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Environmental Enrichment Potently Prevents Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammation by Human Amyloid ?-Protein Oligomers.

ABSTRACT: Microglial dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a key contributor to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Environmental enrichment (EE) is well documented to enhance neuronal form and function, but almost nothing is known about whether and how it alters the brain's innate immune system. Here we found that prolonged exposure of naive wild-type mice to EE significantly altered microglial density and branching complexity in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus. In wild-type mice injected intraventricularly with soluble A? oligomers (oA?) from hAPP-expressing cultured cells, EE prevented several morphological features of microglial inflammation and consistently prevented oA?-mediated mRNA changes in multiple inflammatory genes both in vivo and in primary microglia cultured from the mice. Microdialysis in behaving mice confirmed that EE normalized increases in the extracellular levels of the key cytokines (CCL3, CCL4, TNF?) identified by the mRNA analysis. Moreover, EE prevented the changes in microglial gene expression caused by ventricular injection of oA? extracted directly from AD cerebral cortex. We conclude that EE potently alters the form and function of microglia in a way that prevents their inflammatory response to human oA?, suggesting that prolonged environmental enrichment could protect against AD by modulating the brain's innate immune system.Environmental enrichment (EE) is a potential therapy to delay Alzheimer's disease (AD). Microglial inflammation is associated with the progression of AD, but the influence of EE on microglial inflammation is unclear. Here we systematically applied in vivo methods to show that EE alters microglia in the dentate gyrus under physiological conditions and robustly prevents microglial inflammation induced by human A? oligomers, as shown by neutralized microglial inflammatory morphology, mRNA changes, and brain interstitial fluid cytokine levels. Our findings suggest that EE alters the innate immune system and could serve as a therapeutic approach to AD and provide new targets for drug discovery. Further, we propose that the therapeutic benefits of EE could extend to other neurodegenerative diseases involving microglial inflammation.

SUBMITTER: Xu H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5005718 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Environmental Enrichment Potently Prevents Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammation by Human Amyloid β-Protein Oligomers.

Xu Huixin H Gelyana Eilrayna E Rajsombath Molly M Yang Ting T Li Shaomin S Selkoe Dennis D

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20160801 35

<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Microglial dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a key contributor to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Environmental enrichment (EE) is well documented to enhance neuronal form and function, but almost nothing is known about whether and how it alters the brain's innate immune system. Here we found that prolonged exposure of naive wild-type mice to EE significantly altered microglial density and branching complexity in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus. In wild- ...[more]

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Environmental Enrichment Potently Prevents Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammation by Human Amyloid ?-Protein Oligomers.

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Environmental Enrichment Potently Prevents Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammation by Human Amyloid β-Protein Oligomers.

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