytes by MMPP treatment. Moreover, MMPP treatment suppressed DNA binding activities of the activation of STAT3 in in vivo and in vitro. These results indicated that MMPP inhibits LPS-induced amyloidogenesis and neuroinflammation via inhibition of STAT3.
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