How repair-or-dispose decisions under stress can initiate disease progression
- Glia, the helper cells of the brain, are essential in maintaining neural resilience across time and varying challenges: By reacting to changes in neuronal health glia carefully balance repair or disposal of injured neurons. Malfunction of these interactions is implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases. We present a reductionist model that mimics repair-or-dispose decisions to generate a hypothesis for the cause of disease onset. The model assumes four tissue states: healthy and challenged tissue, primed tissue at risk of acute damage propagation, and chronic neurodegeneration. We discuss analogies to progression stages observed in the most common neurodegenerative conditions and to experimental observations of cellular signaling pathways of glia-neuron crosstalk. The model suggests that the onset of neurodegeneration can result as a compromise between two conflicting goals: short-term resilience to stressors versus long-term prevention of tissue damage.
Author: | Andreas NoldORCiD, Danylo BatulinORCiDGND, Katharina Birkner, Stefan Bittner, Tatjana TchumatchenkoORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-569095 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101701 |
ISSN: | 2589-0042 |
Parent Title (English): | iScience |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam [u.a.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/11/19 |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 101701 |
Page Number: | 31 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 477685978 |
Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) |
Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / MPI für Hirnforschung | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |