RGS6 mediates exercise-induced recovery of hippocampal neurogenesis, learning, and memory in an Alzheimer's mouse model
Spicer, M. M.; Yang, J.; Fu, D. A.; DeVore, A. N.; Lauffer, M.; Sayar-Atasoy, N.; Atasoy, D. M.; Fisher, R. A.
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Hippocampal neuronal loss causes cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimers disease (AD). Adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) is reduced in AD patients. Exercise stimulates AHN in rodents and improves memory and slows cognitive decline in AD patients. However, the molecular pathways for exercise-induced AHN and improved cognition in AD are poorly understood. Here, we show that voluntary running in APPSWE mice restores their hippocampal cognitive impairments to that of control mice. This cognitive rescue was abolished by RGS6 deletion in dentate gyrus (DG) neuronal progenitors (NPs), which also abolished running-mediated increases in AHN. AHN was reduced in sedentary APPSWE mice versus control mice, with basal AHN reduced by RGS6 deletion in DG NPs. RGS6 expression is significantly lower in the DG of AD patients. Thus, RGS6 mediates exercise-induced rescue of impaired cognition and AHN in AD mice, identifying RGS6 in DG NPs as a potential target to combat hippocampal neuron loss in AD. TeaserRGS6 expression in hippocampal NPCs promotes voluntary running-induced neurogenesis and restored cognition in APPSWE mice. Field CodesRGS6, Alzheimers disease, adult hippocampal neurogenesis, neural precursor cells, dentate gyrus, exercise, learning/memory
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