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20627092

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-8-23
pubmed:abstractText
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors have clinically been widely used as anti-hypertensive agents. In the present study, we compared the effects of a centrally active ACE inhibitor, perindopril, with those of non-centrally active ACE inhibitors, imidapril and enalapril, on cognitive performance in amyloid beta(Abeta) (25-35)-injected mice, a rodent model of Alzheimer's disease. We also determined the brain ACE activity in order to elucidate the relationship between the cognitive function and ACE inhibition in the brain. Abeta(25-35)-injected mice showed a cognitive impairment in spontaneous alteration and object recognition tests, the indices of immediate working memory and relatively long-term recognition memory, respectively. As indicated by these tests, the oral administration of perindopril (0.1, 0.3 or 1mg/kg/day) significantly reversed the cognitive impairment in these mice, whereas neither imidapril (0.3, 1 or 3mg/kg/day) nor enalapril (1, 3 or 10mg/kg/day) had any effect on cognitive performance. Perindopril (1mg/kg/day), imidapril (3mg/kg/day), or enalapril (10mg/kg/day) all inhibited the plasma ACE activities by more than 90%. Using the same dosing regimen, only perindopril inhibited the brain ACE activities by more than 50%, whereas imidapril and enalapril showed much less potent effects. These results suggest that perindopril ameliorated the cognitive impairment in the Alzheimer's disease model mice through the inhibition of brain ACE activity, but not peripheral ACE activity. Based on our observations, we concluded that a centrally active ACE inhibitor, perindopril, may therefore have a beneficial effect on Alzheimer's disease as well as hypertension.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1872-6240
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
1352
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
176-86
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of a centrally active angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, perindopril, on cognitive performance in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Pharmacological Research Laboratories, Research Division, Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, Japan. kohji.yamada@kyowa-kirin.co.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article