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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96379-4
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, programa RETOS [SAF2017-844-R]
- ALBA Synchrotron in-house project [IH18MIRAS]
- ERDF [148/16]
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This study used infrared imaging to identify early-stage amyloid aggregates in the brains of APP/PS1 transgenic mice for the first time, showing a potential therapeutic effect by decreasing these aggregates. The non-fibrillary species identified may serve as potential pharmacological targets for Alzheimer's disease, and early detection of these structures could be useful for non-invasive diagnostic techniques.
Amyloid plaques composed of A beta amyloid peptides and neurofibrillary tangles are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer Disease. In situ identification of early-stage amyloid aggregates in Alzheimer's disease is relevant for their importance as potential targets for effective drugs. Synchrotron-based infrared imaging is here used to identify early-stage oligomeric/granular aggregated amyloid species in situ in the brain of APP/PS1 transgenic mice for the first time. Also, APP/PS1 mice show fibrillary aggregates at 6 and 12 months. A significant decreased burden of early-stage aggregates and fibrillary aggregates is obtained following treatment with poly(propylene imine) dendrimers with histidine-maltose shell (a neurodegenerative protector) in 6-month-old APP/PS1 mice, thus demonstrating their putative therapeutic properties of in AD models. Identification, localization, and characterization using infrared imaging of these non-fibrillary species in the cerebral cortex at early stages of AD progression in transgenic mice point to their relevance as putative pharmacological targets. No less important, early detection of these structures may be useful in the search for markers for non-invasive diagnostic techniques.
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