Journal
NEUROSCIENCE BULLETIN
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 254-262Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-019-00434-0
Keywords
AVP(4-8); APP; PS1 transgenic mice; Cognitive behavior; Synaptic plasticity; In vivo hippocampal LTP
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31471080]
- Scientific Program for Sanjin Scholars'' of Shanxi Province
- Shanxi 1331 Project'' Key Subjects Construction [1331KSC]
- Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars of Shanxi Province, China [201801D211005]
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Memory deficits with aging are related to the neurodegeneration in the brain, including a reduction in arginine vasopressin (AVP) in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). AVP(4-8), different from its precursor AVP, plays memory enhancement roles in the CNS without peripheral side-effects. However, it is not clear whether AVP(4-8) can improve cognitive behaviors and synaptic plasticity in the APP/PS1 mouse model of AD. Here, we investigated for the first time the neuroprotective effects of AVP(4-8) on memory behaviors and in vivo long-term potentiation (LTP) in APP/PS1-AD mice. The results showed that: (1) APP/PS1-AD mice had lower spontaneous alternation in the Y-maze than wild-type (WT) mice, and this was significantly reversed by AVP(4-8); (2) the prolonged escape latency of APP/PS1-AD mice in the Morris water maze was significantly decreased by AVP(4-8), and the decreased swimming time in target quadrant recovered significantly after AVP(4-8) treatment; (3) in vivo hippocampal LTP induced by high-frequency stimulation had a significant deficit in the AD mice, and this was partly rescued by AVP(4-8); (4) AVP(4-8) significantly up-regulated the expression levels of postsynaptic density 95 (PSD95) and nerve growth factor (NGF) in the hippocampus of AD mice. These results reveal the beneficial effects of AVP(4-8) in APP/PS1-AD mice, showing that the intranasal administration of AVP(4-8) effectively improved the working memory and long-term spatial memory of APP/PS1-AD mice, which may be associated with the elevation of PSD95 and NGF levels in the brain and the maintenance of hippocampal synaptic plasticity.
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