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The sleep-wake cycle regulates brain interstitial fluid tau in mice and CSF tau in humans
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The sleep-wake cycle regulates brain interstitial fluid tau in mice and CSF tau in humans

Jerrah K Holth, Sarah K Fritschi, Chanung Wang, Nigel P Pedersen, John R Cirrito, Thomas E Mahan, Mary Beth Finn, Melissa Manis, Joel C Geerling, Patrick M Fuller, …
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.363(6429), pp.880-883
02/22/2019
DOI: 10.1126/science.aav2546
PMCID: PMC6410369
PMID: 30679382
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Abstract

The sleep-wake cycle regulates interstitial fluid (ISF) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of β-amyloid (Aβ) that accumulates in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Furthermore, chronic sleep deprivation (SD) increases Aβ plaques. However, tau, not Aβ, accumulation appears to drive AD neurodegeneration. We tested whether ISF/CSF tau and tau seeding and spreading were influenced by the sleep-wake cycle and SD. Mouse ISF tau was increased ~90% during normal wakefulness versus sleep and ~100% during SD. Human CSF tau also increased more than 50% during SD. In a tau seeding-and-spreading model, chronic SD increased tau pathology spreading. Chemogenetically driven wakefulness in mice also significantly increased both ISF Aβ and tau. Thus, the sleep-wake cycle regulates ISF tau, and SD increases ISF and CSF tau as well as tau pathology spreading.
Extracellular Fluid - chemistry Wakefulness - genetics tau Proteins - metabolism Male Mice, Transgenic tau Proteins - cerebrospinal fluid Circadian Rhythm Sleep Deprivation - metabolism Brain - metabolism Extracellular Fluid - metabolism Sleep Deprivation - cerebrospinal fluid Animals Amyloid beta-Peptides - metabolism Amyloid beta-Peptides - analysis Amyloid beta-Peptides - cerebrospinal fluid Wakefulness - physiology Female Mice tau Proteins - analysis Sleep - physiology

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