Traumatic brain injury and amyloid-β pathology: a link to Alzheimer's disease?
- 10 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Vol. 11 (5), 361-370
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2808
Abstract
Epidemiological and pathological evidence points to a link between traumatic brain injury and an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in later life. Smith and colleagues consider the mechanisms underlying this link, with a focus on axonal injury and amyloid-β accumulation after injury. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has devastating acute effects and in many cases seems to initiate long-term neurodegeneration. Indeed, an epidemiological association between TBI and the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life has been demonstrated, and it has been shown that amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques — one of the hallmarks of AD — may be found in patients within hours following TBI. Here, we explore the mechanistic underpinnings of the link between TBI and AD, focusing on the hypothesis that rapid Aβ plaque formation may result from the accumulation of amyloid precursor protein in damaged axons and a disturbed balance between Aβ genesis and catabolism following TBI.Keywords
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