title: Age-related changes in the expression of Alzheimer's beta APP in the brain of senescence accelerated mouse (SAM)-P/10.
abstract: Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show loss of memory and cognitive deficits the molecular mechanisms of which are not completely known. We examined age-related changes in the expression levels of beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) in the brain of the senescence accelerated mouse (SAM) P/10, which shows age-dependent brain atrophy and impairment in learning and memory, and in the senescence resistant mouse (SAM)-R/1 using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Western blot. Levels of both beta APP mRNA and protein increased with age, reaching a peak at 8 months of age in the hippocampus of SAM-P/10. In contrast, beta APP protein level decreased with age in the hippocampus of SAM-R/1 while beta APP mRNA level did not change significantly. Levels of beta APP mRNA and protein showed no change with ageing in other brain regions, including cerebral cortex, thalamus/midbrain and cerebellum brain stem. These results suggest that the beta APP over-expression in the hippocampus might be related to the characteristic memory loss in SAM-P/10.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Suh
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism*; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000378:metabolism; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; D012333:RNA, Messenger