Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Soluble TREM2 ameliorates pathological phenotypes by modulating microglial functions in an Alzheimer’s disease model

  • Li Zhong,
  • Ying Xu,
  • Rengong Zhuo,
  • Tingting Wang,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Ruizhi Huang,
  • Daxin Wang,
  • Yue Gao,
  • Yifei Zhu,
  • Xuan Sheng,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Na Wang,
  • Lin Zhu,
  • Dan Can,
  • Yuka Marten,
  • Mitsuru Shinohara,
  • Chia-Chen Liu,
  • Dan Du,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Lei Wen,
  • Huaxi Xu,
  • Guojun Bu,
  • Xiao-Fen Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09118-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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TREM2 is a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, and soluble TREM2 (sTREM2) in the CSF correlates with AD progression. Here the authors study the role of sTREM2 in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, and find it reduces amyloid accumulation and increases the numbers of plaque-associated microglia which correlates with improved behavioural function in the mice.