title: [The role of actin in Alzheimer's disease].
abstract: Alzheimer's disease is associated with the formation of extracellular senile plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. In the neurons of patients, all the morphological features of apoptosis, e.g. blebbing, formation of apoptotic bodies, and chromatin condensation, as well as cytoskeleton reorganization were observed. Actin filaments interact with proteins characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, such as apolipoprotein E, amyloid precursor protein, pressenilin, and tau protein. The degeneration of neurons is associated with the formation of Hirano bodies, which contain actin, cofilin, tubulin, tau protein, and proteins of the MAP family and APP. Actin rods are also observed in postmortal brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. These 'rods' have been shown to play a role in Hirano body precursors.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Histologii i Embriologii Collegium Medicum im. L. Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, 85-092 Bydgoszcz. macost2@wp.pl
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ostrowski
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grzanka
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Izdebska
mesh_terms: D051339:Actin Depolymerizing Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000378:metabolism*; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000378:metabolism; D001057:Apolipoproteins E / Q000378:metabolism; D017209:Apoptosis; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D053764:Presenilin-1; D016875:tau Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C489697:APLP1 protein, human; D051339:Actin Depolymerizing Factors; D000199:Actins; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; D001057:Apolipoproteins E; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C508853:PSEN1 protein, human; D053764:Presenilin-1; D016875:tau Proteins