Shared proteomic effects of cerebral atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease on the human brain.
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SUBMITTER: Wingo AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7269838 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
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Shared proteomic effects of cerebral atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease on the human brain.
Wingo Aliza P AP Fan Wen W Duong Duc M DM Gerasimov Ekaterina S ES Dammer Eric B EB Liu Yue Y Harerimana Nadia V NV White Bartholomew B Thambisetty Madhav M Troncoso Juan C JC Kim Namhee N Schneider Julie A JA Hajjar Ihab M IM Lah James J JJ Bennett David A DA Seyfried Nicholas T NT Levey Allan I AI Wingo Thomas S TS
Nature neuroscience 20200518 6
Cerebral atherosclerosis contributes to dementia via unclear processes. We performed proteomic sequencing of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in 438 older individuals and found associations between cerebral atherosclerosis and reduced synaptic signaling and between RNA splicing and increased oligodendrocyte development and myelination. Consistently, single-cell RNA sequencing showed cerebral atherosclerosis associated with higher oligodendrocyte abundance. A subset of proteins and modules associat ...[more]
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