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ArticleScientific reports2025

Analysis of changes in intercellular communications in Alzheimer's disease reveals conserved changes in glutamatergic transmission in mice and humans.

Katrina Bartas, Megan Nguyen, Wei Zhao, May Hui, Qing Nie, Kevin T Beier

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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6 authors.

Katrina BartasProgram in Mathematical, Computational, and Systems Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA.
Megan NguyenDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA.
Wei ZhaoDepartment of Mathematics, NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA.
May HuiDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA.
Qing NieDepartment of Mathematics, NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA.
Kevin T BeierDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA. kbeier@uci.edu.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008620 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI GOLDIN, ALAN L · 1999 to 2023
$8.1M
INVESTIGATING FUNCTION OF NOVEL DRUG-INDUCED SYNAPTIC CHANGES IN THE VTAR00DA041445 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BEIER, KEVIN T · 2018 to 2020
$747k
Alzheimer's Association AARG-NTF-20-685694Brightfocus Foundation A2022031SNational Science Foundation DMS1763272New Vision Research CCAD2020-002NIH HHS GM136624NIH HHS R00DA041445NIH HHS T32GM008620One Mind OM-5596678Simons Foundation 594598Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program T31KT1437
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Abstract

Analysis of system-wide cellular communication changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has recently been enabled by single nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and new computational methods. Here, we combined these to analyze data from postmortem human tissue from the entorhinal cortex of people with AD and compared our findings to those from multiomic data from the 5xFAD amyloidogenic mouse model at two different time points. Using the cellular communication inference tool CellChat we found that disease-related changes were largely related to neuronal excitability as well as synaptic communication, with specific signaling pathways including BMP, EGF, and EPHA, and relatively poor conservation of glial-related changes during disease. Further analysis using the neuron-specific NeuronChat revealed changes relating to metabotropic glutamate receptors as well as neuronal adhesion molecules including neurexins and neuroligins. Our results that cellular processes relating to excitotoxicity are the best conserved between 5xFAD mice and AD suggest that excitotoxicity is the main common feature between pathogenesis in 5xFAD mice and people with AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCell CommunicationGlutamic AcidSynaptic TransmissionAgedAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalEntorhinal CortexFemaleHumansMaleMiceMice, TransgenicNeuronsSignal TransductionGlutamic Acid

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PMID40683902
PMCPMC12276270

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