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Hereditas(Beijing) ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (3): 189-197.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.21-427

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Research progress on lncRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease

Wandi Xiong1(), Kaiyu Xu4, Lin Lu1,3, Jiali Li2,4()   

  1. 1. Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100091, China
    2. National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
    3. Peking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
    4. Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanism of Chinese Academy of Science & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
  • Received:2021-12-20 Revised:2022-01-21 Online:2022-03-20 Published:2022-02-16
  • Contact: Li Jiali E-mail:wandibear@pku.edu.cn;lijiali@mail.kiz.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81761128036)

Abstract:

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the common neurodegenerative disease in the center never system and the typical dementia in old people. The major pathological changes of AD are the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, loss of cholinergic neurons, inflammation and metabolism dysfunction. However, the molecular mechanism leading to AD pathogenesis is not clear. More and more studies reported that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in AD. In this review, we briefly introduce the recent research progress on lncRNAs in AD, including their regulation of clearance of the Aβ plaques, synaptic function, inflammation reaction and mitochondrial function, and thus providing the references for that lncRNAs can serve as a potential diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target in AD.

Key words: lncRNA, Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-β, synaptic function