Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

miR-135a-5p mediates memory and synaptic impairments via the Rock2/Adducin1 signaling pathway in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

  • Kai Zheng,
  • Fan Hu,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Juan Zhang,
  • Jie Zheng,
  • Chuan Lai,
  • Wan Xiong,
  • Ke Cui,
  • Ya-Zhuo Hu,
  • Zhi-Tao Han,
  • Hong-Hong Zhang,
  • Jian-Guo Chen,
  • Heng-Ye Man,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Youming Lu,
  • Ling-Qiang Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22196-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Several micro RNAs have been shown to be deregulated in brain tissue or sera from individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and in AD mouse models. The authors show that miR-135a-5p is downregulated in excitatory pyramidal neurons from AD mice and that dysfunction of miR-135a-5p/Rock2/Add1 results in memory/synaptic disorder in AD.