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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Ren, Qing-Guoa; 1; * | Wang, Yan-Juana; 1 | Gong, Wei-Ganga | Xu, Linb; c | Zhang, Zhi-Juna; *
Affiliations: [a] Department of Neuropsychiatry, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China | [b] Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, China | [c] Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Qing-Guo Ren, PhD, and Prof. Zhi-Jun Zhang, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Tel.: +86 25 83262255; Fax: +86 25 83262255; E-mails: renqingguo1976@163.com; zhijunzhang@seu.edu.cn
Note: [1] These authors contributed equally to this work.
Abstract: Here, we investigated the effect of escitalopram pretreatment on protein kinase A (PKA)-induced tau hyperphosphorylation and spatial memory deficits in rats using western blot and behavioral tests, respectively. We demonstrated that escitalopram effectively ameliorated tau hyperphosphorylation and the spatial memory deficits induced by PKA activation. We measured the total and activity-dependent Ser9-phosphorylated levels of glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3β in hippocampal extracts. No significant change in the total level of GSK-3β was observed between the different groups. However, compared with forskolin injection alone, pretreatment with escitalopram increased the level of Ser9-phosphorylated GSK-3β. We also demonstrated that escitalopram increased Akt phosphorylation at Ser473 (the active form of Akt). Furthermore, we identified other important kinases and phosphatases, such as protein phosphatase 2A, extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2, and MAP kinase kinase-1/2, that have previously been reported to play a crucial role in tau phosphorylation; however, we did not detect any significant change in the activation of these kinases or phosphatases in our study. We unexpectedly demonstrated that forskolin caused anxiety-like behavior in rats, and pretreatment with escitalopram did not significantly ameliorate the anxiety-like behavior induced by forskolin. These data provide the first evidence that escitalopram ameliorates forskolin-induced tau hyperphosphorylation and spatial memory impairment in rats; these effects do not occur via the anti-anxiety activity of escitalopram but may involve the Akt/GSK-3β signaling pathway.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, escitalopram, PKA, tau
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-143012
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 61-71, 2015
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