Environmental enrichment reduces Aβ levels and amyloid deposition in transgenic mice

Orly Lazarov; John Robinson; Ya Ping Tang; Ilana S. Hairston; Zeljka Korade-Mirnics; Virginia M.Y. Lee; Louis B. Hersh; Robert M. Sapolsky; Karoly Mirnics; Sangram S. Sisodia

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.01.015

Environmental enrichment reduces Aβ levels and amyloid deposition in transgenic mice

Orly Lazarov, John Robinson, Ya Ping Tang, Ilana S. Hairston, Zeljka Korade-Mirnics, Virginia M.Y. Lee, Louis B. Hersh, Robert M. Sapolsky, Karoly Mirnics, Sangram S. Sisodia

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Abstract

Cerebral deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides is an invariant pathological hallmark in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and transgenic mice coexpressing familial AD-linked APP and PS1 variants. We now report that exposure of transgenic mice to an "enriched environment" results in pronounced reductions in cerebral Aβ levels and amyloid deposits, compared to animals raised under "standard housing" conditions. The enzymatic activity of an Aβ-degrading endopeptidase, neprilysin, is elevated in the brains of "enriched" mice and inversely correlated with amyloid burden. Moreover, DNA microarray analysis revealed selective upregulation in levels of transcripts encoded by genes associated with learning and memory, vasculogenesis, neurogenesis, cell survival pathways, Aβ sequestration, and prostaglandin synthesis. These studies provide evidence that environmental enrichment leads to reductions in steady-state levels of cerebral Aβ peptides and amyloid deposition and selective upregulation in levels of specific transcripts in brains of transgenic mice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	701-713
Number of pages	13
Journal	Cell
Volume	120
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2005.01.015
State	Published - Mar 11 2005

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Funding Information:
This study was supported by NIH AG021494 (S.S.S.) and the Ellison Medical Research Foundation (S.S.S.); AG11542 (V.M.-Y.L.); and NIDA (DA02243), NIA (AG19323), and the Alzheimer’s Association (L.B.H.). The authors thank the Adler Foundation (I.S.H. and R.M.S.). The authors thank Dr. Angele Parent for help with statistics. The authors are thankful to Travis Unger, Dominique Arion, and Kathie C. Douglass for superb technical assistance with the microarray experiments.

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