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Insoluble Aβ overexpression in an App knock-in mouse model alters microstructure and gamma oscillations in the prefrontal cortex, and impacts on anxiety-related behaviours

Pervolaraki, E; Hall, SP; Foresteire, D; Saito, T; Saido, T; Whittington, M; Lever, C; Dachtler, J

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Authors

E Pervolaraki

SP Hall

T Saito

T Saido

M Whittington

C Lever

J Dachtler



Abstract

We studied a new App knock-in mice model of Alzheimer’s disease (AppNL-G-F), containing the Swedish KM670/671NL mutation, the Iberian I716F mutation and the Artic E693G mutation, which generates elevated levels of Aβ40 and Aβ42 without the confounds associated with APP overexpression. This enabled us to assess changes in anxiety-related and social behaviours, and neural alterations potentially underlying such changes, driven specifically by Aβ accumulation. AppNL-G-F knock-in mice exhibited subtle deficits in tasks assessing social olfaction, but not in social motivation tasks. In anxiety-assessing tasks, AppNL-G-F knock-in mice exhibited: 1) increased thigmotaxis in the Open Field (OF), yet; 2) reduced closed-arm, and increased open-arm, time in the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM). Their ostensibly-anxiogenic OF profile, yet ostensibly-anxiolytic EPM profile, could hint at altered cortical mechanisms affecting decision-making (e.g. ‘disinhibition’), rather than simple core deficits in emotional motivation. Consistent with this possibility, alterations in microstructure, glutamatergic-dependent gamma oscillations, and glutamatergic gene expression were all observed in the prefrontal cortex, but not the amygdala, of AppNL-G-F knock-in mice. Thus, insoluble Aβ overexpression drives prefrontal cortical alterations, potentially underlying changes in social and anxiety-related behavioural tasks.

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Pervolaraki, E., Hall, S., Foresteire, D., Saito, T., Saido, T., Whittington, M., …Dachtler, J. (2019). Insoluble Aβ overexpression in an App knock-in mouse model alters microstructure and gamma oscillations in the prefrontal cortex, and impacts on anxiety-related behaviours. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 12(9), Article dmm040550. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.040550

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 15, 2019
Online Publication Date Sep 24, 2019
Publication Date Sep 30, 2019
Deposit Date Aug 19, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Disease Models and Mechanisms
Print ISSN 1754-8403
Electronic ISSN 1754-8411
Publisher The Company of Biologists
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 12
Issue 9
Article Number dmm040550
DOI https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.040550

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