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Christina Yang1, Adriena DeVisser, Jose A Martinez, Ilia Poliakov, Alma Rosales-Hernandez, Amit Ayer, Alexandra Garven, Shaila Zaver, Natalia Rincon, Kevin Xu, Ursula I Tuor, Ann Marie Schmidt, Cory Toth.
Abstract
Humans subjected to diabetes mellitus (DM) and/or hypertension (HTN) develop cognitive decline, cerebral atrophy and white matter abnormalities, but the relative effects of DM and HTN upon myelin and axonal integrity is unknown. We studied models of Type 1 (streptozotocin-induced) and Type 2 DM (ZDF) ± HTN (ZSF-1, SHR) in adult rats using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and structural and molecular techniques. Type 1 or 2 DM independently led to loss of myelin associated with changes with MRI T2 and magnetization tensor ratios throughout white matter regions. HTN's effect on myelin loss was minimal. Loss of oligodendroglia and myelin proteins was only identified in either Type 1 or Type 2 DM. Activation of the signal transduction pathways initiated by the receptor for advanced glycation end products (AGEs), RAGE, including upregulation of the signal transducer nuclear factor (NF) κB only occurred with DM. Diabetes is a greater contributor to white matter loss than hypertension in the rat brain, while hypertension only plays a mild additive effect upon neurodegeneration in the presence of diabetes.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21324363 DOI： 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.02.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurobiol Dis ISSN： 0969-9961 Impact factor: 5.996