Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research
Background/Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains incurable, highlighting the need for new and diverse animal models to better understand its complex mechanisms. This study compares various injected animal models of AD, focusing on the main theories that explain the disease; Methods: Female Wi...
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| description | Background/Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains incurable, highlighting the need for new and diverse animal models to better understand its complex mechanisms. This study compares various injected animal models of AD, focusing on the main theories that explain the disease; Methods: Female Wistar rats (10-months old) were administered intracebroventricularly by artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) (Control), beta amyloid Aβ1-42 (BA), okadaic acid (OKA), lipopolysaccharides (LPS), buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) or by a mixture of these different molecules (MLG). Cognitive performance was assessed one week or one month after stereotaxic surgery; Results: Our results, show that only the Aβ and the MLG induced a persistence and progressive deficits in the working memory, recognition memory and spatial memory in rats. As the hippocampus (HIP) and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are particularly involved in memory behavior, we analyzed long-term neuroadaptations in these brain subregions using spectrophotometric and histological methods to assess oxidative stress changes and neuronal loss, respectively. We found that the behavioral impairments in memory and learning were accompanied by irreversible oxidative stress changes and neurodegenerescence, particularly in the HIP; Conclusions: This study provides promising data on the modeling of AD in order to develop an effective therapeutic approach. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-40732cdc43ef4c3a9fb5d0f8fe0cd5632025-08-20T02:43:46ZengMDPI AGPathophysiology1873-149X2024-11-0131464365910.3390/pathophysiology31040047Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental ResearchHanane Doumar0Hicham El Mostafi1Aboubaker Elhessni2Abderrahim Laaziz3Abdelhalem Mesfioui4Biology and Health Laboratory (BHL), Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra 14 000, MoroccoBiology and Health Laboratory (BHL), Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra 14 000, MoroccoBiology and Health Laboratory (BHL), Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra 14 000, MoroccoBiology and Health Laboratory (BHL), Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra 14 000, MoroccoBiology and Health Laboratory (BHL), Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra 14 000, MoroccoBackground/Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains incurable, highlighting the need for new and diverse animal models to better understand its complex mechanisms. This study compares various injected animal models of AD, focusing on the main theories that explain the disease; Methods: Female Wistar rats (10-months old) were administered intracebroventricularly by artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) (Control), beta amyloid Aβ1-42 (BA), okadaic acid (OKA), lipopolysaccharides (LPS), buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) or by a mixture of these different molecules (MLG). Cognitive performance was assessed one week or one month after stereotaxic surgery; Results: Our results, show that only the Aβ and the MLG induced a persistence and progressive deficits in the working memory, recognition memory and spatial memory in rats. As the hippocampus (HIP) and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are particularly involved in memory behavior, we analyzed long-term neuroadaptations in these brain subregions using spectrophotometric and histological methods to assess oxidative stress changes and neuronal loss, respectively. We found that the behavioral impairments in memory and learning were accompanied by irreversible oxidative stress changes and neurodegenerescence, particularly in the HIP; Conclusions: This study provides promising data on the modeling of AD in order to develop an effective therapeutic approach.https://www.mdpi.com/1873-149X/31/4/47Alzheimer’s diseasecognitive declineneurodegenerescenceanimal modelrat |
| spellingShingle | Hanane Doumar Hicham El Mostafi Aboubaker Elhessni Abderrahim Laaziz Abdelhalem Mesfioui Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research Pathophysiology Alzheimer’s disease cognitive decline neurodegenerescence animal model rat |
| title | Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research |
| title_full | Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research |
| title_fullStr | Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research |
| title_short | Comparative Study of Injected Alzheimer’s Disease Models in Rats: Insights from Experimental Research |
| title_sort | comparative study of injected alzheimer s disease models in rats insights from experimental research |
| topic | Alzheimer’s disease cognitive decline neurodegenerescence animal model rat |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1873-149X/31/4/47 |
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