Knockdown of astrocytic TREM2 in the hippocampus relieves cognitive decline in elderly male mice
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With the lengthening of the human lifespan, an increasing proportion of the population is subject to age-related cognitive impairments, making it important to investigate ways to confront the effects of aging. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is an innate immune receptor that is expressed mainly on the surfaces of microglia. Previous studies have found a significant positive correlation between age and TREM2 levels. An increased concentration of soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid was also found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Although TREM2 is more highly expressed in microglia than in astrocytes, little attention has been focused on astrocytic TREM2, and the precise role of astrocytic TREM2 in the aging process remains unknown. In this study, we injected TREM2 shRNA into the hippocampal CA1 region to specifically knock down the expression of this protein in astrocytes. We found that TREM2 shRNA injection can improve learning and memory ability in elderly mice, as demonstrated by improved learning ability and memory performance in the Morris water maze (MWM) test, an increased freezing duration in the contextual fear conditioning test, a higher preference ratio in the novel object recognition (NOR) test and a higher alternation rate in the T-maze test. Knocking down astrocytic TREM2 can also rescue impaired long-term potentiation (LTP) induction in the hippocampal CA1 of elderly mice through a presynaptic mechanism. Our results suggest that decreased astrocytic TREM2 levels have beneficial effects on learning and memory ability in elderly mice, which may provide new insight into the pathological mechanism and potential targets of age-related dementia.
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