Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) features amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and tau tangles, yet how their coexistence reshapes brain transcriptomic programs remains unclear.
METHODS
We performed high-quality, sex-balanced single-nucleus RNA sequencing of 5XFAD (Aβ), PS19 (tau), and combined 5XFAD;PS19 mice.
RESULTS
We identified transcriptional programs that emerged most prominently under combined pathology. These programs included disruption of glial lipid metabolism and immune pathways at the network level, alongside immune and synaptic alterations coordinated between microglia and oligodendrocytes. Cross-species analyses further revealed that the pathway-level alterations under combined pathology, particularly in immune, lipid, and cell cycle programs, exhibited the strongest concordance with human AD datasets, underscoring their translational relevance.
DISCUSSION
Beyond benchmarking mouse models, this study provides a high-quality transcriptomic resource to dissect multicellular disease mechanisms in AD and to prioritize therapeutic targets for a network-level systems pharmacology approach.
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