Title
Multifarious roles of mTOR signaling in cognitive aging and cerebrovascular dysfunction of Alzheimer's disease
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Uddin M.S.
Rahman M.A.
Kabir M.T.
Behl T.
Mathew B.
Perveen A.
Bin-Jumah M.N.
Abdel-Daim M.M.
Ashraf G.M.
Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Age-related cognitive failure is a main devastating incident affecting even healthy people. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the utmost common form of dementia among the geriatric community. In the pathogenesis of AD, cerebrovascular dysfunction is revealed before the beginning of the cognitive decline. Mounting proof shows a precarious impact of cerebrovascular dysregulation in the development of AD pathology. Recent studies document that the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) acts as a crucial effector of cerebrovascular dysregulation in AD. The mTOR contributes to brain vascular dysfunction and subsequence cerebral blood flow deficits as well as cognitive impairment. Furthermore, mTOR causes the blood–brain barrier (BBB) breakdown in AD models. Inhibition of mTOR hyperactivity protects the BBB integrity in AD. Furthermore, mTOR drives cognitive defect and cerebrovascular dysfunction, which are greatly prevalent in AD, but the central molecular mechanisms underlying these alterations are obscure. This review represents the crucial and current research findings regarding the role of mTOR signaling in cognitive aging and cerebrovascular dysfunction in the pathogenesis of AD.
Start page
1843
End page
1855
Volume
72
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurociencias
Geriatría, Gerontología
Sistema cardiaco, Sistema cardiovascular
Subjects
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85085600811
PubMed ID
Source
IUBMB Life
ISSN of the container
15216543
Sponsor(s)
This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University through the Fast‐Track Research Funding Program.
Sources of information:
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