中国神经再生研究(英文版) ›› 2023, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (12): 2667-2668.doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.373702

• 观点:退行性病与再生 • 上一篇    下一篇

C端CX3CL1在减少年龄依赖性神经退行性变中的作用

  

  • 出版日期:2023-12-15 发布日期:2023-06-14

Exploration of C-terminal CX3CL1 for reducing age-dependent neurodegeneration

Jacob Hudobenko, Manoshi Gayen, Marc R. Benoit, Neeraj Singh, Riqiang Yan*#br#   

  1. Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT, USA
  • Online:2023-12-15 Published:2023-06-14
  • Contact: Riqiang Yan, PhD, riyan@uchc.edu.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by grants RF1AG058261, AG025493, NS074256, and AG046929 from the National Institutes of Health (to RY). Dr. Yan’s lab was also supported by the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.

摘要: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7195-7617 (Riqiang Yan) 

Abstract: Owing to the increasing life expectancy, the prevalence of age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases will exert an enormous toll on our aging population, their caregivers and the healthcare system. It is anticipated that numbers of patients suffering from diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and other neurodegenerative diseases are poised to increase markedly over the next few decades. Therefore, discovering treatments that mitigate the deleterious effects of these diseases is imperative. The common feature of neurodegenerative diseases is the loss of neurons, due to the accumulation of abnormal protein aggregates, which eventually cause dysfunction and death of neurons (Wareham et al., 2022). Stem cell niches are present in the adult brain, but the majority of neurogenesis takes place before adulthood, meaning that the terminally differentiated neurons, lost to neurodegenerative diseases, are unlikely to be replaced under normal physiological conditions. The loss of functional neurons will lead to permanent disability for patients. To date, the drug discovery effort for treating individual neurodegenerative diseases including AD, PD, and Huntington’s disease (HD) has been enormous, but the therapeutic strategy for preventing neuron loss in multiple neurodegenerative diseases is scarce.  In this perspective, we will discuss a recently discovered small peptide (Fan et al., 2019), named CX3CL1-ICD, which is derived from the intracellular domain of CX3CL1, for its translational potential through both enhancing neurogenesis and reducing neuronal apoptosis in neurodegenerative diseases.