1. Induction of amyloid-β deposits from serially transmitted, histologically silent, Aβ seeds issued from human brains
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Herard, Anne-Sophie, Petit, Fanny, Gary, Charlotte, Guillermier, Martine, Boluda, Susana, Garin, Clément, Lam, Suzanne, Dhenain, Marc, Letournel, Franck, Martin-Negrier, Marie-Laure, Faisant, Maxime, Godfraind, Catherine, Maurage, Claude-Alain, Deramecourt, Vincent, Duchesne, Mathilde, Meyronnet, David, Maues De Paula, André, Rigau, Valérie, Burel-Vandenbos, Fanny, Duyckaerts, Charles, Seilhean, Danielle, Plu, Isabelle, Milin, Serge, Chiforeanu, Dan Christian, Laquerriere, Annie, Lannes, Béatrice, Laboratoire des Maladies Neurodégénératives - UMR 9199 (LMN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Service MIRCEN (MIRCEN), Université Paris-Saclay-Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier - Déficits sensoriels et moteurs (INM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), France-Alzheimer Association, Fondation Vaincre Alzheimer, CEA bottom-up program, NeurATRIS - ANR-11-INBS-0011, Service MIRCEN (MIRCEN), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier (INM)
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Genetically modified mouse ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Amyloid ,[SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology ,Iatrogenic Disease ,Mice, Transgenic ,Plaque, Amyloid ,Endogeny ,Context (language use) ,Hippocampal formation ,β-amyloid pathology ,Hippocampus ,lcsh:RC346-429 ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Lesion ,Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Alzheimer Disease ,Presenilin-1 ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Amyloid beta-Peptides ,Tissue Extracts ,Chemistry ,Research ,Amyloidosis ,Brain ,Human brain ,Alzheimer's disease ,medicine.disease ,Immunohistochemistry ,Disease Models, Animal ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,Aβ transmission ,Alzheimer’s disease ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
In humans, iatrogenic transmission of cerebral amyloid-β (Aβ)-amyloidosis is suspected following inoculation of pituitary-derived hormones or dural grafts presumably contaminated with Aβ proteins as well as after cerebral surgeries. Experimentally, intracerebral inoculation of brain homogenate extracts containing misfolded Aβ can seed Aβ deposition in transgenic mouse models of amyloidosis or in non-human primates. The transmission of cerebral Aβ is governed by the host and by the inoculated samples. It is critical to better characterize the propensities of different hosts to develop Aβ deposition after contamination by an Aβ-positive sample as well as to better assess which biological samples can transmit this lesion. Aβ precursor protein (huAPPwt) mice express humanized non-mutated forms of Aβ precursor protein and do not spontaneously develop Aβ or amyloid deposits. We found that inoculation of Aβ-positive brain extracts from Alzheimer patients in these mice leads to a sparse Aβ deposition close to the alveus 18 months post-inoculation. However, it does not induce cortical or hippocampal Aβ deposition. Secondary inoculation of apparently amyloid deposit-free hippocampal extracts from these huAPPwt mice to APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse models of amyloidosis enhanced Aβ deposition in the alveus 9 months post-inoculation. This suggests that Aβ seeds issued from human brain samples can persist in furtive forms in brain tissues while maintaining their ability to foster Aβ deposition in receptive hosts that overexpress endogenous Aβ. This work emphasizes the need for high-level preventive measures, especially in the context of neurosurgery, to prevent the risk of iatrogenic transmission of Aβ lesions from samples with sparse amyloid markers.
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- 2020