Microarray analysis of the astrocyte transcriptome in the ageing brain: relationship to Alzheimer's pathology and ApoE genotype
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ABSTRACT: Astrocyte dysfunction impacts their normal function, including neuronal support, thereby contributing to neurodegenerative pathologies including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therefore to understand the role of astrocytes in the pathogenesis of age-related disorders we analysed the gene expression profile of astrocytes with respect to Alzheimer-type pathology. The aim of the present study was to combine immuno-LCM and microarray analysis to characterise the astrocyte transcriptome at different Braak stages, and with respect to ApoE genotype, in post-mortem human temporal cortex sampled dervied from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS). GFAP-positive astrocytes were isolated from age, sex and brain pH-matched cases derived from the MRC-CFAS cohort, using immuno laser capture microdissection. The extracted RNA was amplified and applied to HGU133 Plus 2.0 Affymetrix gene arrays. Genes were considered differentially expressed if they showed a minimum 1.5 fold change at p<0.02 in all 6 individual cases in each stage of pathology [18 cases in total: 6 cases Braak stages I-II (3 cases carried at least one ApoE epsilon4 allele and 3 were ApoEe4 negative); 6 cases Braak stages III-IV (3 ApoEe4 positive and 3 ApoEe4 negative; 6 cases Braak stages V-VI (3 ApoEe4 positive and 3 ApoEe4 negative)]. keywords: human GFAP-positive astrocytes
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Paul Heath
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-29652 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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