Masuda Akira, Kobayashi Yuki, Kogo Naomi, Saito Takashi, Saido Takaomi C, Itohara Shigeyoshi
Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2016 Nov;135:73-82. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.07.001. Epub 2016 Jul 1.
Transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) with nonphysiologic overexpression of amyloid precursor protein (APP) exhibit various unnatural symptoms/dysfunctions. To overcome this issue, mice with single humanized App knock-in (KI) carrying Swedish (NL), Beyreuther/Iberian (F), and Arctic (G) mutations in different combinations were recently developed. The validity of these mouse models of AD from a behavioral viewpoint, however, has not been extensively evaluated. Thus, using an automated behavior monitoring system, we analyzed various behavioral domains, including executive function, and learning and memory. The App-KI mice carrying NL-G-F mutations showed clear deficits in spatial memory and flexible learning, enhanced compulsive behavior, and reduced attention performance. Mice carrying NL-F mutations exhibited modest abnormalities. The NL-G-F mice had a greater and more rapid accumulation of Aβ deposits and glial responses. These findings reveal that single pathologic App-KI is sufficient to produce deficits in broad cognitive domains and that App-KI mouse lines with different levels of pathophysiology are useful models of AD.
阿尔茨海默病(AD)转基因小鼠模型中淀粉样前体蛋白(APP)的非生理性过表达会表现出各种非自然症状/功能障碍。为克服这一问题,最近开发了在不同组合中携带瑞典(NL)、贝鲁特/伊比利亚(F)和北极(G)突变的单个人源化App基因敲入(KI)小鼠。然而,从行为学角度来看,这些AD小鼠模型的有效性尚未得到广泛评估。因此,我们使用自动行为监测系统分析了包括执行功能以及学习和记忆在内的各种行为领域。携带NL-G-F突变的App-KI小鼠在空间记忆和灵活学习方面表现出明显缺陷,强迫行为增强,注意力表现降低。携带NL-F突变的小鼠表现出适度异常。NL-G-F小鼠的Aβ沉积物和神经胶质反应积累得更多、更快。这些发现表明,单一病理性App-KI足以在广泛的认知领域产生缺陷,并且具有不同病理生理水平的App-KI小鼠品系是AD的有用模型。