Autophagic processes in early- and late- onset Alzheimer's disease
Creators
- 1. 1Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, 1478 Lørenskog, Norway
- 2. 1Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, 1478 Lørenskog, Norway; The Norwegian Centre on Healthy Ageing (NO-Age), Oslo, Norway
- 3. Memory Clinic, Department of Neurology, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
- 4. Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Description
Autophagy plays a fundamental role in maintaining intracellular homeostasis and cell survival by degrading damaged and unnecessary subcellular components via the lysosome. Impaired autophagy is evident in otherwise ‘normal’ elderly individuals and patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). As the most common type of dementia, AD is an age-associated disease with memory loss as the primary clinical feature, as well as extracellular Aβ plaques and intracellular Tau tangles as disease-defining pathological features. Recent studies in animal models of AD, AD patient-derived stem cells, and AD post-mortem brain tissues suggest that compromised mitophagy/autophagy, plays a causative role in AD progression. Supporting this hypothesis, pharmacological approaches to induce mitophagy/autophagy, e.g., the use of the small natural molecule NAD+, slow down AD progression in animal models. This chapter reviews the extant literature on autophagy in AD, covers recent progress on the molecular mechanisms of NAD+-dependent mitophagy/autophagy regulation and mechanisms underlying the anti-AD potential of NAD+. Further studies to define the NAD+-mitophagy/autophagy axis may shed light on novel therapeutics to treat AD, and potentially provide insights into other neurodegenerative diseases.
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