年龄依赖性行为和生物化学特征的阿尔茨海默病的单个 APP 敲入鼠(APP)模型。
Age-dependent behavioral and biochemical characterization of single APP knock-in mouse (APP) model of Alzheimer's disease.
机构信息
Canadian Center for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Canadian Center for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
出版信息
Neurobiol Aging. 2019 Mar;75:25-37. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.10.026. Epub 2018 Nov 5.
Saito et al developed a novel amyloid precursor protein (APP) knock-in mouse model (APP) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) to overcome the problem of overexpression of APP in available transgenic mouse models. However, this new mouse model for AD is not fully characterized age-dependently with respect to behavioral and biochemical changes. Therefore, in the present study, we performed an age-dependent behavioral and biochemical characterization of this newly developed mouse model. Here, we used 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month-old APP and C57BL/6J mice. We used a separate cohort of animals at each age point. Morris water maze, object recognition, and fear-conditioning tests were used for the assessment of learning and memory functions and open-field test to measure the general locomotor activity of mice. After each testing point, we perfused the mice and collected the brain for immunostaining. We performed the immunostaining for amyloid burden (4G8), glial fibrillary acidic protein, choline acetyltransferase, and tyrosine hydroxylase. The results of the present study indicate that APP mice showed age-dependent memory impairments with maximum impairment at the age of 12 months. These mice showed memory impairment in Morris water maze and fear conditioning tests when they were 6 months old, whereas, in object recognition test, memory deficit was found in 9-month-old mice. APP mice age dependently showed an increase in amyloid load in different brain regions. However, no amyloid pathology was found in 3-month-old APP mice. Choline acetyltransferase neurons in medial septum-diagonal band complex and tyrosine hydroxylase neurons in locus coeruleus were decreased significantly in APP mice. This mouse model also indicated an age-dependent increase in glial fibrillary acidic protein load. It can be concluded from the results that the APP mouse model may be used to explore the Aβ hypothesis, molecular, and cellular mechanisms involved in AD pathology and to screen the therapeutic potential compounds for the treatment of AD.
齐藤等人开发了一种新的阿尔茨海默病淀粉样前体蛋白 (APP) 基因敲入小鼠模型 (APP),以克服现有转基因小鼠模型中 APP 过度表达的问题。然而,这种新的 AD 小鼠模型在行为和生化变化方面并未随着年龄的增长而得到充分的特征描述。因此,在本研究中,我们对这种新开发的小鼠模型进行了年龄依赖性的行为和生化特征描述。在这里,我们使用了 3 个月、6 个月、9 个月和 12 个月大的 APP 和 C57BL/6J 小鼠。我们在每个年龄点使用了一组单独的动物。我们使用 Morris 水迷宫、物体识别和恐惧条件反射测试来评估学习和记忆功能,并用旷场测试来测量小鼠的一般运动活动。在每个测试点之后,我们对小鼠进行灌注并收集大脑进行免疫染色。我们对淀粉样蛋白负荷 (4G8)、胶质纤维酸性蛋白、胆碱乙酰转移酶和酪氨酸羟化酶进行了免疫染色。本研究的结果表明,APP 小鼠表现出年龄依赖性的记忆障碍,在 12 个月时达到最大损伤。这些小鼠在 6 个月时在 Morris 水迷宫和恐惧条件反射测试中表现出记忆障碍,而在物体识别测试中,9 个月大的小鼠则出现记忆缺陷。APP 小鼠的年龄依赖性地显示出不同脑区淀粉样蛋白负荷的增加。然而,在 3 个月大的 APP 小鼠中没有发现淀粉样蛋白病理学。内侧隔核-斜角带复合体中的胆碱乙酰转移酶神经元和蓝斑核中的酪氨酸羟化酶神经元显著减少。这种小鼠模型还显示出胶质纤维酸性蛋白负荷的年龄依赖性增加。从结果可以得出结论,APP 小鼠模型可用于探索 AD 病理学中涉及的 Aβ假说、分子和细胞机制,并筛选治疗 AD 的潜在治疗化合物。