Caloric restriction attenuates amyloid deposition in middle-aged dtg APP/PS1 mice
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- 作者：Peter R. Mouton ; Mark E. Chachich ; Christopher Quigley ; Edward Spangler ; Donald K. Ingram
- 关键词：Caloric restriction ; Unbiased stereology ; Stereologer ; APP ; PS1
- 刊名：Neuroscience Letters
- 出版年：2009
- 出版时间：30 October 2009
- 年：2009
- 卷：464
- 期：3
- 页码：184-187
- 全文大小：299 K
文摘
Caloric restriction (CR) mitigates neurological damage arising from aging and a variety of other sources, including neuropathology in young adult mice that express single and double transgenic (tg) mutations associated with Alzheimer disease (AD). To evaluate the potential of CR to protect against relatively heavy AD-type pathology, middle-aged (13–14-month-old) mice that co-express two mutations related to familial AD, amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin 1 (PS1), were fed balanced diets with 40 % fewer calories than ad libitum-fed controls. Following 18 weeks of treatment, mice were killed and brains were processed for quantification of total volume of amyloid-beta (Aβ) in the hippocampal formation and the overlying neocortex. Computerized stereology confirmed that CR reduced the total Aβ volume by about one-third compared to that in age-matched controls. Thus, CR appears to attenuate the accumulation of AD-type neuropathology in two cortical brain regions of middle-aged dtg APP/PS1 mice. These findings support the view that CR could be a potentially effective, non-pharmacology strategy for reducing relatively heavy Aβ deposition in older adult dtg APP/PS1 mice, and possibly afford similar protection against the onset and progression of AD in older adult humans.