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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2016

Assessing the Effects of Acute Amyloid β Oligomer Exposure in the Rat.

Ryan S Wong, David F Cechetto, Shawn N Whitehead

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. The Acute Effects of Amyloid-BetaFrontiers in neuroscience · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ryan S WongVulnerable Brain Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada. ryanswong@gmail.com.
David F CechettoVulnerable Brain Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada. cechetto@uwo.ca.
Shawn N WhiteheadVulnerable Brain Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada. shawn.whitehead@schulich.uwo.ca.
Western University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, yet there are no therapeutic treatments that can either cure or delay its onset. Currently, the pathogenesis of AD is still uncertain, especially with respect to how the disease develops from a normal healthy brain. Amyloid β oligomers (AβO) are highly neurotoxic proteins and are considered potential initiators to the pathogenesis of AD. Rat brains were exposed to AβO via bilateral intracerebroventricular injections. Rats were then euthanized at either 1, 3, 7 or 21-days post surgery. Rat behavioural testing was performed using the Morris water maze and open field tests. Post-mortem brain tissue was immunolabelled for Aβ, microglia, and cholinergic neurons. Rats exposed to AβO showed deficits in spatial learning and anxiety-like behaviour. Acute positive staining for Aβ was only observed in the corpus callosum surrounding the lateral ventricles. AβO exposed rat brains also showed a delayed increase in activated microglia within the corpus callosum and a decreased number of cholinergic neurons within the basal forebrain. Acute exposure to AβO resulted in mild learning and memory impairments with co-concomitant white matter pathology within the corpus callosum and cholinergic cell loss within the basal forebrain. Results suggest that acute exposure to AβO in the rat may be a useful tool in assessing the early phases for the pathogenesis of AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsAnxietyBrainCholinergic NeuronsMaleMaze LearningMemory DisordersMicrogliaPeptide FragmentsRatsRats, WistarSpatial MemoryAmyloid beta-PeptidesPeptide FragmentsAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloid β oligomersbehavioural deficitscholinergic neuron depletionmicroglial activation

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PMID27563885
PMCPMC5037670
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