Age-dependent neuronal and synaptic degeneration in mice transgenic for the C terminus of the amyloid precursor protein

ML Oster-Granite, DL McPhie, J Greenan… - Journal of …, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
The molecular basis for the degeneration of neurons and the deposition of amyloid in
plaques and in the cerebrovasculature in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is incompletely …

Impairments in learning and memory accompanied by neurodegeneration in mice transgenic for the carboxyl-terminus of the amyloid precursor protein

J Berger-Sweeney, DL McPhie, JA Arters… - Molecular brain …, 1999 - Elsevier
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive decline of cognitive functions is accompanied by
neuropathology that includes the degeneration of neurons and the deposition of amyloid in …

Age and damage induced changes in amyloid protein precursor immunohistochemistry in the rat brain

JG Beeson, ER Shelton, HW Chan… - Journal of Comparative …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the extensive deposition of the 42‐amino‐acid
β‐amyloid or A4 protein in neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles within the brain. This …

Expression of APP in transgenic mice: a comparison of neuron-specific promoters

K Andrä, D Abramowski, M Duke, A Probst… - Neurobiology of …, 1996 - Elsevier
The β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) carries mutations in codons 717 or 670/671, which
cosegregate with familial forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As an initial step to study the …

Production of intracellular amyloid‐containing fragments in hippocampal neurons expressing human amyloid precursor protein and protection against …

B De Strooper, M Simons, G Multhaup… - The EMBO …, 1995 - embopress.org
A distinguishing feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the deposition of amyloid plaques in
brain parenchyma. These plaques arise by the abnormal accumulation of beta A4, a …

Degeneration in vivo of rat hippocampal neurons by wild-type Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein overexpressed by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer

I Nishimura, T Uetsuki, SU Dani, Y Ohsawa… - Journal of …, 1998 - Soc Neuroscience
In an attempt to elucidate the pathological implications of intracellular accumulation of the
amyloid precursor protein (APP) in postmitotic neurons in vivo, we transferred APP695 …

Early phenotypic changes in transgenic mice that overexpress different mutants of amyloid precursor protein in brain

D Moechars, I Dewachter, K Lorent, D Reversé… - Journal of Biological …, 1999 - ASBMB
Transgenic mice overexpressing different forms of amyloid precursor protein (APP), ie wild
type or clinical mutants, displayed an essentially comparable early phenotype in terms of …

Amyloid-associated neuron loss and gliogenesis in the neocortex of amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice

L Bondolfi, M Calhoun, F Ermini, HG Kuhn… - Journal of …, 2002 - Soc Neuroscience
APP23 transgenic mice express mutant human amyloid precursor protein and develop
amyloid plaques predominantly in neocortex and hippocampus progressively with age …

Two amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse models with Alzheimer disease-like pathology

C Sturchler-Pierrat, D Abramowski… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
Mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene cause early-onset familial Alzheimer
disease (AD) by affecting the formation of the amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, the major constituent …

The role of the amyloid protein precursor (APP) in Alzheimer's disease: does the normal function of APP explain the topography of neurodegeneration?

DH Small - Neurochemical research, 1998 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the aged population.
Early-onset familial AD (FAD) involves mutations in a gene on chromosome 21 encoding the …