Apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent amyloid deposition and neuritic degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

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Holtzman, DM
Bales, KR
Tenkova, T
Fagan, AM
Parsadanian, M
Sartorius, LJ
Mackey, B
Olney, J
McKeel, D
Wozniak, D
Paul, SM
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[1] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurol, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[2] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Mol Biol & Pharmacol, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[3] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[4] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pathol, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[5] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Ctr Study Nervous Syst Injury, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[6] Lilly Res Labs, Neurosci Discovery Res, Indianapolis, IN 46285 USA
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10.1073/pnas.050004797
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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Apolipoprotein E (apoE) alleles determine the age-adjusted relative risk (epsilon 4 > epsilon 3) for Alzheimer's disease (AD). ApoE may affect AD pathogenesis by promoting deposition of the amyloid-beta (A beta) peptide and its conversion to a fibrillar form. To determine the effect of apoE on A beta deposition and AD pathology, we compared App(V717F) transgenic (TG) mice expressing mouse, human, or no apoE (apoE(-/-)). A severe, plaque-associated neuritic dystrophy developed in App(V717F) TG mice expressing mouse or human apoE. Though significant levels of A beta deposition also occurred in App(V717F) TG, apoE(-/-) mice, neuritic degeneration was virtually absent, Expression of apoE3 and apoE4 in App(V717F) TG, apoE(-/-) mice resulted in fibrillar A beta deposits and neuritic plaques by 15 months of age and substantially (> 10-fold) more fibrillar deposits were observed in apoE4-expressing App(V717F) TC mice. Our data demonstrate a critical and isoform-specific role for apoE in neuritic plaque formation, a pathological hallmark of AD.
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