Zhai Yun, Yamashita Toru, Nakano Yumiko, Sun Zhuoran, Shang Jingwei, Feng Tian, Morihara Ryuta, Fukui Yusuke, Ohta Yasuyuki, Hishikawa Nozomi, Abe Koji
J Alzheimers Dis. 2016 Jun 13;53(3):893-905. doi: 10.3233/JAD-160345.
Recently, aging societies have been showing an increasingly strong relationship between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (HP). In the present study, we created a new mouse model for AD with HP, and investigated its clinical and pathological characteristics. Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice (APP23) were subjected to bilateral common carotid arteries stenosis with ameroid constrictors for slowly progressive cerebral HP. In contrast to simple APP23 mice, cerebral HP exacerbated motor and cognitive dysfunctions with white matter lesions and meningo-parenchymal amyloid-β (Aβ) burdens. Strong cerebrovascular inflammation and severe amyloid angiopathy with cerebrovascular remodeling were also observed in APP23 + HP mouse brains. An acetylcholinesterase inhibitor galantamine improved such clinical dysfunctions, retrieved above neuropathological characteristics, and enhanced nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)-binding activity. The present study demonstrates that chronic cerebral HP enhanced cognitive/motor dysfunctions with parenchymal/cerebrovascular Aβ accumulation and cerebrovascular remodeling. These neuropathological abnormalities were greatly ameliorated by galantamine treatment associated with nAChR-mediated neuroprotection by allosterically potentiating ligand action.
近年来,老龄化社会中阿尔茨海默病(AD)与慢性脑灌注不足(HP)之间的关系日益密切。在本研究中,我们创建了一种伴有HP的AD新型小鼠模型,并研究了其临床和病理特征。对阿尔茨海默病转基因小鼠(APP23)使用动脉夹进行双侧颈总动脉狭窄,以造成缓慢进展性脑HP。与单纯的APP23小鼠相比,脑HP加剧了运动和认知功能障碍,并伴有白质病变和脑膜实质淀粉样β蛋白(Aβ)负荷。在APP23 + HP小鼠脑内还观察到强烈的脑血管炎症以及伴有脑血管重塑的严重淀粉样血管病。乙酰胆碱酯酶抑制剂加兰他敏改善了此类临床功能障碍,恢复了上述神经病理特征,并增强了烟碱型乙酰胆碱受体(nAChR)结合活性。本研究表明,慢性脑HP通过实质/脑血管Aβ蓄积和脑血管重塑加剧了认知/运动功能障碍。加兰他敏治疗通过变构增强配体作用介导nAChR神经保护,极大地改善了这些神经病理异常。