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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 15, 2001, 21(8):2661-2668
DNA Replication Precedes Neuronal Cell Death in Alzheimer's
Disease
Yan
Yang1, 2,
David S.
Geldmacher1, 3, and
Karl
Herrup1, 2, 3
1 University Alzheimer Center, Departments of
2 Neuroscience and 3 Neurology, University
Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating dementia of late life
that is correlated with a region-specific neuronal cell loss. Despite
progress in uncovering many of the factors that contribute to the
etiology of the disease, the cause of the nerve cell death remains
unknown. One promising theory is that the neurons degenerate because
they reenter a lethal cell cycle. This theory receives support from
immunocytochemical evidence for the reexpression of several cell
cycle-related proteins. Direct proof for DNA replication, however, has
been lacking. We report here the use of fluorescent in
situ hybridization to examine the chromosomal complement of interphase neuronal nuclei in the adult human brain. We demonstrate that a significant fraction of the hippocampal pyramidal and basal forebrain neurons in AD have fully or partially replicated four separate genetic loci on three different chromosomes. Cells in unaffected regions of the AD brain or in the hippocampus of nondemented age-matched controls show no such anomalies. We conclude that the AD
neurons complete a nearly full S phase, but because mitosis is not
initiated, the cells remain tetraploid. Quantitative analysis indicates
that the genetic imbalance persists for many months before the cells
die, and we propose that this imbalance is the direct cause of the
neuronal loss in Alzheimer's disease.
Key words:
cell cycle; PCNA; cyclin B; hippocampus; nucleus basalis; FISH (fluorescent in situ hybridization); neurodegeneration
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/2182661-08$05.00/0
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