期刊
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
卷 5, 期 4, 页码 287-300出版社
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2003-5404
关键词
Reactive oxygen species; Ginkgo biloba; Amyloid beta; Alzheimer's disease; Caenorhabditis elegans
资金
- National Institutes of Health/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [AT00293-01A2]
The role of amyloid beta-peptide (A beta) in the free-radical oxidative-stress model of neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has received much attention recently. In this study, we have employed both in vitro and in vivo models displaying endogenous A beta production to study the effects of A beta on intracellular free radical levels. We employed a neuroblastoma cell line stably expressing an AD-associated double mutation, which exhibits both increased secretion and intracellular accumulation of A beta when stimulated, as well as transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans constitutively expressing human A beta. A rise in levels of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was observed in both in vitro and in vivo AD-associated transgenic models expressing the A beta peptide compared with the wild type controls. Treatment of the cells or C. elegans with Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 significantly attenuated the basal as well as the induced levels of H2O2-related reactive oxygen species (ROS). Among individual EGb 761 components tested, kaempferol and quercetin provided maximum attenuation in both models. Furthermore, an age-dependent increase in H2O2-related ROS was observed in wild type C. elegans, which is accelerated in the AD-associated C. elegans mutant. These results support the hypothesis of the involvement of A beta and ROS in association with AD.
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