| First Author | Deacon RM | Year | 2008 |
| Journal | Behav Brain Res | Volume | 189 |
| Issue | 1 | Pages | 126-38 |
| PubMed ID | 18261809 | Mgi Jnum | J:132609 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:3776355 | Doi | 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.12.024 |
| Citation | Deacon RM, et al. (2008) Age-dependent and -independent behavioral deficits in Tg2576 mice. Behav Brain Res 189(1):126-38 |
| abstractText | The Tg2576 mouse model of excessive cerebral beta-amyloid deposition is now more than a decade old, yet consensus as to its exact characteristics and utility as a model of Alzheimer's disease is still lacking. Four different cohorts of control and Tg2576 mice, aged approximately 3, 9, 13 and 21 months, were therefore subjected to a battery of tests, principally to assess cognitive and species-typical behaviors. A novel test, the paddling Y-maze, demonstrated an age-dependent deficit in 10 and 14, but not 3 month Tg2576 mice, also in aged (21 month) control mice. However, in many other cognitive tests few Tg2576-related deficits could be shown. This frequently seemed attributable to poor performance of control mice. Tests of species-typical behaviors showed that Tg2576 mice had a deficit in burrowing behavior at all ages. An age-independent deficit was also seen in nest construction, but only when mice were group-housed; most individually housed mice in either group made reasonable nests. Overall, the results suggested that these Tg2576 mice are not a simple, suitable or reliable model for routine screening of treatments for Alzheimer's disease. However, this model might perform better behaviorally on a different genetic background. |
