Staging of Alzheimer's pathology in triple transgenic mice: a light and electron microscopic analysis
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The age-related pathological cascade underlying intraneuronal tau formation in 3xTg-AD mice, which harbor the human APP(Swe), PS1(M126V) , and Tau(P301L) gene mutations, remains unclear. At 3 weeks of age, AT180, Alz50, MC1, AT8, and PHF-1 intraneuronal immunoreactivity appeared in the amygdala and hippocampus and at later ages in the cortex of 3xTg-AD mice. AT8 and PHF-1 staining was fixation dependent in young mutant mice. 6E10 staining was seen at all ages. Fluorescent immunomicroscopy revealed CA1 neurons dual stained for 6E10 and Alz50 and single Alz50 immunoreactive neurons in the subiculum at 3 weeks and continuing to 20 months. Although electron microscopy confirmed intraneuronal cytoplasmic Alz50, AT8, and 6E10 reaction product in younger 3xTg-AD mice, straight filaments appeared at 23 months of age in female mice. The present data suggest that other age-related biochemical mechanisms in addition to early intraneuronal accumulation of 6E10 and tau underlie the formation of tau filaments in 3xTg-AD mice.
Publication Date
7-15-2010
Publication Title
International journal of Alzheimer's disease
E-ISSN
2090-0252
Volume
2010
PubMed ID
20798886
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.4061/2010/780102
Recommended Citation
Oh, Kwang-Jin; Perez, Sylvia E.; Lagalwar, Sarita; Vana, Laurel; Binder, Lester; and Mufson, Elliott J., "Staging of Alzheimer's pathology in triple transgenic mice: a light and electron microscopic analysis" (2010). Translational Neuroscience. 1643.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurobiology/1643