title: Inhibition of c-Jun kinase provides neuroprotection in a model of Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: The c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway potentially links together the three major pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD): development of amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and brain atrophy. As activation of the JNK pathway has been observed in amyloid models of AD in association with peri-plaque regions and neuritic dystrophy, as we confirm here for Tg2576/PS(M146L) transgenic mice, we directly tested whether JNK inhibition could provide neuroprotection in a novel brain slice model for amyloid precursor protein (APP)-induced neurodegeneration. We found that APP/amyloid beta (Abeta)-induced neurodegeneration is blocked by both small molecule and peptide inhibitors of JNK, and provide evidence that this neuroprotection occurs downstream of APP/Abeta production and processing. Our findings demonstrate that Abeta can induce neurodegeneration, at least in part, through the JNK pathway and suggest that inhibition of JNK may be of therapeutic utility in the treatment of AD.
authors.affiliation: Discovery Neuroscience, Wyeth Research, CN8000, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA.
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Braithwaite
authors.forename: Ralf S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: Dong Ning
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Mei-Li A
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.forename: Seongeon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Resnick
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Monaghan
authors.forename: Warren D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Hirst
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Essrich
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Reinhart
authors.forename: Donald C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Lo
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000378:metabolism; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009410:Nerve Degeneration / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016874:Neurofibrillary Tangles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
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