Increase of adenomatous polyposis coli immunoreactivity is a marker of reactive astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and in other pathological conditions

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Abstract
Mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor gene are responsible for colon cancer in familial adenomatous polyposis coli and in many sporadic colorectal tumors. The product of the APC gene is also essential for normal development and is expressed in the adult brain. We have investigated the immunocytochemical localization of APC in the temporal cortex and hippocampus of normal human brain, in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in several other neuropathological conditions. APC was expressed in neuronal cell bodies and dendrites both in control subjects and in patients with different diseases. In addition, a high APC expression was observed in a proportion of fibrillary and glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive astrocytes in AD. Furthermore, in AD the proportion of APC-positive astrocytes was higher in astrocytes associated with β-amyloid (Aβ) deposits in senile plaques than in astrocytes not associated to Aβ deposits. APC-positive astrocytes were also observed in control cases, in diffuse Lewy body disease, in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, in HIV encephalitis and around cerebral infarcts. Tumoral astrocytes in pilocytic astrocytoma and in glioblastoma were also strongly APC positive. APC was not detected in cultured astroglial cells. These results indicate that APC expression is up-regulated in astrocytes following their activation by several types of pathological insults and is a newly identified molecular characteristic of the reactive phenotype of astrocytes, possibly related to the control of cell proliferation. In addition, it also suggests that Aβ, and/or the inflammatory process associated with Aβ deposits, is responsible for a preferential increase of APC expression in astrocytes in AD.
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Authors K. Leroy;C. Duyckaerts;L. Bovekamp;O. Müller;B. Anderton;J. Brion;K. Leroy;C. Duyckaerts;L. Bovekamp;O. Müller;B. Anderton;J. Brion;
Journal acta neuropathologica
Year 1970
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doi:10.1007/s004010000340
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004010000340
Keywords
pathology neurosciences

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