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| These transgenic mice express the human amyloid beta-precursor protein, APP gene, 770 isoform, with the Swedish K670N/M671L, Dutch E693Q and Iowa D694N mutations, under the control of the mouse thymus cell antigen 1, theta, Thy1, promoter. Plaque-like deposits of amyloid beta that are similar to the plaques observed in human patients with the Dutch and Iowa familial disorders, are initially detected at approximately three months of age in the subiculum, hippocampus and cortex. Amyloid beta deposits are detected throughout the forebrain by 12 months of age. This mutant mouse strain may be useful in studies of Alzheimer's disease. | |||||||||||||||||||
Former Names C57BL/6-Tg(Thy1-APPSwDutIowa)BWevn/J (Changed: 11-AUG-11 ) Type Coisogenic; Mutant Strain; Transgenic; Additional information on Genetically Engineered and Mutant Mice. Visit our online Nomenclature tutorial. Species laboratory mouse Donating Investigator William Van Nostrand, Stony Brook University Description
These transgenic mice express neuronally derived human amyloid beta-precursor protein, APP gene, 770 isoform, containing the Swedish K670N/M671L, Dutch E693Q and Iowa D694N mutations, under the control of the mouse thymus cell antigen 1, theta, Thy1, promoter. Mice hemizygous for the transgenic insert exhibit expression of human amyloid beta precursor protein in the cortex, hippocampus and brain stem with lower expression detected in the cerebellum. At age three months hemizygotes show a progressive accumulation of insoluble amyloid beta 40 and 42 peptides in brain tissue. The levels of accumulation of amyloid beta peptides is 12 to 14 fold higher in brain microvessels than in whole forebrain tissue homogenates. Fibrillar microvascular accumulations of amyloid beta peptides begin at approximately six months of age. Diffuse plaque-like deposits of amyloid beta that are similar to the plaques observed in human patients with the Dutch and Iowa familial disorders are initially detected at approximately 3 months of age in the subiculum, hippocampus and cortex. After six months of age the diffuse plaque-like deposits increase in number and spread to the olfactory bulb and thalamic region. Amyloid beta deposits are detected throughout the forebrain by 12 months of age. The donating investigator has made the strain homozygous and reports that mice homozygous for the transgenic insert are viable and fertile. This mutant mouse strain may be useful in studies of Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.Development
A transgenic construct containing 2.1kb of the human amyloid beta-precursor protein, APP gene, 770 isoform, with the Swedish K670N/M671L, Dutch E693Q and Iowa D694N mutations, under the control of the mouse thymus cell antigen 1, theta, Thy1, promoter was injected into fertilized C57BL/6 mouse eggs. Founder line B was subsequently established and homozygotes generated.A 32 SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) panel analysis, with 27 markers covering all 19 chromosomes and the X chromosome, as well as 5 markers that distinguish between the C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N substrains, was performed on the rederived living colony at the MMRRC at The Jackson Laboratory. While the 27 markers throughout the genome suggested a C57BL/6 genetic background, 3 of 5 markers that determine C57BL/6J from C57BL/6N were found to be C57BL/6N. These data suggest the mice sent to the MMRRC at The Jackson Laboratory were on a mixed C57BL/6J ; C57BL/6N genetic background.
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Related Disease (OMIM) Terms provided by MGI
- Characteristics of this human disease are associated with transgenes and other mutation types in the mouse.
Alzheimer Disease; AD
- Potential model based on transgenic expression of an ortholog of a human gene that is associated with this disease. Phenotypic similarity to the human disease has not been tested. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, App-Related (APP)
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assigned by genotype
Tg(Thy1-APPSwDutIowa)BWevn/0
involves: C57BL/6
- nervous system phenotype
- abnormal astrocyte morphology
- astrocyte numbers and density are enhanced in thalamic and cortical regions where fibrillar amyloid beta deposits are prominent (MGI Ref ID J:124911)
- abnormal microglial cell physiology
- amyloid beta deposits
- over the course of 1 year, progressive and robust accumulation of insoluble amyloid beta-40 and -42 peptides is observed in mouse brains; increase in peptides is first observed at 3 months and increases markedly by 12 months (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- soluble and insoluble amyloid beta-40 peptide levels are 10-fold higher than amyloid beta-42 peptide levels (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- amyloid beta deposits are observed in the regions of the subiculum, hippocampus, and cortex at ~3 months; by ~6 months deposits become more numerous and appear in the olfactory bulb and thalamic region as well, with deposits throughout most of the forebrain by 12 months (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- parenchymal amyloid deposits mainly present as diffuse, plaque-like deposits, with occasional deposits having a more compact structure suggesting a fibrillar nature (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- deposits are largely in parenchyma and in diffuse form in cortex (MGI Ref ID J:124911)
- cerebral amyloid angiopathy
- levels of amyloid beta-40 and -42 peptides are 12- and 14-fold higher in forebrain microvessels than in whole forebrain homogenates at 12 months of age; at ~3 months, levels in vasculature of forebrains is higher than whole forebrain tissue (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- vascular amyloid beta accumulation is prominent in the thalamus and subiculum, and increases with age such that 45-55% of vessels are affected at 12 months of age; at ~6 months of age, amyloid beta deposits in and around microvessels in the thalamus and subiculum are observed (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- microvascular amyloid beta accumulations are mainly fibrillar (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- some arterioles in these brain regions show strong vascular and perivascular amyloid beta depostion, while blood vessel-rich regions like the hippocampal fissure show large accumulations of perivascular amyloid beta (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- evidence of microhemorrhage is observed in microvessels with amyloid beta deposits (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- microvascular fibrillar amyloid beta accumulation is observed in thalamic and hippocampal regions (MGI Ref ID J:124911)
- immune system phenotype
- abnormal microglial cell physiology
- other phenotype
- amyloidosis
- mutants show decreased clearance of the mutant form of amyloid beta peptides compared to wild-type amyloid beta (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- amyloid beta deposits
- over the course of 1 year, progressive and robust accumulation of insoluble amyloid beta-40 and -42 peptides is observed in mouse brains; increase in peptides is first observed at 3 months and increases markedly by 12 months (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- soluble and insoluble amyloid beta-40 peptide levels are 10-fold higher than amyloid beta-42 peptide levels (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- amyloid beta deposits are observed in the regions of the subiculum, hippocampus, and cortex at ~3 months; by ~6 months deposits become more numerous and appear in the olfactory bulb and thalamic region as well, with deposits throughout most of the forebrain by 12 months (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- parenchymal amyloid deposits mainly present as diffuse, plaque-like deposits, with occasional deposits having a more compact structure suggesting a fibrillar nature (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- deposits are largely in parenchyma and in diffuse form in cortex (MGI Ref ID J:124911)
- cerebral amyloid angiopathy
- levels of amyloid beta-40 and -42 peptides are 12- and 14-fold higher in forebrain microvessels than in whole forebrain homogenates at 12 months of age; at ~3 months, levels in vasculature of forebrains is higher than whole forebrain tissue (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- vascular amyloid beta accumulation is prominent in the thalamus and subiculum, and increases with age such that 45-55% of vessels are affected at 12 months of age; at ~6 months of age, amyloid beta deposits in and around microvessels in the thalamus and subiculum are observed (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- microvascular amyloid beta accumulations are mainly fibrillar (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- some arterioles in these brain regions show strong vascular and perivascular amyloid beta depostion, while blood vessel-rich regions like the hippocampal fissure show large accumulations of perivascular amyloid beta (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- evidence of microhemorrhage is observed in microvessels with amyloid beta deposits (MGI Ref ID J:89848)
- microvascular fibrillar amyloid beta accumulation is observed in thalamic and hippocampal regions (MGI Ref ID J:124911)
- cardiovascular system phenotype
- abnormal blood circulation
- reduced cerebral blood flow, CBF, response (21% increase) to whisker stimulation is observed relative to controls (38% increase) at 9 months (MGI Ref ID J:119251)
- with myocardin gene transfer, CBF response drops to 10% in transgenic mice, a decrease of 50%, while it increased to 27% with shSRF gene transfer compared to 19% in shGFP controls (MGI Ref ID J:119251)
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| Allele Symbol | Tg(Thy1-APPSwDutIowa)BWevn | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Allele Name | transgene insertion B, William E Van Nostrand | ||
| Allele Type | Transgenic (random, expressed) | ||
| Common Name(s) | APPSwDI; Tg-SwDI; Tg-SwDI/B; | ||
| Mutation Made By | William Van Nostrand, Stony Brook University | ||
| Strain of Origin | C57BL/6 | ||
| Expressed Gene | APP, amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein, human | ||
| Promoter | Thy1, thymus cell antigen 1, theta, mouse, laboratory | ||
| Molecular Note | A transgenic construct containing 2.1kb of the human amyloid beta-precursor protein, APP gene, 770 isoform, with the Swedish K670N/M671L, Dutch E693Q and Iowa D694N mutations, under the control of the mouse thymus cell antigen 1, theta, Thy1, promoter was injected into fertilized C57BL/6 mouse eggs. Founder line B was subsequently established and homozygotes generated. Human amyloid beta precursor protein expression is detected in the brains of transgenic mice. Two other lines, A anc C were also generated, with line A having similar levels of transgene expression and amyloid beta accumulation to line B while line C has 2-fold higher expression of human Amyloid beta-precursor protein and shows 4-fold higher accumulations of soluble and insoluble AB peptides in the brain. [MGI Ref ID J:89848] | ||
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Davis J; Xu F; Deane R; Romanov G; Previti ML; Zeigler K; Zlokovic BV; Van Nostrand WE. 2004. Early-onset and robust cerebral microvascular accumulation of amyloid beta-protein in transgenic mice expressing low levels of a vasculotropic Dutch/Iowa mutant form of amyloid beta-protein precursor. J Biol Chem 279(19):20296-306. [PubMed: 14985348] [MGI Ref ID J:89848]
Tg(Thy1-APPSwDutIowa)BWevn relatedBurgess BL; McIsaac SA; Naus KE; Chan JY; Tansley GH; Yang J; Miao F; Ross CJ; van Eck M; Hayden MR; van Nostrand W; St George-Hyslop P; Westaway D; Wellington CL. 2006. Elevated plasma triglyceride levels precede amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease mouse models with abundant A beta in plasma. Neurobiol Dis 24(1):114-27. [PubMed: 16899370] [MGI Ref ID J:113199]
Carrasco J; Adlard P; Cotman C; Quintana A; Penkowa M; Xu F; Van Nostrand WE; Hidalgo J. 2006. Metallothionein-I and -III expression in animal models of Alzheimer disease. Neuroscience 143(4):911-22. [PubMed: 17027170] [MGI Ref ID J:117948]
Chow N; Bell RD; Deane R; Streb JW; Chen J; Brooks A; Van Nostrand W; Miano JM; Zlokovic BV. 2007. Serum response factor and myocardin mediate arterial hypercontractility and cerebral blood flow dysregulation in Alzheimer's phenotype. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(3):823-8. [PubMed: 17215356] [MGI Ref ID J:119251]
Colton CA; Wilcock DM; Wink DA; Davis J; Van Nostrand WE; Vitek MP. 2008. The effects of NOS2 gene deletion on mice expressing mutated human AbetaPP. J Alzheimers Dis 15(4):571-87. [PubMed: 19096157] [MGI Ref ID J:143551]
Davis J; Xu F; Miao J; Previti ML; Romanov G; Ziegler K; Van Nostrand WE. 2006. Deficient cerebral clearance of vasculotropic mutant Dutch/Iowa Double Ass in human AssPP transgenic mice. Neurobiol Aging 27(7):946-54. [PubMed: 16105708] [MGI Ref ID J:108851]
Fan R; Defilippis K; Van Nostrand WE. 2007. Induction of complement proteins in a mouse model of cerebral microvascular Abeta deposition. J Neuroinflammation 4(1):22. [PubMed: 17877807] [MGI Ref ID J:124911]
Hirsch-Reinshagen V; Maia LF; Burgess BL; Blain JF; Naus KE; McIsaac SA; Parkinson PF; Chan JY; Tansley GH; Hayden MR; Poirier J; Van Nostrand W; Wellington CL. 2005. The absence of ABCA1 decreases soluble ApoE levels but does not diminish amyloid deposition in two murine models of Alzheimer disease. J Biol Chem 280(52):43243-56. [PubMed: 16207707] [MGI Ref ID J:105900]
Hutchinson D; Ho V; Dodd M; Dawson HN; Zumwalt AC; Schmitt D; Colton CA. 2007. Quantitative measurement of postural sway in mouse models of human neurodegenerative disease. Neuroscience 148(4):825-32. [PubMed: 17764851] [MGI Ref ID J:128390]
Liao MC; Van Nostrand WE. 2010. Degradation of soluble and fibrillar amyloid beta-protein by matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) in vitro. Biochemistry 49(6):1127-36. [PubMed: 20050683] [MGI Ref ID J:159886]
Medeiros R; Kitazawa M; Caccamo A; Baglietto-Vargas D; Estrada-Hernandez T; Cribbs DH; Fisher A; Laferla FM. 2011. Loss of muscarinic m(1) receptor exacerbates Alzheimer's disease-like pathology and cognitive decline. Am J Pathol 179(2):980-91. [PubMed: 21704011] [MGI Ref ID J:174403]
Miao J; Vitek MP; Xu F; Previti ML; Davis J; Van Nostrand WE. 2005. Reducing cerebral microvascular amyloid-beta protein deposition diminishes regional neuroinflammation in vasculotropic mutant amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice. J Neurosci 25(27):6271-7. [PubMed: 16000616] [MGI Ref ID J:99430]
Miao J; Xu F; Davis J; Otte-Holler I; Verbeek MM; Van Nostrand WE. 2005. Cerebral Microvascular Amyloid {beta} Protein Deposition Induces Vascular Degeneration and Neuroinflammation in Transgenic Mice Expressing Human Vasculotropic Mutant Amyloid {beta} Precursor Protein. Am J Pathol 167(2):505-15. [PubMed: 16049335] [MGI Ref ID J:99946]
Ridnour LA; Dhanapal S; Hoos M; Wilson J; Lee J; Cheng RY; Brueggemann EE; Hines HB; Wilcock DM; Vitek MP; Wink DA; Colton CA. 2012. Nitric oxide-mediated regulation of beta-amyloid clearance via alterations of MMP-9/TIMP-1. J Neurochem 123(5):736-49. [PubMed: 23016931] [MGI Ref ID J:190735]
Van Vickle GD; Esh CL; Daugs ID; Kokjohn TA; Kalback WM; Patton RL; Luehrs DC; Walker DG; Lue LF; Beach TG; Davis J; Van Nostrand WE; Castano EM; Roher AE. 2008. Tg-SwDI transgenic mice exhibit novel alterations in AbetaPP processing, Abeta degradation, and resilient amyloid angiopathy. Am J Pathol 173(2):483-93. [PubMed: 18599612] [MGI Ref ID J:137886]
Wilcock DM; Gharkholonarehe N; Van Nostrand WE; Davis J; Vitek MP; Colton CA. 2009. Amyloid reduction by amyloid-beta vaccination also reduces mouse tau pathology and protects from neuron loss in two mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosci 29(25):7957-65. [PubMed: 19553436] [MGI Ref ID J:150418]
Wilcock DM; Lewis MR; Van Nostrand WE; Davis J; Previti ML; Gharkholonarehe N; Vitek MP; Colton CA. 2008. Progression of amyloid pathology to Alzheimer's disease pathology in an amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse model by removal of nitric oxide synthase 2. J Neurosci 28(7):1537-45. [PubMed: 18272675] [MGI Ref ID J:132221]
Wilcock DM; Vitek MP; Colton CA. 2009. Vascular amyloid alters astrocytic water and potassium channels in mouse models and humans with Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience 159(3):1055-69. [PubMed: 19356689] [MGI Ref ID J:148938]
Xu F; Grande AM; Robinson JK; Previti ML; Vasek M; Davis J; Van Nostrand WE. 2007. Early-onset subicular microvascular amyloid and neuroinflammation correlate with behavioral deficits in vasculotropic mutant amyloid beta-protein precursor transgenic mice. Neuroscience 146(1):98-107. [PubMed: 17331655] [MGI Ref ID J:122063]
Xu F; Vitek MP; Colton CA; Previti ML; Gharkholonarehe N; Davis J; Van Nostrand WE. 2008. Human apolipoprotein E redistributes fibrillar amyloid deposition in Tg-SwDI mice. J Neurosci 28(20):5312-20. [PubMed: 18480287] [MGI Ref ID J:136318]
Zeng Y; Callaghan D; Xiong H; Yang Z; Huang P; Zhang W. 2012. Abcg2 deficiency augments oxidative stress and cognitive deficits in Tg-SwDI transgenic mice. J Neurochem :. [PubMed: 22578166] [MGI Ref ID J:186567]
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