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Whereas, in most brain compartments, neuronal cell renewal during early life is replaced by synaptic plasticity and the potentiation of existing pathways and connections, neurogenesis in the hippocampus occurs throughout adulthood. Neuronal progenitor cells in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus are thought to be the gatekeepers of memory. Neural progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation depends on their intrinsic properties and local environment and is down-regulated in conditions associated with brain inflammation. Conversely, newly-formed neurones can survive despite chronic inflammation and, moreover, specifically arise within an inflammatory environment. Since the endocannabinoid system controls immune responses via multiple cellular and molecular targets and influences cell proliferation, fate decision and cell survival in the central nervous system, we summarise how neurogenesis might be regulated by brain cannabinoids, either directly or indirectly via the immune system. This review presents clear evidence that the cannabinoid system influences adult neurogenesis. However, there is considerable variability with regard to the strain, model and methods utilised and therefore it is difficult to compare studies investigating the cannabinoid system. As a result, it remains far from clear exactly how endocannabinoids regulate neurogenesis.
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- S A Wolf
- Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Pietropaolo S, Sun Y, Li R, Brana C, Feldon J, Yee BK. The impact of voluntary exercise on mental health in rodents: a neuroplasticity perspective. Behav Brain Res 2008; 192:42-60. [PMID: 18468702 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2007] [Revised: 03/06/2008] [Accepted: 03/13/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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There is growing interest in the effects of voluntary wheel running activity on brain and behaviour in laboratory rodents and their implications to humans. Here, the major findings to date on the impact of exercise on mental health and diseases as well as the possible underlying neurobiological mechanisms are summarised. Several critical modulating factors on the neurobehavioural effects of wheel running exercise are emphasized and discussed--including the amount of wheel running, sex and strain/species differences. We also reported the outcome of an empirical investigation of the impact of wheel running exercise on the expression of both cognitive and non-cognitive phenotypes in a triple (3 x Tg-AD) transgenic mouse model for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Clear sex- and paradigm-specific effects of exercise on the genetically determined phenotypes are illustrated, including the efficacy of wheel running activity in attenuating the sex-specific cognitive deficits. It is concluded that the wheel running paradigm represents a unique environmental manipulation for the investigation of neurobehavioural plasticity in terms of gene-environment interactions relevant to the pathogenesis and therapies of certain neuropsychiatric conditions.
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- Susanna Pietropaolo
- Laboratory of Behavioural Neurobiology, ETH Zurich, Schorenstrasse 16, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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Thompson A, Boekhoorn K, Van Dam AM, Lucassen PJ. Changes in adult neurogenesis in neurodegenerative diseases: cause or consequence? GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 2008; 7 Suppl 1:28-42. [PMID: 18184368 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183x.2007.00379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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This review addresses the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis and stem cells in some of the most common neurodegenerative disorders and their related animal models. We discuss recent literature in relation to Alzheimer's disease and dementia, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, alcoholism, ischemia, epilepsy and major depression.
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- A Thompson
- Centre for Neuroscience, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Schindowski K, Belarbi K, Buée L. Neurotrophic factors in Alzheimer's disease: role of axonal transport. GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 2008; 7 Suppl 1:43-56. [PMID: 18184369 PMCID: PMC2228393 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183x.2007.00378.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Neurotrophic factors (NTF) are small, versatile proteins that maintain survival and function to specific neuronal populations. In general, the axonal transport of NTF is important as not all of them are synthesized at the site of its action. Nerve growth factor (NGF), for instance, is produced in the neocortex and the hippocampus and then retrogradely transported to the cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain. Neurodegenerative dementias like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are linked to deficits in axonal transport. Furthermore, they are also associated with imbalanced distribution and dysregulation of NTF. In particular, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a crucial role in cognition, learning and memory formation by modulating synaptic plasticity and is, therefore, a critical molecule in dementia and neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we review the changes of NTF expression and distribution (NGF, BDNF, neurotrophin-3, neurotrophin-4/5 and fibroblast growth factor-2) and their receptors [tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk)A, TrkB, TrkC and p75NTR] in AD and AD models. In addition, we focus on the interaction with neuropathological hallmarks Tau/neurofibrillary tangle and amyloid-β (Abeta)/amyloid plaque pathology and their influence on axonal transport processes in order to unify AD-specific cholinergic degeneration and Tau and Abeta misfolding through NTF pathophysiology.
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- K Schindowski
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Research Médicale U837, Université Lille 2, Lille Cedex, France.
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van Praag H. Neurogenesis and exercise: past and future directions. Neuromolecular Med 2008; 10:128-40. [PMID: 18286389 DOI: 10.1007/s12017-008-8028-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 415] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2008] [Accepted: 01/16/2008] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Research in humans and animals has shown that exercise improves mood and cognition. Physical activity also causes a robust increase in neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, a brain area important for learning and memory. The positive correlation between running and neurogenesis has raised the hypothesis that the new hippocampal neurons may mediate, in part, improved learning associated with exercise. The present review gives an overview of research pertaining to exercise-induced cell genesis, its possible relevance to memory function and the cellular mechanisms that may be involved in this process.
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- Henriette van Praag
- Section of Neuroplasticity and Behavior, Laboratory of Neurosciences, GRC/NIA/NIH, Rm 4E14, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Mattson MP, Wan R. Neurotrophic factors in autonomic nervous system plasticity and dysfunction. Neuromolecular Med 2008; 10:157-68. [PMID: 18172785 DOI: 10.1007/s12017-007-8021-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2007] [Accepted: 11/20/2007] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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During development, neurotrophic factors are known to play important roles in regulating the survival of neurons in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the formation of their synaptic connectivity with their peripheral targets in the cardiovascular, digestive, and other organ systems. Emerging findings suggest that neurotrophic factors may also affect the functionality of the ANS during adult life and may, in part, mediate the effects of environmental factors such as exercise and dietary energy intake on ANS neurons and target cells. In this article, we describe the evidence that ANS neurons express receptors for multiple neurotrophic factors, and data suggesting that activation of those receptors can modify plasticity in the ANS. Neurotrophic factors that may regulate ANS function include brain-derived neurotrophic factor, nerve growth factor, insulin-like growth factors, and ciliary neurotrophic factor. The possibility that perturbed neurotrophic factor signaling is involved in the pathogenesis of ANS dysfunction in some neurological disorders is considered, together with implications for neurotrophic factor-based therapeutic interventions.
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- Mark P Mattson
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD. USA.
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Duyckaerts C, Potier MC, Delatour B. Alzheimer disease models and human neuropathology: similarities and differences. Acta Neuropathol 2008; 115:5-38. [PMID: 18038275 PMCID: PMC2100431 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-007-0312-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 276] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2007] [Revised: 10/13/2007] [Accepted: 10/14/2007] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Animal models aim to replicate the symptoms, the lesions or the cause(s) of Alzheimer disease. Numerous mouse transgenic lines have now succeeded in partially reproducing its lesions: the extracellular deposits of Abeta peptide and the intracellular accumulation of tau protein. Mutated human APP transgenes result in the deposition of Abeta peptide, similar but not identical to the Abeta peptide of human senile plaque. Amyloid angiopathy is common. Besides the deposition of Abeta, axon dystrophy and alteration of dendrites have been observed. All of the mutations cause an increase in Abeta 42 levels, except for the Arctic mutation, which alters the Abeta sequence itself. Overexpressing wild-type APP alone (as in the murine models of human trisomy 21) causes no Abeta deposition in most mouse lines. Doubly (APP x mutated PS1) transgenic mice develop the lesions earlier. Transgenic mice in which BACE1 has been knocked out or overexpressed have been produced, as well as lines with altered expression of neprilysin, the main degrading enzyme of Abeta. The APP transgenic mice have raised new questions concerning the mechanisms of neuronal loss, the accumulation of Abeta in the cell body of the neurons, inflammation and gliosis, and the dendritic alterations. They have allowed some insight to be gained into the kinetics of the changes. The connection between the symptoms, the lesions and the increase in Abeta oligomers has been found to be difficult to unravel. Neurofibrillary tangles are only found in mouse lines that overexpress mutated tau or human tau on a murine tau -/- background. A triply transgenic model (mutated APP, PS1 and tau) recapitulates the alterations seen in AD but its physiological relevance may be discussed. A number of modulators of Abeta or of tau accumulation have been tested. A transgenic model may be analyzed at three levels at least (symptoms, lesions, cause of the disease), and a reading key is proposed to summarize this analysis.
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- Charles Duyckaerts
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris Cedex 13, France.
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Pardon MC, Sarmad S, Rattray I, Bates TE, Scullion GA, Marsden CA, Barrett DA, Lowe J, Kendall DA. Repeated novel cage exposure-induced improvement of early Alzheimer's-like cognitive and amyloid changes in TASTPM mice is unrelated to changes in brain endocannabinoids levels. Neurobiol Aging 2007; 30:1099-113. [PMID: 18023506 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2007] [Revised: 09/20/2007] [Accepted: 10/06/2007] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Environmental factors (e.g. stress, exercise, enrichment) are thought to play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease later in life. We investigated the influence of repeated novel cage exposure on the development of early Alzheimer's-like pathology in adult (4 months old) double transgenic mice over-expressing the amyloid precursor protein and presenilin-1 genes (TASTPM mouse line). The procedure involves the repeated placement of the animal into a novel clean cage, a manipulation which induces a stress response and exploratory activity and, as such, can also be seen as a mild form of enrichment. Before and after exposure to the novel cage procedure, separate groups of mice were evaluated for locomotor performance and short-term contextual memory in the fear-conditioning test. Repeated novel cage exposure prevented the onset of a short-term memory deficit that was apparent in 5.5- but not 4-month-old TASTPM mice, without reversing the deficit in extinction already evident at 4 months of age. Brain regional levels of soluble and insoluble amyloid and of endocannabinoids were quantified. Novel cage exposure attenuated soluble and insoluble amyloid accumulation in the hippocampus and frontal cortex, without affecting the age-related increases in regional brain endocannabinoids levels. These beneficial effects are likely to be the consequence of the increase in physical and exploratory activity induced by novel cage exposure and suggest that the impact of environmental factors on Alzheimer's-like changes may be dependent on the degree of activation of stress pathways.
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- Marie-Christine Pardon
- University of Nottingham Medical School, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
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Levi O, Dolev I, Belinson H, Michaelson DM. Intraneuronal amyloid-β plays a role in mediating the synergistic pathological effects of apoE4 and environmental stimulation. J Neurochem 2007; 103:1031-40. [PMID: 17666042 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04810.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The allele E4 of apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4), which is the most prevalent genetic risk factor of Alzheimer's disease (AD), inhibits synaptogenesis and neurogenesis and stimulates apoptosis in brains of apoE4 transgenic mice that have been exposed to an enriched environment. In the present study, we investigated the hypothesis that the brain activity-dependent impairments in neuronal plasticity, induced by apoE4, are mediated via the amyloid cascade. Importantly, we found that exposure of mice transgenic for either apoE4, or the Alzheimer's disease benign allele apoE3, to an enriched environment elevates similarly the hippocampal levels of amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) and apoE of these mice, but that the degree of aggregation and spatial distribution of Abeta in these mice are markedly affected by the apoE genotype. Accordingly, environmental stimulation triggered the formation of extracellular plaque-like Abeta deposits and the accumulation of intra-neuronal oligomerized Abeta specifically in brains of apoE4 mice. Further experiments revealed that hippocampal dentate gyrus neurons are particularly susceptible to apoE4 and environmental stimulation and that these neurons are specifically enriched in both oligomerized Abeta and apoE. These findings show that the impairments in neuroplasticity which are induced by apoE4 following environmental stimulation are associated with the accumulation of intraneuronal Abeta and suggest that oligomerized Abeta mediates the synergistic pathological effects of apoE4 and environmental stimulation.
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- Ofir Levi
- Department of Neurobiochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Cracchiolo JR, Mori T, Nazian SJ, Tan J, Potter H, Arendash GW. Enhanced cognitive activity--over and above social or physical activity--is required to protect Alzheimer's mice against cognitive impairment, reduce Abeta deposition, and increase synaptic immunoreactivity. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2007; 88:277-94. [PMID: 17714960 PMCID: PMC2083653 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2007] [Revised: 06/21/2007] [Accepted: 07/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Although social, physical, and cognitive activities have each been suggested to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), epidemiologic studies cannot determine which activity or combination of activities is most important. To address this question, mutant APP transgenic AD mice were reared long-term in one of four housing conditions (impoverished, social, social+physical, or complete enrichment) from 1(1/2) through 9 months of age. Thus, a stepwise layering of social, physical, and enhanced cognitive activity was created. Behavioral evaluation in a full battery of sensorimotor, anxiety, and cognitive tasks was carried out during the final 5 weeks of housing. Only AD mice raised in complete enrichment (i.e., enhanced cognitive activity) showed: (1) protection against cognitive impairment, (2) decreased brain beta-amyloid deposition, and (3) increased hippocampal synaptic immunoreactivity. The protection provided by enhanced cognitive activity spanned multiple cognitive domains (working memory, reference learning, and recognition/identification). Cognitive and neurohistologic benefits of complete enrichment occurred without any changes in blood cytokine or corticosterone levels, suggesting that enrichment-dependent mechanisms do not involve changes in the inflammatory response or stress levels, respectively. These results indicate that the enhanced cognitive activity of complete enrichment is required for cognitive and neurologic benefit to AD mice-physical and/or social activity are insufficient. Thus, our data suggest that humans who emphasize a high lifelong level of cognitive activity (over and above social and physical activities) will attain the maximal environmental protection against AD.
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- Jennifer R. Cracchiolo
- The Johnnie B. Byrd Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33613
- Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33612
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- Institute of Medical Science, Department of Pathology, Saitama Medical Center/Saitama Medical University, Saitama 350-8550, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612
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- The Johnnie B. Byrd Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33613
- Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33612
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- The Johnnie B. Byrd Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33613
- Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33612
- *Correspondence to: Gary W. Arendash, Ph.D., The Byrd Alzheimer’s Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33613, Phone: (813) 974-1584, FAX: (813) 866-1601, Email
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Kuhn HG, Cooper-Kuhn CM, Boekhoorn K, Lucassen PJ. Changes in neurogenesis in dementia and Alzheimer mouse models: are they functionally relevant? Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2007; 257:281-9. [PMID: 17639447 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-007-0732-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are devastating disorders that lead to the progressive decline of cognitive functions. Characteristic features are severe brain atrophy, paralleled by accumulation of beta amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles. With the discovery of neurogenesis in the adult brain, the hopes have risen that these neurodegenerative conditions could be overcome, or at least ameliorated, by the generation of new neurons. The location of the adult neurogenic zones in the hippocampus and the lateral ventricle wall, close to corpus callosum and neocortex, indicates strategic positions for potential repair processes. However, we also need to consider that the generation of new neurons is possibly involved in cognitive functions and could, therefore, be influenced by disease pathology. Moreover, aberrant neurogenic mechanisms could even be a part of the pathological events of neurodegenerative diseases. It is the scope of this review to summarize and analyze the recent data from neurogenesis research with respect to Alzheimer's disease and its animal models.
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- H Georg Kuhn
- Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology, Göteborg University, Medicianregatan 11, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Verret L, Jankowsky JL, Xu GM, Borchelt DR, Rampon C. Alzheimer's-type amyloidosis in transgenic mice impairs survival of newborn neurons derived from adult hippocampal neurogenesis. J Neurosci 2007; 27:6771-80. [PMID: 17581964 PMCID: PMC4439193 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5564-06.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by severe neuronal loss in several brain regions important for learning and memory. Of the structures affected by AD, the hippocampus is unique in continuing to produce new neurons throughout life. Mounting evidence indicates that hippocampal neurogenesis contributes to the processing and storage of new information and that deficits in the production of new neurons may impair learning and memory. Here, we examine whether the overproduction of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide in a mouse model for AD might be detrimental to newborn neurons in the hippocampus. We used transgenic mice overexpressing familial AD variants of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and/or presenilin-1 to test how the level (moderate or high) and the aggregation state (soluble or deposited) of Abeta impacts the proliferation and survival of new hippocampal neurons. Although proliferation and short-term survival of neural progenitors in the hippocampus was unaffected by APP/Abeta overproduction, survival of newborn cells 4 weeks later was dramatically diminished in transgenic mice with Alzheimer's-type amyloid pathology. Phenotypic analysis of the surviving population revealed a specific reduction in newborn neurons. Our data indicate that overproduction of Abeta and the consequent appearance of amyloid plaques cause an overall reduction in the number of adult-generated hippocampal neurons. Diminished capacity for hippocampal neuron replacement may contribute to the cognitive decline observed in these mice.
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- Laure Verret
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, and
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- Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France
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Morgan D. Amyloid, memory and neurogenesis. Exp Neurol 2007; 205:330-5. [PMID: 17445801 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2007] [Revised: 02/22/2007] [Accepted: 03/06/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Transgenic mouse models of amyloid deposition consistently demonstrate impaired performance on certain tasks of learning and memory. The article by Zhang et al. (2006) demonstrates reductions in dentate gyrus neurogenesis in a murine model of amyloid deposition which is linked to the deposition of amyloid and not overexpression of transgenes. Neurogenesis plays at least a facilitatory role in the formation of memory, the nature of which is only beginning to emerge. Thus, it seems reasonable to propose that the memory deficits found in the amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse models of amyloid deposition result, at least in part, from reduced rates of hippocampal neurogenesis. The possible relationship to memory loss in Alzheimer's dementia is also discussed.
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- Dave Morgan
- Alzheimer Research Laboratory, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Basic Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, 12901 BB Downs Blvd. MDC Box 9, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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Physical activity and the maintenance of cognition: Learning from animal models. Alzheimers Dement 2007; 3:S30-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2007.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2006] [Accepted: 01/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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