Alberto Serrano-Pozo, Huan Li, Zhaozhi Li, Clara Muñoz-Castro, Methasit Jaisa-aad, Molly A. Healey, Lindsay A. Welikovitch, Rojashree Jayakumar, Annie G. Bryant, Ayush Noori, Theresa R. Connors, Miwei Hu, Karen Zhao, Fan Liao, Gen Lin, Timothy Pastika, Joseph Tamm, Aicha Abdourahman, Taekyung Kwon, Rachel E. Bennett, Maya E. Woodbury, Astrid Wachter, Robert V. Talanian, Knut Biber, Eric H. Karran, Bradley T. Hyman, Sudeshna Das
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Abstract
Astrocytes are crucial to brain homeostasis, yet their changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) neuropathology remain unexplored. Here we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing of 628,943 astrocytes from five brain regions representing the stereotypical progression of AD pathology across 32 donors spanning the entire normal aging to severe AD continuum. We mapped out several unique astrocyte subclusters that exhibited varying responses to neuropathology across the AD-vulnerable neural network (spatial axis) or AD pathology stage (temporal axis). The proportion of homeostatic, intermediate and reactive astrocytes changed only along the spatial axis, whereas two other subclusters changed along the temporal axis. One of these, a trophic factor-rich subcluster, declined along pathology stages, whereas the other increased in the late stage but returned to baseline levels in the end stage, suggesting an exhausted response with chronic exposure to neuropathology. Our study underscores the complex dynamics of astrocytic responses in AD.
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