title: Plaque-associated alpha-synuclein (NACP) pathology in aged transgenic mice expressing amyloid precursor protein.
abstract: Patients with the Lewy body variant (LBV) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have ubiquitinated intraneuronal and neuritic accumulations of alpha-synuclein and show less neuron loss and tau pathology than other AD patients. Aged Tg2576 transgenic mice overexpressing human betaAPP695. KM670/671NL have limited neuron loss and tau pathology, but frequent ubiquitin- and alpha-synuclein-positive, tau-negative neurites resembling those seen in the LBV of AD.
authors.affiliation: Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Sepulveda VAMC and Department of Medicine, UCLA, 16111 Plummer Street, Sepulveda, CA, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uéda
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Ashe
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Cole
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000473:pathology*; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D016631:Lewy Bodies / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D016501:Neurites / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D058225:Plaque, Amyloid / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D051843:Synucleins; D014452:Ubiquitins / Q000378:metabolism; D051844:alpha-Synuclein; D016875:tau Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C497604:SNCA protein, human; C497605:Snca protein, mouse; D051843:Synucleins; D014452:Ubiquitins; D051844:alpha-Synuclein; D016875:tau Proteins