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Caffeine blocks disruption of blood brain barrier in a rabbit model of Alzheimer's disease

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Neuroinflammation, April 2008
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Title
Caffeine blocks disruption of blood brain barrier in a rabbit model of Alzheimer's disease
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Journal of Neuroinflammation, April 2008
DOI 10.1186/1742-2094-5-12
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Xuesong Chen, Jeremy W Gawryluk, John F Wagener, Othman Ghribi, Jonathan D Geiger

Abstract

High levels of serum cholesterol and disruptions of the blood brain barrier (BBB) have all been implicated as underlying mechanisms in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Results from studies conducted in animals and humans suggest that caffeine might be protective against Alzheimer's disease but by poorly understood mechanisms. Using rabbits fed a cholesterol-enriched diet, we tested our hypothesis that chronic ingestion of caffeine protects against high cholesterol diet-induced disruptions of the BBB. New Zealand rabbits were fed a 2% cholesterol-enriched diet, and 3 mg caffeine was administered daily in drinking water for 12 weeks. Total cholesterol and caffeine concentrations from blood were measured. Olfactory bulbs (and for some studies hippocampus and cerebral cortex as well) were evaluated for BBB leakage, BBB tight junction protein expression levels, activation of astrocytes, and microglia density using histological, immunostaining and immunoblotting techniques. We found that caffeine blocked high cholesterol diet-induced increases in extravasation of IgG and fibrinogen, increases in leakage of Evan's blue dye, decreases in levels of the tight junction proteins occludin and ZO-1, increases in astrocytes activation and microglia density where IgG extravasation was present. Chronic ingestion of caffeine protects against high cholesterol diet-induced increases in disruptions of the BBB, and caffeine and drugs similar to caffeine might be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 134 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 15%
Researcher 20 14%
Student > Master 17 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 28 20%
Unknown 23 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 25 18%
Neuroscience 16 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 5%
Other 19 13%
Unknown 31 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2023.
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#1,448,021
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#137
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#3,278
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Neuroinflammation
#1
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