Journal
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 57, Issue -, Pages 120-132Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.05.002
Keywords
Trisomy 21; Ts65Dn; Learning/memory deficits; Cerebellum; Alzheimer's disease; Clinical trials
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- National Institutes of Health [HD056235]
- Linda Crnic Institute for Down syndrome
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The Ts65Dn is a popular mouse model of Down syndrome (DS). It displays DS-relevant features of learning/memory deficits and age-related loss of functional markers in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. Here we describe protein expression abnormalities in brain regions of 12-month-old male Ts65Dn mice. We show that the magnitudes of abnormalities of human chromosome 21 and nonehuman chromosome 21 orthologous proteins are greater at 12 months than at w6 months. Age-related exacerbations involve the number of components affected in the mechanistic target of rapamycin pathway, the levels of components of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway, and proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease. Among brain regions, the number of abnormalities in cerebellum decreased while the number in cortex greatly increased with age. The Ts65Dn is being used in preclinical evaluations of drugs for cognition in DS. Most commonly, drug evaluations are tested in similar to 4- to 6- month-old mice. Data on age-related changes in magnitude and specificity of protein perturbations can be used to understand the molecular basis of changes in cognitive ability and to predict potential age-related specificities in drug efficacies. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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