Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common late-onset dementia characterized by the deposition of extracellular amyloid plaques and formation of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, which eventually lead to neuronal loss and cognitive deficits. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that mitochondrial dysfunction is involved in the initiation and progression of AD. As essential machinery for mitochondrial quality control, mitophagy plays a housekeeping role in neuronal cells by eliminating dysfunctional or excessive mitochondria. At present, mounting evidence support that the activity of mitophagy markedly declines in human brains during aging. Impaired mitophagy and mitochondrial dysfunction were causally linked to bioenergetic deficiency, oxidative stress, microglial activation, and chronic inflammation, thereby aggravating the Aβ and tau pathologies and leading to neuron loss in AD. This review summarizes recent evidence for age-associated mitophagy decline during human aging and provides an overview of mitochondrial dysfunction involved in the process of AD. It also discusses the underlying mechanisms through which defective mitophagy leads to neuronal cell death in AD. Therapeutic interventions aiming to restore mitophagy functions can be used as a strategy for ameliorating AD pathogenesis.
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Abbreviations
- Aβ:
-
Amyloid beta
- AD:
-
Alzheimer disease
- APP:
-
Amyloid precursor protein
- IL-1β:
-
Interleukin-1β
- ROS:
-
Reactive oxygen species
- NFT:
-
Neurofibrillary tangles
- TNF:
-
Tumor necrosis factor
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Song, M., Zhao, X. & Song, F. Aging-Dependent Mitophagy Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease. Mol Neurobiol 58, 2362–2378 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-020-02248-y
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