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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020

Plasma BDNF Levels Following Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Allow Prediction of Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Deficits in 3×Tg-AD Mice.

Sara Cocco, Marco Rinaudo, Salvatore Fusco, Valentina Longo, Katia Gironi, Pietro Renna, Giuseppe Aceto, Alessia Mastrodonato, Domenica Donatella Li Puma, Maria Vittoria Podda and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sara CoccoDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Marco RinaudoDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Salvatore FuscoDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Valentina LongoDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Katia GironiDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Pietro RennaDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe AcetoDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Alessia MastrodonatoDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Domenica Donatella Li PumaDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Maria Vittoria PoddaDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Claudio GrassiDepartment of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITAgostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) supposedly increases the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. However, presently available diagnostic procedures are either invasive or require complex and expensive technologies, which cannot be applied at a larger scale to screen populations at risk of AD. We were looking for a biomarker allowing to unveil a dysfunction of molecular mechanisms, which underly synaptic plasticity and memory, before the AD phenotype is manifested and investigated the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in 3×Tg-AD mice, an experimental model of AD which does not exhibit any long-term potentiation (LTP) and memory deficits at the age of 3 months (3×Tg-AD-3M). Our results demonstrated that tDCS differentially affected 3×Tg-AD-3M and age-matched wild-type (WT) mice. While tDCS increased LTP at CA3-CA1 synapses and memory in WT mice, it failed to elicit these effects in 3×Tg-AD-3M mice. Remarkably, 3×Tg-AD-3M mice did not show the tDCS-dependent increases in pCREB

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Alzheimer’s diseaseBDNFblood biomarkersneuroplasticitypersonalized medicinetDCS

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PMID32719795
PMCPMC7349675
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