APOE4, Age & Sex Regulate Respiratory Plasticity Elicited By Acute Intermittent Hypercapnic-Hypoxia

Rationale: Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) is a promising strategy to induce functional motor recovery following chronic spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. Although significant results are obtained, human AIH trials report considerable inter-individual response variability.

Objectives: Identify individual factors ( e.g. , genetics, age, and sex) that determine response magnitude of healthy adults to an optimized AIH protocol, acute intermittent hypercapnic-hypoxia (AIHH).

Methods: Associations of individual factors with the magnitude of AIHH (15, 1-min O 2 =9.5%, CO 2 =5% episodes) induced changes in diaphragm motor-evoked potential amplitude (MEP) and inspiratory mouth occlusion pressures (P 0.1 ) were evaluated in 17 healthy individuals (age=27±5 years) compared to Sham. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes linked with mechanisms of AIH induced phrenic motor plasticity ( BDNF, HTR 2A , TPH 2 , MAOA, NTRK 2 ) and neuronal plasticity (apolipoprotein E, APOE ) were tested. Variations in AIHH induced plasticity with age and sex were also analyzed. Additional experiments in humanized ( h ) ApoE knock-in rats were performed to test causality.

Results: AIHH-induced changes in diaphragm MEP amplitudes were lower in individuals heterozygous for APOE 4 ( i.e., APOE 3/4 ) allele versus other APOE genotypes (p=0.048). No significant differences were observed between any other SNPs investigated, notably BDNFval/met ( all p>0.05 ). Males exhibited a greater diaphragm MEP enhancement versus females, regardless of age (p=0.004). Age was inversely related with change in P 0.1 within the limited age range studied (p=0.007). In hApoE 4 knock-in rats, AIHH-induced phrenic motor plasticity was significantly lower than hApoE 3 controls (p<0.05).

Conclusions: APOE 4 genotype, sex and age are important biological determinants of AIHH-induced respiratory motor plasticity in healthy adults.

ADDITION TO KNOWLEDGE BASE: Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) is a novel rehabilitation strategy to induce functional recovery of respiratory and non-respiratory motor systems in people with chronic spinal cord injury and/or neurodegenerative diseases. Since most AIH trials report considerable inter-individual variability in AIH outcomes, we investigated factors that potentially undermine the response to an optimized AIH protocol, acute intermittent hypercapnic-hypoxia (AIHH), in healthy humans. We demonstrate that genetics (particularly the lipid transporter, APOE ), age and sex are important biological determinants of AIHH-induced respiratory motor plasticity.

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UpdateIn: Function (Oxf). 2023 Jun 13;4(5):zqad026. - PMID 37575478

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 07. Jan.

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Englisch

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Nair, Jayakrishnan [VerfasserIn]
Welch, Joseph F [VerfasserIn]
Marciante, Alexandria B [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Tingting [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Fox, Emily J [VerfasserIn]
Mitchell, Gordon S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 18.08.2023

published: Electronic

UpdateIn: Function (Oxf). 2023 Jun 13;4(5):zqad026. - PMID 37575478

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10.1101/2023.01.06.522840

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