Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, P3 R&D, Portland, OR, USA.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2010;21(3):903-14. doi: 10.3233/JAD-2010-100408.
There is increasing evidence for the crucial role of metals in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Both the aggregation and neurotoxicity of amyloid-β are dependent on the presence of copper. This study investigated the ability of the copper-complexing drug tetrathiomolybdate to reduce amyloid-β pathology and spatial memory impairment in both a prevention and a treatment paradigm in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Tetrathiomolybdate treatment lowered brain copper and reduced amyloid-β levels in the prevention paradigm, but not in the treatment paradigm. Our data suggests that controlled lowering of systemic copper may achieve anti-amyloid effects if initiated early in the disease process.
越来越多的证据表明金属在阿尔茨海默病的病理学中起着关键作用。淀粉样蛋白-β的聚集和神经毒性都依赖于铜的存在。本研究在阿尔茨海默病的 Tg2576 小鼠模型中,通过预防和治疗两种模式,研究了铜络合剂四硫钼酸盐降低淀粉样蛋白-β病理学和空间记忆障碍的能力。在预防模式中,四硫钼酸盐处理降低了大脑中的铜含量并降低了淀粉样蛋白-β水平,但在治疗模式中则没有。我们的数据表明,如果在疾病早期开始,系统铜的受控降低可能会产生抗淀粉样蛋白的效果。