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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
The bilateral olfactory bulbectomy (OBX) mouse exhibits neurodegeneration of cholinergic neurons in the medial septum with concomitant cognitive deficits. Consistent with our previous observations, choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) protein levels in the medial septum decreased by 43.5% 2 weeks after OBX without changes in glutamic acid decarboxylase-65 (GAD65) levels. Interestingly, levels of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT), which is localized at cholinergic neuron terminals, decreased both in hippocampal CA1 and CA3 regions following OBX. Confocal microscopy showed that VAChT expression was more severely reduced in CA3 14 days after OBX compared with CA1. Intriguingly, chronic treatment with a vanadium (IV) compound, VO(OPT) [bis(1-N-oxide-pyridine-2-thiolato)oxovanadium(IV)] (0.5-1 mg as vanadium (V)/kg/day, i.p.), significantly rescued cholinergic neurons in the medial septum in a dose-dependent manner. VO(OPT) treatment also prevented decreased VAChT immunoreactivity both in CA1 and CA3 regions in the hippocampus. Consistent with these findings, an impaired hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) and memory deficits seen in OBX mice were significantly prevented by VO(OPT) treatment. Taken together, OBX induces neurodegeneration of septo-hippocampal cholinergic neurons and impairment of memory-related behaviors. The neuroprotective effect of VO(OPT) could lead to novel therapeutic strategies to ameliorate cognitive deficits associated with cholinergic neuron degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0306-4522
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
151
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
671-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Acetylcholine, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Choline O-Acetyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Glutamate Decarboxylase, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Maze Learning, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Nerve Degeneration, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Olfactory Bulb, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Organometallic Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:18164824-Vesicular Acetylcholine Transport Proteins
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
The vanadium (IV) compound rescues septo-hippocampal cholinergic neurons from neurodegeneration in olfactory bulbectomized mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki-Aoba Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't