Journal
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 1910-1917Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.02.010
Keywords
Diabetes; Amyloid, Neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's disease; Memory
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- Shiley Family Trust
- Bundy Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Alzheimer's Association
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Since diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), we asked if there is a functional interaction between high glucose and elevated beta amyloid peptide (AD) in cultured brain microvascular endothelial cells and presymptomatic AD transgenic mice. When cultured brain microvascular endothelial cells are exposed to both high glucose and low levels of AD, there is a synergistic interaction to cause an increased accumulation of advanced glycation products (AGE) and reacuve oxygen species (ROS). When presymptomatic mice expressing mutant human amyloid precursor protein and presenilin are made diabetic, they have a decrease in cognitive function relative to control mice. Associated with the cognitive deficit are increases in brain microvascular AGE and iNOS expression. and the loss of the synaptic spine protein drebrin. No amyloid plaques or tangles are observed within the brains of any group. These data show that diabetes causes a synergistic potentiation of some indices of AD in transgenic animals that are presymptomatic for the classical features of the disease (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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