J Korean Geriatr Soc.
1997 Dec;1(2):140-154.
Effect of Immobilization Stress on the Expression of Amyloid Precursor Protein in the Mouse Brain
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- 1Department of Pharmacol, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
- 2Department of Neurosugery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
- 3Department of Plasticsugery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
- 4Department of Plasticsugery, College of Medicine,Inju University, Korea.
Abstract
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BACKGROUND: The Central nervous system(CNS) plays a essential role in mediating~stress responses. However, the enact mechanism of the CNS in mediating stress responses has not been clarified sufficiently as yet.
Stress may cause brain dysfunction including cognitive dysfunction which was most commonly found in Alzheimer's dementia. Amyloid precursor protein(APP) is a large, ubiquitously distributed and evolutionarily conserved molecule whose function remains unknown. Although the precise function of APP following injury to the CNS such as stab and kainic acid lesion. However, there have not been reports on the effects of stress on the expression of amyloid precursor protein in the brain. This study was undertaken to elucidate the effects of stress on the expression of APP in the mouse brain.
METHODS
The several brain region was isolated from the mouse that was in the immoblization stress for 30 min, 1 hour, and 2 hours. The mouse brain was divided into 5 regions, cerebral cortex, cerebellum hippocampus, midbrain and thalamus, corpus striatum and brain stem. The change of mRNA was examined in the several brain regions using Northern blot hybridization.
RESULTS
The amounts of APP mRNA in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and brain stem were found to be significantly increased after stress for 30 minutes and to 1.each a maximum after stress for 1 hour and to normal range at stress for 2 hours. On the contray, the contents of APP mRNA in midbrain and thalamus were decreased after stress for 30 minutes and sustained after stress for 2 hours.
CONCLUSION
These findings suggest that APP may not be static but functional protein reactive to stress and stress may increase the levels of APP mRNA especially in Alzheimer disease associated sites such as cerebral cortex and hippocampus, which may contriute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease.
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