Abstract
As human lifespan increases and the population ages, diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are a major cause for concern. Although calorie restriction (CR) as an intervention has been shown to increase healthspan in many species, few studies have examined the effects of CR on brain aging in primates. Using postmortem tissue from a cohort of extremely aged rhesus monkeys (22–44 years old, average age 31.8 years) from a longitudinal CR study, we measured immunohistochemically labeled amyloid beta plaques in Brodmann areas 32 and 46 of the prefrontal cortex, areas that play key roles in cognitive processing, are sensitive to aging and, in humans, are also susceptible to AD pathogenesis. We also evaluated these areas for cortical neuron loss, which has not been observed in younger cohorts of aged monkeys. We found a significant increase in plaque density with age, but this was unaffected by diet. Moreover, there was no change in neuron density with age or treatment. These data suggest that even in the oldest-old rhesus macaques, amyloid beta plaques do not lead to overt neuron loss. Hence, the rhesus macaque serves as a pragmatic animal model for normative human aging but is not a complete model of the neurodegeneration of AD. This model of aging may instead prove most useful for determining how even the oldest monkeys are protected from AD, and this information may therefore yield valuable information for clinical AD treatments.
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Abbreviations
- Aβ:
-
Amyloid beta
- AD:
-
Alzheimer’s disease
- APOE:
-
Apolipoprotein E
- APP:
-
Amyloid precursor protein
- BA 32:
-
Brodmann Area 32 of the cingulate cortex
- BA 46:
-
Brodmann Area 46 of the prefrontal cortex
- CDC:
-
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CR:
-
Calorie restriction
- MCI:
-
Mild cognitive impairment
- NeuN:
-
Neuronal nucleic protein
- NHP:
-
Nonhuman primate
- NIA:
-
National Institute on Aging
- PFC:
-
Prefrontal cortex
- ROI:
-
Region of interest
- TBS:
-
7.6 pH Tris-buffered saline
- US:
-
United States of America
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Stonebarger, G., Urbanski, H., Woltjer, R. et al. Amyloidosis increase is not attenuated by long-term calorie restriction or related to neuron density in the prefrontal cortex of extremely aged rhesus macaques. GeroScience 42, 1733–1749 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-020-00259-0
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