Investigating the cause of cerebral blood flow reductions in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia

探讨额颞叶痴呆小鼠模型脑血流量减少的原因

基本信息

批准号：
10525598
负责人：
Oliver Bracko
金额：
$ 41.08万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-08-01 至 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10525598
关键词：
Alzheimer&apos s Disease Alzheimer&apos s disease model Antibodies Behavioral Assay Blood - brain barrier anatomy Blood Cells Blood Vessels Blood capillaries Blood flow Candidate Disease Gene Cell surface Cells Cerebrovascular Circulation Characteristics Cognitive deficits Data Data Set Databases Dementia Development Disease Endothelial Cells Endothelium Fluorescence Frontotemporal Dementia Functional Imaging Functional disorder Gene Proteins Grant Image Imaging Device Impaired cognition Impairment Individual Inflammation Label Leukocytes Light Link Measures Membrane Microcirculation Microglia Microvascular Dysfunction Modeling Molecular Molecular Abnormality Mus Nerve Degeneration Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurons Obstruction Oxidative Stress PGRN gene Pathologic Pathology Pathway Analysis Pathway interactions Patients Pericytes Pharmaceutical Preparations Prefrontal Cortex Protein Analysis Proteomics Reporter Resolution Role Severities Short-Term Memory Site Symptoms Thinness Tissues Wild Type Mouse Work cell type constriction density excitotoxicity experimental study fluorescence imaging imaging approach improved in vivo in vivo Model in vivo imaging insight loss of function mutation mouse model multiphoton imaging multiple omics neurovascular unit neutrophil new therapeutic target novel novel therapeutic intervention novel therapeutics protein degradation transcriptome transcriptome sequencing transcriptomics two-photon vascular contributions vascular inflammation

项目摘要

Summary: Substantial reductions in brain blood flow are found in patients and mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD). These blood flow reductions likely contribute to disease symptoms and progression, but the mechanism remains unknown. Recently, two new mechanisms contributing to brain blood flow reductions in Alzheimer's disease were proposed. Interestingly, both capillary stalling and pericyte constriction are associated with microvasculature dysfunction. In preliminary experiments, the PI has shown that capillary stalling found in Alzheimer's disease mice, also occurs in Progranulin (PGRN) deficient mice, a model for FTD. Thus, the project proposed here will investigate the contribution of stalled blood flow and pericyte constriction in capillaries to brain blood flow reductions. Further, this project aims to elucidate the mechanism behind these phenomena using transcriptome analyses and cell-surface proteomics of microvessels from PGRN-deficient mice. The pathology and region predicted to suffer from blood flow reductions in the PGRN deficient mice is the prefrontal cortex, which can be readily studied with the two-photon excited fluorescence imaging tools used previously by the PI. Preliminary data suggests that PRGN-deficient mice display increased capillary stalling caused by white blood cells adhered to the endothelium. For Aim 1, we will use high-resolution, multiphoton, in vivo imaging approaches to structurally and functionally determine blood flow rates in individual capillaries, measure capillary stalling and pericyte constriction, and their interplay. This data will identify the cause of brain blood flow reduction associated with FTD. Aim 2 will elucidate the molecular mechanism linking vascular inflammation to brain blood flow reductions in PGRN-deficient mice by using transcriptomic and cell-surface proteomics to profile microvessels. These experiments will generate two datasets that will allow us to pinpoint molecular aberrations in microvessels of PGRN deficient mice. The data will also shed light on the role of vascular inflammation and vascular obstructions contributing to blood flow reductions. Selected genes and proteins identified in these screens will be independently confirmed and later further analyzed by functional in vivo multiphoton imaging, labeling antibodies, inhibiting drugs, and/or cell-type-specific mouse models. We predict that candidate genes and proteins will be involved in vascular inflammation and associated with oxidative stress, blood-brain barrier breakdown, protein degradation, and lysosomal dysfunction. The idea of capillary stalling is new, and - if confirmed -, could represent a mechanism contributing to brain blood flow reductions in neurodegenerative disease in general, and not just specifically to FTD. If correct, novel therapeutic strategies targeting microvascular inflammation could be developed to improve brain blood flow in patients with FTD and possibly in other neurogenerative diseases with reductions in brain blood flow.

摘要：在患有以下疾病的患者和小鼠模型中发现脑血流量大幅减少神经退行性疾病，包括额颞叶痴呆（FTD）。这些血流量减少可能有助于疾病症状和进展，但其机制仍不清楚。最近，研究人员发现了导致阿尔茨海默病脑血流量减少的两种新机制建议的。有趣的是，毛细血管停滞和周细胞收缩都与微脉管系统有关功能障碍。在初步实验中，PI 表明，阿尔茨海默病中存在毛细血管停滞小鼠中，颗粒体蛋白前体 (PGRN) 缺陷小鼠（FTD 的一种模型）也发生这种情况。因此，这里提出的项目将研究毛细血管中血流停滞和周细胞收缩对脑血流的贡献减少。此外，该项目旨在利用 PGRN 缺陷小鼠微血管的转录组分析和细胞表面蛋白质组学。 PGRN 缺陷小鼠中预计会出现血流减少的病理学和区域是前额皮质，可以使用双光子激发荧光成像工具轻松研究之前由 PI 负责。初步数据表明 PRGN 缺陷小鼠毛细血管停滞增加由粘附于内皮的白细胞引起。对于目标 1，我们将使用高分辨率、多光子、体内成像方法从结构和功能上确定单个毛细血管的血流量，测量毛细血管停滞和周细胞收缩及其相互作用。该数据将确定问题的原因与 FTD 相关的脑血流量减少。目标 2 将阐明血管炎症与脑血流量减少之间的分子机制使用转录组学和细胞表面蛋白质组学来分析 PGRN 缺陷小鼠的微血管。这些实验将生成两个数据集，使我们能够查明微血管中的分子畸变 PGRN 缺陷小鼠。这些数据还将揭示血管炎症和血管疾病的作用。阻塞导致血流量减少。在这些筛选中鉴定出的选定基因和蛋白质将通过功能性体内多光子成像、标记进行独立确认和进一步分析抗体、抑制药物和/或细胞类型特异性小鼠模型。我们预测候选基因和蛋白质将参与血管炎症并与氧化应激、血脑屏障相关分解、蛋白质降解和溶酶体功能障碍。毛细血管停滞的想法是新的，如果得到证实，可能代表一种有助于大脑的机制一般神经退行性疾病中的血流量减少，而不仅仅是 FTD 所特有的。如果正确的话，可以开发针对微血管炎症的新治疗策略来改善脑血液 FTD 患者的血流量以及其他神经生成疾病患者的脑血流量可能会减少。