Multi-modal choroid plexus pathology in aging and Alzheimer's disease
Xu, H.; Lotfy, P.; Englert, B.; Oberhauser, J.; Byer, L. I. J.; Wihlman, J.; Colangelo, K.; Okar, S. V.; Thommana, A.; Puttonen, H.; Mäyränpää, M. I.; Tuimala, J.; Pedrosa, R.; Kumar, D.; Haberberger, J. F.; Atkins, M. E.; Alimukhamedov, S.; Pragana, A.; Benson, J.; Gabrielle, M. E.; Dong, A.; DurantLaforet, V.; Lin, P. B.-C.; Keene, C. D.; Latimer, C. S.; Prater, K. E.; Holtzman, D. M.; Isakova, A. E.; Wyss-Coray, T.; Schafer, D. P.; Reich, D. S.; Lehtimäki, T.; Karhunen, P. J.; Kok, E.; Jansson, D.; Yang, A. C.; Myllykangas, L.; Ordovas-Montanes, J.; Lehtinen, M. K.
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Brain barriers, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics, and peripheral factors are implicated as significant contributors to Alzheimers disease (AD). The choroid plexus (ChP) is a blood-brain interface that produces CSF and forms the blood-CSF barrier. However, how ChP pathology develops across the lifespan and contributes to AD has not been systematically characterized. Here, we report a multi-modal ChP atlas integrating single-nucleus transcriptomics from 49 individuals, AI-assisted quantitative histopathology across >500 postmortem samples age 16 to 105, spatial transcriptomics, and functional studies in 5xFAD mice. We identify fibrosis, calcification, and macrophage abnormalities as hallmarks of ChP aging, with AD pathology conferring additional effects, including expansion of a pro-inflammatory fibroblast-macrophage signaling niche. In 5xFAD mice, macrophage dysfunction is associated with impaired epithelial barrier maintenance and repair. Together, these data provide a foundational resource for understanding ChP dysfunction in aging and AD and propose the macrophage-fibroblast-epithelial barrier axis as a driver of ChP pathology.
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