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Aging African Green Monkeys manifest transcriptional, pathological, and cognitive hallmarks of human Alzheimer’s disease

ABSTRACT: While many preclinical models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been reported, none fully recapitulate the disease. In an effort to identify an appropriate preclinical disease model, we characterized age-related changes in two higher order species, the African Green Monkey (AGM) and the rhesus macaque. Gene expression profiles in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the visual cortex showed age-related changes in AGMs that are strikingly reminiscent of AD, whereas aged rhesus were most similar to healthy elderly humans. Biochemically, age-related changes in AGM cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau, phospho-tau and amyloid beta were consistent with AD. Histologically, aged AGMs displayed pathological hallmarks of the disease, plaques, and two AGMs showed evidence of neurofibrillary tangle-like structures. We hypothesized and confirmed that AGMs have age-related cognitive deficits via a prefrontal cortex-dependent cognition test, and that symptomatic treatments which improve cognition in AD patients show efficacy in AGMs. These data suggest that the AGM could represent a novel and improved translational model to assist in the development of therapeutics for AD.

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ORGANISM(S): Chlorocebus aethiops Macaca mulatta

PROVIDER: GSE108282 | GEO | 2018/02/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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