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Disease-associated astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and aging.

Nature neuroscience (2020-04-29)
Naomi Habib, Cristin McCabe, Sedi Medina, Miriam Varshavsky, Daniel Kitsberg, Raz Dvir-Szternfeld, Gilad Green, Danielle Dionne, Lan Nguyen, Jamie L Marshall, Fei Chen, Feng Zhang, Tommy Kaplan, Aviv Regev, Michal Schwartz
ABSTRACT

The role of non-neuronal cells in Alzheimer's disease progression has not been fully elucidated. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we identified a population of disease-associated astrocytes in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. These disease-associated astrocytes appeared at early disease stages and increased in abundance with disease progression. We discovered that similar astrocytes appeared in aged wild-type mice and in aging human brains, suggesting their linkage to genetic and age-related factors.

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