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The lateral entorhinal cortex is a hub for local and global dysfunction in early Alzheimer’s disease states

F. Mandino,Ling Yun Yeow,Renzhe Bi,Lee Sejin,H. Bae,S. Baek,C. Lee,H. Mohammad,C. Horien,C. L. Teoh,Jasinda H. Lee,Mitchell KP Lai,Sangyong Jung,Yu Fu,M. Olivo,J. Gigg,J. Grandjean

Published 2022 in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

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Functional network activity alterations are one of the earliest hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), detected prior to amyloidosis and tauopathy. Better understanding the neuronal underpinnings of such network alterations could offer mechanistic insight into AD progression. Here, we examined a mouse model (3xTgAD mice) recapitulating this early AD stage. We found resting functional connectivity loss within ventral networks, including the entorhinal cortex, aligning with the spatial distribution of tauopathy reported in humans. Unexpectedly, in contrast to decreased connectivity at rest, 3xTgAD mice show enhanced fMRI signal within several projection areas following optogenetic activation of the entorhinal cortex. We corroborate this finding by demonstrating neuronal facilitation within ventral networks and synaptic hyperexcitability in projection targets. 3xTgAD mice, thus, reveal a dichotomic hypo-connected:resting versus hyper-responsive:active phenotype. This strong homotopy between the areas affected supports the translatability of this pathophysiological model to tau-related, early-AD deficits in humans.

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