Biotechnologia Acta

ISSN 2410-7751 (Print)
ISSN 2410-776X (Online)

Biotechnologia Acta  V. 15, No. 4, 2022
P. 18-21. Bibliography 12, Engl.
UDC: 571.27; 612.017.11; 613.112.3; 616.894-053.8
https://doi.org/10.15407/biotech15.04.018

FUNCTIONAL AND PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CIRCULATING PHAGOCYTES IN RATS WITH DIFFERENT MODELS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Nefodova A., Rudyk M., Svyatetska V., Pasichnichenko M.

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

Aim. The purpose of the study was to evaluate manifestations of systemic inflammation in rats with Alzheimer disease (AD) induced by injections of A?_1-40 and A?_25-35 by the assessment of functional polarization of circulating phagocytes.

Methods. AD was induced by intracerebral injections of A?_1–40 and A?_25–35 Wistar male rats. Intact and sham-operated animals were used as a control. AD development was affirmed by the assessment of cognitive impairment in behavioral tests (‘Open field’ test, apomorphine test, Barnes maze test), as well as by the level of death of dopaminergic neurons. The functional polarization of circulating phagocytes was designated by phagocytic activity, oxidative metabolism, and the expression of phenotypic markers CD80 and CD206, which were examined by flow cytometry.

Results. Circulating phagocytes from rats with A?_1-40-induced AD were characterized by increased fraction of phagocytizing monocytes with decreased endocytic activity, moderately up-regulated granulocyte ROS generation along with temperate increase of CD86⁺ mononuclear phagocyte fraction and high level of CD206 expression. Two widely accepted indices of systemic inflammation: NLR and SII were higher in these animals than those in control rats by 6,5 and 7,5 times respectively. In rats with A?_25-35-induced disease, significantly increased granulocyte ROS generation was registered. NLR and SII values in these animals were slightly higher than those in control rats.

Conclusion. Therefore, A?_1-40 AD model reproduces disease-associated systemic inflammation at the greater extent than A?_25-35-induced pathology, and is more appropriate for the study of inflammation in the disease pathophysiology.

Key words: Alzheimer’s disease, animal models, systemic inflammation, circulating phagocytes.

© Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2022

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