Aβ Damages Learning and Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease Rats with Kidney-Yang Deficiency

Previous studies demonstrated that Alzheimer’s disease was considered as the consequence produced by deficiency of Kidney essence. However, the mechanism underlying the symptoms also remains elusive. Here we report that spatial learning and memory, escape, and swimming capacities were damaged significantly in Kidney-yang deficiency rats. Indeed, both hippocampal Aβ40 and 42 increases in Kidney-yang deficiency contribute to the learning and memory impairments. Specifically, damage of synaptic plasticity is involved in the learning and memory impairment of Kidney-yang deficiency rats. We determined that the learning and memory damage in Kidney-yang deficiency due to synaptic plasticity impairment and increases of Aβ40 and 42 was not caused via NMDA receptor internalization induced by Aβ increase. β-Adrenergic receptor agonist can rescue the impaired long-term potential (LTP) in Kidney-yang rats. Taken together, our results suggest that spatial learning and memory inhibited in Kidney-yang deficiency might be induced by Aβ increase and the decrease of β2 receptor function in glia..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2012

Erschienen:

2012

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2012

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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - (2012)

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dongmei Qi [VerfasserIn]
Yongfa Qiao [VerfasserIn]
Xin Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Huijuan Yu [VerfasserIn]
Bin Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Haifa Qiao [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.1155/2012/132829

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DOAJ053408950