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Effect of a short- and long-term treatment with Ginkgo biloba extract on amyloid precursor protein levels in a transgenic mouse model relevant to Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract
Several clinical trials have reported beneficial effects of the Ginkgo biloba extract EGb761 in the prevention and therapy of cognitive disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of the present long-term feeding trial was to study the impact of dietary EGb761 on Amyloid precursor protein (APP) metabolism in mice transgenic for human APP (Tg2576). Tg2576 mice were fed diets with and without EGb761 (300 mg/kg diet) for 1 and 16 months, respectively. Long-term treatment (16 months) with EGb761 significantly lowered human APP protein levels by approximately 50% as compared to controls in the cortex but not in the hippocampus. However, APP levels were not affected by EGb761 in young mice. Current data indicate that APP seems to be an important molecular target of EGb761 in relation to the duration of the Ginkgo biloba treatment and/or the age of the animals. Potential neuroprotective properties of EGb761 may be, at least partly, related to its APP lowering activity.
AuthorsSabine Augustin, Gerald Rimbach, Kay Augustin, Reinhard Schliebs, Siegfried Wolffram, Rainer Cermak
JournalArchives of biochemistry and biophysics (Arch Biochem Biophys) Vol. 481 Issue 2 Pg. 177-82 (Jan 15 2009) ISSN: 1096-0384 [Electronic] United States
PMID18996078 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides
  • DNA Primers
  • Flavonols
  • Plant Extracts
Topics
  • Alzheimer Disease (drug therapy)
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides (drug effects, genetics, metabolism)
  • Animals
  • Cerebral Cortex (drug effects, metabolism)
  • Cognition Disorders (prevention & control)
  • Cricetinae
  • DNA Primers
  • Female
  • Flavonols (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Ginkgo biloba
  • Hippocampus (drug effects, metabolism)
  • Humans
  • Memory Disorders (prevention & control)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Plant Extracts (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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