Human but not rat amylin shares neurotoxic properties with Aβ42 in long-term hippocampal and cortical cultures

Yun-An Lim; Lars M. Ittner; Yun Li Lim; Jürgen Götz

doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2008.05.006

Human but not rat amylin shares neurotoxic properties with Aβ42 in long-term hippocampal and cortical cultures

Yun-An Lim, Lars M. Ittner, Yun Li Lim, Jürgen Götz^*

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Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share epidemiological and biochemical features. Both are characterized by insoluble protein aggregates with a fibrillar conformation - amylin in Type 2 DM pancreatic islets, and Aβ in AD brain. To determine whether amylin shares neurotoxic properties with Aβ, we incubated hippocampal and cortical neurons with Aβ42 and human amylin. Different from non-amyloidogenic rat amylin, both caused a dose-, time- and cell type-specific neurotoxicity supporting the notion of a similar toxic mechanism. Depending on the cell type, this finding is also supported by co-incubation of human amylin and Aβ.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2188-2194
Number of pages	7
Journal	FEBS Letters
Volume	582
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2008.05.006
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aβ42 amyloid
Alzheimer's disease
Amylin
Cell-type specificity
Conformational disease
IAPP
Neurotoxicity
Type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Human but not rat amylin shares neurotoxic properties with Aβ42 in long-term hippocampal and cortical cultures

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