期刊
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
卷 224, 期 7, 页码 2297-2309出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-019-01905-w
关键词
Neuroinflammation; Cholinergic neurons; Medial septum; Aging; Calcium homeostasis
资金
- Ainsworth Medical Research Innovation Fund
- WSU postgraduate scholarship (UWSPRA)
- seed funding grant (WSU)
The medial septal nucleus is one of the basal forebrain nuclei that projects cholinergic input to the hippocampus and cortex. Two of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are a significant loss of cholinergic transmission and neuroinflammation, and it has been suggested that these two hallmarks are causally linked to the medial septum. Therefore, we have investigated the age-related susceptibility of medial septal cholinergic neurons to glial activation, mediated via peripheral administration of lipopolysaccharide (500 mu g/kg) into ChAT(BAC)-eGFP mice at different ages (3-22 months). Our results show that during normal aging, cholinergic neurons experience a bi-phasic excitability profile, in which increased excitability at adulthood (ages ranging between 9 and 12 months) decreases in aged animals (> 18 months). Moreover, activation of glia had a differential impact on mice from different age groups, affecting K+ conductances in young and adult animals, without affecting aged mice. These findings provide a potential explanation for the increased vulnerability of cholinergic neurons to neuroinflammation with aging as reported previously, thus providing a link to the impact of acute neuroinflammation in AD.
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