Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
Volume 83, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23296
Keywords
aging; genes; neuropathy; nonhuman primate; spontaneous model
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- Ministry of Finance of The Republic of Indonesia [PRJ/29/LPDP/2019]
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A study on aging cynomolgus monkeys found significantly increased expression of the GAPDH gene in monkeys with cognitive decline, suggesting a potential link to neurodegenerative diseases like AD. This supports the use of cynomolgus macaques as valid models for investigating the relationship between aging, cognitive decline, and AD neuropathy.
Previous studies of aging cynomolgus monkeys from our group identified spontaneous age-associated cognitive declines associated with biomarkers and brain lesions reminiscent of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), in a proportion of aged monkeys. However, the molecular mechanisms that underlie the spontaneous amyloid disorders and cognitive declines observed in these affected monkeys have yet to be investigated in detail. Using reverse transcriptase quantitative real time PCR techniques, normalized to the ACTB housekeeping gene, we analyzed the expression patterns of a number of genes which have been implicated in amyloid and tau abnormalities, in well-characterized aged cynomolgus monkeys with cognitive decline. A significantly increased expression of the genes coding for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), was found in aged-cognitive decline monkeys compared to age-matched healthy controls. GAPDH has been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases and interacts with beta amyloid precursor proteins. These findings provide support for the utilization of cynomolgus macaques in translational preclinical research as valid spontaneous models in experimental investigations of the relationships among aging, cognitive decline, and the neuropathy of AD.
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