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NATURE
Volume 408, Issue 6815, Pages 975-979Publisher
MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LTD
DOI: 10.1038/35050103
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;Mice that overexpress the human mutant amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) show learning deficits, but the apparent lack of a relationship between these deficits and the progressive beta -amyloid plaque formation that the hAPP mice display is puzzling. In the water maze(1), hAPP mice are impaired before and after amyloid plaque deposition(2-7). Here we show, using a new water-maze training protocol, that PDAPP mice(8) also exhibit a separate age-related deficit in learning a series of spatial locations. This impairment correlates with b-amyloid plaque burden and is shown in both cross-sectional and longitudinal experimental designs. Cued navigation and object-recognition memory are normal. These findings indicate that Ab overexpression and/or Ab plaques are associated with disturbed cognitive function and, importantly, suggest that some but not all forms of learning and memory are suitable behavioural assays of the progressive cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's-disease-type pathologies.
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