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Brain samples from ten AD and seven control mice were prepared through a hydrophilic tissue-clearing pipeline and immunostained with thioflavin S (\u03b2-amyloid), anti-CD11b antibody (microglia), and anti-ACSA-2 antibody (astrocytes). The 5xFAD group exhibited significantly higher average total surface volumes of \u03b2-amyloid accumulation than the control group (AD, 898,634,368 \u00b5m3 [383,355,488\u20131,324,986,752]; control, 33,320,178 \u00b5m3 [11,156,785\u201365,390,988], p = 0.0006). Within the AD group, there was significant interindividual and interindividual variability concerning the number and surface volume of individual amyloid particles throughout the entire brain. In the context of neuroinflammation, the 5xFAD group showed significantly higher average total surface volumes of anti-ACSA-2-labeled astrocytes (AD, 59,064,360 \u00b5m3 [27,815,500\u2013222,619,280]; control, 20,272,722 \u00b5m3 [9,317,288\u201327,223,352], p = 0.0047) and anti-CD11b labeled microglia (AD, 51,210,100 \u00b5m3 [15,309,118\u2013135,532,144]; control, 23,461,593 \u00b5m3 [14,499,170\u201327,924,110], p = 0.0162) than the control group. Contrary to the long-standing finding that early-stage neuroinflammation precedes the subsequent later-stage of neurodegeneration, our data reveal that the second wave, late-stage active neuroinflammation persists in the aged AD brains, even as they continue to show signs of ongoing neurodegeneration and significant amyloid accumulation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms242317058","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,2]],"date-time":"2023-12-02T13:45:41Z","timestamp":1701524741000},"page":"17058","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Second Wave, Late-Stage Neuroinflammation in Cleared Brains of Aged 5xFAD Alzheimer\u2019s Mice Detected by Macrolaser Light Sheet Microscopy Imaging"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4580-3918","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Suk Hyun","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul 07441, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1290-0949","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hye Joo","family":"Son","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dankook University Medical Center, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alzheimer\u2019s Association (2018). 2018 Alzheimer\u2019s disease facts and figures. 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